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I was very sorry for it, afterwards. Will you shake hands? 'Shake honds! cried the good-humoured Yorkshireman; 'ah! that I weel; at the same time, he bent down from the saddle, and gave Nicholas's fist a huge wrench: 'but wa'at be the matther wi' thy feace, mun? it be all brokken loike.
'Not very, said Mrs Browdie. 'Not vary! repeated John, raising his eyes to the ceiling. 'Hear her say not vary, and us dining at three, and loonching off pasthry thot aggravates a mon 'stead of pacifying him! Not vary! 'Here's a gen'l'man for you, sir, said the waiter, looking in. 'A wa'at for me? cried John, as though he thought it must be a letter, or a parcel. 'A gen'l'man, sir.
'You may depend upon that, replied Nicholas; 'on one condition. 'And wa'at may thot be? asked John. 'That you make me a godfather the very first time you have occasion for one. 'Eh! d'ye hear thot? cried John, laying down his knife and fork. 'A godfeyther! Ha! ha! ha! Tilly hear till 'un a godfeyther! Divn't say a word more, ye'll never beat thot. Occasion for 'un a godfeyther! Ha! ha! ha!
Wa'at be that shadow ootside door there? Noo, schoolmeasther, show thyself, mun; dinnot be sheame-feaced. Noo, auld gen'l'man, let's have schoolmeasther, coom.
'Stars and garthers, chap! said John, 'wa'at dost thou coom and say thot for? In wi' 'un. 'Are you at home, sir? 'At whoam! cried John, 'I wish I wur; I'd ha tea'd two hour ago. Why, I told t'oother chap to look sharp ootside door, and tell 'un d'rectly he coom, thot we war faint wi' hoonger. In wi' 'un. Aha! Thee hond, Misther Nickleby. This is nigh to be the proodest day o' my life, sir.
'Tell'ee wa'at though, said John seriously, when a great deal had been said on both sides, 'to return to schoolmeasther. If this news aboot 'un has reached school today, the old 'ooman wean't have a whole boan in her boddy, nor Fanny neither. 'Oh, John! cried Mrs Browdie. 'Ah! and Oh, John agean, replied the Yorkshireman. 'I dinnot know what they lads mightn't do.
It's best to be neighbourly, and keep up old acquaintance loike; and what I say is, dean't quarrel if 'ee can help it. Dinnot think so, Mr Nickleby? 'Certainly, returned Nicholas; 'and you acted upon that principle when I meet you on horseback on the road, after our memorable evening. 'Sure-ly, said John. 'Wa'at I say, I stick by.
Ye're aboot right theer, I reckon, Mrs Browdie, said the countryman good-humouredly, as he came slowly down in his huge top-coat; 'and wa'at dost thee tak yon place to be noo thot'un owor the wa'? Ye'd never coom near it 'gin you thried for twolve moonths. It's na' but a Poast Office! Ho! ho! They need to charge for dooble-latthers. A Poast Office! Wa'at dost thee think o' thot?
'There she be we shan't quarrel about her noo eh? Ecod, when I think o' thot but thou want'st soom'at to eat. Fall to, mun, fall to, and for wa'at we're aboot to receive No doubt the grace was properly finished, but nothing more was heard, for John had already begun to play such a knife and fork, that his speech was, for the time, gone.
Chap as met thee efther schoolmeasther was banged? 'Yes, yes, cried Smike. 'Oh! help me. 'Help thee! replied John, stopping his mouth again, the instant he had said this much. 'Thee didn't need help, if thee warn't as silly yoongster as ever draw'd breath. Wa'at did 'ee come here for, then? 'He brought me; oh! he brought me, cried Smike. 'Brout thee! replied John.
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