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Nicholas Nickleby A Farce in 2 Acts - Edward Stirling · Lesley Castle - Dramatic Reading

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  Speaker 1: Act one of Nicholas Nickleby by Edward Stirling. This is
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  Speaker 1: Cast of characters.
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  Speaker 2: Ralph Nickleby read by Thomas Peter.
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  Speaker 3: Nicholas Nickleby read by Todd Newman.
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  Speaker 4: Noggs read by Adrian Stephens.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Mantalini read by L. G.
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  Speaker 5: Peg Squeers read by Alan Mapstone.
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  Speaker 6: Scaly read by Rob Molland.
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  Speaker 1: Smike read by Jake Militia, Lord Verisoft.
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  Speaker 7: Read by Gregg Girdano, John.
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  Speaker 8: Brodie read by Andrew lether On.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Nickleby read by Wendy cats Hiller, Kate Nickleby.
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  Speaker 9: Read by Jen Broda.
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  Speaker 1: Madame men mead By, Miss nag read by t J.
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  Speaker 10: Burns.
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  Speaker 11: Miss Fanny Squeers read by Shall Eaton.
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  Speaker 12: Miss Price read by Lynette Cokins.
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  Speaker 10: Missus Squeers read by am Lee.
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  Speaker 1: Boys read by Joanna Michael, Girls.
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  Speaker 9: Read by Bethany Baldwin.
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  Speaker 7: Waiter read by David Purdy.
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  Speaker 13: Guard read by Jim Lark.
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  Speaker 2: Servant read by James Hedrick.
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  Speaker 1: Stage directions read by Kelly Taylor Nicholas nickleby a farce
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  Speaker 1: in two acts taken from the popular work of that
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  Speaker 1: name by Balls by Edward Sterling s Quire. Act one,
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  Speaker 1: Scene one, the coffee room, the window of which extends
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  Speaker 1: across the stage in yard of Saracen's head, snow hill
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  Speaker 1: seen through it. Fire is seen burning cheerfully at table
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  Speaker 1: laid for breakfast, coffee and et cetera. Smoking Opposite is
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  Speaker 1: another table, at which are seated four little boys, eagerly
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  Speaker 1: watching Squeers, who is eating voraciously and cutting large slices
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  Speaker 1: from a round of beef, which is placed on a
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  Speaker 1: third table, and occasionally pocketing the same. A fifth boy
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  Speaker 1: sits on a small box. An ostler or chambermaid crosses.
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  Speaker 1: It is snowing lightly during scene. Squeers speaking to children while.
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  Speaker 5: Eating, conguer your passions, boys, and don't be so eager.
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  Speaker 1: After Vills swallows a large piece, a waiter enters with
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  Speaker 1: a large jug, a kettle and water the milk. Sir Squeers,
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  Speaker 1: speaking with his mouth full very well, looks into jug.
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  Speaker 5: Is this two Pennis William two penneths sir, what a
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  Speaker 5: rare article milk is in London? Fill the jug? Up
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  Speaker 5: to the salt.
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  Speaker 11: We water to the topsa why the milk will be drowned.
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  Speaker 1: Filling jug from kettle.
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  Speaker 5: Serve it right for being so dear. Now have you
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  Speaker 5: brought the bread and butter for three for these five
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  Speaker 5: little boys?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, places a small plate of thick bread and
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  Speaker 1: butter on table.
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  Speaker 5: Very good. I expect a young gentleman by the name
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  Speaker 5: of Nickelby when he arrives, sending him to me. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 5: going stop, you may leave the kettle.
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  Speaker 1: Waiter places kettle on fireplace and exits, tasting milk and
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  Speaker 1: pouring water in.
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  Speaker 5: It is richness. Think of the many bits. There's an
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  Speaker 5: orphans in the street that would be glad of this
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  Speaker 5: little boy's.
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  Speaker 1: Pours more water.
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  Speaker 5: Now, boys for breakfast. When I say number one, the
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  Speaker 5: boy on the left hand nearest the window may take
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  Speaker 5: a drink. And when I say number two, the boy
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  Speaker 5: next to him will go in. And so till number five,
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  Speaker 5: which is the last boy, Are you already yes, that's right,
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  Speaker 5: Keep so till I tell you to begin. Number one
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  Speaker 5: boy drinks, Number two drinks, three, four and five all drink.
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  Speaker 5: And now for the bread and.
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  Speaker 1: Butter, breaking it into five portlands.
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  Speaker 5: Look sharp. But when the horn blows, every boy leaves off.
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  Speaker 1: Boys eat quickly, squeers standing before fire.
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  Speaker 5: Can a bit chance this Nickleby for me the very
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  Speaker 5: man I want? Is not the first time Old Ralph
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  Speaker 5: has thrown me a bone to pick a horn?
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  Speaker 1: Sounds and people cross yard with luggage.
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  Speaker 5: That's the horn. Leave off, boys number one, pull that
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  Speaker 5: cruster of your mouth. Fall them five on, knock your
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  Speaker 5: EDGs together.
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  Speaker 1: Taking bread and butter from them and placing it in
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  Speaker 1: a small basket.
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  Speaker 5: There you want it on the road.
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  Speaker 1: Waiter re enters right hand.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Nickleby, Sir, very well, William get these boys on
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  Speaker 5: the coach.
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  Speaker 1: Will you Waiter exits with boys right and Ralph and
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  Speaker 1: Nicholas enter right hand. Squeers bowls squeers to Ralph.
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  Speaker 5: Servants, Sir, Those dear children are five pupils of mine,
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  Speaker 5: all booked outside for the delightful village of do the
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  Speaker 5: Boys Hall near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire, where youth are boarded,
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  Speaker 5: clothes booked, washed, furnished. We pocket money and.
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  Speaker 2: As advertised, we know all about it.
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  Speaker 14: Sir.
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  Speaker 5: You do, sir, you do no man better that more
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  Speaker 5: you sent us a darker he that died, how kind
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  Speaker 5: Missus Squeers behaved to him, the attention that was bestowed
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  Speaker 5: upon him in his illness, dry toast and warm tea
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  Speaker 5: every night and morning when he couldn't swallow it, a
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  Speaker 5: candle in his bedroom on the very night he died,
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  Speaker 5: and the best Walker's dictionary to lay head upon. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: he died. A great fool.
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  Speaker 1: Ralph groans. Squeers whispers to.
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  Speaker 5: Ralph, the half witted fool still lives, although we've tried everything.
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  Speaker 2: Silence my nephew, mister Nicholas Nickleby.
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  Speaker 1: Squeers aside, Oh mum, to Nicholas, how.
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  Speaker 5: Do you do, sir? You'd be delighted with missus Squeers.
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  Speaker 5: She'll be a mother to you.
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  Speaker 1: Squeers. Ralph and Nicholas retire up talking and exit right
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  Speaker 1: hand scene too. Newman Noggs enters first entrance, left hand knocks,
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  Speaker 1: looking cautiously.
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  Speaker 4: Round governor not here all right.
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  Speaker 1: Producing a dirty, soiled letter.
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  Speaker 4: This might be a slight assistance to his nephew, poor lad,
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  Speaker 4: widowed mother, innocent, pretty sister unprovided, not a friend to
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  Speaker 4: look too, But Ralph Nickleby he a friend to anything
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  Speaker 4: but himself. No, no, I've heard of hard arts, but
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  Speaker 4: rock marbles.
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  Speaker 1: A feather bed is a noise of passengers arriving, horn
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  Speaker 1: sounds and coach coach ready.
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  Speaker 4: I mustn't be seen. No, no secrecy. Secresy is the word.
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  Speaker 1: Retires behind coach enter Missus Nickleby, Kate, Ralph Squeers and
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  Speaker 1: Nicholas right hand first entrance. Ralph to Missus Nickleby.
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  Speaker 2: Don't tell me, madam. I never paid for a Hackney
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  Speaker 2: coach in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Can't help it.
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  Speaker 9: If the dear boy had gone without seeing us, I
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  Speaker 9: should never have given myself without his breakfast too.
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast stuff niter started in the world. I took a
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  Speaker 2: penny leaf and a drink at the pump for my breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: Squeers, who has been placing boys on coach.
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  Speaker 5: Nan Nickleby, I'll think you bag up behind. I'm afraid
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  Speaker 5: of one of them boys falling off, and that would
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  Speaker 5: be a clear loss of twenty pounds a year and
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  Speaker 5: two towels.
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  Speaker 9: Kate to Nicholas, Dear Nicholas, who is that vulgar man?
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  Speaker 1: Squeers giving a card.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Wackford Squeers, ma'am, And I'm far from be We're
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  Speaker 5: in ashamed of it them some of my boys, all
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  Speaker 5: gentlemen's sons. Each boy is required to bring two suits
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  Speaker 5: of clothes, six shirts, six pair of stockings, two nightcaps,
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  Speaker 5: two pocket ankerchiefs, two pair of shoes, two hats, and
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  Speaker 5: one razor?
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  Speaker 3: A razor? What's that for?
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  Speaker 5: To save?
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  Speaker 1: With touches his own beard. Ralph advancing my niece Nicholas's sister,
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  Speaker 1: mister Squeers, Squeers bowing.
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  Speaker 5: Indeed, oh wish missus Squeers took girls, and we as
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  Speaker 5: you for a teacher. I don't know, though she might
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  Speaker 5: grow jealous.
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  Speaker 1: He retires up with Ralph and talks apart.
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  Speaker 9: I don't have the appearance of this person, Nicholas. What
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  Speaker 9: kind of a place are you going to?
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  Speaker 1: Aside to Nicholas, I hardly know Kate, but I suppose
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  Speaker 1: the Yorkshire folks are rather rough and uncultivated. Mister Squeers
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  Speaker 1: is my employer. You mustn't take his coarseness. Ill Squeers
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  Speaker 1: and Ralph look round.
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  Speaker 3: They are looking this way. I must take my place.
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  Speaker 3: Bless you, love, and goodbye mother. Look forward to our
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  Speaker 3: meeting again some day. Goodbye, kisses sister and mother. Then
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  Speaker 3: exit left hand first entrance and re enter immediately upper
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  Speaker 3: entrance left hand and is seen to mount coach, Kate
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  Speaker 3: and missus Nickleby, crying.
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  Speaker 9: Good bye bye.
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  Speaker 1: Squeers to Ralph.
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  Speaker 5: I understand all hold him with a toy hand and
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  Speaker 5: for Smike.
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  Speaker 1: Ralph aside, interrupting, squeers.
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  Speaker 2: As you value my friendship. Never let me hear any
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  Speaker 2: news of the bratt again.
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  Speaker 6: But is death?
