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It was all wasted on Blunderby . `` Now , I do n't want to quarrel with you , Tom Gradgrind ! '' he retorted . `` If your daughter , whom I made Loo Bounderby , and might have done better by leaving Loo Gradgrind , do n't come home at noon to-morrow , I shall understand that she prefers to stay away , and you 'll take charge of her in future . What I shall say to people in general of the incompatibility that led to my so laying down the law will be this : I am Josiah Bounderby , she 's the daughter of Tom Gradgrind ; and the two horses would n't pull together . I am pretty well known to be rather an uncommon man , and most people will understand that it must be a woman rather out of the common who would come up to my mark . I have got no more to say .