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1135 if there is, for we don’t dine just yet, and there’s plenty of time. Plenty of time.’ Kate retired as she was directed. Brother Charles, having followed her graceful figure with his eyes, turned to Mrs Nickleby, and said: ‘We took the liberty of naming one hour before the real dinner- time, ma’am, because we had a little business to speak about, which would occupy the interval. Ned, my dear fellow, will you mention what we agreed upon? Mr Nickleby, sir, have the goodness to follow me.’ Without any further explanation, Mrs Nickleby, Miss La Creevy, and brother Ned, were left alone together, and Nicholas followed brother Charles into his private room; where, to his great astonishment, he encountered Frank, whom he supposed to be abroad. ‘Young men,’ said Mr Cheeryble, ‘shake hands!’ ‘I need no bidding to do that,’ said Nicholas, extending his. ‘Nor I,’ rejoined Frank, as he clasped it heartily. The old gentleman thought that two handsomer or finer young fellows could scarcely stand side by side than those on whom he looked with so much pleasure. Suffering his eyes to rest upon them, for a short time in silence, he said, while he seated himself at his desk: ‘I wish to see you friends--close and firm friends--and if I thought you otherwise, I should hesitate in what I am about to say. Frank, look here! Mr Nickleby, will you come on the other side?’ The young men stepped up on either hand of brother Charles, who produced a paper from his desk, and unfolded it. ‘This,’ he said, ‘is a copy of the will of Madeline’s maternal |
