'
'Perhaps she drank,' suggested Miss La Creevy.
'I don't know how that may have been,' returned Mrs Nickleby: 'but I
know she had a very red face, so your argument goes for nothing.'
In this manner, and with like powerful reasoning, did the worthy matron
meet every little objection that presented itself to the new scheme of
the morning. Happy Mrs Nickleby! A project had but to be new, and it
came home to her mind, brightly varnished and gilded as a glittering
toy.
This question disposed of, Kate communicated her uncle's desire about
the empty house, to which Mrs Nickleby assented with equal readiness,
characteristically remarking, that, on the fine evenings, it would be a
pleasant amusement for her to walk to the West end to fetch her daughter
home; and no less characteristically forgetting, that there were such
things as wet nights and bad weather to be encountered in almost every
week of the year.
'I shall be sorry--truly sorry to leave you, my kind friend,' said Kate,
on whom the good feeling of the poor miniature painter had made a deep
impression.
'You shall not shake me off, for all that,' replied Miss La Creevy, with
as much sprightliness as she could assume.
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