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‘Do parents bring children into the world for thot?’ said John
Browdie bluntly, pointing, as he spoke, to Squeers.

‘Never you mind,’ retorted that gentleman, tapping his nose
derisively.

‘Never I mind!’ said John, ‘no, nor never nobody mind, say’st
thou, schoolmeasther. It’s nobody’s minding that keeps sike men
as thou afloat. Noo then, where be’est thou coomin’ to? Dang it,
dinnot coom treadin’ ower me, mun.’

Suiting the action to the word, John Browdie just jerked his
elbow into the chest of Mr Squeers who was advancing upon
Smike; with so much dexterity that the schoolmaster reeled and
staggered back upon Ralph Nickleby, and being unable to recover
his balance, knocked that gentleman off his chair, and stumbled
heavily upon him.

This accidental circumstance was the signal for some very
decisive proceedings. In the midst of a great noise, occasioned by
the prayers and entreaties of Smike, the cries and exclamations of
the women, and the vehemence of the men, demonstrations were
made of carrying off the lost son by violence. Squeers had actually
begun to haul him out, when Nicholas (who, until then, had been
evidently undecided how to act) took him by the collar, and
shaking him so that such teeth as he had, chattered in his head,
politely escorted him to the room-door, and thrusting him into the
passage, shut it upon him.

‘Now,’ said Nicholas to the other two, ‘have the goodness to
follow your friend.’

‘I want my son,’ said Snawley.
‘Your son,’ replied Nicholas, ‘chooses for himself. He chooses to
remain here, and he shall.’


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