Chapter 16 CHAUNCEY JEROME.

Any readers of these pages doubtless remember the huge old-fashioned clocks, tower-like in shape, that in the days of their childhood ornamented the remote corner of the hall, or stood solemnly near the chimney in the sitting-room of the old homestead,-such a clock as that which greeted little Paul Dombey, when he commenced to be a man, with its "H