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One while saying, laughingly, to Nicholas, across the bread-and-butter plate which they had just been emptying between them, "Ye wean't get bread-and-butther ev'ry neight, I expect, mun. Ecod, they dean't put too much intif 'em. Ye'll be nowt but skeen and boans if you stop here long eneaf. Ho! ho! ho!" all this to Nicholas's unspeakable indignation.
'An' then Dr. Warbottom comes ridin' up, an' Jesse Roantree along with 'im. He was a high-larned doctor, but he talked wi' poor folk same as theirsens. "What's ta big agaate on naa?" he sings out. "Brekkin' tha thick head?" An' he felt me all ovver. "That's none broken. Tha' nobbut knocked a bit sillier than ordinary, an' that's daaft eneaf."
'Halloa! cried a voice inside. 'Wa'et be the matther noo? Be the toon a-fire? Ding, but thou mak'st noise eneaf! With these words, John Browdie opened the door himself, and opening his eyes too to their utmost width, cried, as he clapped his hands together, and burst into a hearty roar: 'Ecod, it be the godfeyther, it be the godfeyther! Tilly, here be Misther Nickleby. Gi' us thee hond, mun.
Here, can't ye len' a hond? Dom it, I'd ha' dean it if all my boans were brokken. 'Here! cried Nicholas, staggering to his feet, 'I'm ready. I'm only a little abroad, that's all. 'Hoold 'em toight, cried the guard, 'while ar coot treaces. Hang on tiv'em sumhoo. Well deane, my lod. That's it. Let'em goa noo. Dang 'em, they'll gang whoam fast eneaf!
Nicholas bit his lip, and coloured, but affected not to hear the remark. 'Ecod, said Mr Browdie, laughing boisterously, 'they dean't put too much intiv'em. Ye'll be nowt but skeen and boans if you stop here long eneaf. Ho! ho! ho! 'You are facetious, sir, said Nicholas, scornfully.
'I dinnot know whether thou'd ever dreamt of it, though I think that's loike eneaf, mind, retorted John; 'but thou didst it. "Ye're a feeckle, changeable weathercock, lass," says I. "Not feeckle, John," says she. "Yes," says I, "feeckle, dom'd feeckle. Dinnot tell me thou bean't, efther yon chap at schoolmeasther's," says I. "Him!" says she, quite screeching.
'It's eneaf to scare a mun to hear tell on. 'I thought it would surprise you a bit, said Squeers, rubbing his hands. 'It was pretty neatly done, and pretty quick too. 'Hoo wor it? inquired John, sitting down close to him. 'Tell us all aboot it, mun; coom, quick!
Tha' nobbut knocked a bit sillier than ordinary, an' that's daaft eneaf. An' soa he went on, callin' me all the names he could think on, but settin' my arm, wi' Jesse's help, as careful as could be. 'Yo' mun let the big oaf bide here a bit, Jesse, he says, when he hed strapped me up an' given me a dose o' physic; 'an' you an' 'Liza will tend him, though he's scarcelins worth the trouble.
'Tilda, said Miss Squeers, with such a sudden accession of violence that John started in his boots, 'I throw you off for ever, miss. I abandon you. I renounce you. I wouldn't, cried Miss Squeers in a solemn voice, 'have a child named 'Tilda, not to save it from its grave. 'As for the matther o' that, observed John, 'it'll be time eneaf to think aboot neaming of it when it cooms.
John Browdie made no verbal answer to this remark, but putting his hand in his pocket, pulled out an old purse of solid leather, and insisted that Nicholas should borrow from him whatever he required for his present necessities. 'Dean't be afeard, mun, he said; 'tak' eneaf to carry thee whoam. Thee'lt pay me yan day, a' warrant.
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