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  Speaker 1: Ah nodding his head and placing his fingers on his nose,
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  Speaker 1: They whisper. Ralph gives money and all exit first entrance
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  Speaker 1: left hand. Newman Noggs, who has stolen on during the
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  Speaker 1: later part of the scene. Upper entrance left hand now
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  Speaker 1: approaches the coach cautiously. Noggs holding up letter to Nicholas.
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  Speaker 4: Here, what's this, Ash points.
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  Speaker 1: To Ralph, who has entered upper entrance left hand with
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  Speaker 1: all the characters for tableaux.
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  Speaker 4: Take it, read it. Nobody knows that's.
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  Speaker 1: All Nicholas taking letter stop, Noggs going.
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  Speaker 4: I can't why because I won't Tableau.
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  Speaker 5: Now, gentlemen. Coach ready horn.
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  Speaker 1: Blows squeers up, Kate and missus Nickleby wave their hands.
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  Speaker 1: Coach moves slowly, snow descends heavily as scene closes. In
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  Speaker 1: scene three, a chamber in Madame Mantalini's house. A single
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  Speaker 1: knock and a bell heard as the scene opens. Enter
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  Speaker 1: a servant in livery left hand first entrance.
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  Speaker 15: Servant yawning, I never saw such a boar of a
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  Speaker 15: house as this is.
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  Speaker 2: Knocker and bell going from morning till night. I must
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  Speaker 2: positively give my master his discharge.
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  Speaker 1: Exit right hand first entrance, and re enter immediately followed
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  Speaker 1: by newman Noggs carrying a letter.
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  Speaker 4: Give this to your master. Mister Ralph Nickleby will be
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  Speaker 4: here immediately. Be quick, no time to lose.
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  Speaker 1: Gives letter no time to lose, mimicking what or wild boar?
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  Speaker 4: Exit slowly, nice place. The benevolent old gentleman has selected
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  Speaker 4: for the pretty delicate creature his niece, a dressmaker, a milliner,
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  Speaker 4: had opened all the insults and degradations that the wasps
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  Speaker 4: and butterflies of fashion may choose to heap upon her
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  Speaker 4: end For what why the splendid recompense of six shillings
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  Speaker 4: per week fourteen hours per day, and find herself in
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  Speaker 4: food and all the necessaries for life. The boy pecked
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  Speaker 4: off to the worst of slavery. The drudgery of a
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  Speaker 4: Yorkshire school, the girl condemned to perpetual misery and squalid poverty.
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  Speaker 4: So much for the widow's friend, kind uncle and loving brother. Bah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm ashamed to own myself of the same species. But
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  Speaker 4: a day we'll come, they will come.
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  Speaker 1: Rubbing his hands. Enter Ralph Nickleby conducting Kate right hand
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  Speaker 1: first entrance.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you loitering here, idling your time away? Go home?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, but allow me to Ralph loud go oh,
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  Speaker 4: hobbles off right hand first entrance.
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  Speaker 9: Is this Madame Mantalini, Sir?
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  Speaker 2: It is Madame Mantalini's. And what of that?
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  Speaker 7: Pray?
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  Speaker 1: Kate timidly nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought you might have some objections to offer
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  Speaker 2: to the situation. I have been at the trouble of
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  Speaker 2: providing for.
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  Speaker 9: You, Uncle. I must ask one question. Am I to
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  Speaker 9: live at home?
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  Speaker 2: At home?
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  Speaker 8: Or is that?
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  Speaker 2: Didn't know you had one?
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  Speaker 9: I mean with my mother, the widow, I cannot leave
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  Speaker 9: her humbug.
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  Speaker 2: Do as you like, though, you will live here to
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  Speaker 2: all intents and purposes, For here you will take your
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  Speaker 2: meals here. You will be from morning till night, and
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  Speaker 2: occasion eight till morning again.
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  Speaker 9: But at night. I mean I must be with my
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  Speaker 9: mother at home, although that home may be.
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  Speaker 2: Humble, maybe humble must be.
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  Speaker 9: You mean your pardon, uncle, the words slipped from my tongue.
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  Speaker 2: I hope it did. We must have no false notions
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  Speaker 2: of pride.
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  Speaker 1: Mantalini is heard speaking without Mantalini without make.
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  Speaker 14: Haste by divinity that exists without.
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  Speaker 1: You, hun by honor, inter Mantalini, left hand first.
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  Speaker 14: Entrance, Nickolby, how are you? Damn it? You don'd mean
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  Speaker 14: to say you want me? Yet?
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  Speaker 2: Do you not yet? Niece?
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  Speaker 14: You remember dibbott? Ain't remember now what you came for?
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  Speaker 14: Oh forgot the note and thought you wanted money. You
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  Speaker 14: are such a rum fellow, Nickleby, the dimmedest, long hided,
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  Speaker 14: queerest temporal coiner of golden silver, ever walls.
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  Speaker 1: Damn it, inter Madame Martalini, left hand first entrance.
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  Speaker 14: My life. What a dimn devil of the time you
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  Speaker 14: have been.
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  Speaker 16: I didn't know mister Nickleby was here.
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  Speaker 14: Love then, what a devil, dimmed infernal wretch let footprit
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  Speaker 14: must be my love.
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  Speaker 11: That is entirely your fault, my dear, my fault, my
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  Speaker 11: heart's joy.
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  Speaker 16: Certainly you will not correct.
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  Speaker 14: The man, Correct the man, my sol's delight.
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  Speaker 16: Yes, I'm sure he wants speaking too bad enough.
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  Speaker 14: Then do not think yourself. He shall be horseshipped till
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  Speaker 14: he cries out, dimnably kisses her.
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  Speaker 1: She pulls him violently by the ear.
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  Speaker 2: No, ma'am, this is my niece.
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  Speaker 1: Bringing Kate forward.
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  Speaker 16: Just so, Miss Nickleby, can you speak, friends, child.
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  Speaker 1: Crosses to Kate. Kate timidly, yes, ma'am, like a dimmed
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  Speaker 1: native eyeing Kate with a glass.
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  Speaker 16: We keep twenty young women constantly employed in this establishment.
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  Speaker 14: Yes, and some of them dimmed handsome too. Manti lady,
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  Speaker 14: my idle.
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  Speaker 16: Do you wish to break my heart?
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  Speaker 14: Not for twenty thousand hemispheres populated with little belly dancers.
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  Speaker 16: You will pay no attention if you please, to what
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  Speaker 16: mister Mantalini says, he knows nothing whatever about any of
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  Speaker 16: my young ladies. He was never even in the work room.
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  Speaker 16: I do not allow it. Pray, what hours of work
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  Speaker 16: have you been accustomed to?
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  Speaker 9: I have never been accustomed to work at all, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: For which reason she will work the better, I hope.
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  Speaker 16: So our eyes are from nine to nine, with extra
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  Speaker 16: work when we're very full of business for which I
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  Speaker 16: allow payment. Dinner and tea you will take here. Your
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  Speaker 16: wages will average from five to.
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  Speaker 1: Seven shillings a week, Mantalini.
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  Speaker 14: Aside what you do with too much dimmed money? I
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  Speaker 14: can't guess.
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  Speaker 16: If you are ready to come. You had better begin
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  Speaker 16: to morrow morning at nine precisely, Miss nagg My forewoman
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  Speaker 16: shall be prepared to receive you.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any more, mister Nickleby, nothing more, ma'am.
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  Speaker 1: Madame Mantalini courtesying, Then I believe that's all.
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  Speaker 14: Come love, Yes, may soon the you Nickleby, Oh what
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  Speaker 14: you little bullet.
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  Speaker 1: Sylph bowing to Kate.
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  Speaker 14: Mind the dimmed nine in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Madame Montalini angrily Montelini, Mantalini putting his arm round her
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  Speaker 1: waist and hurrying her off silent shovel.
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  Speaker 14: You know I'm too dimmed fond of you.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Mantalini and Madame left hand first entrance there.
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  Speaker 2: Now you'll provided for I. It's some idea of providing
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  Speaker 2: for your mother in a pleasant part of the country.
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  Speaker 2: As you want to be together, I must try to
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  Speaker 2: do something else for her. She has a little money,
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  Speaker 2: hasn't she a very little a little will go a
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  Speaker 2: great way if it's you. Sparingly. There's a house empty
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  Speaker 2: that belongs to me. I didn't put you into it
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  Speaker 2: till it's let But no time to spare. Now come
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  Speaker 2: see you into the street. Then you must find your
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  Speaker 2: way home. Turn to the right hand straight on. If
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  Speaker 2: you forget, then ask or stand still to you remember again?
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  Speaker 1: Exit hurriedly right hand, first entrance, dragging Kate after him
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  Speaker 1: on his arm. Scene four, a dilapidated room supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be a kitchen at Douthboys Hall, window in front, through
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  Speaker 1: which snow is falling. A fire placed second entrance, right hand.
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  Speaker 1: The reflection of the moon falls strongly on Smike, who
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  Speaker 1: is sitting by a wretched fire with his head leaning
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  Speaker 1: upon his hands and knees. A solitary rushlight illuminates the
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  Speaker 1: scene stage half dark. Smike mournfully sighs.
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  Speaker 7: Oh dear, oh dear, he died. My heart will break,
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  Speaker 7: it will it will. There is no hope for me.
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  Speaker 7: How many years of parsons I as a little child,
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  Speaker 7: younger than any that here? Now? Wildly, where where are
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  Speaker 7: they all gone? I wish I was with poor Dorka,
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  Speaker 7: the boy that died here? I remember when I sat
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  Speaker 7: up with him at night he cried no more for Frenzy.
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  Speaker 7: Wished to come and sit with him, but began to
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  Speaker 7: see faces around his bed that came from home, all smiling. Ah,
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  Speaker 7: what faces will smile.
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  Speaker 8: On me when I die shivering?
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  Speaker 7: Who will talk to me in those long, long nights?
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  Speaker 7: He cannot come from home. I don't know what home is, nothing,
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  Speaker 7: nothing but pain and fear, pain and fear for me
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  Speaker 7: alive or dead. No hope, no hope, buries.
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  Speaker 1: His face in his hands. A loud knocking at door
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  Speaker 1: in front. Smike rises hastily, wipes his eyes, squeers without.
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  Speaker 5: Are you coming to night? The wind blows fit and
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: knock a man of his legs.
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  Speaker 1: Smike sighs, he's come again. Oh opens door in flat,
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  Speaker 1: inter squeers and Nicholas down in flat?
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Is that you, Smike? Yes, sir, Then more the doulen't
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: you come to the door before?
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: Please say? I was almost asleep over the fire fire?
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: What fire?
