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Tim Linkinwater, sir, your health. Devil take you, Tim Linkinwater, sir, God bless you. With this singular contradiction of terms, brother Ned gave Tim Linkinwater a slap on the back, which made him look, for the moment, almost as apoplectic as the butler: and tossed off the contents of his glass in a twinkling.
With these words, Tim Linkinwater stalked out, and shut himself up in his glass case, with the air of a man who had had his say, and was thoroughly resolved not to be put down. The brothers interchanged looks, and coughed some half-dozen times without speaking.
'Ay, replied the immovable Tim, 'I hope she hasn't. Nicholas hazarded one or two further remarks, but it was evident that Tim Linkinwater had his own reasons for evading the subject, and that he was determined to afford no further information respecting the fair unknown, who had awakened so much curiosity in the breast of his young friend.
Tim closed the book again. 'Come, come, said Nicholas, 'I am all impatience to begin. Tim Linkinwater shook his head with an air of mild reproof. Mr Nickleby was not sufficiently impressed with the deep and awful nature of his undertaking. Suppose there should be any mistake any scratching out! Young men are adventurous. It is extraordinary what they will rush upon, sometimes.
'That Mr Frank and Mr Nickleby should have met last night, said Tim Linkinwater, getting slowly off his stool, and looking round the counting-house with his back planted against the desk, as was his custom when he had anything very particular to say: 'that those two young men should have met last night in that manner is, I say, a coincidence, a remarkable coincidence.
God bless you, Trimmers and come and dine with us some day this week; you'll always find a knife and fork, and we shall be delighted. Now, my dear sir cheque from Mr Linkinwater, Tim. Smashed by a cask of sugar, and six poor children oh dear, dear, dear!
Nicholas did not come home nor did Smike reappear; but neither circumstance, to say the truth, had any great effect upon the little party, who were all in the best humour possible. Indeed, there sprung up quite a flirtation between Miss La Creevy and Tim Linkinwater, who said a thousand jocose and facetious things, and became, by degrees, quite gallant, not to say tender.
'Poor dear, poor dear! cried brother Charles 'Where is my brother Ned? Ned, my dear brother, come here pray. 'Brother Charles, my dear fellow, replied his brother, hurrying into the room, 'what is the ah! what 'Hush! hush! not a word for your life, brother Ned, returned the other. 'Ring for the housekeeper, my dear brother call Tim Linkinwater!
It would be much kinder of you, Kate, to ask Mr Linkinwater or Mr Cheeryble to interfere in his behalf, and see him righted. You ought not to allow your feelings to influence you; it's not right, very far from it. What should my feelings be, do you suppose? If anybody ought to be indignant, who is it? I, of course, and very properly so.
Tim Linkinwater condescended, after much entreating and brow-beating, to accept a share in the house; but he could never be prevailed upon to suffer the publication of his name as partner, and always persisted in the punctual and regular discharge of his clerkly duties. The twin brothers retired. Who needs to be told that they were happy?
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