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'Let me see the names, replied Ralph, impatiently extending his hand for the bills. 'Well! They are not sure, but they are safe enough. Do you consent to the terms, and will you take the money? I don't want you to do so. I would rather you didn't. 'Demmit, Nickleby, can't you began Mr Mantalini. 'No, replied Ralph, interrupting him. 'I can't.
As Newman stated it, the cause himself swaggered into the room, and grasping Ralph's horny hand with uncommon affection, vowed that he had never seen him looking so well in all his life. 'There is quite a bloom upon your demd countenance, said Mr Mantalini, seating himself unbidden, and arranging his hair and whiskers. 'You look quite juvenile and jolly, demmit!
The applause nearly deafened me, and I was quite glad when he drew near the end of his most tedious speech. He concluded by calming down very suddenly, returned to his original tones, and thanking his audience for his exceedingly kind reception, retired to his seat looking, as Mr. Mantalini would say, a "dem'd damp, moist, unpleasant body."
To which end, the accidental discovery by Miss Knag of some tender correspondence, in which Madame Mantalini was described as 'old' and 'ordinary, had most providentially contributed.
'I'll do them for you mind, for YOU; I wouldn't for many people for five-and-twenty pounds, said Ralph, deliberately. 'Oh demmit! cried Mr Mantalini, whose face lengthened considerably at this handsome proposal. 'Why, that leaves you fifty, retorted Ralph. 'What would you have? Let me see the names. 'You are so demd hard, Nickleby, remonstrated Mr Mantalini.
While Kate was wondering within herself what these symptoms of unusual vexation portended, Mr Mantalini put the tips of his whiskers, and, by degrees, his head, through the half-opened door, and cried in a soft voice 'Is my life and soul there? 'No, replied his wife. 'How can it say so, when it is blooming in the front room like a little rose in a demnition flower-pot? urged Mantalini.
My aunt was very kind upon the marriage ceremony, indeed. She had desired me some weeks previous to order three magnificent dresses for Mary from the celebrated Madame Mantalini of London, and some elegant trinkets and embroidered pocket-handkerchiefs from Howell and James's. These were sent down to me, and were to be my present to the bride; but Mrs.
Mr Mantalini, who had doubtless well considered his part, no sooner heard these words pronounced in a tone of grief and severity, than he recoiled several paces, assumed an expression of consuming mental agony, rushed headlong from the room, and was, soon afterwards, heard to slam the door of an upstairs dressing-room with great violence.
'By all means, said the old lord; 'the lovely young creature, by all means. 'Everybody is talking about her, said the young lady, in the same careless manner; 'and my lord, being a great admirer of beauty, must positively see her. 'She IS universally admired, replied Madame Mantalini. 'Miss Knag, send up Miss Nickleby. You needn't return.
By that time the philanthropists would be petitioning Parliament for another Royal Commission; perhaps a Royal Commission to inquire into whether Mr. Mantalini was extravagant with his wife's money; perhaps a commission to inquire into whether Mr. Vincent Crummles kept the Infant Phenomenon short by means of gin.
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