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Mr Ralph Nickleby has some confidentialIntercourse with another old Friend. They concertbetween them a Project, which promises well forboth.
‘T here go the three-quarters past!’ muttered NewmanNoggs, listening to the chimes of some neighbouringchurch ‘and my dinner time’s two. He does it onpurpose. He makes a point of it. It’s just like him.’
It was in his own little den1 of an office and on the top of hisofficial stool that Newman thus soliloquised; and the soliloquyreferred, as Newman’s grumbling2 soliloquies usually did, to RalphNickleby.
‘I don’t believe he ever had an appetite,’ said Newman, ‘exceptfor pounds, shillings, and pence, and with them he’s as greedy as awolf. I should like to have him compelled to swallow one of everyEnglish coin. The penny would be an awkward morsel3—but thecrown—ha! ha!’
His good-humour being in some degree restored by the visionof Ralph Nickleby swallowing, perforce, a five-shilling piece,Newman slowly brought forth4 from his desk one of those portablebottles, currently known as pocket-pistols, and shaking the sameclose to his ear so as to produce a rippling5 sound very cool andpleasant to listen to, suffered his features to relax, and took agurgling drink, which relaxed them still more. Replacing the cork,he smacked6 his lips twice or thrice with an air of great relish7, and, the taste of the liquor having by this time evaporated, recurred8 tohis grievance9 again.
‘Five minutes to three,’ growled10 Newman; ‘it can’t want moreby this time; and I had my breakfast at eight o’clock, and such abreakfast! and my right dinner-time two! And I might have a nicelittle bit of hot roast meat spoiling at home all this time—how doeshe know I haven’t? “Don’t go till I come back,” “Don’t go till Icome back,” day after day. What do you always go out at mydinner-time for then—eh? Don’t you know it’s nothing butaggravation—eh?’

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admiration
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