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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...elderly bachelor, who befriends John Carker, and marries his sister Harriet. (Ch. xiii, xxxiii, liii, lviii, lxii.) Native, The. A dark servant of Major Bagstoek's, so called by Miss Tox, though without connecting him with any geographical idea whatever. He has no particular name, but answers to any vituperative epithet. (Ch. vii, x, xx, xxi, xxvi, xxvii, xxix, lviii, lix.) Nipper, Susan. Florence Dombey's maid; a short, brown, womanly girl, with a little snub nose, and black eyes like jet beads. Notwithstanding a peculiarly sharp and biting manner that she has, she is, in the main, a good-natured little body, and is wholly devoted to her mistress. She has the audacity to tell Mr. Dombey what she thinks of his treatment of his daughter, and is immediately discharged from that gentleman's service. She afterwards marries Mr. Toots, who considers her ' a most extraordinary woman.' (Ch. iii, v, vi, xiii, xv, xvi, xviii, xix, xxii, xxiii, xxviii, xxxii, xliii, xliv, lvi, lvii, lx-lxii.) See Toots, Mr. P. Pankey, Miss. A boarder at Mrs. Pipchin's " select infantine boarding-house," worth " a good eighty pounds a year" to her. (Ch. viii, xi.) Paul, Little. See Dombey, Little Paul. Peps, Doctor Parker. One of the court physicians, and a man of immense reputation for assisting at the increase of great families, on which account his services arc secured by Mr. Dombey when little Paul is born. (Ch. i, xvi.) Perch, Mr. Messenger in Mr. Dombey's office, living (when at home) at Balls Pond. (Ch. xiii, xvii, xxii, xxiv, xxxi, xlvi, li, liii, lviii, lix.) See p. 544. Perch, Mrs. His wife, always in an interesting condition. (Ch. xiii, xxii, xxxi, xxxv, li, liii, lviii, lix.) Pilkins, Mr. Mr. Dombey's family physician. (Ch. i, viii.) Pipohill, Mrs. An ol...
