MDCCCXCIV

Copyright, 1894,

BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

INTRODUCTION. BY EDWIN PERCY WHIPPLE

ADVERTISEMent, Prefaces, and DEDICATION

I. INTRODUCES ALL THE REST.

II. OF MR. RALPH NICKLEBY, AND HIS ESTABLISHMENT, AND HIS

UNDERTAKINGS: AND OF A GREAT JOINT STOCK COMPANY

OF VAST NATIONAL IMPORTANCE

III. MR. RALPH NICKLEBY RECEIVES SAD TIDINGS OF HIS BRO-

THER, BUT BEARS UP NOBLY AGAINST THE INTELLIGENCE

COMMUNICATED TO HIM: THE READER IS INFORMED HOW

HE LIKED NICHOLAS, WHO IS HEREIN INTRODUCED, AND HOW

KINDLY HE proposed TO MAKE HIS FORTUNE AT ONCE..

IV. NICHOLAS AND HIS UNCLE (TO SECURE THE FORTUNE WITH-

Out Loss of TIME) WAIT UPON MR. WACKFORD SQUeers,

THE YORKSHIRE SCHOOLMASTER

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V. NICHOLAS STARTS FOR YORKSHIRE: OF HIS LEAVE-TAKING

AND HIS FELLOW-TRAVELLERS, AND WHAT BEFELL THEM

ON THE ROAD.

VI. IN WHICH THE OCCURRENCE OF THE ACCIDENT, MENTIONED IN

THE LAST CHAPTER, AFFORDS AN OPPORTUNITY TO A

COUPLE OF GENTLEMEN TO TELL STORIES AGAINST EACH

OTHER.

VII. MR. AND MRS. SQUEERS AT HOME

VIII. OF THE INTERNAL ECONOMY OF DOTHEBOYS HALL.

IX. OF MISS SQUEERS, MRS. SQUEERS, MASTER SQUEERS, AND MR.

SQUEERS: AND OF VARIOUS MATTERS AND PERSONS CON-

NECTED NO LESS WITH THE SQUEERSES THAN WITH NICHO-

LAS NICKLEBY

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X. How MR. RALPH NICKLEBY PROVIDED FOR HIS NIECE AND SIS-

TER-IN-LAW

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XI. NEWMAN NOGGS INDUCTS MRS. AND MISS NICKLEBY INTO

THEIR NEW DWELLING IN THE CITY.

XII. WHEREBY THE READER WILL BE ENABLED TO TRACE THE FUR-

THER COURSE OF MISS FANNY SQUEERS'S LOVE, AND TO

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ASCERTAIN WHETHER IT RAN SMOOTH OR OTHERWISE.

XIII. NICHOLAS VARIES THE MONOTONY OF DOTHEBOYS HALL BY A

MOST VIGOROUS AND REMARKABLE PROCEEDING, WHICH

LEADS TO CONSEQUENCES OF SOME IMPORTANCE.

XIV. HAVING THE MISFORTUNE TO TREAT OF NONE BUT COMMON

PEOPLE, IS NECESSARILY OF A MEAN AND VULGAR CHARAC-

TER..

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XV. ACQUAINTS THE READER WITH THE CAUSE AND ORIGIN OF THE

INTERRUPTION DESCRIBED IN THE LAST CHAPTER, AND WITH

SOME OTHER MATTERS NECESSARY TO BE KNOWN

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XVI. NICHOLAS SEEKS TO EMPLOY HIMSELF IN A NEW CAPACITY,

AND BEING UNSUCCESSFUL, ACCEPTS AN ENGAGEMENT AS

TUTOR IN A PRIVATE FAMILY.

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XVII. FOLLOWS THE FORTUNES OF MISS NICKLEBY

XVIII. MISS Knag, after doting on KaTE NICKLEBY FOR THREE

WHOLE DAYS, MAKES UP HER MIND TO HATE HER FOR

EVERMORE: THE CAUSES WHICH LEAD MISS KNAG TO FORM

THIS RESOLUTION.

XIX. DESCRIPTIVE OF A DINNER AT MR. RALPH NICKLEBY'S, AND

OF THE MANNER IN WHICH THE COMPANY ENTERTAINED

THEMSELVES, BEFORE DINNER, AT DINNER, AND AFTER

DINNER

XX. WHEREIN NICHOLAS AT LENGTH

ENCOUNTERS HIS UNCLE,

TO WHOM HE EXPRESSES HIS SENTIMENTS WITH MUCH

CANDOUR: HIS RESOLUTION.

