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Updated: June 4, 2025
Dick, Uriah Heep, Betsy Trotwood, Dick Swiveiler, Mr. Mantalini, Harold Skimpole, Sairey Gamp, always appear with their appropriate insignia. We should remember that it is for our sakes. According to the canons of literary art, a fact should be stated clearly once and for all.
'Oh, I say nothing about that, Madame Mantalini, replied Miss Knag, reddening; 'because if youth were any excuse, you wouldn't have 'Quite so good a forewoman as I have, I suppose, suggested Madame.
What is this story? Who told you? Speak, growled Ralph. 'Do you hear me? ''Gad, Nickleby, said Mr Mantalini, retreating towards his wife, 'what a demneble fierce old evil genius you are! You're enough to frighten the life and soul out of her little delicious wits flying all at once into such a blazing, ravaging, raging passion as never was, demmit! 'Pshaw, rejoined Ralph, forcing a smile.
'Bless my soul, Kate, said Mrs Nickleby; 'I've been thinking all day what a delightful thing it would be for Madame Mantalini to take you into partnership such a likely thing too, you know! Why, your poor dear papa's cousin's sister-in-law a Miss Browndock was taken into partnership by a lady that kept a school at Hammersmith, and made her fortune in no time at all.
'Mr Nickleby, said Madame Mantalini; 'by what chance you came here, I don't know.
If it was, we might hope to cure it; but as it's her misfortune, Madame Mantalini, why really you know, as the man said about the blind horse, we ought to respect it. 'Her uncle told me she had been considered pretty, remarked Madame Mantalini. 'I think her one of the most ordinary girls I ever met with. 'Ordinary! cried Miss Knag with a countenance beaming delight; 'and awkward!
Then horse, rope, pulley, and windlass are brought into play to draw the log into the hold and place it properly among other monarchs of the forest, thus ignominiously laid low, and become what "Mantalini" would style "a damp, moist, unpleasant lot."
This anecdote, so strikingly illustrative of the opulence of milliners, was not received with any great demonstration of feeling, inasmuch as Kate hung down her head while it was relating, and Ralph manifested very intelligible symptoms of extreme impatience. 'The lady's name, said Ralph, hastily striking in, 'is Mantalini Madame Mantalini. I know her. She lives near Cavendish Square.
'I AM in earnest, replied Madame Mantalini, aloud, and retreating towards Miss Knag. 'Well, but consider, reasoned Ralph, who had a great interest in the matter. 'It would be well to reflect. A married woman has no property. 'Not a solitary single individual dem, my soul, and Mr Mantalini, raising himself upon his elbow.
'You'll take care that Miss Nickleby understands her hours, and so forth, said Madame Mantalini; 'and so I'll leave her with you. You'll not forget my directions, Miss Knag? Miss Knag of course replied, that to forget anything Madame Mantalini had directed, was a moral impossibility; and that lady, dispensing a general good-morning among her assistants, sailed away.
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