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With paddle shoved into the mud to hold the canoe steady against the embankment so that it would not capsize in the wash of the launch, Kendrick decided to sit still and await developments. The launch passed presently, so close to them that he held his breath. One of the occupants was talking in low tones. Somebody laughed and said: "That's a good one, Nickleby."
I tell you I never felt so much like a fool " Nickleby broke off with an oath, still smarting under the jibes which the caustic Mr. Ferguson had levelled at him, and beneath which the President of the Interprovincial had writhed in humiliation. "Somebody took that money out on the way over, Podmore." "N ot necessarily, J. C.," said Podmore judicially. "Wait, now. Think, man.
But in David Copperfield Dickens begins something which looks for the moment fresh and startling. It is melancholy to see that sudden fire fading. It is sad to see David Copperfield gradually turning into Nicholas Nickleby. Nicholas Nickleby does not exist at all; he is a quite colourless primary condition of the story.
We cannot allow those who serve us well to labour under any privation or discomfort that it is in our power to remove. I wish, too, to see your mother and sister: to know them, Mr Nickleby, and have an opportunity of relieving their minds by assuring them that any trifling service we have been able to do them is a great deal more than repaid by the zeal and ardour you display.
'Bless my heart, Kate! cried Mrs Nickleby, with her wonted suddenness, 'what a colour you have got; why, you're quite flushed! 'Oh, mama! what strange things you fancy! 'It wasn't fancy, Kate, my dear, I'm certain of that, returned her mother. 'However, it's gone now at any rate, so it don't much matter whether it was or not. What was it we were talking about? Oh! Mr Frank.
'With whom? cried Nicholas. Mrs Nickleby repeated, with Kate. 'What! OUR Kate! My sister! 'Lord, Nicholas! returned Mrs Nickleby, 'whose Kate should it be, if not ours; or what should I care about it, or take any interest in it for, if it was anybody but your sister? 'Dear mother, said Nicholas, 'surely it can't be! 'Very good, my dear, replied Mrs Nickleby, with great confidence.
As part of their plan, therefore, they had gone to Nickleby with the proposal that the three of them Nickleby, Ferguson and himself form a little syndicate on the quiet to buy up a tract of land on which the Government had its eye as a prospective location for the new Deaf & Dumb Institute. The land had a market value of $100,000 and this sum the Government was quite ready to pay.
And vegetable marrows likewise. 'Confound his impudence! said Nicholas, firing immediately. 'What does he mean by that? 'I don't think he means it impertinently at all, replied Mrs Nickleby. 'What! said Nicholas, 'cucumbers and vegetable marrows flying at the heads of the family as they walk in their own garden, and not meant impertinently! Why, mother
He had married on his whiskers; upon which property he had previously subsisted, in a genteel manner, for some years; and which he had recently improved, after patient cultivation by the addition of a moustache, which promised to secure him an easy independence: his share in the labours of the business being at present confined to spending the money, and occasionally, when that ran short, driving to Mr Ralph Nickleby to procure discount at a percentage for the customers' bills.
'So far as I am concerned, said Miss Knag, when the message had been delivered, with many ornaments of speech; 'I could spare Miss Nickleby for evermore. 'Oh, indeed, ma'am! rejoined Miss La Creevy, highly offended. 'But, you see, you are not mistress of the business, and therefore it's of no great consequence. 'Very good, ma'am, said Miss Knag. 'Have you any further commands for me?
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