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Miss Knag, who was unquestionably the oldest girl in company, said with great solemnity, that it would be a warning to HER, and so did the young ladies generally, with the exception of one or two who appeared to entertain some doubts whether such whispers could do wrong. 'Why do you say all this before so many listeners? said Ralph, in a low voice. 'You know you are not in earnest.
'A miserable wretch, exclaimed Mr Knag, striking his forehead. 'A miserable wretch.
I had an uncle once, Madame Mantalini, who lived in Cheltenham, and had a most excellent business as a tobacconist hem who had such small feet, that they were no bigger than those which are usually joined to wooden legs the most symmetrical feet, Madame Mantalini, that even you can imagine. 'They must have had something of the appearance of club feet, Miss Knag, said Madame.
How much more communicative Miss Knag might have become under more favourable circumstances, it is impossible to divine, but as the gloomy one was within ear-shot, and the fire wanted making up, her disclosures stopped here.
The bile and rancour of the worthy Miss Knag undergoing no diminution during the remainder of the week, but rather augmenting with every successive hour; and the honest ire of all the young ladies rising, or seeming to rise, in exact proportion to the good spinster's indignation, and both waxing very hot every time Miss Nickleby was called upstairs; it will be readily imagined that that young lady's daily life was none of the most cheerful or enviable kind.
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