Pen Photographs of Charles Dicken's Readings. Taken From Life
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The short dialogues be- tween " Squeers" and herself are quite en- tertaining, — after their peculiar fashion, — the climax being attained when, with an eye to " Nickleby's " accommodation, "Squeers" asks, "Who sleeps in Brooks's bed, my dear?" "In Brooks's bed?" re- plies "Mrs. Squeers," in her most winning manner; "well, there's Jennings, — there's little Bolder, — there's Graymarsh, — and there's What's-his-name." "Mrs. Squeers" makes each syllable an independent name, so that our mind's eye... contemplates ten boj's in Brooks's bed. "So there is. Yes! Brooks's is full;" and "Squeers" out-Squeers himself when turning to poor "Nickleby," he say-s, "I don't know, by the by, what place on whose towel to put you on ; but if you'll make shift with your pocket-handkerchief to-morrow morning, Mrs! Squeers will arrange that in the course of the day." Search through every edition of Dickens, and you won't find that place in the towel, nor that pocket-handkerchief, nor in fact many of the cleverest " points" made by Mr.
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