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260 reluctance, delivered himself in the following terms. ‘My dear young man, you mustn’t give way to--this sort of thing will never do, you know--as to getting on in the world, if you take everybody’s part that’s ill-treated--Damn it, I am proud to hear of it; and would have done it myself!’ Newman accompanied this very unusual outbreak with a violent blow upon the table, as if, in the heat of the moment, he had mistaken it for the chest or ribs of Mr Wackford Squeers. Having, by this open declaration of his feelings, quite precluded himself from offering Nicholas any cautious worldly advice (which had been his first intention), Mr Noggs went straight to the point. ‘The day before yesterday,’ said Newman, ‘your uncle received this letter. I took a hasty copy of it, while he was out. Shall I read it?’ ‘If you please,’ replied Nicholas. Newman Noggs accordingly read as follows: ‘Dotheboys Hall, ‘Thursday Morning. ‘Sir, ‘My pa requests me to write to you, the doctors considering it doubtful whether he will ever recuvver 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. ‘When your nevew that you recommended for a teacher had |
