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'This is a cruel thing, said Snawley, looking to his friends for support. 'Do parents bring children into the world for this? 'Do parents bring children into the world for THOT? said John Browdie bluntly, pointing, as he spoke, to Squeers. 'Never you mind, retorted that gentleman, tapping his nose derisively. 'Never I mind! said John, 'no, nor never nobody mind, say'st thou, schoolmeasther.
Hearing this adjuration, Mr Squeers, who had been lingering in the passage until such time as it should be expedient for him to enter and he could appear with effect, was fain to present himself in a somewhat undignified and sneaking way; at which John Browdie laughed with such keen and heartfelt delight, that even Kate, in all the pain, anxiety, and surprise of the scene, and though the tears were in her eyes, felt a disposition to join him.
The time at which John found himself in this enviable condition was the same evening to which the last chapter bore reference; the place was the cottage; and the assembled company were Nicholas, Mrs Nickleby, Mrs Browdie, Kate Nickleby, and Smike. A very merry party they had been. 'The call MUST originate with me, my dear, said Mrs Nickleby, 'that's indispensable.
Never was man so tickled with a respectable old joke, as John Browdie was with this.
"Well, at any rate, you sent Steggles away, and the slippers did come over, and you went into the lane. You walked with her as far as the road at the end, and then you were seized and gagged, and put into a carriage." "That was Browdie did that," said Crockett, "and another chap I don't know. But why, this is Padfield High Street?"
When the sound had died away, the school was empty; and of the busy noisy crowd which had peopled it but five minutes before, not one remained. 'Very well, Mr Browdie! said Miss Squeers, hot and flushed from the recent encounter, but vixenish to the last; 'you've been and excited our boys to run away. Now see if we don't pay you out for that, sir!
'Phib, said Miss Squeers dramatically, 'I insist upon your explaining yourself. What is this dark mystery? Speak. 'Why, if you will have it, miss, it's this, said the servant girl. 'Mr John Browdie thinks as you think; and if he wasn't too far gone to do it creditable, he'd be very glad to be off with Miss Price, and on with Miss Squeers.
Nor was Mrs Browdie much behind her husband in this respect, for that young matron, whose rustic beauty contrasted very prettily with the more delicate loveliness of Kate, and without suffering by the contrast either, for each served as it were to set off and decorate the other, could not sufficiently admire the gentle and winning manners of the young lady, or the engaging affability of the elder one.
His parting words concluded, John Browdie strode heavily out, remounted his nag, put him once more into a smart canter, and, carolling lustily forth some fragments of an old song, to which the horse's hoofs rang a merry accompaniment, sped back to his pretty wife and to Nicholas.
'Couldn't you wish to be married to him yourself, if that was the case? inquired Mrs Browdie, with great suavity of manner. 'Oh, ma'am, how witty you are, retorted Miss Squeers with a low curtsy, 'almost as witty, ma'am, as you are clever. How very clever it was in you, ma'am, to choose a time when I had gone to tea with my pa, and was sure not to come back without being fetched!
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