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: The kitchen fire, sir, missus said, as I was sitting up,
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: I might come in.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: For a warm Your missus is a fool. You'd have
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: been more awake in a cold I ring away with
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: you and tell Missus Squeers, I'm arrived.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Jump exit, Smike slowly right hand, first entrance?
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Is this do the boys hall?
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: Sir?
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: Yes? But you needn't call it an all down ear.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: The fact is it ain't.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: On all Oh.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Indeed, no, we.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Call it all up in London because it sounds better.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: A man may called his names an island if he likes.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: There's no Act of Parliament. Again there, I believe.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Strutting up to Nicholas Squeers without.
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: Where is he? Where's my my dearie?
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Enter Missus Squeers, followed by Smike ragged hand first entrance.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Missus Squeers rushes into squeers arms and kisses him. Smike
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: goes to fireplace.
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: How is my squeery?
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: Well?
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: Well, how are the cows all right? And the pigs.
• 23:26
  Speaker 10: As well as can be expected?
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: Come?
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: That's a blessing a boys or all as they were?
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: I suppose they're well enough.
• 23:37
  Speaker 10: That young picture's had a fever.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: Damn that boy, he's always it something of that sort.
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: I say, it's obstinacy. I beat it out of him,
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: and I told you so six months.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: A time you did, darling, you did. This is a
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: new young man. My dear, oh, you must give him
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: a shakedown in the parlor tonight. You don't much mind,
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: now you sleep? I suppose Nickleby.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: No, I am not particular.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: That's lucky a missus squeery, My dearie.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Laughs. Smike comes forward, Well do you want to Smike trembling?
• 24:23
  Speaker 14: Is there?
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: Did anybody? Has nothing been heard about me?
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Devil a bit and never will be pretty sort of thing.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Ain't it that you should have been left here all
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: these years and nobody paid after the first six months,
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: nor no clue left will you belonged to? And I've
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: had to feed and clothe you. That's the best of
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: a joke.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Smike presses his hands to his head and exits right
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: hand first entrance.
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: It's my firm belief, squeers, that young chap turning silly.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: I hope he won't make such a fool of himself,
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: for he's a andy fellow and worth his meat and
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: drink any day. Besides, we should lose, I'll tell you
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: by and bye, let's have supper. I'm hungry. Nickolby will
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: pick a bit with us tonight tomorrow will settle matters
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: and put him into his regular bedroom. Let me see
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: how many have we got in Brooks's bed? Jennings one boulder, two,
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: green wash, three, primrose four and what's his name? Five? Yeah,
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Brooks is full.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Nicholas aside, I should think he was poor devil.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: There's a place somewhere, but I can't caught on mine ware.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: Seven in the morning, seven winter and six in the summer.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: I shall be ready, so I'll.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: Come myself and show you where the pump is. You'll
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: always find a little bit of soap in the kitchen
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: window that belongs to you. I don't know what, boys
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: tell I can put you on, but if you'll make
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: shift tomorrow morning, missus Ash will arrange it. My dear,
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: don't forget.
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: I'll take care and mind how you take care of
• 26:26
  Speaker 10: young men. And bloways get first washed. The teacher ought
• 26:30
  Speaker 10: to have it, but the boys get the better of
• 26:32
  Speaker 10: him and wallop him if they can.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Squeers aside.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: Now for supper, we leap first. He can polish the bones, Missus.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Squeers aside, Hush, I have nice juicy I bought a
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: large piece on purpose.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: Why have you for what? Not for the boys? No, No,
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: I didn't think you'd make such a naughty of yourself.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Ha A Squeers and missus Squeers exit right hand first entrance,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: his arm around her waist. Nicholas walking up and down stage.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Extraordinary person, wild, uncouth place. Can my uncle have been deceived?
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Or has he willingly condemned me to such a life
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: as this? No? No, I wrong him for the supposition.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Perhaps I am judging too hastily. Matters may turn out
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: here much better than they promise. I must be patient
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: and endeavor to accommodate myself to circumstances for my mother
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: and dear sister's sake.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Takes out Newman Nogg's letter.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: What an extraordinary hand? Why did Noggs give this to me?
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: There was an earnestness in his manner that has struck
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: me forcibly reads my dear young man. I know the world.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Your father did not, or he would not have done
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: me a kindness when there was no hope of return.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: You do not, or you would not be bound on
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: such a journey. If ever you want a shelter in London,
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: they know where I live, at the side of the
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Crown in Silver Street, Golden Square. It is at the
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: corner of Silver and James Street. Bar door both ways.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: You can come at night once nobody was ashamed. Never
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: mind that it's all over now. Newman Nogg's p s
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: if you should go near Barnard Castle, there is good
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: ale at the King's head. Say you know me, and
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: I am sure they will not charge you for it.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: You may say, mister Nogg's there, for I was a
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: gentleman then I was indeed.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Smike re enters slowly, right hand, first entrance. Smike shivering.
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: You are to go in to supper, sir, Thank.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: You, crosses to right hand.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: You are shivering? Are you cold?
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: No? No, no, no, I'm not cold. I'm used to it.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Poor fellow patting Smike's head, What.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: A pitiable object. My heart bleeds for him.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Exit right hand, first entrance.
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: Spoke kindly to me. I can't bear it. Oh when
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: shall I hear from home from someone that loves me.
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: To remain longer in this dreadful place would drive me mad.
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: If I was a little bird, then I could fly
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: far far away to live happily all the summer days
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: among the green fields and wild flowers. Yes, yes, I'll.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Go at once runs to window, But there.
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: Are no flowers now. The cold glistening snow is on
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: the ground, and the green fields are buried under a
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: large white shroud. If I left the house now, I
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: might be starved and drop helpless and frozen like the
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: poor birds.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Pauses.
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: I've heard the good people that live away from this place.
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: They feed the pretty harmless robins when the cold days
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: and dark nights are on. Perhaps they would feed me too,
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: for I am very harmless. Very I'll run to them
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: at once and ask.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Them going, squeers heard without right hand and.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: Smike, you lazy wrastle, where are you?
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Smike? Creeping from window?
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: I dare not go that a voice renders me helpless.
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: I'll wait till the moon goes to sleep and the
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: gloomy clouds come down. Then then I'll fly away to
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: be my own master, to walk about the day and
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: sleep soundly at night.
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: Laughs.
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: Huh, that will be what some of the boys call liberty.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Clasps his hands with joy.
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: Oh, I love it, I love it, I love liberty. Yes, yes,
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: this night I'll be free. Ah.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Exit through the window carefully. The reflection of the moon
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: is thrown upon Smike as he gets out of the window.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: He then closes the window shutters and the scene changes.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Scene found the workroom at Mantalini's. A number of girls
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: discover at work making bonnets, et cetera. Miss Snagg, Kate
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and Madame Mantalini discovered tableaux. Madame Mantalini coming forward, Miss Snagg,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: this is.
• 31:13
  Speaker 16: The young person I spoke to you about Miss Nickleby.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Girls aside to each other.
• 31:20
  Speaker 16: Lady, I think for the present she will not be
• 31:23
  Speaker 16: of much use, but her appearance.
• 31:25
  Speaker 9: Will suit very well with mine.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Missus Nickleby's and I are quite a pair. Door second entrance,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: left hand opens. Mantalini peeps in is.
• 31:38
  Speaker 14: My life and soul? There?
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: No girls laugh aside?
• 31:43
  Speaker 14: How can it say so? When it is blew me
• 31:45
  Speaker 14: there like a little rose in a dimniscient flower pot.
• 31:48
  Speaker 14: Leads poppet, come in and talk certainly?
• 31:51
  Speaker 16: Not you know I never allow you in the workroom.
• 31:54
  Speaker 16: Go along.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Mantalini walks toward her on tiptoe, blowing kisses to her.
• 32:00
  Speaker 14: Why will advex yourself and twist his little face into
• 32:03
  Speaker 14: bewitchy nutcrackers, embracing.
• 32:06
  Speaker 16: Her, Oh, I can't bear you not.
• 32:09
  Speaker 14: Spare me phibbs, phibbs. It couldn't be, is not a
• 32:13
  Speaker 14: woman alive that would tell me such a thing to
• 32:15
  Speaker 14: my face, to my own face.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: The girls laugh, Ladies leave the room, girls rise.
• 32:22
  Speaker 16: Miss Snag will retire a few minutes with Miss Nickleby.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: One of the girls laughs.
• 32:27
  Speaker 17: Last, Miss Jones, your services will not be required after
• 32:31
  Speaker 17: tomorrow evening.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: I'm sure I don't care. I can get a shill
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: in a die in my vetils anywhere. An air are
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: getting on.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Girls exit talking. Mantalini is seated in chair, left hand,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: coquetting with Kate Nickleby.
• 32:48
  Speaker 9: Isn't he a beautiful man creature?
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Miss Snag and Kate exit right hand, second entrance, Alfred.
• 32:57
  Speaker 16: I am surprised at your conduct. Why do you show
• 33:01
  Speaker 16: yourself to the girls, my young.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Ladies, Mantalini tapping her chin.
• 33:07
  Speaker 14: If you will be ideously dmnably outrageously jealous my soul,
• 33:12
  Speaker 14: you will be very miserable, horrid, miserable, dimnish, miserable.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Mantalini sits and palls Madame on his knee. Madame Mantalini pettishly,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I am miserable.
• 33:26
  Speaker 14: Do not put itself out of humor. It is a
• 33:29
  Speaker 14: pretty bewitching, little demned countenance, and it should not be
• 33:33
  Speaker 14: put out of humor, for it spoils its loveliness and
• 33:37
  Speaker 14: makes it cross and gloomy, like a frightful, naughty, damned hobgoblin.
• 33:42
  Speaker 16: I am not to be brought round in that way always, sir.
• 33:46
  Speaker 14: It shall be brought around in any way it likes best,
• 33:49
  Speaker 14: and not brought round at all if it lacks it better.
• 33:52
  Speaker 17: You are always flirting with some new person. Last night
• 33:56
  Speaker 17: at the ball, your attention to miss las Benini was
• 33:58
  Speaker 17: remarked by every one.
• 34:00
  Speaker 14: No, no, upon my soul, my life, they were.
• 34:05
  Speaker 16: I had my eye upon you all the time.
• 34:08
  Speaker 14: Blessed the little wigging twinkling eye was it upon me
• 34:12
  Speaker 14: all the time? Oh damn it.
• 34:14
  Speaker 17: You ought not to waltz with anybody but your own wife.
• 34:18
  Speaker 17: And I will not bear at Mantalini if I take poison.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: First throws herself into a chair.
• 34:24
  Speaker 14: She will not take poison and have horrid page, will.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: She drawing a chair towards her and seating himself.
