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'Recollect, you an't worth powder and shot, but I'll be even with you one way or another. 'Stop, interposed Ralph, as Snawley was about to speak. 'Let us cut this matter short, and not bandy words here with hare-brained profligates. This is your son, as you can prove. And you, Mr Squeers, you know this boy to be the same that was with you for so many years under the name of Smike. Do you?
You must recommend me to your connection, sir, and make it up that way. 'They are not great eaters, said Mr Snawley. 'Oh! that doesn't matter at all, replied Squeers. 'We don't consider the boys' appetites at our establishment. This was strictly true; they did not.
'Tell him that I saw him through the window-blind above, as I crossed the road just now, and that I would speak to him on business, said Ralph. 'Do you hear? 'I hear, rejoined Mrs Snawley, taking no further notice of the request. 'I knew this woman was a hypocrite, in the way of psalms and Scripture phrases, said Ralph, passing quietly by, 'but I never knew she drank before. 'Stop!
'Every wholesome luxury, sir, that Yorkshire can afford, continued Squeers; 'every beautiful moral that Mrs Squeers can instil; every in short, every comfort of a home that a boy could wish for, will be theirs, Mr Snawley. 'I should wish their morals to be particularly attended to, said Mr Snawley. 'I am glad of that, sir, replied the schoolmaster, drawing himself up.
'Hard-heartedness and evil-doing will never prosper, sir, said Mr Snawley. 'Never was such a thing known, rejoined Squeers, taking a little roll of notes from his pocket-book, to see that they were all safe. 'I have been, Mr Snawley, said Mr Squeers, when he had satisfied himself upon this point, 'I have been that chap's benefactor, feeder, teacher, and clother.
Snawley was a sleek, flat-nosed man, clad in sombre garments, and long black gaiters, and bearing in his countenance an expression of much mortification and sanctity; so, his smiling without any obvious reason was the more remarkable. 'Up to what age do you keep boys at your school then? he asked at length.
'Guineas, rejoined the schoolmaster, with a persuasive smile. 'Pounds for two, I think, Mr Squeers, said Mr Snawley, solemnly. 'I don't think it could be done, sir, replied Squeers, as if he had never considered the proposition before. 'Let me see; four fives is twenty, double that, and deduct the well, a pound either way shall not stand betwixt us.
How can you expect that he'll love his father? He'll never love his father, he won't. He don't know what it is to have a father. He don't understand it. It an't in him. Mr Snawley looked steadfastly at his son for a full minute, and then covering his eyes with his hand, and once more raising his hat in the air, appeared deeply occupied in deploring his black ingratitude.
That, Newman, having been solemnly assured by one not then producible that Smike was not the son of Snawley, and this person having offered to make oath to that effect, if necessary, they had by this communication been first led to doubt the claim set up, which they would otherwise have seen no reason to dispute, supported as it was by evidence which they had no power of disproving.
'It's clear that there has been a Providence in it, sir, said Mr Snawley, casting down his eyes with an air of humility, and elevating his fork, with a bit of lobster on the top of it, towards the ceiling. 'Providence is against him, no doubt, replied Mr Squeers, scratching his nose. 'Of course; that was to be expected. Anybody might have known that.
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