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The Imperial edition [of the works of C. Dickens (1901)
The Imperial edition - of the works of C. Dickens 1901 Author:Charles Dickens Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: praiseworthy, as the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company. So the petition in favour of the bill was agree... more »d upon and the meeting adjourned with acclamations, and Mr. Nickleby and the other directors went to the office to lunch—as they did every day at half-past one o'clock, and to remunerate themselves, for which trouble (as the company was yet in its infancy) they only charged three guineas each man for every such attendance. CHAPTER III MR. RALPH NICKLEBY RECEIVES SAD TIDINGS OF HIS BROTHER, BUT BEARS UP NOBLY AGAINST THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNICATED TO HIM. THE READER IS INFORMED HOW HE LIKED NICHOLAS, WHO IS HEREIN INTRODUCED, AND HOW KINDLY HE PROPOSED TO MAKE HIS FORTUNE AT ONCB Having rendered his zealous assistance towards despatching the lunch, with all that promptitude and energy which are among the most important qualities that men of business can possess, Mr. Ralph Nickleby took a cordial farewell of his fellow speculators and bent his steps westward in unwonted good humour. As he passed Saint Paul's he stepped aside into a doorway to set his watch, and with his hand on the key and his eye on the cathedral dial, was intent upon so doing when a man suddenly stopped before him. It was Newman Noggs. "Ah ! Newman," said Mr. Nickleby, looking up as he pursued his occupation. "The letter about the mortgage has come, has it? I thought it would." " Wrong," replied Newman. "What! and nobody called respecting it ?" inquired Mr. Nickleby, pausing. Noggs shook his head. "What has come, then?" inquired Mr. Nickleby. " I have," said Newman. " What else ? " demanded the master, sternly. "This," said Newman, drawing a sealed letter slowly from his pocket. "Post-mark, Strand, black wax, black border, woma...« less