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'Did I? said Squeers; 'well, it was rather a startling thing for a stranger to come and recommend himself by saying that he knew all about you, and what your name was, and why you were living so quiet here, and what you had boned, and who you boned it from, wasn't it? Peg nodded her head in strong assent. 'But I know everything that happens in that way, you see, continued Squeers.
'At the bottom of the nearest pond for aught I know, rejoined Nicholas in a low voice, and fixing his eyes full on the master's face. 'Damn you, what do you mean by that? retorted Squeers in great perturbation. Without waiting for a reply, he inquired of the boys whether any one among them knew anything of their missing schoolmate. 'Ha! cried Squeers, turning sharp round. 'Who said that?
The cruelty of which he had been an unwilling witness, the coarse and ruffianly behaviour of Squeers even in his best moods, the filthy place, the sights and sounds about him, all contributed to this state of feeling; but when he recollected that, being there as an assistant, he actually seemed no matter what unhappy train of circumstances had brought him to that pass to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, he loathed himself, and felt, for the moment, as though the mere consciousness of his present situation must, through all time to come, prevent his raising his head again.
It was a fortunate circumstance for Miss Fanny Squeers, that when her worthy papa returned home on the night of the small tea-party, he was what the initiated term 'too far gone' to observe the numerous tokens of extreme vexation of spirit which were plainly visible in her countenance.
'The pigs is well, said Mr Squeers, 'the cows is well, and the boys is bobbish. Young Sprouter has been a-winking, has he? I'll wink him when I get back. "Cobbey would persist in sniffing while he was a-eating his dinner, and said that the beef was so strong it made him." Very good, Cobbey, we'll see if we can't make you sniff a little without beef.
The sun of early August shone hot and strong upon the sandy wastes between the westward limits of the division camps and the foamy strand beneath the low bluffs, and beat upon the canvas homes of the rejoicing soldiery, slacking cloth and cordage so that the trim tent lines had become broken and jagged, thereby setting the teeth of "Old Squeers" on edge, as he gazed grimly from under the brim of his unsightly felt hat and called for his one faithful henchman, the orderly.
'I fear there is something more, stammered Nicholas with a half-smile, and looking towards Miss Squeers, 'it is a most awkward thing to say but the very mention of such a supposition makes one look like a puppy still may I ask if that lady supposes that I entertain any in short, does she think that I am in love with her?
'Some such object it was, that induced you to call on me? said Ralph, raising his eyes to the schoolmaster's face. 'N-n-no, I don't know that, replied Squeers. 'I thought that if it was in your power to make me, besides the trifle of money you sent, any compensation 'Ah! cried Ralph, interrupting him. 'You needn't go on.
Mr and Mrs Squeers at Home Mr Squeers, being safely landed, left Nicholas and the boys standing with the luggage in the road, to amuse themselves by looking at the coach as it changed horses, while he ran into the tavern and went through the leg-stretching process at the bar.
In default of a better answer to this question, the little boy screwed a couple of knuckles into each of his eyes and began to cry, wherefore Mr Squeers knocked him off the trunk with a blow on one side of the face, and knocked him on again with a blow on the other. 'Wait till I get you down into Yorkshire, my young gentleman, said Mr Squeers, 'and then I'll give you the rest.
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