Transcription: Paul Dombey. He was childish and sportive enough at times, and not of a sullen disposition, but he had a strange, old-fashioned, thoughtful way at other times of sitting, brooding in his miniature armchair when he looked and talked like one of those terrible beings in the fairy tales who, at a hundred and fifty or two hundred years of age, fantastically represent the children for whom they have been substituted.