• 34:31
  Speaker 14: She will not take poison because she had a dim
• 34:34
  Speaker 14: fined husband who might have married two countesses and a dowager.
• 34:38
  Speaker 16: Two countesses. You told me one.
• 34:41
  Speaker 14: Before two two dimped fined women, real countesses and splendid fortunes.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Demm it Madame Mantalini playfully, and why didn't you?
• 34:52
  Speaker 14: Why didn't I? Had I not seen the dimedest little
• 34:55
  Speaker 14: fascinator in all the world. And while that little fascinator
• 34:59
  Speaker 14: is my may not all the countesses and dowagers in England.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Be Madame Mantalini kisses him in time to interrupt the sentence.
• 35:08
  Speaker 14: Dear Alfred adorable Evelena, let me worship. Can't it spirits
• 35:13
  Speaker 14: outfee a little more cash? My existence is due.
• 35:17
  Speaker 16: Don't ask my love with so little and.
• 35:20
  Speaker 14: Harm that we must have some more pigeon. We must
• 35:23
  Speaker 14: have some discount of old nickleby to carry on the
• 35:27
  Speaker 14: war with damn it.
• 35:28
  Speaker 16: But you can't want any more.
• 35:31
  Speaker 14: Just now, dear my life and soul, there is a
• 35:34
  Speaker 14: horse for sale at scrubs, which it would be a
• 35:36
  Speaker 14: sin and a crime to lose, magnificent quadruped going my
• 35:41
  Speaker 14: sense of joy for nothing.
• 35:43
  Speaker 16: For nothing.
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: I am lad of that.
• 35:46
  Speaker 14: But actually nothing. A hundred guineas downward buy him mane
• 35:51
  Speaker 14: and crest and legs and tail at all of the
• 35:54
  Speaker 14: demnedest beauty. I will ride him in the park before
• 35:57
  Speaker 14: the very chariots of the rejected countesses, the dimmed old
• 36:00
  Speaker 14: dowager will fate with grief and rage, and the other
• 36:03
  Speaker 14: two will say he is married, he's made away with himself.
• 36:07
  Speaker 14: It is a dimned thing. It is all up. They
• 36:09
  Speaker 14: will hate each other dimnably and miss you dead and buried.
• 36:13
  Speaker 17: Ha ha ha, you know the flutter. I suppose I
• 36:18
  Speaker 17: must see what money I have in the desk.
• 36:21
  Speaker 18: Going very slowly, make haste, Angel of Bounty, give me
• 36:25
  Speaker 18: the hundred, or I should devour you with kisses, absolutely
• 36:29
  Speaker 18: swallow its little body clothes and old dimit.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Exit left hand, first entrance with Madame Mantalini coquetting and
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: running her off. Scene six, A parlor meanly furnished in
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: douthaboys hall. Enter, Miss Squeers and Miss Price right hand,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: first entrance, carrying a table, followed by a servant girl
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: with tea things which she places on table. Then Fetcher's,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: four chairs, two candles, a light on table.
• 37:06
  Speaker 12: So, Fanny, you've really got a right down sweetheart at last.
• 37:11
  Speaker 11: Eh, Yes, Tilda, and I flatter myself such a one
• 37:15
  Speaker 11: as folks don't meet with every day. He's a perfect gentleman,
• 37:19
  Speaker 11: bred and born lore. How nice, ain't it we fell
• 37:23
  Speaker 11: in love with one another at first sight. He's only
• 37:26
  Speaker 11: been here a fortnight. Now, can't you guess who it is? Tilly?
• 37:29
  Speaker 14: Dear?
• 37:30
  Speaker 12: Is it the new tutorer, mister Nickleby.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Missus squeers, simpers.
• 37:35
  Speaker 11: Yes, although he's only PA's assistant, he's a young gentleman
• 37:39
  Speaker 11: of high birth and immense connections. I mustn't tell you
• 37:42
  Speaker 11: all I know just yet, but he will have heaps
• 37:45
  Speaker 11: of money and perhaps a title or two. Entire fortunate
• 37:49
  Speaker 11: girl at last uncommon?
• 37:51
  Speaker 12: What has he said to you?
• 37:52
  Speaker 11: Oh? Don't ask me. When I begged of him to
• 37:55
  Speaker 11: make me a soft pen this morning, he looked so
• 37:58
  Speaker 11: soft at me. Oh dear, I'm a lost girl, Tilly.
• 38:02
  Speaker 12: Oh did he look this way?
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Fanny squinting?
• 38:06
  Speaker 11: Yes, only much more genteel Pa and Ma being out,
• 38:11
  Speaker 11: I've invited him to meet you, and you're intended. Mister Brodie,
• 38:15
  Speaker 11: the miller's son, to drink team play cards in the
• 38:18
  Speaker 11: parlor this evening.
• 38:19
  Speaker 12: How delicious John will soon be here. He's only gone
• 38:23
  Speaker 12: home to clean himself, fetch his chairs. They sit between ourselves.
• 38:28
  Speaker 12: Mister John's grown rather jealous. I must take him down
• 38:32
  Speaker 12: a bit. I'll give myself.
• 38:34
  Speaker 11: A few airs, I do so palpitate.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Placing her hand on her heart.
• 38:40
  Speaker 12: Ah, poor thing, I know what it is. You'll soon
• 38:44
  Speaker 12: get the better of it, my dear.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: A slight knock right hand.
• 38:47
  Speaker 11: Oho, Tilda, There he is? Is my hair in order?
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Hush, whispers say come in, oh, come in, whispering. Nicholas
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: enters right hand first entrance. Good morning, ladies, bowing.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: I understood from mister squeers that.
• 39:05
  Speaker 11: Oh yes, it's all right, father Pa. Don't tea with us,
• 39:10
  Speaker 11: but you won't mind that I dare say. We're only
• 39:13
  Speaker 11: waiting for one more.
• 39:14
  Speaker 12: Gentlemen, don't mind me a bit, for I'm quite as bad.
• 39:19
  Speaker 12: Go on just as you would if you were alone.
• 39:21
  Speaker 11: Lah, Tilda, I'm ashamed of you.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Giggle Nicholas aside, what are they about?
• 39:28
  Speaker 14: Well?
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: As I am here and seem expected, for some reason
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: unknown to myself, to be amiable. Why it's no use
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: looking like a goose, Ladies allow me the honor.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Places chairs, girls, giggle?
• 39:43
  Speaker 11: Ain't he a duck? Tilly?
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Aside? A heavy footstep heard without right hand.
• 39:49
  Speaker 12: That's John Brodie's step, runs to wing well John John
• 39:53
  Speaker 12: Brodie enters right hand first entrance, well.
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: Matilda, grinning, I be here at last. I had to
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: clean the horses and milk told cow before mother would
• 40:03
  Speaker 8: get on my Sunday coat to come out a sweethearting.
• 40:06
  Speaker 11: I beg your pardon, mister Nickleby, Mister John Brody, sir,
• 40:10
  Speaker 11: a perfect gentleman.
• 40:12
  Speaker 8: Nicholas boughs is and a miller, grazier and cow doctor
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: for eating bacon, drinking yell and killing a pig. I
• 40:20
  Speaker 8: won't turn my hand upon any chap in Yorkshire. Here's
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: that fist, lad grinning.
• 40:25
  Speaker 11: Now sit down the tea's drawn, Mister Nickleby, will you
• 40:29
  Speaker 11: sit here?
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Placing chair next to her to be sure he will?
• 40:32
  Speaker 12: Where should he sit?
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: They all sit at table. Nicholas eats very heartily, Brody
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: speaking with mouth full.
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: Old woman out been shimmish.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Missus squeers nods.
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: I'm glad of it. Be a woman. You don't get
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: thin bread and butter every night, and I expect one.
• 40:51
  Speaker 8: Eh aside, hey card, how he does put it away.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Laughs and appears to choke with awful of bread. Nicholas sharply,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Sir Brody laughing.
• 41:06
  Speaker 8: If you stop down here at school long enough, mister,
• 41:09
  Speaker 8: he'll be now. But skin and bones. Eh, t other
• 41:13
  Speaker 8: teacher were leaning cuddy work a mopstick was a Daniel
• 41:17
  Speaker 8: Lambert Doe.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: Your remarks are ungentlemanly and offensive.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Shaking hand, sir and I all rise.
• 41:27
  Speaker 8: Dang it does want a fight? Come on?
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Squaring up to Nicholas, Miss Price stopping Brody.
• 41:34
  Speaker 12: If you say another word, John, I'll never forgive you.
• 41:37
  Speaker 8: Well, well, I won't kiss I Larson will say no
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: more about schoolmaster.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Chap kisses Miss Price heartily. Miss squeers sobbing.
• 41:46
  Speaker 12: Oh what's the matter Fanny?
• 41:49
  Speaker 11: Nothing till today?
• 41:50
  Speaker 12: I'm sure there is to Nicholas say something to her?
• 41:54
  Speaker 12: Shall I and John go into the little kitchen and
• 41:57
  Speaker 12: come back presently?
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: What on earth do you do that for?
• 42:01
  Speaker 18: What?
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: For?
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 42:03
  Speaker 12: You are a one to keep company.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: The servant enters right hand and takes off tea things.
• 42:09
  Speaker 11: We're going to have a game of cards. If it
• 42:11
  Speaker 11: is agreeable, we had better go partners, as there are
• 42:14
  Speaker 11: only four of us. Tilder day two against two.
• 42:18
  Speaker 12: With all my heart, what do you say, mister nickleby
• 42:21
  Speaker 12: Brody aside?
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Hum, she don't ask, guy, I shall feel a pleasure.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: Allow me to be your partner.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Takes her hand Brody aside.
• 42:31
  Speaker 8: Fat London chaff? What's the carter?
• 42:34
  Speaker 14: Oh?
• 42:34
  Speaker 11: We well, I never mister Brodie. Shall we join partners
• 42:39
  Speaker 11: against them?
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Reseat themselves? Nicholas dealing cards?
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: We intend to win everything.
• 42:46
  Speaker 11: Miss Tilda has won something she didn't expect.
• 42:49
  Speaker 12: Law, dear, your hair's coming out of curl.
• 42:52
  Speaker 11: Oh, never mind me, I never had such luck.
• 42:56
  Speaker 12: I should always like to have you for a partner,
• 42:58
  Speaker 12: mister Nickleby.
• 43:00
  Speaker 11: I wish you had did ever anybody here?
• 43:02
  Speaker 12: Oh fie John, why don't you say something and not
• 43:06
  Speaker 12: sit there so silent and glum?
