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The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

CHAPTER 3
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'I have no money to throw away on miniatures, ma'am, and nobody to give one to (thank God) if I had.

Seeing you on the stairs, I wanted to ask a question of you, about some lodgers here.' Miss La Creevy coughed once more--this cough was to conceal her disappointment--and said, 'Oh, indeed!' 'I infer from what you said to your servant, that the floor above belongs to you, ma'am,' said Mr Nickleby.
Yes it did, Miss La Creevy replied.

The upper part of the house belonged to her, and as she had no necessity for the second-floor rooms just then, she was in the habit of letting them.

Indeed, there was a lady from the country and her two children in them, at that present speaking.
'A widow, ma'am ?' said Ralph.
'Yes, she is a widow,' replied the lady.
'A POOR widow, ma'am,' said Ralph, with a powerful emphasis on that little adjective which conveys so much.
'Well, I'm afraid she IS poor,' rejoined Miss La Creevy.
'I happen to know that she is, ma'am,' said Ralph.

'Now, what business has a poor widow in such a house as this, ma'am ?' 'Very true,' replied Miss La Creevy, not at all displeased with this implied compliment to the apartments.


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