The fact is, my dear, that it's necessary there should
be a sort of condescension on my part, and that I should show this
young person that I am willing to take notice of her. There's a very
respectable-looking young man,' added Mrs Nickleby, after a short
consideration, 'who is conductor to one of the omnibuses that go by
here, and who wears a glazed hat--your sister and I have noticed him
very often--he has a wart upon his nose, Kate, you know, exactly like a
gentleman's servant.'
'Have all gentlemen's servants warts upon their noses, mother?' asked
Nicholas.
'Nicholas, my dear, how very absurd you are,' returned his mother; 'of
course I mean that his glazed hat looks like a gentleman's servant, and
not the wart upon his nose; though even that is not so ridiculous as it
may seem to you, for we had a footboy once, who had not only a wart, but
a wen also, and a very large wen too, and he demanded to have his wages
raised in consequence, because he found it came very expensive. Let me
see, what was I--oh yes, I know. The best way that I can think of would
be to send a card, and my compliments, (I've no doubt he'd take 'em for
a pot of porter,) by this young man, to the Saracen with Two Necks.
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