'I don't see the slightest resemblance to his poor brother.' 'Mama!' said Kate reprovingly.

'To think of such a thing!' 'No,' said Mrs Nickleby, musing.

'There certainly is none.

But it's a very honest face.' The worthy matron made this remark with great emphasis and elocution, as if it comprised no small quantity of ingenuity and research; and, in truth, it was not unworthy of being classed among the extraordinary discoveries of the age.

Kate looked up hastily, and as hastily looked down again.
'What has come over you, my dear, in the name of goodness ?' asked Mrs Nickleby, when they had walked on, for some time, in silence.
'I was only thinking, mama,' answered Kate.
'Thinking!' repeated Mrs Nickleby.