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ConclusionWhen her term of mourning had expired, Madeline gaveher hand and fortune to Nicholas; and, on the same dayand at the same time, Kate became Mrs FrankCheeryble. It was expected that Tim Linkinwater and Miss LaCreevy would have made a third couple on the occasion, but theydeclined, and two or three weeks afterwards went out togetherone morning before breakfast, and, coming back with merry faces,were found to have been quietly married that day.
The money which Nicholas acquired in right of his wife heinvested in the firm of Cheeryble Brothers, in which Frank hadbecome a partner. Before many years elapsed, the business beganto be carried on in the names of ‘Cheeryble and Nickleby,’ so thatMrs Nickleby’s prophetic anticipations1 were realised at last.
The twin brothers retired2. Who needs to be told that they werehappy? They were surrounded by happiness of their own creation,and lived but to increase it.
Tim Linkinwater condescended3, after much entreaty4 and browbeating5, to accept a share in the house; but he could never beprevailed upon to suffer the publication of his name as a partner,and always persisted in the punctual and regular discharge of hisclerkly duties.
He and his wife lived in the old house, and occupied the verybedchamber in which he had slept for four-and-forty years. As hiswife grew older, she became even a more cheerful and light- 1160hearted little creature; and it was a common saying among theirfriends, that it was impossible to say which looked the happier,Tim as he sat calmly smiling in his elbow-chair on one side of thefire, or his brisk little wife chatting and laughing, and constantlybustling in and out of hers, on the other.
Dick, the blackbird, was removed from the counting-house andpromoted to a warm corner in the common sitting-room6. Beneathhis cage hung two miniatures, of Mrs Linkinwater’s execution; onerepresenting herself, and the other Tim; and both smiling veryhard at all beholders. Tim’s head being powdered like a twelfthcake, and his spectacles copied with great nicety, strangersdetected a close resemblance to him at the first glance, and thisleading them to suspect that the other must be his wife, andemboldening them to say so without
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预期( anticipation的名词复数 ); 预测; (信托财产收益的)预支; 预期的事物 | |
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屈尊,俯就( condescend的过去式和过去分词 ); 故意表示和蔼可亲 | |
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v.成功,兴隆,昌盛;使成功,使昌隆,繁荣 | |
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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