for the Home Department. Then he would have to copy the question and as much as I remembered of the answer (including a little compliment about my independence and good sense), and to send the manuscript in a frank to the local paper, with perhaps half a dozen lines of leader, to the effect that I was always to be found in my place in parliament, and never shrunk from the discharge of my responsible and arduous duties, and so forth. You see?"

Nicholas bowed.

"Besides which," continued Mr. Gregsbury, "I should expect him now and then to go through a few figures in the printed tables, and to pick out a few results, so that I might come out pretty well on timber-duty questions, and finance questions, and so on; and I should like him to get up a few little arguments about the disastrous effects of a return to cash-payments and a metallic currency, with a touch now and then about the exportation of bullion, and the Emperor of Russia, and bank-notes, and all that kind of thing, which it 's only necessary to talk fluently about, because nobody understands it. Do you take me?"

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"I think I understand," said Nicholas.

"With regard to such questions as are not political," continued Mr. Gregsbury, warming, "and which one can't be expected to care a damn about, beyond the natural care of not allowing inferior people to be as well off as ourselves (else where are our privileges?), I should wish my secretary to get together a few little flourishing speeches of a patriotic cast. . . . This is a hasty outline of the chief things you'd have to do, except waiting in the lobby every night (in case I forgot anything, and should want fresh cramming), and now and then, during great debates, sitting in the front row of the gallery, and saying to the people about, 'You see that gentleman with his hand to his face, and his arm twisted round the pillar? That's Mr. Gregsbury, the celebrated Mr. Gregsbury,' with any other little eulogium that might strike you at the moment." xvi.

Gride, Arthur. An old miser. xlvii, li, liii, liv, lvi, lix, lxv.
Grogzwig, Baron of. See KoËLDWETHOUT, Baron von.

Grudden, Mrs. An actress attached to Mr. Crummles's theatrical company, and an assistant to Mrs. Crummles in her domestic affairs. xxiii, xxiv, xxix, xxx, xlix.

Hannah. Servant to Miss La Creevy. iii.

Hawk, Sir Mulberry. A fashionable gambler, roué, and knave, remarkable for his tact in ruining young gentlemen of fortune. He endeavors to lead Kate Nickleby astray, but fails, and is punished by her brother. He afterwards fights a duel with his

pupil and dupe, Lord Frederick Verisopht, in which the latter is killed. xix, xxvi-xxviii, xxxii, xxxviii, 1, lxv.

Johnson, Mr. The stage name given by Mr. Crummles to Nicholas Nickleby.

Kenwigs, Mr. A turner in ivory, and a lodger in the same house

with Newman Noggs; "looked upon as a person of some consideration on the premises, inasmuch as he occupied the whole of the first floor, comprising a suite of two rooms." xiv-xvi, xxxvi, lii.

Kenwigs, Mrs. His wife; "quite a lady in her manners, and of a very genteel family, having an uncle [Mr. Lillyvick] who collected a water-rate; besides which distinction, the two eldest of her little girls went twice a week to a dancing-school in the neighborhood, and had flaxen hair tied with blue ribbons hanging in luxuriant pigtails down their backs, and wore little white trousers with frills round the ankles, for all of which reasons, and many more, equally valid, but too numerous to mention, she was considered a very desirable person to know." xiv-xvi, xxxvi, lii. Kenwigs, Morleena. Her eldest daughter, "regarding whose uncommon Christian name it may be stated, that it was invented and composed by Mrs. Kenwigs previous to her first lying-in, for the special distinction of her eldest child, in case it should prove a daughter." xiv-xvi, xxxvi, lii.

Knag, Miss. Forewoman in Madame Mantalini's millinery establishment, and her successor in the business. xvii, xviii, xx, xxi, xliv.

Knag, Mr. Mortimer. Her brother; a young man whom unrequited affection has made miserable. xviii.

Koëldwethout, Baron von, of Grogzwig, Germany. Hero of one of the tales told at a roadside inn when Nicholas Nickleby and Squeers, with other passengers, were detained there by an accident to the stage-coach in which they were travelling. vi. Koëldwethout, Baroness von. His wife. vi.

La Creevy, Miss. A mincing young lady of fifty; a miniaturepainter, who becomes a fast friend of the Nicklebys, and finally marries Tim Linkinwater, the old clerk of the Cheeryble Brothers. iii, v, x, xi, xx, xxxi, xxxiii, xxxv, xxxviii, xlix, lxi, lxiii, lxv.

Lane, Miss. Governess in Mr. Borum's family. xxiv.

Ledrook, Miss. A member of Mr. Crummles's dramatic company. xxiii, xxv, xxx.

Lenville, Thomas. A tragic actor in Mr. Crummles's theatre. xxiii, xxiv, xxix.