About this story
Walter Gay, who brings you home, is reported lost at sea. The Thunderbolt night breaks the purchased marriage, his blow fells you, Carker's end comes in four printed lines, and the House stops payment. On the towing path he says your name again. Sixty-two chapters carry you from a child lost in a crowd to a ship with all hands family.
How it opens
Morning pressed pale light through the tall Dombey windows and across carpets muffling every footstep.
Upstairs, the newborn heir cried behind a nursery door guarded more carefully than a bank vault.
Susan NipperMiss Floy, your papa says the carriage is waiting and the house must remain quiet.
Mr DombeyYour brother carries the future of the firm, Florence; do not disturb his rest.
Choose
I only want Paul to know he has a sister.
May I leave the gift beside his cradle without waking him?