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Nicholas Nickleby (1); With Introduction, Critical Comments, Argument, Notes, Etc
Nicholas Nickleby With Introduction Critical Comments Argument Notes Etc - 1 Author:Charles Dickens Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: University Society Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no il... more »lustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. NICHOLAS AND HIS UNCLE (TO SECURE THE FOR TUNE WITHOUT LOSS OF TIME) WAIT UPON MR. WACKFORD SQUEERS, THE YORKSHIRE SCHOOL MASTER. Snow Hill ! What kind of place can the quiet town' si- people who see the words emblazoned in all the legibility of gilt letters and dark shading on the north-country coaches, take Snow Hill to be? All people have some undefined and shadowy notion of a place whose name is frequently before their eyes or often in their ears, and what a vast number of random ideas there must be perpetually floating about, regarding this same Snow Hill. The name is such a good one. Snow Hill -- Snow Hill too, coupled with a Saracen's Head: picturing to us by a double association of ideas, something stern and rugged. A bleak desolate tract of country, open to piercing blasts and fierce wintry storms -- a dark, cold, and gloomy heath, lonely by day, and scarcely to be thought of by honest folks at night -- a place which solitary wayfarers shun, and where desperate robbers congregate; -- this, or something like this, we imagine must be the prevalent notion of Snow Hill in those remote and rustic parts, through which the Saracen's Head, like -ome grim apparition, rushes each day and night with n t, terious and ghost-like punctuality, holding its swift and .. adlong course in all weathers, and seeming to bid defiance to the very elements themselves. The reality is rather different, but by no mea...« less