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`` Dombey will be your charge at first . Bring him on , Cornelia , bring him on . '' It was hard work , for no sooner had Paul mastered subject A than he was immediately provided with subject B , from which we passed to C , and even D. Often he felt giddy and confused , and drowsy and dull . But there were always the Saturdays when Florence came at noon to fetch him , and never would she , in any weather , stay away . Florence brought the school-books he was studying , and every Saturday night would patiently assist him through so much as they could anticipate together of his next week 's work . And this saved him , possibly , from sinking underneath the burden which the fair Cornelia Blimber piled upon his back . It was not that Miss Blimber meant to be too hard upon him , or that Dr. Blimber meant to bear too heavily on the young gentlemen in general .