You may use force with me I think you will, for I am a girl, and that would well become you.

“You will do him no hurt that he will not repay. “I will not retire,” cried Kate, with flashing eyes and the red blood mantling in her cheeks. Kate Nickleby – The sister of Nicholas Nickleby. In fact, she asked someone if they “really believed there ever was such a woman”. Luckily Elizabeth Dickens didn’t recognize herself in the character. She looks prettier in tears.”Ĭatherine Nickleby – Catherine is the mother of Kate and Nicholas Nickleby.Ĭharles Dickens’s own mother, Elizabeth Dickens, was the model for the always-confused Mrs. Do you think she’ll miss you? Do you think she’ll weep? I shall like to see her weep–I shan’t mind it. “You, the disappointed lover–oh dear! He! he! he!–but you shan’t have her, nor she you. “You’ll bring your threats here, will you?” said Gride, whom jealousy of Nicholas and a sense of his own triumph had converted into a perfect fiend. “I’ll be married in the bottle-green,” cried Arthur Gride.Īrthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires. He employs Nicholas and Smike after they leave Dotheboys Hall.Īrthur Gride – A moneylender who schemes for the hand of Madeline Bray in marriage. Vincent Crummles – Vincent is the head of the Crummles family and the manager of a touring stage company. I wish we could be brought to consider this, and remembering natural obligations a little more at the right time, talk about them a little less at the wrong one.” ~ Charles Cheerybleįrank Cheeryble – The nephew of Charles and Ned. “Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty’s works, but like other beautiful works of His, they must be reared and fostered, or it is as natural that they should be wholly obscured, and that new feelings should usurp their place, as it is that the sweetest productions of the earth, left untended, should be choked with weeds and briers. They are the kind-hearted employers of Nicholas Nickleby. John Browdie – A friend of Nicholas Nickleby.Ĭharles and Edwin (Ned) Cheeryble – Charles and Net are twin brothers.

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