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Now George Nupkins, Esquire, the principal magistrate aforesaid, was as grand a personage as the fastest walker would find out, between sunrise and sunset, on the twenty-first of June, which being, according to the almanacs, the longest day in the whole year, would naturally afford him the longest period for his search. On this particular morning, Mr.
'The idea! said Miss Nupkins, forcing a tear of very scanty proportions into the corner of each eye; 'the idea of my being made such a fool of! 'Ah! you may thank your papa, my dear, said Mrs. Nupkins; 'how I have implored and begged that man to inquire into the captain's family connections; how I have urged and entreated him to take some decisive step!
So the fines were remitted, and Mr. Jinks found a couple of bail in no time. And all these solemn proceedings having been satisfactorily concluded, Mr. Grummer was ignominiously ordered out an awful instance of the instability of human greatness, and the uncertain tenure of great men's favour. Mrs. Nupkins was a majestic female in a pink gauze turban and a light brown wig.
I am quite certain nobody would believe it quite. 'But, my dear, said Mr. Nupkins. 'Don't talk to me, you aggravating thing, don't! said Mrs. Nupkins. 'My love, said Mr. Nupkins, 'you professed yourself very fond of Captain Fitz-Marshall. You have constantly asked him here, my dear, and you have lost no opportunity of introducing him elsewhere. 'Didn't I say so, Henrietta? cried Mrs.
There can be little doubt, however, that Nupkins was drawn from a London Police Magistrate, and is, in fact, another portrait of the functionary whom he sketched specially for "Oliver Twist" under the name of Mr. Fang. Nupkins, however, is more in the comedy vein ridiculed rather than gibbeted than was Mr. Fang.
Nupkins, appealing to her daughter with the air of a much-injured female. 'Didn't I say that your papa would turn round and lay all this at my door? Didn't I say so? Here Mrs. Nupkins sobbed. 'Oh, pa! remonstrated Miss Nupkins. And here she sobbed too. 'Isn't it too much, when he has brought all this disgrace and ridicule upon us, to taunt me with being the cause of it? exclaimed Mrs. Nupkins.
Nupkins, and Miss Nupkins, gloomily grand and savagely vexed. 'What prevents me, said Mr. Nupkins, with magisterial dignity, as Job was brought in 'what prevents me from detaining these men as rogues and impostors? It is a foolish mercy. What prevents me? 'Pride, old fellow, pride, replied Jingle, quite at his ease.
There he got introduced to Nupkins, the Mayor, who presided at the election, and who had made his money in "the nail and sarsepan business" that is, as an ironmonger. The few words this functionary uttered on the hustings are of the same pompous character as his later magisterial deliverances.
He describes Bounderby and Gradgrind with a degree of grimness and sombre hatred very different from the half affectionate derision which he directed against the old tyrants or humbugs of the earlier nineteenth century the pompous Dedlock or the fatuous Nupkins, the grotesque Bumble or the inane Tigg. In those old books his very abuse was benignant; in Hard Times even his sympathy is hard.
Nupkins, reddening with passion, 'how dare you select such an inefficient and disreputable person for a special constable, as that man? How dare you do it, Sir? 'I am very sorry, your Wash-up, stammered Grummer. 'Very sorry! said the furious magistrate. 'You shall repent of this neglect of duty, Mr. Grummer; you shall be made an example of. Take that fellow's staff away. He's drunk.
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