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‘
That
,
ladies
and
gentlemen
,
’
said
Mrs
Jarley
,
‘
is
Jasper
Packlemerton
of
atrocious
memory
,
who
courted
and
married
fourteen
wives
,
and
destroyed
them
all
,
by
tickling
the
soles
of
their
feet
when
they
were
sleeping
in
the
consciousness
of
innocence
and
virtue
.
On
being
brought
to
the
scaffold
and
asked
if
he
was
sorry
for
what
he
had
done
,
he
replied
yes
,
he
was
sorry
for
having
let
‘
em
off
so
easy
,
and
hoped
all
Christian
husbands
would
pardon
him
the
offence
.
Let
this
be
a
warning
to
all
young
ladies
to
be
particular
in
the
character
of
the
gentlemen
of
their
choice
.
Observe
that
his
fingers
are
curled
as
if
in
the
act
of
tickling
,
and
that
his
face
is
represented
with
a
wink
,
as
he
appeared
when
committing
his
barbarous
murders
.
’
When
Nell
knew
all
about
Mr
Packlemerton
,
and
could
say
it
without
faltering
,
Mrs
Jarley
passed
on
to
the
fat
man
,
and
then
to
the
thin
man
,
the
tall
man
,
the
short
man
,
the
old
lady
who
died
of
dancing
at
a
hundred
and
thirty
-
two
,
the
wild
boy
of
the
woods
,
the
woman
who
poisoned
fourteen
families
with
pickled
walnuts
,
and
other
historical
characters
and
interesting
but
misguided
individuals
.
And
so
well
did
Nell
profit
by
her
instructions
,
and
so
apt
was
she
to
remember
them
,
that
by
the
time
they
had
been
shut
up
together
for
a
couple
of
hours
,
she
was
in
full
possession
of
the
history
of
the
whole
establishment
,
and
perfectly
competent
to
the
enlightenment
of
visitors
.
Mrs
Jarley
was
not
slow
to
express
her
admiration
at
this
happy
result
,
and
carried
her
young
friend
and
pupil
to
inspect
the
remaining
arrangements
within
doors
,
by
virtue
of
which
the
passage
had
been
already
converted
into
a
grove
of
green
-
baize
hung
with
the
inscription
she
had
already
seen
(
Mr
Slum
’
s
productions
)
,
and
a
highly
ornamented
table
placed
at
the
upper
end
for
Mrs
Jarley
herself
,
at
which
she
was
to
preside
and
take
the
money
,
in
company
with
his
Majesty
King
George
the
Third
,
Mr
Grimaldi
as
clown
,
Mary
Queen
of
Scots
,
an
anonymous
gentleman
of
the
Quaker
persuasion
,
and
Mr
Pitt
holding
in
his
hand
a
correct
model
of
the
bill
for
the
imposition
of
the
window
duty
.
The
preparations
without
doors
had
not
been
neglected
either
;
a
nun
of
great
personal
attractions
was
telling
her
beads
on
the
little
portico
over
the
door
;
and
a
brigand
with
the
blackest
possible
head
of
hair
,
and
the
clearest
possible
complexion
,
was
at
that
moment
going
round
the
town
in
a
cart
,
consulting
the
miniature
of
a
lady
.
It
now
only
remained
that
Mr
Slum
’
s
compositions
should
be
judiciously
distributed
;
that
the
pathetic
effusions
should
find
their
way
to
all
private
houses
and
tradespeople
;
and
that
the
parody
commencing
‘
If
I
know
’
d
a
donkey
,
’
should
be
confined
to
the
taverns
,
and
circulated
only
among
the
lawyers
’
clerks
and
choice
spirits
of
the
place
When
this
had
been
done
,
and
Mrs
Jarley
had
waited
upon
the
boarding
-
schools
in
person
,
with
a
handbill
composed
expressly
for
them
,
in
which
it
was
distinctly
proved
that
wax
-
work
refined
the
mind
,
cultivated
the
taste
,
and
enlarged
the
sphere
of
the
human
understanding
,
that
indefatigable
lady
sat
down
to
dinner
,
and
drank
out
of
the
suspicious
bottle
to
a
flourishing
campaign
.
Unquestionably
Mrs
Jarley
had
an
inventive
genius
.
In
the
midst
of
the
various
devices
for
attracting
visitors
to
the
exhibition
,
little
Nell
was
not
forgotten
.
The
light
cart
in
which
the
Brigand
usually
made
his
perambulations
being
gaily
dressed
with
flags
and
streamers
,
and
the
Brigand
placed
therein
,
contemplating
the
miniature
of
his
beloved
as
usual
,
Nell
was
accommodated
with
a
seat
beside
him
,
decorated
with
artificial
flowers
,
and
in
this
state
and
ceremony
rode
slowly
through
the
town
every
morning
,
dispersing
handbills
from
a
basket
,
to
the
sound
of
drum
and
trumpet
.
