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-->''"Hallo, you sir--old Nickleby!--what do you mean when you talk of "a fellow like this"? Who made me "a fellow like this"? If I would sell my soul for drink, why wasn't I a thief, swindler, housebreaker, area sneak, robber of pence out of the trays of blind men's dogs, rather than your drudge and packhorse? If my every word was a lie, why wasn't I a pet and favourite of yours? Lie! When did I ever cringe and fawn to you. Tell me that! I served you faithfully. I did more work, because I was poor, and took more hard words from you because I despised you and them, than any man you could have got from the parish workhouse. I did. I served you because I was proud; because I was a lonely man with you, and there were no other drudges to see my degradation; and because nobody knew, better than you, that I was a ruined man: that I hadn't always been what I am: and that I might have been better off, if I hadn't been a fool and fallen into the hands of you and others who were knaves. Do you deny that? [...] Here, you Nickleby! Don't pretend not to mind me; it won't do; I know better. You were talking of tampering, just now. Who tampered with Yorkshire schoolmasters, and, while they sent the drudge out, that he shouldn't overhear, forgot that such great caution might render him suspicious, and that he might watch his master out at nights, and might set other eyes to watch the schoolmaster? Who tampered with a selfish father, urging him to sell his daughter to old Arthur Gride, and tampered with Gride too, and did so in the little office, WITH A CLOSET IN THE ROOM? Aha! you mind me now, do you? What first set this fag to be jealous of his master's actions, and to feel that, if he hadn't crossed him when he might, he would have been as bad as he, or worse? That master's cruel treatment of his own flesh and blood, and vile designs upon a young girl who interested even his broken-down, drunken, miserable hack, and made him linger in his service, in the hope of doing her some good (as, thank God, he had done others once or twice before), when he would, otherwise, have relieved his feelings by pummelling his master soundly, and then going to the Devil. He would--mark that; and mark this--that I'm here now, because these gentlemen thought it best. When I sought them out (as I did; there was no tampering with me), I told them I wanted help to find you out, to trace you down, to go through with what I had begun, to help the right; and that when I had done it, I'd burst into your room and tell you all, face to face, man to man, and like a man."''
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-->''"Come near my sister again... and I shall '''not''' be so forgiving."''
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* BirdsOfAFeather: With Nicholas Nickleby. They both are at first destitute due to their father's poor financial decisions, both willing to do anything to ensure the happiness and comfort of their families, both ending up attracting some {{abhorrent admirer}}s at some point (Arthur Gride for Madeline, Fanny Squeers for Nicholas), and both end up being taken advantage of by Ralph Nickleby.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: With Nicholas Nickleby. They both are at first destitute due to their father's poor financial decisions, both show UndyingLoyalty to their families, both willing to do anything to ensure the happiness and comfort of their families, both ending up attracting some {{abhorrent admirer}}s at some point (Arthur Gride for Madeline, Fanny Squeers for Nicholas), and both end up being taken advantage of by Ralph Nickleby.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: With Nicholas Nickleby. They both are at first destitute due to their father's poor financial decisions, both willing to do anything to ensure the happiness and comfort of their families, both ending up attracting some AbhorrentAdmirers at some point (Arthur Gride for Madeline, Fanny Squeers for Nicholas), and both end up being taken advantage of by Ralph Nickleby.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: With Nicholas Nickleby. They both are at first destitute due to their father's poor financial decisions, both willing to do anything to ensure the happiness and comfort of their families, both ending up attracting some AbhorrentAdmirers {{abhorrent admirer}}s at some point (Arthur Gride for Madeline, Fanny Squeers for Nicholas), and both end up being taken advantage of by Ralph Nickleby.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first, she seems like a shy, yet eager lady who's desperate to find a husband, and not at all interested in mistreating the schoolboys at Dotheboys Hall. Not to mention, she seems to have a great friendship with Matilda, born from their childhood. But deep down, she's an ill-tempered, selfish, haughty woman who can make Nicholas' situation agreeable if he was her friend or husband, and can make his situation difficult if he was her enemy, which she makes good on when Nicholas rebuffs her affections. And her pride and selfishness lead her to end her volatile friendship with Matilda.
