:04:00
The most important journey of your life...
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will be to find her.
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Nicholas had a younger sister, Kate.
:04:09
Here she is again.
:04:12
And here.
:04:13
Goodness, how it goes.
:04:16
For their father,
these children were a divine burden.
:04:21
Never had money meant less to him...
:04:23
and never had he needed it more.
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His wife said:
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Speculate.
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Since it was well known
that Mr. Nickleby's brother, Ralph...
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many years his senior...
:04:36
had made his fortune in London
by just this method...
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so Nicholas Nickleby,
who had never speculated...
:04:45
speculated.
:04:48
It is a particular sort of triumph...
:04:50
that bankers
have made the word "speculation"...
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synonymous with "adventure"...
:04:56
when, indeed, it means only
that one may gain a great deal...
:04:59
or one may lose a great deal.
:05:02
Alas, for Mr. Nickleby, it meant the latter.
:05:07
Four stockbrokers
took villa residences in Italy...
:05:11
and 400 nobodies were ruined.
:05:15
Eliminating all he had saved...
:05:17
as well as any wish to earn it again...
:05:20
Mr. Nickleby took to his bed...
:05:23
until he surrendered
to the one certainty of life...
:05:27
which no amount of speculation
can prevent.
:05:32
What shall we do?
:05:45
Here is Nicholas Nickleby again.
:05:53
19 years old...
:05:55
and head of his family.