POOR SMIKE!
MRS. NICKLEBY BALFOUR (aside to John Bull). "I AM VERY SORRY INDEED FOR ALL THIS.... THE RATEPAYERS OUGHT TO BE THE BEST JUDGES—AND I HOPE THEY ARE. OF COURSE IT IS A HARD THING TO HAVE TO KEEP OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN ... BUT IF IT COULD BE SETTLED IN A FRIENDLY MANNER, AND SOME FAIR ARRANGEMENT WAS COME TO ... I DO THINK IT MIGHT BE VERY SATISFACTORY AND PLEASANT TO ALL PARTIES."—Nicholas Nickleby, Vol. II., p. 183.
"I am extremely anxious that something effectual should be done."—Mr. Balfour's reply to Lord Cranborne as to Government and Voluntary Schools. "The schemes, however, as they stand, are, for the purposes of practical politics, incompatible."—Times, September 20.