* EntitledToHaveYou: She believes that she and Nicholas are a good match because he's a gentleman's son and she's the daughter of a schoolmaster, and as such, has a fantasy that Nicholas has fallen in love with her at first sight, and cannot (or perhaps won't) fathom the idea that Nicholas will think otherwise and rebuff her, and when he does, she makes his life at Dotheboy's Hall a living hell.
* HappilyMarried: Settles down happily with John Browdie.
* TheTease: Matilda is very coquettish, and enjoys making other people jealous by flirting with others, like her fiancé and her friend.
* TheTease: Matilda is very coquettish, and enjoys making other people jealous by flirting with others, like her fiancé and her friend.
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* {{Foil}}: To the Squeers family. Both employ Nicholas as a teacher of sorts to the children at a meager payment. While the Squeers family is cruel and heartless towards Nicholas, the Kenwigs family is warmer and welcoming towards Nicholas.
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* {{Foil}}: To the Squeers family. Both employ Nicholas as a teacher of sorts to the children at a meager payment. While the Squeers family is cruel and heartless towards Nicholas, the Kenwigs family is warmer and more welcoming towards Nicholas.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigureReasonableAuthorityFigure: They are fair-minded, sensible, and kind-hearted who help restore Nicholas' faith in the goodness of man.
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* BabiesEverAfter: With Nicholas.
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* BabiesEverAfter: With Nicholas.Nicholas at the end of the novel after marrying him.
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Nicholas Nickleby. They both are at first destitute due to their father's poor financial decisions, both willing to do anything to ensure the happiness and comfort of their families, both ending up attracting some AbhorrentAdmirers at some point (Arthur Gride for Madeline, Fanny Squeers for Nicholas), and both end up being taken advantage of by Ralph Nickleby.
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Nicholas Nickleby. They both are at first destitute due to their father's poor financial decisions, both willing to do anything to ensure the happiness and comfort of their families, both ending up attracting some AbhorrentAdmirers at some point (Arthur Gride for Madeline, Fanny Squeers for Nicholas), and both end up being taken advantage of by Ralph Nickleby.
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* HeroicSacrifice: A defied, non-fatal example. She's willing to throw her happiness and life away by marrying Arthur Gride to ensure her father's comfort, but his sudden death frees her of such obligations.
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* UndyingLoyalty: To her father, to the point where she'll throw her happiness and life away to ensure his comfort.
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* BrokenBird: Years of being dutiful to her dying, yet tyrannical father left her broken to the point of being afraid of even the mere prospect of happiness. She even describes herself as this in the 2002 film.
-->''"Nicholas, I feel you know what it's like... to be without happiness. But... do you know what it's like to be afraid of it? To see the world as... so conniving that you cannot take pleasure in the appearance of something good, because you suspect that... it's only a painted drop behind which other troubles lie. That's been my life. Every good thing has been a trick."''
-->''"Nicholas, I feel you know what it's like... to be without happiness. But... do you know what it's like to be afraid of it? To see the world as... so conniving that you cannot take pleasure in the appearance of something good, because you suspect that... it's only a painted drop behind which other troubles lie. That's been my life. Every good thing has been a trick."''
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* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Ralph's greatest enemy is himself. His greed of money, indifference to other's sufferings, and hatred of Nicholas are what led to his downfall and death. When given the chance to redeem himself for the sake of Kate, he rejects it.
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* VillainousBreakdown: As Nicholas interferes with his schemes several times, he starts to lose his composure more as the novel goes on, to the point where he's frothing at the mouth when his scheme to marry Madeline Bray to Arthur Gride fails. And as his ill-gotten fortune starts to fade away, he starts losing his mind even more, and when Smike was revealed to be his son who died the best friend of his greatest enemy, he is DrivenToSuicide.
