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Chapter 55

Of Family Matters, Cares, Hopes, Disappointments,
and Sorrows.

Although Mrs Nickleby had been made acquainted by her
son and daughter with every circumstance of Madeline
Bray’s history which was known to them; although the
responsible situation in which Nicholas stood had been carefully
explained to her, and she had been prepared, even for the possible
contingency of having to receive the young lady in her own house,
improbable as such a result had appeared only a few minutes
before it came about, still, Mrs Nickleby, from the moment when
this confidence was first reposed in her, late on the previous
evening, had remained in an unsatisfactory and profoundly
mystified state, from which no explanations or arguments could
relieve her, and which every fresh soliloquy and reflection only
aggravated more and more.

‘Bless my heart, Kate!’ so the good lady argued; ‘if the Mr
Cheerybles don’t want this young lady to be married, why don’t
they file a bill against the Lord Chancellor, make her a Chancery
ward, and shut her up in the Fleet prison for safety?--I have read
of such things in the newspapers a hundred times. Or, if they are
so very fond of her as Nicholas says they are, why don’t they marry
her themselves--one of them I mean? And even supposing they
don’t want her to be married, and don’t want to marry her
themselves, why in the name of wonder should Nicholas go about
the world, forbidding people’s banns?’

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