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Updated: June 25, 2025
And in the streets gutter-merchants were doing a roaring trade in brooches and badges with B.-P.'s face smiling on the enamel as contentedly as if immortalised on a La Creevy miniature. Finally, to complete this apotheosis, Madame Tussaud announced on flaming placards that Baden-Powell had been added to the number of her Immortals.
When I want a nose or an eye for any particular sitter, I have only to look out of window and wait till I get one. 'Does it take long to get a nose, now? inquired Nicholas, smiling. 'Why, that depends in a great measure on the pattern, replied Miss La Creevy.
And Miss La Creevy was very kind too, and wonderfully talkative: not to Smike, for that would have made him uneasy at first, but to Nicholas and his sister.
'The remuneration can scarcely repay you, said Kate. 'Why, it does not, and that's the truth, answered Miss La Creevy; 'and then people are so dissatisfied and unreasonable, that, nine times out of ten, there's no pleasure in painting them.
'I am so happy! sobbed the little woman. 'Then laugh, said Tim. 'Do laugh. What in the world Tim was doing with his arm, it is impossible to conjecture, but he knocked his elbow against that part of the window which was quite on the other side of Miss La Creevy; and it is clear that it could have no business there. 'Do laugh, said Tim, 'or I'll cry.
And as Miss La Creevy walked along, revolving in her mind various genteel forms and elegant turns of expression, with a view to the selection of the very best in which to couch her communication, she cogitated a good deal upon the probable causes of her young friend's indisposition. 'I don't know what to make of it, said Miss La Creevy. 'Her eyes were decidedly red last night.
Why, if I was to say to them, "I'm told your friend Sir Mulberry is a base wretch," they'd laugh at me. 'They will laugh no more at us, I take it, said Nicholas, advancing. 'Come, mother, there is a coach at the door, and until Monday, at all events, we will return to our old quarters. Where everything is ready, and a hearty welcome into the bargain, added Miss La Creevy.
'You mean Mrs Nickleby? said Miss La Creevy. 'Then I tell you what, Mr Noggs, if you want to keep in the good books in that quarter, you had better not call her the old lady any more, for I suspect she wouldn't be best pleased to hear you.
'Why, yes, replied Miss La Creevy, considering with the pencil end of her brush in her mouth. 'Two sittings more will 'Have them at once, ma'am, said Ralph. 'She'll have no time to idle over fooleries after tomorrow. Work, ma'am, work; we must all work. Have you let your lodgings, ma'am? 'I have not put a bill up yet, sir.
Miss La Creevy said she didn't know. And why should she say she didn't know? Because she must have known whether it did or not. 'It's almost enough to make us get married after all, isn't it? said Tim. 'Oh, nonsense! replied Miss La Creevy, laughing. 'We are too old. 'Not a bit, said Tim; 'we are too old to be single.
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