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900 and this time beyond all dispute. ‘Not serious!’ returned Mrs Nickleby; ‘why shouldn’t I be serious? I’m sure I never was more serious. I will say that his politeness and attention to me is one of the most becoming, gratifying, pleasant things I have seen for a very long time. You don’t often meet with such behaviour in young men, and it strikes one more when one does meet with it.’ ‘Oh! attention to you, mama,’ rejoined Kate quickly--‘oh yes.’ ‘Dear me, Kate,’ retorted Mrs Nickleby, ‘what an extraordinary girl you are! Was it likely I should be talking of his attention to anybody else? I declare I’m quite sorry to think he should be in love with a German lady, that I am.’ ‘He said very positively that it was no such thing, mama,’ returned Kate. ‘Don’t you remember his saying so that very first night he came here? Besides,’ she added, in a more gentle tone, ‘why should we be sorry if it is the case? What is it to us, mama?’ ‘Nothing to us, Kate, perhaps,’ said Mrs Nickleby, emphatically; ‘but something to me, I confess. I like English people to be thorough English people, and not half English and half I don’t know what. I shall tell him point-blank next time he comes, that I wish he would marry one of his own country-women; and see what he says to that.’ ‘Pray don’t think of such a thing, mama,’ returned Kate, hastily; ‘not for the world. Consider. How very--’ ‘Well, my dear, how very what?’ said Mrs Nickleby, opening her eyes in great astonishment. Before Kate had returned any reply, a queer little double knock announced that Miss La Creevy had called to see them; and when Miss La Creevy presented herself, Mrs Nickleby, though strongly |
