Chapter 47. Mr Ralph Nickleby Has Some Confidential i*********e With Another Old Friend... Mr Ralph Nickleby has some confidential i*********e with another old Friend. They concert between them a Project, which promises well for both 'There go the three-quarters past!' muttered Newman Noggs, listening to the chimes of some neighbouring church 'and my dinner time's two. He does it on purpose. He makes a point of it. It's just like him.' It was in his own little den of an office and on the top of his official stool that Newman thus soliloquised; and the soliloquy referred, as Newman's grumbling soliloquies usually did, to Ralph Nickleby. 'I don't believe he ever had an appetite,' said Newman, 'except for pounds, shillings, and pence, and with them he's as greedy as a wolf. I should like