eventually in the refreshment-room, where 

 he had ingratiated himself with the lady 

 behind the counter. He reached England 

 without further adventure and lived to a 

 great age. 



SS Then, too, there is Diogenes, the dog 

 whom Paul Dombey remembered and whom 

 Mr. Toots afterwards brought to Florence 

 Dombey. What was the race of Diogenes ? 

 We know no more than we know what song 

 the Sirens sang. He " was as ridiculous a dog 

 as one could meet with on a summer's day ; 

 a blundering, ill-favoured, clumsy, bullet- 

 headed dog, continually acting on a wrong 

 idea that there was an enemy in the neigh- 

 bourhood, whom it was meritorious to bark 

 at ; and though he was far from good- 

 tempered, and certainly was not clever, and 

 had hair all over his eyes, and a comic nose, 

 and an inconsistent tail, and a gruff voice ; 

 he was dearer to Florence, in virtue of that 

 parting remembrance of him and that request 

 that he might be taken care of, than the 

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