Read "The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby" by Charles Dickens online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
The unexpected success and favour with which his experiment at Portsmouth had been received, induced Mr. Crummles to prolong his stay in that town for a fortnight beyond the period he had originally assigned for the duration of his visit, during which time Nicholas personated a vast variety of characters with undiminished success, and attracted so many people to the theatre who had never been seen there before, that a benefit was considered by the manager a very promising speculation.
Nicholas assenting to the terms proposed, the benefit was had, and by it he realised no less a sum than twenty pounds.