Chapter 8
#3
After some years, there were two groups of children playing in the same places where once Nicholas and Kate played as children.
Newman Noggs went to live in a small house next to Nicholas’ house in Devon. When Nicholas and his family were in London, he looked after their country home. When they were in Devon, Newman’s greatest joy was to play with little children.
#2
Some weeks after Ralph Nickleby’s death, Nicholas and Madeline got married. Kate married Frank Cheeryble, the Cheeryble brothers’s nephew.
Thieves broke into the house of Arthur Gride one night, stole all his money, and murdered him in his bed while he was sleeping.
When Nicholas had enough money, he bought his father’s old house in Devon, and Kate and Frank bought a house for themselves not far from it. Mrs. Nickleby lived some of the time with Kate, and the rest of the time with Nicholas.
#1
“As a young man you were secretly married and had a son. Your marriage was unhappy because you married your wife for her money, and he parents didn’t let her have it when they learned of her secret wedding.”
“Poor Smike died of consumption(肺结核) in Devon only yesterday.”
The next morning they found Ralph Nickleby with a rope round his neck, hanging dead in his kitchen.