• 43:08
  Speaker 8: Well? Then what I say is this? Dang me? If
• 43:12
  Speaker 8: I stand this any longer? Do you think I'm gonna
• 43:15
  Speaker 8: let that cocknit chap make love to you? After all
• 43:18
  Speaker 8: I've done and spent, Haven't I treated you to all
• 43:20
  Speaker 8: the races, fairs and bull baitings in country? Didn't I?
• 43:25
  Speaker 8: At last tad Kastafa pay for two pounds of gingerbread nuts,
• 43:29
  Speaker 8: two combs as good as tortoiseshell, and a chap that
• 43:32
  Speaker 8: dances when they pulls a string, besides spending a matter
• 43:35
  Speaker 8: of ninepence in the lucky bag, teetotems, cherry bounce and
• 43:39
  Speaker 8: sweet stuff. After all this. Dost thou think I'm gonna
• 43:43
  Speaker 8: stand any London nonsense? No, I'd be damned.
• 43:45
  Speaker 14: If I do.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Going up to Nicholas, stand up like a.
• 43:48
  Speaker 8: Man and let me knock you down.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Pulls off coat and squares up to Nicholas.
• 43:54
  Speaker 12: Well I'm sure, sir, what's all this about?
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Laughs?
• 43:59
  Speaker 8: Don't I've been a bit jealous? Oh no, no, no,
• 44:04
  Speaker 8: ha ha ha it be capital fun bean te eh hah,
• 44:09
  Speaker 8: stamping with rage. Oh you two faced Jezebel. No, where
• 44:13
  Speaker 8: be all my money? The lookie bag. I'll be revenged.
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: I'll be revenged.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Kicks over a table. We'll exit right hand first entrance,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: dragging off Miss Price, Miss Squeers sobbing violently.
• 44:28
  Speaker 11: Oh oh, I had five chumps in my hand.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Falls into Nicholas's arms. Exit left hand, first entrance with
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Nickleby Scene seven, the schoolroom at Dutha boys Hall desk
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: forms et cetera. Mister and Missus Squeers and the boys discovered.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: At the opening of scene, the boys are heard spelling.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Missus Squeers is looking in a ubbird in flat. Mister
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Squeers coming forward.
• 45:12
  Speaker 10: Trapped the things I can't find the school spoon anywhere.
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: Never mind it, dear, It's of no consequence.
• 45:22
  Speaker 10: No consequence, isn't it? Brimstone morning?
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: Oh oh for God, Yes, we must not neglect purifying
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: the boy's blood, you know. Besides, if they're not something
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: or other in the way of medicine, they'd be always
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: ailing and giving a world of trouble and exposed their
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: appetites and comes cheaper than breakfast and dinner.
• 45:50
  Speaker 10: That Smike must have hit it somewhere or other calls, Smike,
• 45:56
  Speaker 10: where are you?
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: I haven't seen the young gentleman this morn since Nickelby
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: has been are He's grown dull and lazy? A good
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: scrashing will bring in you his sinces. I'm thinking you.
• 46:10
  Speaker 10: Are always thinking why don't you act? That knucklebee boy
• 46:15
  Speaker 10: will set all the boys against you with his proud,
• 46:20
  Speaker 10: stuck up ways. I hate the very looks.
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: Of him, My love, you are indiscreet stuff.
• 46:29
  Speaker 10: Don't tell me I know what's what. Smike, where the
• 46:34
  Speaker 10: devil are you?
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Exit right hand?
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: He shall have a double allows of brimstone for this
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: and no.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Shreakle retires up to his desk right hand into nicholas
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: first entrance left hand.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: When will the day arrive that enables me to turn
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: my back on this accursed place, never to set foot
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: in it again, or to think of it, even think
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: of it, but with loathing, a disgust added to my
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: other sufferings, as if they were insufficient. Is the pretended
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: affection towards me advanced by miss Squeers, the disgusting prototype
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: of her more disgusting father. By rejecting her attentions, I
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: have set these people together by the ears and made
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: more enemies, when Heaven knows I needed none. The unfeeling,
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: dastardly conduct pursued by Squeers towards the boy's Mike is
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: beyond all for parents. I'm determined to oppose such barbarity
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: the next time. Let the consequence be what it may.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Sets himself at desk, A low murmur heard.
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: Without boys boys silence.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Or Strike's form with his cane. They are instantly silent
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: into missus Squeers with freecol.
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: Have you seen smikee this morning, mister Nickleby.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: I have seen nothing of him since last night.
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: Come, sir, you won't save him this way. Where is
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: he he is missing?
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Please, sir?
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: I think Smike's run away.
• 48:08
  Speaker 10: Ha Who said that.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Squeers seizing boy.
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: And what reason have you to suppose any boy would
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: run away from this establishment?
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: He sir, take that boxes his ears.
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: I'll give you all notice. If I can't smike, I'll
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: only stop sure of flame him.
• 48:33
  Speaker 10: If you catch him, you can't help it.
• 48:37
  Speaker 7: Stupid.
• 48:37
  Speaker 10: He hadn't any money, had.
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: He never had a penny in all his life.
• 48:43
  Speaker 10: And he didn't take anything to eat with him. I'll
• 48:46
  Speaker 10: answer for ha ha. Then of course he must beg
• 48:50
  Speaker 10: his way, and he could do that nowhere but on
• 48:54
  Speaker 10: the public road.
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: That's true. And I've sent one chase away and swallows
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: man another sir, we're sure to catch the rascool before tonight.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Nicholas aside wretches.
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: Who says, wretches.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Rapping with his cane.
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: Now first class treacle.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: The boys all advance slowly and reluctantly. Missus Squeers gives
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: each a spoonful of treacle, some a rap on the
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: head with spoon music tableau.
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: Now is that physicking nearly over?
• 49:31
  Speaker 10: Just over?
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Giving a little boy a very large spoonful.
• 49:36
  Speaker 10: There, that's the last.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Takes pen away. Boys make wry faces.
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: Now Miss Nickleby will begin business for the day. First
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: clums in English, spelling and philosophy come forward.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: Six ragged boys advance with tattered books. Nicholas places himself
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: near squeers.
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: We'll get up a Latin class by and by which
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: I shall turn over to you nickleby now, then, where's
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: the first boy.
• 50:09
  Speaker 7: Please sir?
• 50:10
  Speaker 10: He's cleaning the back pole windows.
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: So he is. To be sure, we always go upon
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: the practical mode of teaching, the regular education system. C
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: l e a n ver betive to make bright, to
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: scour w i n win d e r duer winder
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: a casement. When the boy knows this out of a book,
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: he goes and does it. It's just the same principle
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: as the use of the globes. And now where's the
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: second boy.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Please sir?
• 50:54
  Speaker 9: He's weeding the garden.
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: To be sure, he is b o t e bought
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: t n tin n e y nay boughty nay noun
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: substantive a knowledge of plants. When he has learned that
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: botany means a knowledge of plants, he goes and knows them.
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: That's our system. What do you think of it?
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: It's a useful one at any rate.
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: I believe you. Third boy what's a horse, beat, sir?
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: So it is, ain't it, Nickleby?
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: I believe there's no doubt of that, sir.
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: Of course there is not. A horse is a quadruped,
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: and a quadruped is Latin for beast. As everybody that's
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: gone through the grammar knows, or else, what's the use
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: of having grammars at all? So as you are in there,
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: go and look him after my horse, and rub him
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: down well, the rest of the class in philosophy, go
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: and draw water up till somebody tells you to leave off,
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: for it's a washing day tomorrow.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Enter missus Squeers hastily. Third entrance, right hand.
• 52:21
  Speaker 10: We've got the gentleman at last. Swallows man cut him
• 52:26
  Speaker 10: on the road to York, tied him hand and foot
• 52:29
  Speaker 10: to prevent giving them the slip again.
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: Bring him in, bring.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: Him, Missus Squeers exits and returns directly, dragging's in Smite,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: trembling and ejected. Third entrance, right hand, Nicholas aside.
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: Poor fellow, my heart belieds for him.
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: Let every boy keep his place, striking deak Nickleby a
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: tender Now, sir, to Smike, have you anything to save yourself?
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Flourishing his cane.
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: Stand a little out away, missy. Squeers, My dear, I've
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: hardly got room enough.
• 53:08
  Speaker 14: Spare me, sir. I was driven to it.
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: Driven to it were you? It wasn't your fault, it
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: was mine, I suppose.
• 53:17
  Speaker 10: Eh, what does he mean by that?
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: We'll try him find out.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Seize his smile and is in the act of striking
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: him when Nicholas stands before them?
• 53:29
  Speaker 6: Stop?
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: Who cried? Stop?
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: I this must not go on.
• 53:34
  Speaker 8: Must not go on?
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: No, I say, must not. I will prevent it. You
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: have disregarded all my quiet entreaties on this poor miserable
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: boy's behalf. Therefore, don't blame me for this public interference.
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: You have brought it on yourself.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: Squeers. Violently enraged, sit down, begger, endeavoring to strike smiles,
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Stand back, wretch.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: I will not stand by and see it done. I
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: have a long series of insults to avenge, and my
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: indignation is aggravated by the dastardly cruelties practiced on helpless
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: infancy in this foul den. Have a care for if
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: you raise the devil within me, the consequences shall fall
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: heavily on your own head.
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: Dog School.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: Strikes Nicholas a blow with the cane. Nicholas wrests the
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: cane from him and beats him without mercy. Boy Missus
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Squeers rushes in and belabors Nicholas. Master Squeers and Missus
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Squeers join in universal confusion. Lamp tableau re formed end
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: of Act one, Act Too of Nicholas Nickleby by Edward Sterling.
• 54:58
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• 55:03
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• 55:08
  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Act two Seeing One a desolate
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: wild heath with a barn or outhouse painted on one
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: of the flats, small practical door, insane daybreak music piano
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: Smike discovered crouching on the stage, peeping through the barn door.
• 55:35
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, he's there. I'll watch beside him till he wakes,
• 55:39
  Speaker 7: and I behind the tall bushes lest he should see
• 55:42
  Speaker 7: and send me back. Oh no, no, he would not
• 55:46
  Speaker 7: be so cruel. They'd kill me. Now he's gone, I'm
• 55:50
  Speaker 7: cold and hungry. You're very happy, for I'm near the
• 55:54
  Speaker 7: only being that ever spoke kindly to me since I
• 55:57
  Speaker 7: was a little child.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: Eh wildly now a man.
• 56:02
  Speaker 7: A brave man. Ha ha, No, I'm nothing a fool.
• 56:08
  Speaker 7: Those cruel people always tell me so.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: The barn door slowly opens and Nicholas enters from it.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Covered with straw, Smike partially conceals himself behind the door.
