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Updated: June 15, 2025
Of the stealthy comers, Frank Cheeryble was one, and Newman Noggs the other.
'I can't keep it from him when he asks me. 'Then you must go out, Mr Noggs, said Miss La Creevy. 'You can easily have been kept away by business, and must not return till nearly midnight. 'Then he will come straight here, retorted Newman.
Arthur Gride, after peering nervously about him, spied it on the ground, picked it up, and sitting down to write, glanced at Newman Noggs, who was staring at the wall with an intensity so remarkable, that Arthur was quite alarmed. 'Do you see anything particular, Mr Noggs? said Arthur, trying to follow the direction of Newman's eyes which was an impossibility, and a thing no man had ever done.
But Newman merely uttering the monosyllable 'Noggs, as if it were some cabalistic word, at sound of which bolts would fly back and doors open, pushed briskly past and gained the door of Miss La Creevy's sitting-room, before the astonished servant could offer any opposition. 'Walk in if you please, said Miss La Creevy in reply to the sound of Newman's knuckles; and in he walked accordingly.
It was not an easy task to arrive at this information; but, after a great quantity of extraordinary pantomime, which in no way assisted it, Nicholas, who was almost as wild as Newman Noggs himself, forced the latter down upon his seat and held him down until he began his tale. Rage, astonishment, indignation, and a storm of passions, rushed through the listener's heart, as the plot was laid bare.
Newman Noggs made no reply, but went on shrugging his shoulders and cracking his finger-joints; smiling horribly all the time, and looking steadfastly at nothing, out of the tops of his eyes, in a most ghastly manner.
Ralph shrugged his shoulders again, as if it were no great feat to amaze Mr Mantalini, and cast a wistful glance at the face of Newman Noggs, which had several times appeared behind a couple of panes of glass in the room door; it being a part of Newman's duty, when unimportant people called, to make various feints of supposing that the bell had rung for him to show them out: by way of a gentle hint to such visitors that it was time to go.
Yes, yes. Ho! ho! 'God bless you, answered Kate, hurrying out, 'God bless you. 'Same to you, rejoined Newman, opening the door again a little way to say so. 'Ha, ha, ha! Ho! ho! ho! And Newman Noggs opened the door once again to nod cheerfully, and laugh and shut it, to shake his head mournfully, and cry.
Beyond all measure proud of this commission, Newman Noggs took up his post, in the square, on the following evening, a full hour before the needful time, and planting himself behind the pump and pulling his hat over his eyes, began his watch with an elaborate appearance of mystery, admirably calculated to excite the suspicion of all beholders.
Newman Noggs did not say that he had hunted up the old furniture they saw, from attic and cellar; or that he had taken in the halfpennyworth of milk for tea that stood upon a shelf, or filled the rusty kettle on the hob, or collected the woodchips from the wharf, or begged the coals.
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