XXI. MADAME MANTALINI FINDS HERSELF IN A SITUATION OF

SOME DIFFICULTY, AND MISS NICKLEBY FINDS HERSELF

IN NO SITUATION AT ALL

XXII. NICHOLAS, ACCOMPANIED BY SMIKE, SALLIES FORTH TO

SEEK HIS FORTUNE: HE ENCOUNTERS MR. VINCENT

CRUMMLES: AND WHO HE WAS IS HEREIN MADE MANI-

FEST

XXIII. TREATS OF THE COMPANY OF MR. VINCENT CRUMMLES,

AND OF HIS AFFAIRS, DOMESTIC AND THEATRICAL

XXIV. OF THE GREAT BESPEAK FOR MISS SNEVELLICCI, AND THE

FIRST APPEARANCE OF NICHOLAS UPON ANY STAGE.

XXV. CONCERNING A YOUNG LADY FROM LONDON, WHO JOINS

THE COMPANY, AND AN ELDERLY ADMIRER WHO FOLLOWS

IN HER TRAIN WITH AN AFFECTING CEREMONY CONSE-

QUENT ON THEIR ARRIVAL.

XXVI. IS FRAUGHT WITH SOME DANGER TO MISS NICKLEBY'S

PEACE OF MIND.

XXVII. MRS. NICKLEBY BECOMES ACQUAINTED WITH MESSRS. PYKE

AND PLUCK, WHOSE AFFECTION AND INTEREST ARE BE-

YOND ALL BOUNDS. .........

XXVIII. MISS NICKLEBY, RENDERED DESPERATE BY THE PERSECU-

TION OF SIR MULBERRY HAWK, AND THE COMPLICATED

DIFFICULTIES AND DISTRESSES WHICH SURROUND HER,

APPEALS, AS A LAST RESOURCE, TO HER UNCLE FOR

PROTECTION.

XXIX. OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF NICHOLAS, AND CERTAIN IN-

TERNAL DIVISIONS IN THE COMPANY OF MR. VINCENT

CRUMMLES .

XXX. FESTIVITIES ARE HELD IN HONOUR OF NICHOLAS, WHO

SUDDENLY WITHDRAWS HIMSELF FROM THE SOCIETY OF

MR. VINCENT CRUMMLES AND HIS THEATRICAL COM-

PANIONS .

XXXI. OF RALPH NICKLEBY AND NEWMAN NOGGS, AND SOME

WISE PRECAUTIONS, THE SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF WHICH

WILL APPEAR IN THE SEQUEL.

XXXII. RELATING CHIEFLY TO SOME REMARKABLE CONVERSATION

AND SOME REMARKABLE PROCEEDINGS TO WHICH IT GIVES

RISE.

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MR. RALPH NICKLEBY'S FIRST VISIT TO HIS POOR RELATIONS
THE YORKSHIRE SCHOOLMASTER AT THE SARACEN'S HEAD
NICHOLAS STARTS FOR YORKSHIRE

THE FIVE SISTERS OF YORK

THE INTERNAL ECONOMY OF DOTHEBOYS HALL

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KATE NICKLEBY SITTING TO MISS LA CREEVY
NEWMAN NOGGS LEAVES THE LADIES IN THE EMPTY HOUSE
NICHOLAS ASTONISHES MR. SQUEERS AND FAMILY
NICHOLAS ENGAGED AS TUTOR IN A PRIVATE FAMILY
MADAME MANTALINI INTRODUCES KATE TO MISS KNAG.
MISS NICKLEBY INTRODUCED TO HER UNCLE'S FRIENDS
MR. RALPH NICKLEBY'S "HONEST" COMPOSURE

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NICHOLAS HINTS AT THE PROBABILITY OF HIS LEAVING THE COM

PANY

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THEATRICAL EMOTION OF MR. VINCENT CRUMMLES

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NICHOLAS ATTRACTED BY THE MENTION OF HIS SISTER'S NAME IN

The frontispieces are from the original drawings of F. O. C. Darley. The other illustrations were drawn by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).