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: I have slept well, spite of the fatigue and vexation
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: that overwhelmed me, though I cannot vanish fully from my
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: mind the certain painful misgivings as to the probable fate
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: of the boy's Smike. It makes me shudder to even
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: think of his unhappy situation.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: Smike advances or what is this?
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: Can it be some lingering creation of the visions that
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: have disturbed me? It cannot be real? And yet I
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: I am awake, Smike.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: Smike kneeling yes, don't don't beat me, Nicholas raising.
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: Him, wretched boy, Why do you kneel to me?
• 56:57
  Speaker 7: To go with you anywhere? Freewere, to the end of
• 57:01
  Speaker 7: the world, to the churchyard grave.
• 57:03
  Speaker 14: Let me do. Let me go with you.
• 57:06
  Speaker 7: You're my home, my kind friend. Take me with you.
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: Pray I am a friend that can do little for you.
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: How came you here?
• 57:15
  Speaker 7: I have followed your footsteps a long long way from
• 57:19
  Speaker 7: there shudders watched when you slept and crouched like a
• 57:23
  Speaker 7: hair in the grass when you stopped to eat. I
• 57:27
  Speaker 7: was very hungry. I dare not ask for bread, or
• 57:30
  Speaker 7: you might have discovered and sent me back.
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: Poor fellow, Your hard fate denies you any friend but one,
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: and he is nearly as helpless as yourself.
• 57:39
  Speaker 7: May I, may I go with you. I will be
• 57:43
  Speaker 7: your faithful, hard working servant. I will indeed, I want
• 57:47
  Speaker 7: no clothes. These will do very well. I only want
• 57:50
  Speaker 7: to be near you.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Taking Nicholas's hand, and you shall.
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: We will walk to London together, and the world shall
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: deal by you as it does by me, till one
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: or both of us shall quit it for a better.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Shaking Smike's hand, Come Smike, laughing wildly.
• 58:09
  Speaker 10: Ha ha.
• 58:10
  Speaker 7: Oh, I was so happy. I don't feel a bit hungry.
• 58:13
  Speaker 7: Now come, come, let us run all the way.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: John Brody whistles without right.
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: Hush.
• 58:20
  Speaker 7: They are coming to carry me back. Don't let them,
• 58:24
  Speaker 7: don't let them.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: Clings to Nicholas.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: Silence, boy, you've nothing to dread.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: Looks off right hand.
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: Unfortunate. It's my late rival, mister John Brody. I am
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: in no mood for noise and riot, and yet do
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: what I will. I shall not escape altercation with this
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: honest blockhead, and perhaps a blow or two with his staff.
• 58:47
  Speaker 7: No, no, he shall beat me.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: Not you enter John Brody carrying a huge stick.
• 58:54
  Speaker 8: Barn door open. Eh, what the devil's into him?
• 58:57
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 58:57
  Speaker 8: Seeing Nicholas cat zooks these bees out betimes this mornin,
• 59:02
  Speaker 8: Sir servant, young gentleman.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: Bows yours bows?
• 59:07
  Speaker 8: Well we have met at last day?
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: Whistling and striking his stick on the ground, Smike shrinks away.
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: Yes, come, we parted on no very good terms the
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: last time we met. It was my fault, I believe,
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: but I had no intention of offending you, and no
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: idea I was doing so. I was very sorry for
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: it afterwards. Will you shake hands?
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Offer's hand?
• 59:32
  Speaker 8: Shake hands?
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: Ah that I will shakes hands, Smike running forward mine
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: mine too, offers.
• 59:42
  Speaker 8: His dang it, man, what does this scarcecrow do with thee?
• 59:46
  Speaker 8: Why the face be all broken?
• 59:47
  Speaker 17: Like?
• 59:48
  Speaker 8: What'll be the matter?
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: It is a cut a blow, but I returned it
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: to the giver, and with interest too.
• 59:55
  Speaker 8: No did he though I liken for that?
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: The fact is I've been ill treated.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: Smike mournfully for me, No, don't say that.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: Yes, I have by that man's squire's and I have
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: beaten him soundly and left the place in consequence.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 8: What beaten the school master? Here's the hand again, youngster
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 8: beating the school master. Dang it, I'll love this for it.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: Shakes Nicholas's hand violently. Smike laughs, ha capit, old capital man?
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 8: And what does mean to do?
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 14: Lad?
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 7: Now?
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: And go immediately to London.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: We are now on our way, Brody shaking his hand.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 8: Does know how much coaches charge?
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: No, no, I do not, but that is of no consequence,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: for we intend walking.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 8: Gang alone and a foot a matter of one hundred
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 8: and ninety miles.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: Every step of the way. We'll be there by night,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: silly lad, and goodbye Brodie. We must walk forty miles
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: before night going stand still?
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 8: Know how much cash is the gunman?
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: Not mucherhaps five shillings, but I can make it enough
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: where there's a will, there's a way.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 8: Five shillings for two lads to walk to Lunnon with
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 8: one hundred nightly wearisome miles. No, I'm danged if they shall.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 8: Why John Brody's got a golden guinea and his tall
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 8: leather purse.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Pulling out a shabby purse and offering it to Nicholas.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 8: There we be, lad, take as much as you like.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 14: Man.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 8: You are too kind, too kind a pack of stuff
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 8: been to a duty. If one man to assist another,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 8: if everybody would stick to that, there wouldn't be quite
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 8: so much mischief done in tworld. Tag enough to carry
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 8: THEE home. They'll pay me yan one day.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: I warrant I will not refuse your generous hearted kindness.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: Taking money a sovereign will be quite enough.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 8: One dang it, Lad, take one apiece.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: No, I thank you.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: One will be sufficient for both.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 8: If THEE won't have it to the chapshell here, Smike,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 8: Here be one for THEE.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: Smike taking money and giving it to Nicholas.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 7: Both for you.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: Heaven will reward you for this kindness.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 8: It'd be all right. Something be thumping up and down
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 8: under me. Waistcoat that tells me.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: So, shake's hands with both.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 8: Goodbye, blessy, oh stop, take this bit of timber to
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 8: help the on women keep a good art, and bless thee.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 8: Beat in schoolmaster, God, that's the best thing I've heard
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 8: this twenty.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: Year brody exits right hand. Nicholas and Smike left hand,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: Nicholas carrying his bundle on his stick over his shoulder
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: and waving his hand to Brody. Smike looking back, nodding
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: his head and holding Nicholas's coattail in one hand. Music
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: Scene two, the show room at Madame Mantalini's Kate discovered
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: arranging various articles of dress and bijouturi, large cheval glass dresses,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: bonnets and et cetera scattered about the scene.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 9: I am almost tired of this wretched state of existence,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 9: no relief, no relaxation, perpetually associating with these odious people.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 9: Not one being in the world they can understand or
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 9: sympathize with my situation, but my mother and that kind
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 9: good creature Newman Noggs. Innumerable are the little acts of
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 9: delicate attention shown by him towards us. I quite love him.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: Crosses up stage amidst.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 9: All our troubles. Is a comfort to learn from Nicholas
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 9: that he is likely to do well. It is a
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 9: bright star in our dark horizon.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: Approaches glass. At the same moment, mister Scaly pops his
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: head up from behind it. Kate screams, don't bell or
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: miss this.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 6: Here is the Manta making consan.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 19: Ain't you yes?
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 9: What do you want?
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 6: Where a minute?
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: Young woman?
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 6: Where's your governor?
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 7: My?
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 9: What did you say?
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 6: Mister Mantalini? What's come of him?
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 5: Hey?
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 9: Yo, he is above stairs? I believe do you want him?
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 5: Na?
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 6: Don't exactly want him.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 13: If it's made a favor on you can just give
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 13: him that a card and tell him if he wants
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 13: to speak to me and save trouble here, I am
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 13: that's all.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: Gives card to Kate.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 9: I'll take the card to him immediately.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: Exit right hand as he likes. Miss opens doors ticks
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: enters touching glass with.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 13: Stick, good plate. They see it ticks and they see
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 13: article wasn't made for nothing?
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 6: Mind you?
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: Pointing to silt. Enter Madame Mantalini and Kate Scaly is
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: arranging his neckcloth at glass.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 16: Curatious heaven?
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 6: Oh is this the missus?
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 9: It is Madame Mantalini.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: Sir Madame sits in chair.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 13: Then this is a writ of execution, and if it's
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 13: not convenient to settle, we'll go over the ass at
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 13: whist and say the infantry.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: Mantalini enters hastily with a knife in his head and stop.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 19: Stop, what's the dimmed total fifteen hundred and twenty seven
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 19: pounds four and ninepence Etney, the hipny be dimmed by
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 19: all means if you wish it, and the nine pence two.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 19: But what's this wig to be?
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 6: Only a small crack or a smash?
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: Mantalini, hurriedly the dim smash very good dead, mister tom
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: ticks escavire, you must inform your angel wife and lovely
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: family as you won't sleep alone for.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 13: Three nights to come along with being in possession here. Now,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 13: let's walk our precious legs upstairs and proceeds of business.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: Madame Montalini, psalms.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 6: What's the use of waring yourself? Madam?
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 13: A good arf of what's here hasn't paid for, I
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 13: dare say? And what a consolation ought that to be?
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 13: To her feelings?
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: Exit with ticks, Madame Mantalini, psalms. Mantalini approaching her.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 14: Make cup of happiness is sweet? Though? Will you listen
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 14: to me for two minutes?
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, don't speak to me.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 19: You have ruined me that I know.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 14: Oh, oh, have I the infernal rascal to ruin such
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 14: a puppet? Let me cutage villain's dimned.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: Throat raise his razor to his throat.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 16: Oh, oh, if you love me, doat missus Nickleby, rest
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 16: his arm for halfn's sake, he won't destroy himself. I
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 16: spoke unkindly to him.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: If he cannot bear it from me, Alfred, my darling, Alfred, Oh,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: embracing him.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 14: I'm not fit to live, to breathe the same air
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 14: as my angel wife. I'm too damned bad. Let me die.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 14: Let me fall a dimned, breedy object at your pretty
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 14: little feet.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 16: Ah, Fred, I didn't mean to say. I didn't mean
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 16: to say.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: Clinging to him ruined starting.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 14: Haven't I brought a ruin to the best, the purest
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 14: creature that ever blessed, a damnation.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: Vagabond, flourishing razor.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 14: Let me go, Let me make myself a horrid object.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 16: Pray, compose yourself my own agel. It was nobody's full.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: Mantalini groans, Oh this is too beautiful.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 16: Never mind, dear, we shall.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: Do very well yet Mantalini starting, Oh, dippit.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 14: The rais is too dimmed sharp.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 16: If you talk so, Alfred, you'll drive me mad mad?
