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Updated: June 17, 2025
'Beyond putting a very excellent client out of humour, Miss Nickleby has not done anything very remarkable today that I am aware of, at least, said Madame Mantalini in reply. 'Oh, dear! said Miss Knag; 'but you must allow a great deal for inexperience, you know. 'And youth? inquired Madame.
Here Miss Knag paused to take breath, and while she pauses it may be observed not that she was marvellously loquacious and marvellously deferential to Madame Mantalini, since these are facts which require no comment; but that every now and then, she was accustomed, in the torrent of her discourse, to introduce a loud, shrill, clear 'hem! the import and meaning of which, was variously interpreted by her acquaintance; some holding that Miss Knag dealt in exaggeration, and introduced the monosyllable when any fresh invention was in course of coinage in her brain; others, that when she wanted a word, she threw it in to gain time, and prevent anybody else from striking into the conversation.
'I hate her, cried Miss Knag; 'I detest and hate her.
As poor Mrs Nickleby was cooling not her heels alone, but her limbs generally at the street corner, Kate had no alternative but to make her known to Miss Knag, who, doing the last new carriage customer at second-hand, acknowledged the introduction with condescending politeness. The three then walked away, arm in arm: with Miss Knag in the middle, in a special state of amiability.
It's the most singular circumstance I ever knew. Undoubtedly it was singular, that if Miss Knag did feel a strong interest in Kate Nickleby, it should not rather have been the interest of a maiden aunt or grandmother; that being the conclusion to which the difference in their respective ages would have naturally tended.
With these parting words, the good woman quitted the room with great ease of manner, leaving the door wide open; Mr Knag, at the same moment, flung himself into the 'warehouse, and groaned aloud. 'What is the matter with that gentleman, pray? inquired Mrs Nickleby, greatly disturbed by the sound. 'Is he ill? inquired Kate, really alarmed. 'Hush! replied Miss Knag; 'a most melancholy history.
'I am obliged, continued Madame Mantalini, 'since our late misfortunes, to pay Miss Knag a great deal of money for having her name in the business, and I really cannot afford to encourage him in all his wastefulness.
'Have I lived to this day to be called a fright! cried Miss Knag, suddenly becoming convulsive, and making an effort to tear her front off. 'Oh no, no, replied the chorus, 'pray don't say so; don't now! 'Have I deserved to be called an elderly person? screamed Miss Knag, wrestling with the supernumeraries. 'Don't think of such things, dear, answered the chorus.
'Suit very well with mine, Madame Mantalini, interrupted Miss Knag.
The bonnets were no sooner fairly on, than Miss Knag and Madame Mantalini fell into convulsions of admiration. 'A most elegant appearance, said Madame Mantalini. 'I never saw anything so exquisite in all my life, said Miss Knag.
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