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Title: Works
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Publisher: New York Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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facesbelow and the hard features of Mr. Ralph Nickleby—andthe coach was gone too, and rattling over the stones ofSmithfield. The little boys legs being too short to admit of their feetresting upon anything as they sat, and the little boys bodiesbeing consequently in imminent hazard of being jerked offthe coach, Nicholas had enough to do, over the stones, tohold them on. Between the manual exertion and the mentalanxiety attendant upon this task, he was not a little relievedwhen the coach stopped at the Peacock at Islington. Hewas still more relieved when a hearty-looking gentleman,with a very good-humoured face and a very fresh colour,got up behind, and proposed to take the other corner of theseat. If we put some of these youngsters in the middle, saidthe new comer, theyll be safer in case of their going tosleep ; eh ? If youll have the goodness, sir, replied Squeers, thatllbe the very thing. Mr. Nickleby, take three of them boysbetween you and the gentleman. Belling and the youngest
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MR. SQUEERS AND THE STRANGER. 61 Snawley can sit between me and the guard. Three children said Squeers, explaining to the stranger, books as two. I have not the least objection, I am sure, said the fresh-coloured gentleman; I have a brother who wouldnt objectto book his six children as two at any butchers or bakersin the kingdom, I dare say. Far from it. Six children, sir? exclaimed Squeers. Yes, and all boys, replied the stranger. Mr. Nickleby, said Squeers, in great haste, catch holdof that basket. Let me give you a card, sir, of an establish-ment where those six boys can be brought up in an enlightened,liberal, and moral manner, with no mistake at all about it,for twenty guineas a year each—twenty guineas, sir—or Fdtake all the boys together upon a average right through, andsay a hundred pound a year for the lot. Oh! said the gentleman, glancing at the card, youare the Mr. Squeers mentioned here, I presume? Yes I am, sir, replied the worthy pedagogue; Mr.Wackford Squeers is my

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