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'I can't hear what you say don't talk to me it isn't safe go away go away! returned Gride. 'Come down, I say. Will you come down? said Ralph fiercely. 'No o o oo, snarled Gride. He drew in his head; and Ralph, left standing in the street, could hear the sash closed, as gently and carefully as it had been opened.
'Oh, dear, I wish the devil had this woman! cried Arthur: 'love him too much to eat more than you can help at his expense. 'At his what? said Peg. 'Oh dear! she can never hear the most important word, and hears all the others! whined Gride. 'At his expense you catamaran!
'The man that came to me last night, whispered Gride, plucking at his elbow. 'The man that came to me last night! 'I see, muttered Ralph, 'I know! I might have guessed as much before. Across my every path, at every turn, go where I will, do what I may, he comes!
My hearing gets so bad, I never know which is which; but when I hear a noise, I know it must be one of you, because nothing else never stirs in the house. 'Me, Peg, me, said Arthur Gride, tapping himself on the breast to render the reply more intelligible. 'You, eh? returned Peg. 'And what do YOU want? 'I'll be married in the bottle-green, cried Arthur Gride.
And if he could not resist ME, do you think his daughter could resist HIM? Shouldn't I have her Mrs Arthur Gride pretty Mrs Arthur Gride a tit-bit a dainty chick shouldn't I have her Mrs Arthur Gride in a week, a month, a day any time I chose to name?
Mr Squeers, plying Mrs Sliderskew freely with the liquor, and sustaining himself under the exertion of speaking so loud by frequent applications to it himself, complied with this request by describing the discomfiture of Arthur Gride, with such improvements on the truth as happened to occur to him, and the ingenious invention and application of which had been very instrumental in recommending him to her notice in the beginning of their acquaintance.
He drew Ralph Nickleby to the further end of the room, and pointed towards Gride, who sat huddled together in a corner, fumbling nervously with the buttons of his coat, and exhibiting a face, of which every skulking and base expression was sharpened and aggravated to the utmost by his anxiety and trepidation. 'Look at that man, whispered Bray, emphatically. 'This seems a cruel thing, after all.
'But old Arthur Gride and matrimony is a most anomalous conjunction of words; old Arthur Gride and dark eyes and eyelashes, and lips that to look at is to long to kiss, and clustering hair that he wants to play with, and waists that he wants to span, and little feet that don't tread upon anything old Arthur Gride and such things as these is more monstrous still; but old Arthur Gride marrying the daughter of a ruined "dashing man" in the Rules of the Bench, is the most monstrous and incredible of all.
'What a man it is! cried Arthur Gride, affecting, in the extremity of his torture, to be highly amused. And then he added, anxiously, 'Yes; to keep her safe, that's all. And that isn't much, is it? 'Much! said Ralph, with a sneer. 'Why, everybody knows what easy things to understand and to control, women are. But come, it's very nearly time for you to be made happy.
These she prolonged until she had hobbled to the door, when she exchanged them for a sour malignant look, and twisting her under-jaw from side to side, muttered hearty curses upon the future Mrs Gride, as she crept slowly down the stairs, and paused for breath at nearly every one. 'She's half a witch, I think, said Arthur Gride, when he found himself again alone.
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