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Page 94 - Into these bowls, Mrs. Squeers, assisted by the hungry servant, poured a brown composition, which looked like diluted pincushions without the covers, and was called porridge. A minute wedge of brown bread was inserted in each bowl, and when they had...
Page 13 - Pupker and the two other members were relating to their separate circles what the intentions of government were, about taking up the bill ; with a full account of what the government had said in a whisper the last time they dined with it, and how the government had been observed to wink when it said so ; from which premises they were at no loss to draw the conclusion, that if the government had one object more at heart than another, that one object was the welfare and advantage of the United Metropolitan...
Page 184 - My pa requests me to write to you, the doctors considering it doubtful whether he will ever recuwer the use of his legs which prevents his holding a pen. " We are in a state of mind beyond everything, and my pa is one mask of brooses both blue and green likewise two forms are steepled in his Goar. We were kimpelled to have him carried down into the kitchen where he now lays. You will judge from this that he has been brought very low.
Page 95 - To be sure," said Squeers, by no means disconcerted. " So he is. Bot, hot, tin, tin, bottin, ney, ney, bottinney, noun substantive, a knowledge of plants.
Page 16 - United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company; he would CASE OF A MUFFIN BOY.
Page 5 - That's true," replied Mr. Nickleby. " Very good, my dear. Yes. I will speculate, my dear." Speculation is a round game; the players see little or nothing of their cards at first starting; gains may be great —and so may losses. The run of luck went against Mr. Nickleby. A mania prevailed, a bubble burst, four stockbrokers took villa residences at Florence, four hundred nobodies were ruined, and among them Mr. Nickleby. " The very house I live in," sighed the poor gentleman, " may be taken from me...
Page 35 - EDUCATION. - At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire, Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocketmoney, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of the globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification, and...
Page 95 - As you're perfect in that," resumed Squeers, turning to the boy, " go and look after my horse, and rub him down well, or I'll rub you down. The rest of the class go and draw water up, till somebody tells you to leave off, for it's washing-day tomorrow, and they want the coppers filled.
Page 95 - I believe you," rejoined Squeers, not remarking the emphasis of his usher. "Third boy, what's a horse?" "A beast, sir," replied the boy. "So it is," said Squeers. "Ain't it, Nickleby?" "I believe there is no doubt of that, sir,
Page 95 - So he is, to be sure," rejoined Squeers. " We go upon the practical mode of teaching, Nickleby ; the regular education system. C-1-ean, clean, verb active, to make bright, to scour. Win, win, der, der, winder, a casement. When the boy knows this out of book, he goes and does it. It's just the same principle as the use of the globes. Where's the second boy ! " " Please, sir, he's weeding the garden," replied a small voice. "To be sure," said Squeers, by no means disconcerted.