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Chapter 38

Comprises certain Particulars arising out of a Visit
of Condolence, which may prove important
hereafter. Smike unexpectedly encounters a very
old Friend, who invites him to his House, and will
take no Denial.

Quite unconscious of the demonstrations of their amorous
neighbour, or their effects upon the susceptible bosom of
her mama, Kate Nickleby had, by this time, begun to enjoy
a settled feeling of tranquillity and happiness, to which, even in
occasional and transitory glimpses, she had long been a stranger.
Living under the same roof with the beloved brother from whom
she had been so suddenly and hardly separated: with a mind at
ease, and free from any persecutions which could call a blush into
her cheek, or a pang into her heart, she seemed to have passed
into a new state of being. Her former cheerfulness was restored,
her step regained its elasticity and lightness, the colour which had
forsaken her cheek visited it once again, and Kate Nickleby looked
more beautiful than ever.

Such was the result to which Miss La Creevy’s ruminations and
observations led her, when the cottage had been, as she
emphatically said, ‘thoroughly got to rights, from the chimney-pots
to the street-door scraper,’ and the busy little woman had at length
a moment’s time to think about its inmates.

‘Which I declare I haven’t had since I first came down here,’

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