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Nicholas Nickleby (2); With Introduction, Critical Comments, Argument, Notes, Etc
Nicholas Nickleby With Introduction Critical Comments Argument Notes Etc - 2 Author:Charles Dickens Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: University Society Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no il... more »lustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XXXIX. IN WHICH ANOTHER OLD FRIEND ENCOUNTERS SMIKE, VERY OPPORTUNELY AND TO SOME PURPOSE. The night fraught with so much bitterness to one poor soul had given place to a bright and cloudless summer morning, when a north-country mail-coach traversed with cheerful noise the yet silent streets of Islington, and, giving brisk note of its approach with the lively winding of the guard's horn, clattered onward to its halting-place hard by the Post-office. The only outside passenger was a burly honest-looking countryman upon the box, who, with his eyes fixed upon the dome of St: Paul's Cathedral, appeared so wrapt in admiring wonder, as to be quite insensible to all the bustle of getting out the bags and parcels, until one of the coach windows being let sharply down, he looked around and encountered a pretty female face which was just then thrust out. " See there, lass!" bawled the countryman, pointing towards the object of his admiration. " There be Paul's Church. 'Ecod, he be a soizable 'un, he be." " Goodness, John! I shouldn't have thought it could have been half the size. What a monster! " "Monsther! -- Ye're aboot right theer, I reckon, Mrs. Browdie," said the countryman good-humouredly, as he came slowly down in his huge top-coat, "and wa'at dost thee tak yon place to be noo -- thot 'un ower the wa'. Ye'd never coom near it 'gin ye thried for twolve moonths. It's na' but a Poast-office. Ho! ho! They...« less