Such was life at Mrs Pipchin's. On Saturday Mr Dombey came down; and Florence and Paul would go to his Hotel, and have tea They passed the whole of Sunday with him, and generally rode out before dinner; and on these occasions Mr Dombey seemed to grow, like Falstaff's assailants, and instead of being one man in buckram, to become a dozen. Sunday evening was the most melancholy evening in the week; for Mrs Pipchin always made a point of being particularly cross on Sunday nights. Miss Pankey was generally brought back from an aunt's at Rottingdean, in deep distress; and Master Bitherstone, whose relatives were all in India, and who was required to sit, between the services, in an erect position with his head against the parlour wall, neither moving hand nor foot, suffered so acutely in his young spirits that he once asked Florence, on a Sunday night, if she could give him any idea of the way back to Bengal.

这就是在皮普钦太太那里的生活。星期六董贝先生到这里来；弗洛伦斯和保罗则到他的旅馆里去，在那里喝茶。他们跟她一起度 过整个星期天，通常在晚饭之前乘马车离开旅馆。这些时候，董贝先生似乎像福斯泰夫的敌人一样增长起来，从一个穿 麻衣的人变成了十二个穿 麻衣的人①。星期天晚上是一星期中最令人忧郁不乐的晚上，因为皮普钦太太星期天夜间脾气总是格外暴躁，她认为这是完全必要的。潘基小姐通常总是穿着深色的衣服，从住在罗廷丁的一位姨妈那里接回来；比瑟斯通少爷的亲戚全部在印度，所以皮普钦太太就命令他在 做礼拜仪式间歇的时候，身子挺得笔直地坐在那里，头靠着客厅的墙壁，手和脚都不准移动；他那年幼的心灵遭受到的痛苦实在十分凄楚，因此有一个星期天的夜间他问弗洛伦斯，她能不能多少指点他一下，回孟加拉的道路是怎么走的。

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