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'No, 'Tilda, replied Miss Squeers, shaking her head vehemently. 'I can wait. 'So can the young men, it seems, Fanny, observed Mrs Browdie. 'They an't draw'd into it by ME, 'Tilda, retorted Miss Squeers. 'No, returned her friend; 'that's exceedingly true.
I never saw him afterwards, but I sometimes imagine that I descry a faint reflection of him in John Browdie. In reference to these gentry, I may here quote a few words from the original preface to this book.
'Not the least in the world, returned Mrs Browdie; 'for we have looked forward to see you John and I have with the greatest possible pleasure. Do you know, Mr Nickleby, said Mrs Browdie, with her archest smile, 'that I really think Fanny Squeers was very fond of you?
Kate clung closer to his arm, Smike retreated behind them, and John Browdie, who had heard of Ralph, and appeared to have no great difficulty in recognising him, stepped between the old man and his young friend, as if with the intention of preventing either of them from advancing a step further. 'Hear me, I say, said Ralph, 'and not him.
Kate saw that for the ease and comfort of the visitors it was high time to stay this flood of recollection, so answered that she entertained of the Peltiroguses a most vivid and distinct remembrance; and then said that Mr Browdie had half promised, early in the evening, that he would sing a Yorkshire song, and that she was most impatient that he should redeem his promise, because she was sure it would afford her mama more amusement and pleasure than it was possible to express.
Ha! ha! ha! Nicholas laughed very heartily at this story, both on account of its telling against himself, and his being desirous to spare the blushes of Mrs Browdie, whose protestations were drowned in peals of laughter from her husband.
Mr Browdie was not a gentleman of great conversational powers, so he grinned twice more, and having now bestowed his customary mark of recognition on every person in company, grinned at nothing in particular, and helped himself to food. 'Old wooman awa', bean't she? said Mr Browdie, with his mouth full. Miss Squeers nodded assent.
The result proved her to be perfectly correct for, while they were all sitting in Mr Snawley's parlour that night, and just as it was beginning to get dusk, John Browdie was taken so ill, and seized with such an alarming dizziness in the head, that the whole company were thrown into the utmost consternation.
'I am very much obliged to her, said Nicholas; 'but upon my word, I never aspired to making any impression upon her virgin heart. 'How you talk! tittered Mrs Browdie. 'No, but do you know that really seriously now and without any joking I was given to understand by Fanny herself, that you had made an offer to her, and that you two were going to be engaged quite solemn and regular.
Give us thee hond, mun; I'm darned but I must shak thee by the hond for thot. Gotten him at thy loodgin'? 'Yes, replied Squeers, staggering in his chair under the congratulatory blow on the chest which the stout Yorkshireman dealt him; 'thankee. Don't do it again. You mean it kindly, I know, but it hurts rather. Yes, there he is. That's not so bad, is it? 'Ba'ad! repeated John Browdie.
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