The
beauty
of
the
child
,
coupled
with
her
gentle
and
timid
bearing
,
produced
quite
a
sensation
in
the
little
country
place
.
The
Brigand
,
heretofore
a
source
of
exclusive
interest
in
the
streets
,
became
a
mere
secondary
consideration
,
and
to
be
important
only
as
a
part
of
the
show
of
which
she
was
the
chief
attraction
.
Grown
-
up
folks
began
to
be
interested
in
the
bright
-
eyed
girl
,
and
some
score
of
little
boys
fell
desperately
in
love
,
and
constantly
left
enclosures
of
nuts
and
apples
,
directed
in
small
-
text
,
at
the
wax
-
work
door
.
This
desirable
impression
was
not
lost
on
Mrs
Jarley
,
who
,
lest
Nell
should
become
too
cheap
,
soon
sent
the
Brigand
out
alone
again
,
and
kept
her
in
the
exhibition
room
,
where
she
described
the
figures
every
half
-
hour
to
the
great
satisfaction
of
admiring
audiences
.
And
these
audiences
were
of
a
very
superior
description
,
including
a
great
many
young
ladies
’
boarding
-
schools
,
whose
favour
Mrs
Jarley
had
been
at
great
pains
to
conciliate
,
by
altering
the
face
and
costume
of
Mr
Grimaldi
as
clown
to
represent
Mr
Lindley
Murray
as
he
appeared
when
engaged
in
the
composition
of
his
English
Grammar
,
and
turning
a
murderess
of
great
renown
into
Mrs
Hannah
More
—
both
of
which
likenesses
were
admitted
by
Miss
Monflathers
,
who
was
at
the
head
of
the
head
Boarding
and
Day
Establishment
in
the
town
,
and
who
condescended
to
take
a
Private
View
with
eight
chosen
young
ladies
,
to
be
quite
startling
from
their
extreme
correctness
.
Mr
Pitt
in
a
nightcap
and
bedgown
,
and
without
his
boots
,
represented
the
poet
Cowper
with
perfect
exactness
;
and
Mary
Queen
of
Scots
in
a
dark
wig
,
white
shirt
-
collar
,
and
male
attire
,
was
such
a
complete
image
of
Lord
Byron
that
the
young
ladies
quite
screamed
when
they
saw
it
.
Miss
Monflathers
,
however
,
rebuked
this
enthusiasm
,
and
took
occasion
to
reprove
Mrs
Jarley
for
not
keeping
her
collection
more
select
:
observing
that
His
Lordship
had
held
certain
opinions
quite
incompatible
with
wax
-
work
honours
,
and
adding
something
about
a
Dean
and
Chapter
,
which
Mrs
Jarley
did
not
understand
.
Although
her
duties
were
sufficiently
laborious
,
Nell
found
in
the
lady
of
the
caravan
a
very
kind
and
considerate
person
,
who
had
not
only
a
peculiar
relish
for
being
comfortable
herself
,
but
for
making
everybody
about
her
comfortable
also
;
which
latter
taste
,
it
may
be
remarked
,
is
,
even
in
persons
who
live
in
much
finer
places
than
caravans
,
a
far
more
rare
and
uncommon
one
than
the
first
,
and
is
not
by
any
means
its
necessary
consequence
.
As
her
popularity
procured
her
various
little
fees
from
the
visitors
on
which
her
patroness
never
demanded
any
toll
,
and
as
her
grandfather
too
was
well
-
treated
and
useful
,
she
had
no
cause
of
anxiety
in
connexion
with
the
wax
-
work
,
beyond
that
which
sprung
from
her
recollection
of
Quilp
,
and
her
fears
that
he
might
return
and
one
day
suddenly
encounter
them
.
Quilp
indeed
was
a
perpetual
night
-
mare
to
the
child
,
who
was
constantly
haunted
by
a
vision
of
his
ugly
face
and
stunted
figure
.
She
slept
,
for
their
better
security
,
in
the
room
where
the
wax
-
work
figures
were
,
and
she
never
retired
to
this
place
at
night
but
she
tortured
herself
—
she
could
not
help
it
—
with
imagining
a
resemblance
,
in
some
one
or
other
of
their
death
-
like
faces
,
to
the
dwarf
,
and
this
fancy
would
sometimes
so
gain
upon
her
that
she
would
almost
believe
he
had
removed
the
figure
and
stood
within
the
clothes
.
