About this story
Your cane ends the post; the road runs through a Portsmouth theatre and the Cheerybles to Madeline Bray. The will Gride stole waits thirty years in Peg Sliderskew's bundle, Brooker names Ralph's carried child, and the locked room in Golden Square answers to a locksmith. Sixty-two chapters carry you from a Yorkshire schoolroom to a Devon farm within sight of Smike's stone.
How it opens
Snow lay grey around Dotheboys Hall, a low Yorkshire house hunched behind a broken fence.
The schoolroom windows gave little light and less warmth to the boys waiting inside.
Wackford SqueersHere is Mr Nickleby, your new master, so look grateful before he begins improving you.
Mrs SqueersSupper follows lessons here, provided lessons leave anything worth feeding.
Choose
Who is the young man collecting the slates?
Does he attend lessons or work for the school?