England without further adventure and lived 

 to a great age. 



"% 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 

 neighbourhood, 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 part- 

 ing remembrance of him and that request 

 that he might be taken care of, than the most 

 valuable and beautiful of his kind." Dio- 

 genes has, at any rate, one advantage over 

 most pedigree dogs : he is immortal, 

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