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No extras, no vacations, and diet unparalleled." Now, mark what follows. Wackford Squeers the younger was, as we all know, destined by his parents to follow the schoolmaster's profession, to assist his father as long as assistance was required, and then to take the management of the Hall and its pupils into his own hands.
He might have been five or six year old at that time not more. 'What more do you know about him? demanded Ralph. 'Devilish little, I'm sorry to say, replied Squeers. 'The money was paid for some six or eight year, and then it stopped. He had given an address in London, had this chap; but when it came to the point, of course nobody knowed anything about him. So I kept the lad out of out of
"I am afraid," said Squeers, perplexed with such an application from a youth of Nicholas's figure "I am afraid the young man won't suit me." "I fear, sir," said Nicholas, "that you object to my youth, and to not being a Master of Arts?"
This happy state of mind had some influence in bringing about a reconciliation; for, when a knock came at the front-door next day, and the miller's daughter was announced, Miss Squeers betook herself to the parlour in a Christian frame of spirit, perfectly beautiful to behold. 'Well, Fanny, said the miller's daughter, 'you see I have come to see you, although we HAD some words last night.
'If we put some of these youngsters in the middle, said the new-comer, 'they'll be safer in case of their going to sleep; eh? 'If you'll have the goodness, sir, replied Squeers, 'that'll be the very thing. Mr Nickleby, take three of them boys between you and the gentleman. Belling and the youngest Snawley can sit between me and the guard.
They were no sooner gone, than Miss Squeers fulfilled the prediction of her quondam friend by giving vent to a most copious burst of tears, and uttering various dismal lamentations and incoherent words.
He was still occupied in this search, and had half risen from his bed in the eagerness of his quest, when the voice of Squeers was heard, calling from the bottom of the stairs. 'Now then, cried that gentleman, 'are you going to sleep all day, up there
Squeers then proceeded to give several messages of various degrees of unpleasantness to sundry of the boys, followed up by vigorous canings where he had any grudge to pay off. One by one the boys answered to their names. "Now let us see," said Squeers. "A letter for Cobbey. Stand up, Cobbey." Another boy stood up and eyed the letter very hard, while Squeers made a mental abstract of the same.
The young man laughed good-humoredly, and answered: "For the honor of my worthy pedagogical countrymen, permit me to assure you that the aforesaid 'Squeers' is simply one of Dickens's inimitable caricatures."
'Here's the pony run right off his legs, and me obliged to come home with a hack cob, that'll cost fifteen shillings besides other expenses, said Squeers; 'who's to pay for that, do you hear? Nicholas shrugged his shoulders and remained silent.
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