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'Not I, replied Nicholas. 'If I were going to remain here, I might think it worth my while to embroil myself. As it is, let them talk till they are hoarse. But here, added Nicholas, as Smike approached, 'here comes the subject of a portion of their good-nature, so let he and I say good night together. 'No, I will not let either of you say anything of the kind, returned Miss Snevellicci.
Now, the good-nature of the little miniature painter would by no means allow of Smike's walking back again, until he had been previously refreshed with just a sip of something comfortable and a mixed biscuit or so; and Smike, entertaining no objection either to the sip of something comfortable, or the mixed biscuit, but, considering on the contrary that they would be a very pleasant preparation for a walk to Bow, it fell out that he delayed much longer than he originally intended, and that it was some half-hour after dusk when he set forth on his journey home.
Some of these are as powerful as anything in modern fiction; and Fagin and Bill Sikes, Smike and Poor Jo, the Gordon riots and the storms at sea, may stand beside some tableaux of Victor Hugo for lurid power and intense realism. But it was only at times and during the first half of his career that Dickens could keep clear of melodrama and somewhat stagey blue fire.
With a sad and pensive air, he retraced his steps homewards. Smike had scraped a meal together from the remnant of last night's supper, and was anxiously awaiting his return. The occurrences of the morning had not improved Nicholas's appetite, and, by him, the dinner remained untasted.
He worked very hard all day, and did not leave his room until the evening, when he went down to the theatre, whither Smike had repaired before him to go on with another gentleman as a general rebellion. Here all the people were so much changed, that he scarcely knew them. False hair, false colour, false calves, false muscles they had become different beings.
'Because I should change; not those about me. And if they forgot me, I should never know it, replied Smike. 'In the churchyard we are all alike, but here there are none like me. I am a poor creature, but I know that. 'You are a foolish, silly creature, said Nicholas cheerfully. 'If that is what you mean, I grant you that.
"Yes," thinks I, "you may do thot agean, and not wakken anybody, sir." "Hallo, there," he says, and then he stops. "Thou'd betther not aggravate me," says schoolmeasther, efther a little time. "I'll brak' every boan in your boddy, Smike," he says, efther another little time. Then all of a soodden, he sings oot for a loight, and when it cooms ecod, such a hoorly-boorly!
'You are a foolish fellow to say it, for I know it well, and see it, or I should be a blind and senseless beast, rejoined Nicholas. 'Let me ask you a question while I think of it, and there is no one by, he added, looking him steadily in the face. 'Have you a good memory? 'I don't know, said Smike, shaking his head sorrowfully. 'I think I had once; but it's all gone now all gone.
'Strange! cried Nicholas; 'can this be some lingering creation of the visions that have scarcely left me! It cannot be real and yet I I am awake! Smike! The form moved, rose, advanced, and dropped upon its knees at his feet. It was Smike indeed. 'Why do you kneel to me? said Nicholas, hastily raising him.
The ladies and gentlemen required no second notice to quit; and, in a few minutes, the theatre was deserted, save by the Crummles family, Nicholas, and Smike. 'Upon my word, said Nicholas, taking the manager aside, 'I don't think I can be ready by Monday. 'Pooh, pooh, replied Mr Crummles.
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