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His selfishness is suggested with much more psychological tact and truth than that of any other of the villains that Dickens described about this time. But his daughter is merely the young woman with whom Nicholas is in love. We do not care a rap about Madeline Bray. Personally I should have preferred Cecilia Bobster.
'What the devil! cried Nicholas, drawing back. 'Are we to sneak into the kitchen, as if we came after the forks? 'Hush! replied Newman. 'Old Bobster ferocious Turk. He'd kill 'em all box the young lady's ears he does often. 'What! cried Nicholas, in high wrath, 'do you mean to tell me that any man would dare to box the ears of such a
'Yes, replied Newman. 'That's it. 'What's it? said Nicholas. 'The name the name, my dear fellow! 'The name's Bobster, replied Newman. 'Bobster! repeated Nicholas, indignantly. 'That's the name, said Newman. 'I remember it by lobster. 'Bobster! repeated Nicholas, more emphatically than before. 'That must be the servant's name.
At that instant, and almost simultaneously with her arrival and that of the candle, there was heard a loud and furious knocking at the street-door, which caused Newman Noggs to jump up, with great agility, from a beer-barrel on which he had been seated astride, and to exclaim abruptly, and with a face of ashy paleness, 'Bobster, by the Lord!
Remembering his companion's propensity, of which his nose, indeed, perpetually warned all beholders like a beacon, Nicholas had drawn him into a sequestered tavern. Here, they fell to reviewing the origin and progress of their acquaintance, as men sometimes do, and tracing out the little events by which it was most strongly marked, came at last to Miss Cecilia Bobster.
'Well? said Nicholas, advancing towards him on tiptoe. 'All right, replied Newman, in high glee. 'All ready; nobody at home. Couldn't be better. Ha! ha! With this fortifying assurance, he stole past a street-door, on which Nicholas caught a glimpse of a brass plate, with 'BOBSTER, in very large letters; and, stopping at the area-gate, which was open, signed to his young friend to descend.
Overpowered by the remonstrances of Newman, and the tears and prayers of the girl, and the tremendous knocking above, which had never ceased, Nicholas allowed himself to be hurried off; and, precisely as Mr Bobster made his entrance by the street-door, he and Noggs made their exit by the area-gate. They hurried away, through several streets, without stopping or speaking.
To the gentleman who assured him that the Right Honble. would make a much better member of Parliament than Tom Bobster the plasterer from Shoreditch he in vain tried to prove that the respective merits of the two men had nothing to do with the question.
'No, it an't, said Newman, shaking his head with great positiveness. 'Miss Cecilia Bobster. 'Cecilia, eh? returned Nicholas, muttering the two names together over and over again in every variety of tone, to try the effect. 'Well, Cecilia is a pretty name. 'Very. And a pretty creature too, said Newman. 'Who? said Nicholas. 'Miss Bobster. 'Why, where have you seen her? demanded Nicholas.
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