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'Show the gentleman where the bell is, and tell him he mustn't knock double knocks for the second floor; I can't allow a knock except when the bell's broke, and then it must be two single ones. 'Here, said Ralph, walking in without more parley, 'I beg your pardon; is that Mrs La what's-her-name? 'Creevy La Creevy, replied the voice, as a yellow headdress bobbed over the banisters.
'I did forget you, I declare, said Miss La Creevy, rising to receive Newman, who met her half-way, 'and I am ashamed of myself for doing so; for you are a kind, good creature, Mr Noggs. Sit down and tell me all about Miss Nickleby. Poor dear thing! I haven't seen her for this many a week. 'How's that? asked Newman.
I wish I had the painting of her: I'D do her justice. So, feeling quite satisfied that she had said a very cutting thing at Miss Knag's expense, Miss La Creevy had a hearty laugh, and went home to breakfast in great good humour. Here was one of the advantages of having lived alone so long!
It was expected that Tim Linkinwater and Miss La Creevy would have made a third couple on the occasion, but they declined, and two or three weeks afterwards went out together one morning before breakfast, and, coming back with merry faces, were found to have been quietly married that day.
She said she had a headache; headaches don't occasion red eyes. She must have been crying. Arriving at this conclusion, which, indeed, she had established to her perfect satisfaction on the previous evening, Miss La Creevy went on to consider as she had done nearly all night what new cause of unhappiness her young friend could possibly have had.
However, he managed to say, in a broken voice, that Nicholas was his only friend, and that he would lay down his life to help him; and Kate, although she was so kind and considerate, seemed to be so wholly unconscious of his distress and embarrassment, that he recovered almost immediately and felt quite at home. Then, Miss La Creevy came in; and to her Smike had to be presented also.
'Why should you cry? asked Miss La Creevy, smiling. 'Because I'm happy too, said Tim. 'We are both happy, and I should like to do as you do. Surely, there never was a man who fidgeted as Tim must have done then; for he knocked the window again almost in the same place and Miss La Creevy said she was sure he'd break it. 'I knew, said Tim, 'that you would be pleased with this scene.
'God forgive me for saying so, said Miss La Creevy, as a wind-up to all her expressions of anger, 'but I really feel as if I could stick this into him with pleasure.
This moral reflection reminding her of the necessity of being peculiarly smart on the occasion, so as to counterbalance Miss La Creevy, and be herself an effectual set-off and atonement, led Mrs Nickleby into a consultation with her daughter relative to certain ribbons, gloves, and trimmings: which, being a complicated question, and one of paramount importance, soon routed the previous one, and put it to flight.
'They must be, I have no doubt, said Kate, humouring her good-natured little friend. 'They are beyond anything you can form the faintest conception of, replied Miss La Creevy. 'What with bringing out eyes with all one's power, and keeping down noses with all one's force, and adding to heads, and taking away teeth altogether, you have no idea of the trouble one little miniature is.
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