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He had no sooner succeeded in suppressing this emotion, than he slipped off his shoes, and creeping to the adjoining room where the prisoner was confined, turned the key, which was on the outside, and darting in, covered Smike's mouth with his huge hand before he could utter a sound. 'Ods-bobs, dost thee not know me, mun? whispered the Yorkshireman to the bewildered lad. 'Browdie.
'The very boy', said Squeers, putting his fist close to Smike's nose, and drawing it away again, and repeating the process several times, with a vicious aspect. 'If there wasn't a lady present, I'd fetch him such a : never mind, I'll owe it him. And here Mr Squeers related how, and in what manner, and when and where, he had picked up the runaway.
'Here is one whom you know, said Mrs Crummles, thrusting forward the Phenomenon in a blue gauze frock, extensively flounced, and trousers of the same; 'and here another and another, presenting the Master Crummleses. 'And how is your friend, the faithful Digby? 'Digby! said Nicholas, forgetting at the instant that this had been Smike's theatrical name. 'Oh yes.
Improving the occasion in these words, Mr Squeers patted his son's head again, and then patted Smike's but harder; and inquired in a bantering tone how he found himself by this time. 'I must go home, replied Smike, looking wildly round. 'To be sure you must. You're about right there, replied Mr Squeers. 'You'll go home very soon, you will.
'A nasty, ungrateful, pig-headed, brutish, obstinate, sneaking dog, exclaimed Mrs Squeers, taking Smike's head under her arm, and administering a cuff at every epithet; 'what does he mean by that? 'Stand aside, my dear, replied Squeers. 'We'll try and find out. Mrs Squeers, being out of breath with her exertions, complied.
Having put down Nicholas in this triumphant manner, Mrs Nickleby was suddenly seized with a forgetfulness of Smike's real name, and an irresistible tendency to call him Mr Slammons; which circumstance she attributed to the remarkable similarity of the two names in point of sound both beginning with an S, and moreover being spelt with an M. But whatever doubt there might be on this point, there was none as to his being a most excellent listener; which circumstance had considerable influence in placing them on the very best terms, and inducing Mrs Nickleby to express the highest opinion of his general deportment and disposition.
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