Nicholas Nickleby, Chapter 34 summary
Chapter 34 of 65 · 25 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 34, Ralph Nickleby profits from Mr. Mantalini’s borrowing, learns of Nicholas’s clash with Sir Mulberry, and discusses revenge with Mr. Squeers. He considers hurting Nicholas through the young man taken from the school, but finds no immediate plan and ends the day brooding over money’s power.
What happens
- Ralph gives Mr. Mantalini fifty pounds for bills worth seventy-five, before Madame Mantalini arrives to challenge her husband’s spending.
- Mr. Mantalini threatens suicide and uses affection to make his wife postpone imposing a fixed allowance.
- Mr. Mantalini reports Nicholas’s attack on Sir Mulberry, and Ralph angrily learns that his nephew escapes injury.
- Mr. Squeers arrives with Wackford and boasts about feeding practices and deliberately spreading illness to recover his own medical expenses.
- Ralph questions Squeers about the abandoned young man Nicholas takes away and considers using him to hurt Nicholas.
- Newman challenges Squeers’s pride in Wackford’s fatness, while Ralph spends the remaining day seeking revenge and destroys Nicholas’s letter.
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What to notice
Ralph links his wounded pride to financial power. The statement closes his unsuccessful search for an immediate way to hurt Nicholas.
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How does Squeers recover the cost of his own medical treatment?
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