Oh no. Please don’t go,’ said Nicholas worriedly. He suddenly on the way that thing were going. Then, because he didn’t want to raise Fanny’s hopes of love, and because Browdie was a man of few words, he began to talk with Tilda. This made both Fanny and Browdie very angry.
In the end, Tilda and her fiancé went home, Fanny started crying, and Nicholas went off quickly up to bed. ‘I must stop trying to be friendly to everyone!’ he thought. ‘It just gets me into trouble.
One morning, not long after that, Squeers woke everyone by shouting from the kitchen downstairs, ‘Are you going to sleep all day, you lazy dogs?.
‘We are coming down now,’ shouted Nicholas from the big lone bedroom upstairs, where he and the boys all slept. ‘Smike!’ called Mrs Squeers. ‘Come down here at once!’ There was no reply.
Nicholas couldn’t see Smike at all.
‘He’s not up here!’ he cried
‘That’s what you say!’ shouted Squeers. ‘I’m coming up to find him.’
“I thing that he’s run away,’ said Nicholas when Squeers came upstairs.