Ralph finds employment for Kate working for a fashionable milliner, Madame Mantalini. Meanwhile, Kate and her mother are forced by Ralph to move out of their lodgings in the house of the kindly portrait painter Miss LaCreevy and into a cold and draughty house Ralph owns in a London slum. Among other things, Nicholas wants to find out what Squeers is going to tell his uncle. Nicholas and Smike set out towards London. At dawn, he is found by Smike, who begs to come with him. Browdie finds the idea that Squeers himself has been beaten uproariously funny, and gives Nicholas money and a walking staff to aid him on his trip back to London. Quickly packing his belongings and leaving Dotheboys Hall, he meets John Browdie on the way. Nicholas ignores her and goes on to beat Squeers bloody. During the fight, Fanny steps in and attacks Nicholas, hating him for rejecting her love. Squeers strikes him across the face and Nicholas snaps, beating the schoolmaster violently. Squeers begins to beat him, but Nicholas intervenes. One day Smike runs away, but is caught and brought back to Dotheboys. Nicholas astonishes Mr Squeers and familyįanny uses her new-found loathing of Nicholas to make life difficult for the only friend he has at the school: Smike, whom Squeers takes to beating more and more frequently.
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After being accosted by Fanny again, Nicholas bluntly tells her he does not return her affections and wishes to be free of the horrible atmosphere of Dotheboys Hall, earning her enmity. Instead he ends up flirting with her friend Tilda Price, to the consternation of both Fanny and Tilda's friendly but crude-mannered fiancé John Browdie. She attempts to disclose her affections during a game of cards, but Nicholas doesn't catch her meaning. Nicholas attracts the attention of Fanny Squeers, his employer's plain and shrewish daughter, who deludes herself into thinking that Nicholas is in love with her. While he is there, Nicholas befriends a "simple" boy named Smike, who is older than the other "students" and now acts as an unpaid servant. Lessons are no better they show how poorly educated Squeers himself is and he uses the lessons as excuses to send the boys off on chores. Squeers and his monstrous wife whip and beat the children regularly, while spoiling their own son. Once he arrives in Yorkshire, Nicholas comes to realise that Squeers is running a scam: he takes in unwanted children (most of whom are illegitimate, crippled or deformed) for a high fee, and starves and mistreats them while using the money sent by their parents, who only want to get them out of their way, to pad his own pockets. The letter expresses concern for him as an innocent young man, and offers assistance if Nicholas ever requires it.
A once-wealthy businessman, Noggs lost his fortune, became a drunk, and had no other recourse but to seek employment with Ralph, whom he loathes. As Nicholas boards the stagecoach for Greta Bridge, he is handed a letter by Ralph's clerk, Newman Noggs.
Nicholas is initially wary of Squeers (a very unpleasant man with one eye) because he is gruff and violent towards his young charges, but he tries to quell his suspicions. He gets Nicholas a very low-paying job as an assistant to Wackford Squeers, who runs the school Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire. Ralph, a cold and ruthless businessman, has no desire to help his destitute relations and hates Nicholas, who reminds him of his dead brother, on sight. Nicholas, his mother and his younger sister, Kate, are forced to give up their comfortable lifestyle in Devonshire and travel to London to seek the aid of their only relative, Nicholas's uncle, Ralph Nickleby.
Nicholas Nickleby's father dies unexpectedly after losing all of his money in a poor investment. Mr Ralph Nickleby's first visit to his poor relations
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