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899 trust and confidence, bestowed upon him every day some new and substantial mark of kindness, they were not less mindful of those who depended on him. Various little presents to Mrs Nickleby, always of the very things they most required, tended in no slight degree to the improvement and embellishment of the cottage. Kate’s little store of trinkets became quite dazzling; and for company! If brother Charles and brother Ned failed to look in for at least a few minutes every Sunday, or one evening in the week, there was Mr Tim Linkinwater (who had never made half-a-dozen other acquaintances in all his life, and who took such delight in his new friends as no words can express) constantly coming and going in his evening walks, and stopping to rest; while Mr Frank Cheeryble happened, by some strange conjunction of circumstances, to be passing the door on some business or other at least three nights in the week. ‘He is the most attentive young man I ever saw, Kate,’ said Mrs Nickleby to her daughter one evening, when this last-named gentleman had been the subject of the worthy lady’s eulogium for some time, and Kate had sat perfectly silent. ‘Attentive, mama!’ rejoined Kate. ‘Bless my heart, Kate!’ cried Mrs Nickleby, with her wonted suddenness, ‘what a colour you have got; why, you’re quite flushed!’ ‘Oh, mama! what strange things you fancy!’ ‘It wasn’t fancy, Kate, my dear, I’m certain of that,’ returned her mother. ‘However, it’s gone now at any rate, so it don’t much matter whether it was or not. What was it we were talking about? Oh! Mr Frank. I never saw such attention in my life, never.’ ‘Surely you are not serious,’ returned Kate, colouring again; |
