Word: dombey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them as Dickens himself. "I have had a good cry," he once wrote to Forster. "I am worn to death. I was obliged to lock myself in when I finished yesterday, for my face was swollen to twice its proper size. . . ." "Between ourselves," he gravely informed another friend, "Paul [Dombey] is dead. He died on Friday night about ten o'clock...