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Is it, therefore, surprising that he required a great deal of time to tell all that he felt? It was not so much of what he did that he spoke at such great length, but of what he felt. "'Pon me soul," he exploded in the end, twisting his mustache with nervous energy, "it was the demdest nap I ever had. I didn't close my eyes, c'nfend me if I did."
"That's better yet," said the man, without heeding the tone of the reply. He paused, and took up the empty glass. "Look yer, Ruth Pinkney, I'm a square man, and I'll be square with you. So I'll just tell you you've got the demdest odds agin' ye. Pr'aps ye know it, and don't keer. Well, the boys around yer are all sidin' with the old man Nixon.
"Will she call me, Sir!" cried Hugh, "me who doat upon her with the demdest ardour! She, who coils her fascination round me like a pure and angelic rattlesnake! It will be all up with my feelings; she will throw me into a demd state." "Hugh," said Kate, "it is far too serious a matter for nonsense. I consider it was not only unkind but unmanly."
'No, but I must beg you as a favour, said Madame Mantalini, 'to hear me give him notice of what it is my fixed intention to do my fixed intention, sir, repeated Madame Mantalini, darting an angry look at her husband. 'Will she call me "Sir"? cried Mantalini. 'Me who dote upon her with the demdest ardour! She, who coils her fascinations round me like a pure angelic rattlesnake!
'What a demd rum fellow you are, Nickleby, said the gentleman, 'the demdest, longest-headed, queerest-tempered old coiner of gold and silver ever was demmit.
'Nickleby, said Mr Mantalini in tears, 'you have been made a witness to this demnition cruelty, on the part of the demdest enslaver and captivator that never was, oh dem! I forgive that woman. 'Forgive! repeated Madame Mantalini, angrily. 'I do forgive her, Nickleby, said Mr Mantalini.
Then the two big side-lamps sent their shafts of light straight down the metaled, muddy road, and the horse settled down between them to do his equine "demdest"; there was a touch on the reins he recognized. They reached the edge of the bazaar to find the crowd stirring, although strangely mute. "They'll have got the news in an hour from now," said Kirby. "They can smell it already."
'For actually nothing, replied Mantalini. 'A hundred guineas down will buy him; mane, and crest, and legs, and tail, all of the demdest beauty. I will ride him in the park before the very chariots of the rejected countesses. The demd old dowager will faint with grief and rage; the other two will say "He is married, he has made away with himself, it is a demd thing, it is all up!"
'Had I not seen, at a morning concert, the demdest little fascinator in all the world, and while that little fascinator is my wife, may not all the countesses and dowagers in England be
'And what, said Ralph, hesitating a little, 'what was the cause of quarrel? 'You are the demdest, knowing hand, replied Mr Mantalini, in an admiring tone, 'the cunningest, rummest, superlativest old fox oh dem! to pretend now not to know that it was the little bright-eyed niece the softest, sweetest, prettiest 'Alfred! interposed Madame Mantalini.
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