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'Why, the truth is, Mr Noggs, said Miss La Creevy, 'that I have been out on a visit the first visit I have made for fifteen years. 'That is a long time, said Newman, sadly. 'So it is a very long time to look back upon in years, though, somehow or other, thank Heaven, the solitary days roll away peacefully and happily enough, replied the miniature painter.
Then he produced a version of Nicholas Nickleby, in which his Newman Noggs took a more ambitious flight. These, however, were but the avant-couriers of the immortal Rip. Charles Burke's piece held close to the lines of Irving's legend. When the vagabond returns from the mountains after the twenty years' sleep Gretchen is dead.
'You mean Mrs Nickleby? said Miss La Creevy. 'Then I tell you what, Mr Noggs, if you want to keep in the good books in that quarter, you had better not call her the old lady any more, for I suspect she wouldn't be best pleased to hear you.
Although he expressed himself in this derisive and contemptuous manner, it was plain that, the more Ralph pondered, the more ill at ease he became, and the more he laboured under some vague anxiety and alarm, which increased as the time passed on and no tidings of Newman Noggs arrived.
Human beings like those he heard of or talked with every day factory hands and mill-owners, parsons, squires, lads and lasses the Yorkes, and Robert Moore, Squeers, Smike, Kate Nickleby and Newman Noggs, came by, looked him in the eyes, made him take sides, compare himself with them, join in their fights and hatreds, pity and exult with them.
Noggs gave vent to his usual grunt, as much as to say 'I thought so! and, the ring being repeated, went to the door, whence he presently returned, ushering in, by the name of Mr Bonney, a pale gentleman in a violent hurry, who, with his hair standing up in great disorder all over his head, and a very narrow white cravat tied loosely round his throat, looked as if he had been knocked up in the night and had not dressed himself since.
One step, at least, I may take am bound to take indeed and to that I will apply myself tomorrow. 'What is that? asked Noggs wistfully. 'Not to threaten Ralph? Not to see the father? 'To see the daughter, Newman, replied Nicholas. 'To do what, after all, is the utmost that the brothers could do, if they were here, as Heaven send they were!
Newman Noggs pointed to the bottom of a cupboard, and Mr Crowl, seizing the shovel, threw on half the stock: which Noggs very deliberately took off again, without saying a word. 'You have not turned saving, at this time of day, I hope? said Crowl. Newman pointed to the empty glass, as though it were a sufficient refutation of the charge, and briefly said that he was going downstairs to supper.
Nicholas engaged beds for himself and Smike at the inn where the coach stopped, and repaired, without the delay of another moment, to the lodgings of Newman Noggs; for his anxiety and impatience had increased with every succeeding minute, and were almost beyond control.
I shouldn't have thought it, really. With these touching expressions of sorrow, Mr Nickleby replaced his watch in his fob, and, fitting on his gloves to a nicety, turned upon his way, and walked slowly westward with his hands behind him. 'Children alive? inquired Noggs, stepping up to him. 'Why, that's the very thing, replied Mr Nickleby, as though his thoughts were about them at that moment.
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