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'Yes, said Newman. 'Kenwigses have got a boy, haven't they? inquired the collector. Again Newman said 'Yes. 'Is it a nice boy? demanded the collector. 'It ain't a very nasty one, returned Newman, rather embarrassed by the question. 'Susan Kenwigs used to say, observed the collector, 'that if ever she had another boy, she hoped it might be like me. Is this one like me, Mr Noggs?
Finding that Newman was determined to arrest his progress at any hazard, and apprehensive that some well-intentioned passenger, attracted by the cry of 'Stop thief, might lay violent hands upon his person, and place him in a disagreeable predicament from which he might have some difficulty in extricating himself, Nicholas soon slackened his pace, and suffered Newman Noggs to come up with him: which he did, in so breathless a condition, that it seemed impossible he could have held out for a minute longer.
Lashing himself up to an extravagant pitch of fury, Newman Noggs jerked himself about the room with the most eccentric motion ever beheld in a human being: now sparring at the little miniatures on the wall, and now giving himself violent thumps on the head, as if to heighten the delusion, until he sank down in his former seat quite breathless and exhausted.
'But bless my life, said Miss La Creevy, wiping her eyes after a short pause, and cramming her handkerchief into her pocket with great bustle and dispatch; 'what a foolish creature I must seem to you, Mr Noggs! I shouldn't have said anything about it, only I wanted to explain to you how it was I hadn't seen Miss Nickleby. 'Have you seen the old lady? asked Newman.
'But if I had fractured every limb, and still preserved my senses, you should not bandage one till you had told me what I have the right to know. Come, said Nicholas, giving his hand to Noggs. 'You had a sister of your own, you told me once, who died before you fell into misfortune. Now think of her, and tell me, Newman. 'Yes, I will, I will, said Noggs. 'I'll tell you the whole truth.
I should have done it before now, if I hadn't been afraid of making bad worse. I shall double-lock myself in with him and have it out before I die, I'm quite certain of it. 'I shall scream if you don't compose yourself, Mr Noggs, said Miss La Creevy; 'I'm sure I shan't be able to help it. 'Never mind, rejoined Newman, darting violently to and fro. 'He's coming up tonight: I wrote to tell him.
It was a great exertion for Newman Noggs, and nobody knows to this day how he ever came to make it, the other party being wholly unknown to him, but he drew a long breath and actually said, out loud, without once stopping, that if the young gentleman did not object to tell, he should like to know what his uncle was going to do for him.
Indeed, divers servant girls who came to draw water, and sundry little boys who stopped to drink at the ladle, were almost scared out of their senses, by the apparition of Newman Noggs looking stealthily round the pump, with nothing of him visible but his face, and that wearing the expression of a meditative Ogre.
Occupied in such discourse, they walked on for a couple of hours, as they might have done for a couple of days if Nicholas had not sat himself down on a stone by the wayside, and resolutely declared his intention of not moving another step until Newman Noggs turned back.
'He says, replied the woman, abashed by his harshness, 'that he comes on very particular business which admits of no excuse; and I thought perhaps it might be about 'About what, in the devil's name? said Ralph. 'You spy and speculate on people's business with me, do you? 'Dear, no, sir! I saw you were anxious, and thought it might be about Mr Noggs; that's all.
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