Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 11, 2025
'Don't talk to me of being doomed to undergo, Miss Nickleby, if you please, said Mrs Wititterly, with a shrillness of tone quite surprising in so great an invalid. 'I will not be answered, Miss Nickleby. I am not accustomed to be answered, nor will I permit it for an instant. Do you hear? she added, waiting with some apparent inconsistency FOR an answer.
'You needn't suppose, resumed Mrs Wititterly, 'that your looking at me in that way, Miss Nickleby, will prevent my saying what I am going to say, which I feel to be a religious duty. You needn't direct your glances towards me, said Mrs Wititterly, with a sudden burst of spite; 'I am not Sir Mulberry, no, nor Lord Frederick Verisopht, Miss Nickleby, nor am I Mr Pyke, nor Mr Pluck either.
'And how is Miss Nickleby? said Sir Mulberry Hawk, accosting Kate, in a low voice not so low, however, but that it reached the ears of Mrs Wititterly. 'Why, she complains of suffering from the fright of last night, said the lady. 'I am sure I don't wonder at it, for my nerves are quite torn to pieces. 'And yet you look, observed Sir Mulberry, turning round; 'and yet you look
Kate complied, not unwillingly; and, as she did so, Mrs Wititterly raising her glass with a languid hand, remarked, that she looked pale. 'It was the fright of that that noise and confusion last night, said Kate. 'How very odd! exclaimed Mrs Wititterly, with a look of surprise. And certainly, when one comes to think of it, it WAS very odd that anything should have disturbed a companion.
'I have always considered you a particularly well-behaved young person for your station in life, said Mrs Wititterly; 'and as you are a person of healthy appearance, and neat in your dress and so forth, I have taken an interest in you, as I do still, considering that I owe a sort of duty to that respectable old female, your mother.
'No matter how you came, so that you are here, said Mrs Wititterly, who, by dint of lying on the same sofa for three years and a half, had got up quite a little pantomime of graceful attitudes, and now threw herself into the most striking of the whole series, to astonish the visitors. 'I am delighted, I am sure.
'The quarter's notice, said Mr Wititterly, with the gravity of a man on the right side, 'is not yet half expired. Therefore 'Therefore, interposed Nicholas, 'the quarter's salary must be lost, sir. You will excuse this extreme haste, but circumstances require that I should immediately remove my sister, and I have not a moment's time to lose.
'Beyond everything, said Mr Pyke, coming to his patron's assistance. Of course Mr Pluck said the same. 'I am afraid Sir Mulberry is a flatterer, my lord, said Mrs Wititterly, turning to that young gentleman, who had been sucking the head of his cane in silence, and staring at Kate. 'Oh, deyvlish! replied Verisopht.
This is a most important matter. Mrs Wititterly is of a very excitable nature; very delicate, very fragile; a hothouse plant, an exotic. 'Oh! Henry, my dear, interposed Mrs Wititterly. 'You are, my love, you know you are; one breath said Mr W., blowing an imaginary feather away. 'Pho! you're gone! The lady sighed. 'Your soul is too large for your body, said Mr Wititterly.
He said, however, that the delight was mutual, and Lord Verisopht added that it was mutual, whereupon Messrs Pyke and Pluck were heard to murmur from the distance that it was very mutual indeed. 'I take an interest, my lord, said Mrs Wititterly, with a faint smile, 'such an interest in the drama. 'Ye es. It's very interesting, replied Lord Verisopht.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking