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Newman accompanied this very unusual outbreak with a violent blow upon the table, as if, in the heat of the moment, he had mistaken it for the chest or ribs of Mr Wackford Squeers. 'The day before yesterday, said Newman, 'your uncle received this letter. I took a hasty copy of it, while he was out. Shall I read it? 'If you please, replied Nicholas.
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'Am I to take care of the school when I grow up a man, father? said Wackford junior, suspending, in the excess of his delight, a vicious kick which he was administering to his sister. 'You are, my son, replied Mr Squeers, in a sentimental voice. 'Oh my eye, won't I give it to the boys! exclaimed the interesting child, grasping his father's cane. 'Oh, father, won't I make 'em squeak again!
But I am persuaded that Wackford Squeers the younger, with all the dogged perseverance of a true Yorkshireman, struggled manfully against misfortune; resolved to make a home for his parents and sister; and, as soon as he could raise the needful capital, opened a private school in the South of England, as far as possible from the scene of earlier misfortune.
As I laid all of a heap in our kitchen, plastered all over, you might have thought I was a large brown-paper parcel, chock full of nothing but groans. Did I groan loud, Wackford, or did I groan soft? asked Mr Squeers, appealing to his son. 'Loud, replied Wackford. 'Was the boys sorry to see me in such a dreadful condition, Wackford, or was they glad? asked Mr Squeers, in a sentimental manner.
"The absence of the college degree is an objection." replied Squeers, considerably puzzled by the contrast between the simplicity of the nephew and the shrewdness of the uncle. "Let me have two words with you," said Ralph. The two words were had apart; in a couple of minutes Mr. Wackford Squeers' announced that Mr.
I discoursed with mine, a merry blue-eyed girl, upon Zu-Vendian art, and never saw that she was waiting for an opportunity to drop a specimen of the cockroach tribe down my back, whilst in the corner Sir Henry and his governess appeared, so far as I could judge, to be going through a lesson framed on the great educational principles laid down by Wackford Squeers Esq., though in a very modified or rather spiritualized form.
Surprising!" were some of the adjectives Lieutenant Muchmore used as he stepped from the conning tower, with Captain Henderson, onto the deck. At the appearance of the officer and the inventor a group of those on the Sylph gave three cheers for the little vessel. "Is she for sale?" asked Captain Wackford. "No, thank you," replied Mr. Henderson with a laugh.
'Yes, we are at the Saracen, replied Squeers, 'and as it don't want very long to the end of the half-year, we shall continney to stop there till I've collected the money, and some new boys too, I hope. I've brought little Wackford up, on purpose to show to parents and guardians. I shall put him in the advertisement, this time. Look at that boy himself a pupil.
It was one of the brimstone-and-treacle mornings, and Mrs Squeers had entered school according to custom with the large bowl and spoon, followed by Miss Squeers and the amiable Wackford: who, during his father's absence, had taken upon him such minor branches of the executive as kicking the pupils with his nailed boots, pulling the hair of some of the smaller boys, pinching the others in aggravating places, and rendering himself, in various similar ways, a great comfort and happiness to his mother.
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