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No, that it isn't. Is it in Asia? Why, of course it's not. Is it in Africa? Not a bit of it. Is it in America? YOU know better than that, at all events. Well, then, said Tim, folding his arms resolutely, 'where is it? 'I was not about to dispute the point, Tim, said young Cheeryble, laughing. 'I am not such a heretic as that.
She brought with her the papers read at the last meeting of the "Cheeryble Sisters' Club," such papers being, at Lena's special request, always turned over to her for perusal. "Whose are these?" asked the young convalescent, when Maggie delivered them to her. "One is Bessie's, and it is poetry. Did you know that Bessie had begun to write poetry?" said Maggie.
'Brother Ned, said Mr Cheeryble, tapping with his knuckles, and stooping to listen, 'are you busy, my dear brother, or can you spare time for a word or two with me? 'Brother Charles, my dear fellow, replied a voice from the inside, so like in its tones to that which had just spoken, that Nicholas started, and almost thought it was the same, 'don't ask me such a question, but come in directly.
You will not offend me, for when I was as young as you, I dare say I should have done the same. 'I have no such inclination, indeed, said Nicholas. 'My dear brother Ned, continued Mr Cheeryble, 'was to have married her sister, but she died. She is dead too now, and has been for many years.
The place to which Mr Cheeryble had directed him was a row of mean and not over-cleanly houses, situated within 'the Rules' of the King's Bench Prison, and not many hundred paces distant from the obelisk in St George's Fields.
Nicholas could not go to bed without expatiating on the excellences and munificence of the brothers Cheeryble, and relating the great success which had attended his efforts that day.
Frank Cheeryble and Tim Linkinwater looked, in irrepressible astonishment, first at each other and then at Kate, who felt that some explanation was necessary, but who, between her terror at the apparition of the legs, her fear lest their owner should be smothered, and her anxiety to give the least ridiculous solution of the mystery that it was capable of bearing, was quite unable to utter a single word.
Gallantry was not his aim, but a solid and somewhat oppressive respectability. He was a sworn foe to the unusual and the conspicuous, a praiser of the golden mean, a kind of city uncle modified by Cheeryble. And as he was precise and conscientious in all the steps of his own blameless course, he looked for the same precision and an even greater gravity in the bearing of his deity, my father.
'Of that I am well assured, returned brother Charles, 'well assured. You will give me credit for thinking so, when I tell you that the object of this mission is a young lady. 'A young lady, sir! cried Nicholas, quite trembling for the moment with his eagerness to hear more. 'A very beautiful young lady, said Mr Cheeryble, gravely. 'Pray go on, sir, returned Nicholas.
For a moment I dreamt of a Cheeryble Brother asking me kindly if I thought I could do with thirty shillings a week as a beginning; but the next I recalled my usual fate, and considered whether it was even worth while to climb the stairs, go through what to me was a painful ordeal, merely to be impressed again with the sense of my own worthlessness. A fine rain began to fall.
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