"Then what did you say 'nothing' for, sir?"
"Please, sir, I sneezed," rejoined the boy, trembling till the little trunk shook under him.
"Nothing, please sir," said the little boy. "Halloa, sir!" growled the schoolmaster, turning round. Squeers was a very small deal trunk, tied round with a scanty piece of cord, and on the trunk was perched-his lace-up half-boots and corduroy trousers dangling in the air-a diminutive boy, with his shoulders drawn up to his ears, and his hands planted on his knees, who glanced timidly at the schoolmaster from time to time, with evident dread and apprehension, and at last gave a violent sneeze. He was about two or three and fifty, and a trifle below the middle size he wore a white neckerchief and a suit of scholastic black but his coat sleeves being a great deal too long, and his trousers a great deal too short, he appeared ill at ease in his clothes. His hair was very flat and shiny, save at the ends, where it was brushed stiffly up from a low protruding forehead, which assorted well with his harsh voice and coarse manner. The blank side of his face was much wrinkled and puckered up, which gave him a very sinister appearance, especially when he smiled. He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favour of two. Squeers's appearance was not prepossessing. Nicholas Nickleby, then in search of a position as teacher, it seemed to be the opening for which he was looking, and the next day he hastened to the Saracen's Head, Snow Hill, to have an interview with Mr. When this advertisement in the "London Herald" came to the notice of Mr. Squeers is in town, and attends daily from one till four, at the Saracen's Head, Snow Hill. No extras, no vacations, and diet unparalleled. Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire, Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead, mathematics, orthography geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of the globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification, and every other branch of classical literature.
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