The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04
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 lack of numbers by being a little more vilainous than the full complement of most eyes could be- II was an appro- priate eye, for it gleamed fish like out Q face that was even more villainous than the eye.
 Mrs. Nickleby succeeded so well in swa1- lowing Mir. Squeers that before he and Nicholas were well on their way to York shore she pictured her son as returning to accept position as head master of | Westminster school.
 As soon as Nicholas was out of the way, kindly old uncle Ralph used his influence with Mrs. Mantalini, fashionable dress maker, to get Kate a position as millin- CTS assistant. Kate had hoped to find d position as teacher, and Mrs. Nickleby had shared the hope so far that she had, already, pictured the schools proprietor 1 as entering the estate of widowhood ana making Kate his second wife. Mrs. Nickleby's first idea of a milliner con- | jured up persons whom she had seen on the streets carrying wicker baskets lined with black oilsllins. A timely reference 1 by Ralph to her mental acumen as a woman of the world dispelled this image in favor of a large house at the West End, a neat private carriage and bank book. l Before Ralph had quite finished speak l ing, she saw herself living with her daughter of "Mantalni and Nickleby," in a mansion on the same street with the house of her son, the head master Of l Westminster.
 l Unfortunately, Mrs. Mantalini failed, and Mrs. Nickleby told Kate that, as she had said again and again. dressmakinG business was the last to which she should have attached herself. She was too gen. erous to make it a reproach to her daugf- ter, but she did feel restrained to say that if Kate had consulted her mother things would have been different.
 Mrs. Nickleby considered the affair in all it's minutest bearings till new open ing gave her a new subject. Kate found a position as companion to a Mrs. Witt | terly, who was very nearly in society. II was the very thing that she always had advised. cried Mrs. Nickeby.
 Don't you remember hearing your papa speak, asked she, 'of the young lady who was a daughter to the old lady who boarded in the same house that he boarded in once when he was a bachelor what was her name again? I know it be gan with a B, and ended with g, bu whether 1t was Waters or-no 1t couldn
 have been that either; but whatever hei name was that young lady went as com panion to q married lady who died soor afterward, and she married the husband and had one of the finest little boys evel seen, and all within IS months"
 Mrs. Wititterly was graclously pleased to engage Miss Nickleby after she ant MT Wititterly was suffering from toe much soul and needed immense considera tion On the way home Mrs. Nickleby expressed her fear that the lady was wearing herself out, and before they en- tered their own door she was trying tC decide whether she would have the two pair back of Mir. Wititterly's house fol her bedroom or the three pair front. She adjusted the matter at last by deciding tc leave if to her son-in-law.
 Poor MT. Wititterly, however, soon was cast aside as Mrs Nicklebys son-in-law and she wondered that he could have dared to aspire to such a positoon, even in her thoughts. Sir Mulberry Hawk and Lord Verisopht, two of Ralph's clients whom he was rulnng with great profit tc himself, pursued Kate: and as she would have nothing to do with them, they lald siege 10 the mother,
 Mrs. Nckleby nodded to herself witt deep understanding of Rates coyness and considered it a very good sign indeed She was much impressed with Sir Mul. berry. Both Sir Mulberry and LorI Yer. isopht had superlative clothes, superlative whiskers and superlative airs of thC world, but Sir Mulberry (who was pluck ing Lord Verisopht very patiently anc
 thoroughly had been on the town longer and was eorrespondingly slxinful in pay. ing court to Mrs. Nickleby.
 Mrs. Nickleby dispatched the ceremon, of marriage promptly in her mind, to tn, very wedding notice; "On Tuesday last at St. Georges Hanover Square, by the Right Reverend the Bishop of Llandaff Sir Mulberry Hawk of Mulberry castle North Wales. to Catherine, only daughter of the late Nicholas Nicllleby. Esquire. O Devonshire" With the same facility a original discovery with which she had in
 vented the castle, she pictured the lon, train of honors and distinctions whiel would accompany Kate and herself il their brilliant sphere. on the anniversar, of her birth. which was at 31o o'clock oi the morning of July 19 Sir Mulbcrr.
 would give great feast to his tenant and returned them all 3is per cent on th , amount of their rent. as would be de scribed fully in the fashionable intellI gence Rates picture would appear in q least half dozen Ladies Annals, and ol the opposite page would appear in deli cate type, Lines on contemplating tn Portrait of Lady Mulberry Hawk. B, , Sir Dingleby Dabber." Some annual o comprehensive design would probably con , tain also portrait of the mother of Lad, Mulberry Hawk. with lines by the fathe of Sir Dingleby Dabber. Less interesting portraits had appeared, reflected Mrs Nickleby
 With her native foresight, she planned every detail of her noble son-in-law', household. Her penetration saw readl, through her daughter kate's expression. of loathing and contempt for the nobl, rock. and reminded her only of her owr maiden shyness when a young gentle man made such love to her in church thaI | t.. T l.e toI mi ,f