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'Bless me! said Kate, stepping hastily forward, 'what is the matter? This inquiry produced in Miss Knag violent symptoms of a relapse; and several young ladies, darting angry looks at Kate, applied more vinegar and hartshorn, and said it was 'a shame. 'What is a shame? demanded Kate. 'What is the matter? What has happened? tell me.
'Kate has improved even in this little time, I have no doubt, said Mrs Nickleby, glancing proudly at her daughter. 'Oh! of course, said Miss Knag. 'And will improve still more, added Mrs Nickleby. 'That she will, I'll be bound, replied Miss Knag, squeezing Kate's arm in her own, to point the joke. 'She always was clever, said poor Mrs Nickleby, brightening up, 'always, from a baby.
'Ah! very true, so they must; very proper indeed! rejoined Miss Knag with that sort of half-sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society; 'and that's what I very often tell my brother, when our servants go away ill, one after another, and he thinks the back-kitchen's rather too damp for 'em to sleep in.
Poor Kate! she little thought how weak her consolation was, and how soon she would be undeceived. Miss Knag, after doting on Kate Nickleby for three whole Days, makes up her Mind to hate her for evermore. The Causes which led Miss Knag to form this Resolution
'Here she is, continued Miss Knag, getting off the box, and introducing Kate with much ceremony and many low curtseys to the delighted throng; 'here she is everybody is talking about her the belle, ladies the beauty, the oh, you bold-faced thing!
'There's been a deal o'cleaning to do in this house, and if you don't like it, I must trouble you to look out for somebody else, for it don't hardly pay me, and that's the truth, if I was to be hung this minute. 'I don't want any remarks if YOU please, said Miss Knag, with a strong emphasis on the personal pronoun. 'Is there any fire downstairs for some hot water presently?
There was something very impressive in the ghostly air with which all this was done; and as Mr Knag was a tall lank gentleman of solemn features, wearing spectacles, and garnished with much less hair than a gentleman bordering on forty, or thereabouts, usually boasts, Mrs Nickleby whispered her daughter that she thought he must be literary. 'Past ten, said Mr Knag, consulting his watch.
'No, I have not, ma'am, rejoined Miss La Creevy. 'Then good-morning, ma'am, said Miss Knag. 'Good-morning to you, ma'am; and many obligations for your extreme politeness and good breeding, rejoined Miss La Creevy.
Now, it was evident, as Miss Knag laughed, that something struck her as being exceedingly funny; and as the young ladies took their tone from Miss Knag she being the chief they all got up a laugh without a moment's delay, and nodded their heads a little, and smiled sarcastically to each other, as much as to say how very good that was!
But, pending the salutation, Miss Knag, who was tinged with curiosity, stepped accidentally behind the glass, and encountered the lively young lady's eye just at the very moment when she kissed the old lord; upon which the young lady, in a pouting manner, murmured something about 'an old thing, and 'great impertinence, and finished by darting a look of displeasure at Miss Knag, and smiling contemptuously.
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