Support the Monkey! Tell All your Friends and Teachers

Help / FAQ



<- Previous | Table of Contents | Next ->
PinkMonkey.com-Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens



275

Chapter 16

Nicholas seeks to employ himself in a New Capacity,
and being unsuccessful, accepts an engagement as
Tutor in a Private Family.

The first care of Nicholas, next morning, was, to look after
some room in which, until better times dawned upon him,
he could contrive to exist, without trenching upon the
hospitality of Newman Noggs, who would have slept upon the
stairs with pleasure, so that his young friend was accommodated.

The vacant apartment to which the bill in the parlour window
bore reference, appeared, on inquiry, to be a small back-room on
the second floor, reclaimed from the leads, and overlooking a soot-
bespeckled prospect of tiles and chimney-pots. For the letting of
this portion of the house from week to week, on reasonable terms,
the parlour lodger was empowered to treat; he being deputed by
the landlord to dispose of the rooms as they became vacant, and to
keep a sharp look-out that the lodgers didn’t run away. As a means
of securing the punctual discharge of which last service he was
permitted to live rent-free, lest he should at any time be tempted
to run away himself.

Of this chamber, Nicholas became the tenant; and having hired
a few common articles of furniture from a neighbouring broker,
and paid the first week’s hire in advance, out of a small fund
raised by the conversion of some spare clothes into ready money,
he sat himself down to ruminate upon his prospects, which, like
the prospect outside his window, were sufficiently confined and

<- Previous | Table of Contents | Next ->
PinkMonkey.com-Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens



All Contents Copyright © All rights reserved.
Further Distribution Is Strictly Prohibited.
About Us | Advertising | Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Home Page


Search:
Keywords:
In Association with Amazon.com