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 14: Is there no dimned mineral poison in the world? Will
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 14: no kind invaluable demned friend, blow my brains out, Let
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 14: me go, I can't live. Let me hide in some
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 14: solitary corner and cut my throat quietly.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 17: Help help, for Heaven's sake, Alfred Alfred cut mine first.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 14: I will, I will, with the same dimned razor.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: All exit right had first entrance music scene three lodgings
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: of Newman Noggs, a meanly furnished garret. Scene half dark
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: knogs speaking without.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: Left this way, Come this way, my dear boy.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: Newman Noggs enters left, carrying a glass of rum and water,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: a candlestick very old and shabby, with a small candle
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: in it alight. He pushes in Nicholas and Smike. The
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: two latter appear much fatigued. Smike carries buddle and stick
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: taste this, pouring rum and water down both their mouths.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 4: You are wiped through, and I haven't even a change
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 4: to offer you.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: I have dry clothes in my bundle. If you look
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: so distressed to see me, you will add to the
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: pain I feel already at being compelled to cast myself
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: upon your slender means for shelter, nog grasping.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 4: Good lad, good lad, You won't refuse to eat?
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 8: Will you?
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: Taking some bread and cheese from his pocket, wrapped in
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: a piece of paper.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 4: It's the best I have eat heartily, bless you, Thank ye,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 4: thank ye.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: Now tell me of my mother and sister? Are they well?
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 4: Well? Both well?
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: Now listen to me. Before I would make an effort
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: to see them, I deemed it expedient to come to you,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: lest by gratifying my own selfish desire, I should injure them.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: What has my uncle heard from Yorkshire?
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: Smike during this is picking up the crumbs which he
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: has dropped on the stage and eats them. Nog smiles
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: and shakes his head.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: What has he heard? I am prepared to hear the
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: very worst that malice has suggested.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 4: Tell me at once, pray to morrow hear it tomorrow?
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: What a purpose would that answer?
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 4: Eat?
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 6: The better?
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: That's all, I should sleep. The worse. I cannot hope
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: to close my eyes unless you tell me. Ever, don't fear.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: You may rouse my indignation or wound my pride, but
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: you will not break my rest. For if the scene
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: were acted over again, I could take no other part
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: than I have taken, Never if I starve or beg
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: in consequence. If I had stood by tamely, impassively. I
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: should have hated myself and merited the contempt of every
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 3: man in existence, the black hearted scoundrel Squire's.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 4: My dear young man, you must not give way too.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: This sort of things will never do you know as
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 4: to getting on in the world if you take everybody's
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 4: part that's ill treated.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: Why why seizing Nicholas's hand and shaking it violently?
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 8: Damn it.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 4: I am proud to hear of it, and would have
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: done it myself. That Squeers is a damned scoundrel. I
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 4: hope you thrashed him well. The day before yesterday your
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 4: uncle received this letter. I took a hasty copy of
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 4: it while he was out.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: Produces dirty letter.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 4: Shall I read it?
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: If you please?
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: Nogs reading and spelling occasionally.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 4: Sir, My pa requests me to write to you. The
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 4: doctors considering it doubtful whether he will ever recover the
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 4: use of his legs, which prevents his holding a pen.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 4: He is one mask of bruises, both blue and green, likewise,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 4: two forms, which is steeped in his gore. When you're
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 4: neviy that you recommended for a teacher had done this
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 4: to my Pa and jumped upon his body with his feet.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 4: He assaulted my mar dashed her to the earth, and
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 4: drove her back comb several inches into her head a
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: very little more, and it must have entered her skull.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: Me and my brother were then the victims of his fury.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 4: I am screaming out loud or the time I write
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 4: with pain. The monster, having sentiated is thirst for blood,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 4: run away, taking with him a boy of desperate character
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 4: called Smike, and a garnet ring belonging to my ma.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 4: My Pa begs that if he comes to you, the
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 4: ring may be returned, and that you will let the
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 4: thief an assassin go. And if we prosecuted him, he
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 4: would only be transported. And if he is let go,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 4: is sure to be ung before long. Hoping to hear
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 4: from you when convenient, I remain yours, and cetera. Fanny
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 4: squeers ps our pity, is ignorance, and despise him.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: Noggs aside, and looking at Smike.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: Is that the boy of desperate character, poor fella, poor fellow,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 3: mister Noggs, I must go out at once, putting his
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: go out yes to golden Square. Nobody who knows me
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: would believe this story. Of the ring. But it is
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: due to myself that I should state the truth. Besides,
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: I have a word or two to exchange with mister
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 3: Ralph Nickleby which will not keep cool. I must, they
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: must not.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 4: Indeed, going you have nothing to fear at present. Your
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 4: uncle is too much employed to think of you. He
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 4: had hardly read this letter when he was called away.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 4: Its contents and known to nobody but himself and us.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: Not even to my mother and sister. If I thought
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: that they, I will go there, I will see him immediately.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: I am determined.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 4: Then I'll go with you. Let me see your uncle first,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 4: to pave the wife for you. He might be at
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 4: the counting house. We'll try that first. He gives a
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 4: grand party and dinner at home to his friends.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 7: Ha ha ha.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 4: His friends poor devils that he plunges into ruin by
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 4: his co kindness. He once was kind to me, very.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: Calmly.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 4: You can wait at the corner of Silver Street while
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 4: I go in. I'll give you the signal to enter.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 4: Don't be impetuous. Meet him calmly. He's a dangerous man.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 6: I know it too well, too well.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: Exit left Nicholas thoughtfully, gazing on the ground and sighing.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: What a miserable, wretched fade is mine.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: Smike creeping towards him and placing his hand on his arms.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 7: Don't pray, don't look so sad. I know you've got
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 7: into great trouble by bringing me away. I ought to
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 7: have known that and stopped behind you. You're not rich,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 7: you have not enough for yourself, and I should not
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 7: be here. You grow thinner every day, your cheek is paler,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 7: and your eye more sunk. I cannot bear to look
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 7: at you today. I've tried to leave you, but I
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 7: could not with a word. I I love you too much.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: The word which separates us shall never be said by me.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 3: I would not lose you now for all the world
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: could give. Give me your hand. My heart is linked
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: to yours. What if I am steeped in poverty, you
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: lighten it and we shall be poor or rich together.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: Exit, shaking hands left. Smike carries bundle and stick. Scene four,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: The Counting House of Ralph Nickleby. Two desks, stool, practical
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: window and door in flat. The window opens two golden square.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: Ralph Nickleby, discovered seated at his desk looking over papers.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: Curses on them both to think that all my plans
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: should be of a throne. Rend is abortive by the
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: headstrong rashness of this boy, Nicholas. You shall never have
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: one penny of my money, one crust of my bread,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: one grasp of my hand. No, not to save him
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: from the loftiest gallows in all Europe.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: Rises very risks.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: Mike must be separated from him, or some unfortunate event
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: might reveal all pauses. Yes, yes, they will surely make
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: for London. I'll be upon the watch for them. My
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: dutiful nephew shall see the inside of a prison. The
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: garnet ring will fix him there, and the poor fool
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: that accompanies him show back to Yorkshire. Chuckles, He'll be
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: safe this time with his kind master squeers.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: I'll warrant collecting papers.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: These deeds shall go with me. I am at last
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: resolved to destroy them, present circumstances demanded for my own security.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: Puts them in his pocket book. Newman Noggs enters left
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: with a very shabby umbrella under his arms, which he
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: opens and places on stage near his desk. He then
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: takes his hat off and hangs it up and hobbles
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: to his desk, which is a high one and commences
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: mending a pin.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: So sah, you are here at last?
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 14: Pray?
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: Why didn't you come before when you knew I wanted
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: to leave the office earlier.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: Humph, affecting to write, fool brute?
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: Why I keep such an idle dog about me? I
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: can't tell?
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 4: Keep starff you mean?
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: What's that your mumbling?
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 4: Say a thing? You don't understand?
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 5: The truth?
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: pH, whish I had never seen you, so do I
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: with all my soul? Is this your gratitude to me?
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: You rascal nogs leaning over a desk?
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 4: What have I to be grateful for? Is it the
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 4: knowledge that your cruel conduct brought me to ruin? Or
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 4: is it for the miserable pittance that you be grudgingly
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 4: bestow upon me weakly in that shape of wages?
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: Ralph? Passionately?
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 14: Do you know me? Sir?
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: I do worse luck, scoundrel? Did I not release you
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: from prison and take you into my employment?
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 4: You did, but you first sent me there as long
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 4: as I had houses and land to mortgage. Mister Ralph
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 4: Nickleby was my very good friend. When they ceased, his
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 4: friendship ceased, and his very dear friend Newman Knox became
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 4: a fool, an idol, vagabond, and a prison was much
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 4: too good for him, in the opinion of the honest,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 4: warm hearted, conscientious Ralph Nickleby.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: Sit down, very.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: Good, sir, very good. I'd be kind enough to listen
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: to me for one minute your part, sir. If after
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: tomorrow you dare to place your foot in my house,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: I'll send you back to prison to starve, sir, to starve.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: Don't let me be disturbed. I have friends at home tomorrow,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: remember my promise, beggar.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: During this speech, he has taken the pocketbook from the
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: desk and placed it, apparently in his breast pocket, but
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: wearing a spencer coat over the other. The book slips
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: between them and falls on stage unnoticed. Ralph exits left,
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: shaking his finger at Newman Noggs. Noggs opens desk and
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: takes out a bottle from it and drinks Nogs, getting
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: down and walking up and down the stage.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 4: Perhaps I have acted wrong, but that's nothing new. I'm
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 4: never right. Quarreling with the oppressor. It's not the best
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 4: way of serving the oppressed. Nicholas must not see his
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 4: uncle while this angry fit is on. He called me
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 4: a beggar. He that made me one. Oh, if I
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 4: could but repay. The villain kicks the pocketbook. What's this?
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 4: Picking it up his pocket book? It will be safe
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 4: here till morning.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: He is in the act of placing it on the
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: desk when the papers, which are much longer than the
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: pocket book, catches eye. Turning them over, he.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 4: Reads the copy of a will, perhaps his own. I
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 4: should like to see what he has done for poor Nicholas.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 4: For once in his life he may have acted with
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 4: a little generosity towards his fellow creatures. At all events,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 4: there's no great harm in peeping opens will and reads.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: Ay am, I wake speaking and reading rapidly.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 4: I'll give and bequeath all my personal estates landhouse's funded
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 4: property to my executor, mister Ralph Nickleby, in the event
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 4: for the death of my only child, Thomas Smike. Oh
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 4: I shall choke twenty thousand, three and a half percents
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 4: landed estates in Surrey, Portland place. Oh, oh, I see
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 4: it all. Hell Ralph Nickleby, you old rascal.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: Rubbing his hands violently.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 4: Now now the beggar may have a chance of sending
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 4: you to prison to starve, starve, Ah.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: Runs to the window, throws it up and calls Nickleby, Nickleby.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: Nicholas and Smike appear at the window. Come in, come in,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: opens door in flat they enter.
