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This great point attained, Madame Mantalini argued the question of the allowance, and Mr Mantalini did the same, taking occasion to show that he could live with uncommon satisfaction upon bread and water, and go clad in rags, but that he could not support existence with the additional burden of being mistrusted by the object of his most devoted and disinterested affection.
Not one of them would hear of letting you out; and as for Mantalini, the scoundrel was so insolent that I gave him a box on the ear, and would have half-killed him, only poor Mary Mrs. Titmarsh I mean screamed and fainted: and I brought her away, and here she is, as ill as can be."
'Ah! cried Mr Mantalini, 'interrupted! and whisk went the breakfast knife into Mr Mantalini's dressing-gown pocket, while Mr Mantalini's eyes rolled wildly, and his hair floating in wild disorder, mingled with his whiskers. 'Alfred, cried his wife, flinging her arms about him, 'I didn't mean to say it, I didn't mean to say it! 'Ruined! cried Mr Mantalini.
Mantalini to turning a mangle, the human race has the comfort of thinking they are still alive: and one might have the rapture of receiving a begging letter from Mr. Pecksniff, or even of catching Mr. Mantalini collecting the washing, if one always lurked about on Monday mornings. Mrs. Wilfer deserved death much more than Mr. But who can honestly say he does not hope Mrs.
Ralph, in no-wise moved by what had lately passed, further than as he had already expressed himself, walked deliberately on, and turning out of the Park and leaving Golden Square on his right, took his way through some streets at the west end of the town until he arrived in that particular one in which stood the residence of Madame Mantalini.
'Then you are most immensely and outr-i-geously deaf, said Mr Mantalini, 'as deaf as a demnition post. Mr Mantalini had got by this time into the passage, and was making his way to the door of Ralph's office with very little ceremony, when Newman interposed his body; and hinting that Mr Nickleby was unwilling to be disturbed, inquired whether the client's business was of a pressing nature.
Mr Mantalini groaned once more from behind his wife's bonnet, and fitting a sovereign into one of his eyes, winked with the other at Ralph. Having achieved this performance with great dexterity, he whipped the coin into his pocket, and groaned again with increased penitence.
"That's what he says, but the truth is he got mixed up in a disreputable affair and had to resign. No doubt he has been going to the 'demnition bow-bows, as Mr. Mantalini says, but he wasn't so mad as to throw away his bread just to have the pleasure of starving. He hasn't a ha'penny." "Well, I don't care," said the other with a laugh, and then went on to talk of other things.
'What's the demd total? was the first question he asked. 'Fifteen hundred and twenty-seven pound, four and ninepence ha'penny, replied Mr Scaley, without moving a limb. 'The halfpenny be demd, said Mr Mantalini, impatiently. 'By all means if you vish it, retorted Mr Scaley; 'and the ninepence.
'Demmit! exclaimed Mr Mantalini, opening his eyes at the sound of Ralph's voice, 'it is a horrid reality. She is sitting there before me. There is the graceful outline of her form; it cannot be mistaken there is nothing like it. The two countesses had no outlines at all, and the dowager's was a demd outline. Why is she so excruciatingly beautiful that I cannot be angry with her, even now?
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