Chapter 41. Containing Some Romantic Passages Between Mrs Nickleby And The Gentleman In The Small-Clothes Next Door
Containing some Romantic Passages between Mrs Nickleby and the Gentleman in the Small-clothes next Door
Ever since her last momentous conversation with her son, Mrs Nickleby had begun to display unusual care in the adornment of her person, gradually superadding to those staid and matronly habiliments, which had, up to that time, formed her ordinary attire, a variety of embellishments and decorations, slight perhaps in themselves, but, taken together, and considered with reference to the subject of her disclosure, of no mean importance. Even her black dress assumed something of a deadly-lively air from the jaunty style in which it was worn; and, eked out as its lingering att