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  Speaker 4: Don't speak a word, My dear boy, let me talk,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 4: but my uncle, damn your uncle listen to me?
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: Taking Smike's hand, or want.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 4: To ask this boy a question or two? Has he
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 4: a good memory?
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 7: I don't know, I add, once, but it's all gone now,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 7: all gone, sizhe.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: Why do you think you had once?
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 7: Because I could remember when I was a child before
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 7: I went to that place, shuddering.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 4: Did you find your way there alone?
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 5: No?
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 14: Oh?
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 10: No?
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 11: Who was with you?
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 4: A man?
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: A dark, withered man, imitates the look of Ralph Nickleby.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 7: I was glad to leave him. I was afraid of him.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 4: Do you recollect anything about the house you lived in
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 4: before this man took you into Yorkshire?
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 7: No?
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: Nicholas looks at Smike, who suddenly recollects.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 7: Yes, her room. I remember I slept in a room,
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 7: a large, lonesome room at the top of the house,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 7: where there was a trap door in the ceiling. I've
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 7: covered my head with clothes often not to see it,
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 7: for it frightened me a young child with no one
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 7: near at night, and I used to wonder what was
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 7: on the other side.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: Noggs laughing and singing. Ha ha, tall o tiggle doll,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: hugging smike.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 4: It's all right. This is the very house. The trap
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 4: door's upstairs. You shall have your own tall loal My
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 4: dear boy.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: Shakes Nicholas's hands.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 3: Are you mad, mister Noggs, Yes, yes, with joy.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 4: Don't ask me any questions now you shall learn all presently,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 4: jump into a coach with me. Take two. We'll fetch
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 4: your mother, then drive to your uncle's. Your sister is
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 4: there already. He gives a grand party tonight, and I'm
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 4: sure he'll be delighted to see us all very ha ha.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 4: Come along, boys, I'm proud of you. I wish i'd
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 4: been your father, but never mind. I'll be a mother
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 4: and father to you.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: Both exit left hastily dragging Nicholas and smile. Scene five.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: A handsome suite of rooms at Ralph Nickleby's, richly furnished,
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: carpeted chandeliers, sofas and et cetera. Ralph Kate Mantalini, Lord
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: very soft, Sir Marlbury Hawk, Honorable Sir Swab, Colonel Culture,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: missus Sir's pluck and Pike discover.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: News, Lord Frederick verysoft, my niece, Miss nickleby.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: Lord very Soft, lispingly delighted to now have bows.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: Colonel schou Ser, honorable mister Swab of mister Pike and
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: mister Pluck, My dear gentlemen, my niece.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: Gents bow Kate curtseys.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 14: Dim Nikki, don't leave me out advancing.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: You have met my niece before.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: I believe that, Mantalini interrupting him.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 14: Yes, I believe so too.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: Aside to Lord very soft, Oh boy is jealous.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 14: The fact is very she smote out rageously dimnably in
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 14: love with me, poor little pet. How can she help it?
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: I am so dimned beautiful, retires up, talking to Lord
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: very soft, followed by gentlemen laughing a.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 14: Manti truth, the dimned truth.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: Pon Honor saunters off, shaking his hand to Kate, unobserved
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: by Ralph.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: Now let me leat you down. Dinner will soon be.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 9: Served, pray, uncle. Are there any ladies here?
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 10: No?
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know any.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 9: Come, must I go immediately? I should like to arrange
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 9: my dress?
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: How very well he can do that. Here, there's a glass.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: I'll come for you in a few minutes. Aside Ah
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: these swimming her ways, wants something.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: Exit center, Kate arranging her hair ad glass.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 9: I wish my dear mother was here with me. The
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 9: rude gaze of uncle's guests annoy me beyond measure.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: Re Enter Mantalini on tiptoe center down stage.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 14: There she is the charming rosy posy. I'll make her
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 14: dimmed happy. He'll show her this beautiful waste by whispering
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 14: dims of pretty nonsense into her delicate little ear advancing.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 9: I am astonished at meeting mister Mantalini here. After the
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 9: scene at his house.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 14: She doots upon me. Imadaliny, you dimned wicked lucky lady's.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 9: Pet, poor Nicholas. I wonder what he is doing now.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 9: I wish I could see him.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 14: She wants to see me. I'm a dimned happy woman's.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: Tormentor kneeling at Kate's feet.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 14: Adorable enchantress, behold me at your delicious little ten toes.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 15: Kate starting back you here, sir, Yes, and a dimned
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 15: kind jump into its doora's arms at once and let
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 15: it stop its pretty mouth with dimnedly fine kisses.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 9: Sir, dare you address this language to me under my
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 9: uncle's roof, Shame upon you, sir, if you have no
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 9: respect for yourself, remember your wife.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 14: Never mind his ugly wife. Moppets poppets will fly far
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 14: enough from her reach. Love me and I shall have
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 14: everything he wishes for a new cab, a dimned little tiger,
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 14: and a box at the opera. You'll dote upon me
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 14: when you know me better. On my soul, you will
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 14: dear this dimned beautiful hair. These outrageously beautiful whiskers are real.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 14: No demned macassa aside. If she resists the dimned whiskers,
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 14: she's not worth having.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 9: Your behavior, sir, offense and disgusts me beyond measure. If
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 9: you have one spark of gentlemanly feeling, you will leave
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 9: me instantly.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: Mantalini laughs, Oh.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 14: No, it's making fun of it to devoted darling, cruel,
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 14: dimned cruel.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: Kitty taking her hand and kissing it.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 9: Unhand me, sir, this instant uncle, help help.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: They struggle A minute or two when Nicholas rushes in
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: center and Ralph and Missus Nicholby enters center following Nicholas
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: Nicholas knocking Mantalini down, scoundrel Kate rushes to her mother.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: Ralph stands astonished at seeing Nicholas Mantalini rising dim.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 14: That fellow he is a ruffled by whiskers. The next
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 14: time he speaks first to a woman made its whiskers
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 14: entirely drop off, and no dimned bear's grease be able
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 14: to bring them back again.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: Damn it exit center?
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 7: Is it?
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 3: Thus, sir, you expose beneath your own roof a helpless girl,
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 3: your dead brother's child, to insult and degradation. You shrink
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 3: to look at me. You well may shame shame upon you. Ralph,
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 3: recovering from his surprise.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: Oh dare you, sir enter my house unbidden? After your
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: disgraceful conduct in Yorkshire. If I did my duty, I
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: should immediately deliver you up to justice.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 9: Justice. What does he mean, Nicholas, I'm sure you are innocent.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 20: Embracing him, innocent, indeed, sneeringly pray to innocent men in
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 20: vague nameless vagabonds prowl about the country, assault, riot, theft?
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 2: What do you call these?
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 5: A lie?
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 6: And well you know it?
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 3: You who under the pretense of serving. Heaped every insult,
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 3: wrong and indignity upon my head, you who sent me
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 3: to a den where indeed cruelty worthy of yourself runs wanton,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 3: youthful misery, stalks precocious, where the lightness of childhood shrinks
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 3: into the heaviness of age, and its very promise blights
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 3: and withers as it grows.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: Of What does he accuse you, brother, first of attacking
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: his master, and being within an ace of qualifying himself
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: for a trial for murder, robbing his mistress of a
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: valuable ring.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 3: Tis false. The woman, the wife of the fellow from
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 3: whom these charges come dropped, as I suppose a worthless
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 3: ring among some clothes of mine. Early on the morning
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 3: on which I left the house. I found it when
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: I opened my bundle on the road and returned it
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 3: at once by coach.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 14: And they have it.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 8: Now.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 9: I knew it. I was sure you would scorn so
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 9: mean an act. But about this boy in whose company
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 9: they say you left.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 3: That boy, a silly, helpless creature that I rescued from
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 3: brutality and hard usage, is with me?
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 15: Now?
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: Do you choose to store that boy?
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 7: Sir?
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 6: No, I do not.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: You do not no newman Nogg's inners upper entrance, followed
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: by all the visitors and advances down center.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 4: No, I'm damned if he does.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 2: Dog, what brings you here?
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 4: Business? I know you are fond of that producing pocket book.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 4: This pocketbook belongs to you. You lost it.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: I found it, Ralph aside confusion.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: Give it to me, Give it me to be sure.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 4: I will. There's the book, It's contents I keep for
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 4: the right owner.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: Offer's book, Ralph, enraged.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: Give me the papers? Would you rob me?
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 14: Rob?
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 10: No?
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 4: I leave the rubbing for you to do. These papers
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 4: belong to a poor, persecuted orphan named Smike.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: Bringing Smike in from upper entrance.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 6: Do you know him?
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: Music? Cool picture? Ralph appears overwhelmed with confusion. Smike runs
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: to Nicholas.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 7: Tis he tis he the cruel man that left me
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 7: at the school.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: Noggs, rubbing his hands joyfully.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 4: Ah, I knew it, I knew it.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: Giving papers to Nicholas.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 4: Look over these chants. Give them to my hand's deeds
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 4: which your uncle unlawfully with old, seeking to deprive this
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 4: lad of his property.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: Nicholas, looking hastily over the papers, villain Kate to Smike,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: Poor boy, patting his head, Smike kisses her hand. Noggs
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: walking up to Ralph, rubbing his hands.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 4: And now, mister Ralph Nickleby, I think the dog, the beggar,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 4: the fool that you kept from starving and rescued from
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 4: prison is more than a match for you.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: Now, hey, chuckles, wretch.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: You show your teeth. Do you beware?
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 21: I'll be revenged the law. The law will protect me
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 21: against your plot. I'll indict you for a conspiracy. I'll
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 21: I'll transport you all.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: Rushing out left upper entrance. Gods laughs and rubs his hands. Left,
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: Nicholas giving paper to Smike.
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 3: These papers poise you forever, far beyond the reach of poverty.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 3: Riches are yours.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: Smike returning papers to Nicholas for you, not for me.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 7: I only want to live and die with you, my
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 7: kind my only friend, No, not my only friend. I
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 7: hope that we have been fortunate enough to secure the
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 7: good wishes and approbation of a numerous circle of kind friends.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 7: Pointing to audience, who, by their generous sympathy and support,
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 7: will ensure the future career of Smike and Nicholas Nickleby.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: And of Act too. End of Nicholas Nickleby by Edward Sterling,