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herself, and turning her back upon him. ‘You don’t consider mine.’

‘I do not consider yours, my soul!’ exclaimed Mr Mantalini.
‘No,’ replied his wife.

And notwithstanding various blandishments on the part of Mr
Mantalini, Madame Mantalini still said no, and said it too with
such determined and resolute ill-temper, that Mr Mantalini was
clearly taken aback.

‘His extravagance, Mr Nickleby,’ said Madame Mantalini,
addressing herself to Ralph, who leant against his easy-chair with
his hands behind him, and regarded the amiable couple with a
smile of the supremest and most unmitigated contempt,--‘his
extravagance is beyond all bounds.’

‘I should scarcely have supposed it,’ answered Ralph,
sarcastically.

‘I assure you, Mr Nickleby, however, that it is,’ returned
Madame Mantalini. ‘It makes me miserable! I am under constant
apprehensions, and in constant difficulty. And even this,’ said
Madame Mantalini, wiping her eyes, ‘is not the worst. He took
some papers of value out of my desk this morning without asking
my permission.’

Mr Mantalini groaned slightly, and buttoned his trousers
pocket.

‘I am obliged,’ continued Madame Mantalini, ‘since our late
misfortunes, to pay Miss Knag a great deal of money for having
her name in the business, and I really cannot afford to encourage
him in all his wastefulness. As I have no doubt that he came
straight here, Mr Nickleby, to convert the papers I have spoken of,
into money, and as you have assisted us very often before, and are
very much connected with us in this kind of matters, I wish you to


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