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There was no light nonsense about Miss Blimber. She kept her hair short and crisp, and wore spectacles. She was dry and sandy with working in the graves of deceased languages. None of your live languages for Misss Blimber. They must be dead - stone dead - and then Miss Blimber dug them up like a Ghoul.
- Dombey and Son, ch. XI