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Chapter 45

Containing Matter of a surprising Kind.

s we gang awa’ fra’ Lunnun tomorrow neeght, and as I
dinnot know that I was e’er so happy in a’ my days,
Misther Nickleby, Ding! but I will tak’ anoother glass to
our next merry meeting!’

So said John Browdie, rubbing his hands with great joyousness,
and looking round him with a ruddy shining face, quite in keeping
with the declaration.

The time at which John found himself in this enviable condition
was the same evening to which the last chapter bore reference; the
place was the cottage; and the assembled company were Nicholas,
Mrs Nickleby, Mrs Browdie, Kate Nickleby, and Smike.

A very merry party they had been. Mrs Nickleby, knowing of
her son’s obligations to the honest Yorkshireman, had, after some
demur, yielded her consent to Mr and Mrs Browdie being invited
out to tea; in the way of which arrangement, there were at first
sundry difficulties and obstacles, arising out of her not having had
an opportunity of ‘calling’ upon Mrs Browdie first; for although
Mrs Nickleby very often observed with much complacency (as
most punctilious people do), that she had not an atom of pride or
formality about her, still she was a great stickler for dignity and
ceremonies; and as it was manifest that, until a call had been
made, she could not be (politely speaking, and according to the
laws of society) even cognisant of the fact of Mrs Browdie’s
existence, she felt her situation to be one of peculiar delicacy and

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