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Cluppins, after a careful survey of Master Bardell's buttons and the button-holes to which they severally belonged, placed him on the floor of the court in front of his mother a commanding position in which he could not fail to awaken the full commiseration and sympathy of both judge and jury.

'It 'ull hold him easy, vith his hat and shoes on, and breathe through the legs, vich his holler. Have a passage ready taken for 'Merriker. The 'Merrikin gov'ment will never give him up, ven vunce they find as he's got money to spend, Sammy. Let the gov'nor stop there, till Mrs. Bardell's dead, or Mr. Mr.

This little divergence from the subject in hand, had, of course, the intended effect of turning all eyes to Mr. Pickwick. Serjeant Buzfuz, having partially recovered from the state of moral elevation into which he had lashed himself, resumed 'I shall show you, gentlemen, that for two years, Pickwick continued to reside constantly, and without interruption or intermission, at Mrs. Bardell's house.

Then Sergeant Buzfuz opened the case for the plaintiff, and when he had finished Elizabeth Cluppins was called. "Do you recollect, Mrs. Cluppins," said Sergeant Buzfuz, "do you recollect being in Mrs. Bardell's back room on one particular morning last July, when she was dusting Pickwick's apartment?" "Yes, my lord and jury, I do," replied Mrs. Cluppins.

Weller and the deputy Shepherd, Mr. Weller drove up from Dorking with the old piebald in his chaise cart, which, after long delay, was brought out for the return journey. "If he stands at livery much longer he'll stand at nothin' as we go back." Bardell's, and where so much that is dramatic is "got out" of such a simple incident between the contending directions. IV. Mr.

The only other inmates of the house were a large man and a small boy; the first a lodger, the second a production of Mrs. Bardell's.

Cluppins, with interesting agitation, 'I will not deceive you. 'You had better not, ma'am, said the little judge. 'I was there, resumed Mrs. Cluppins, 'unbeknown to Mrs. Bardell; I had been out with a little basket, gentlemen, to buy three pound of red kidney pertaties, which was three pound tuppence ha'penny, when I see Mrs. Bardell's street door on the jar.

Bardell's action. He breakfasted betimes next morning, and, desiring Sam to accompany him, set forth towards Gray's Inn Square. 'Sam! said Mr. Pickwick, looking round, when they got to the end of Cheapside. 'Sir? said Sam, stepping up to his master. 'Which way? 'Up Newgate Street. Mr.

Bardell's back one pair of stairs, on one particular morning in July last, when she was dusting Pickwick's apartment? 'Yes, my Lord and jury, I do, replied Mrs. Cluppins. 'Mr. Pickwick's sitting-room was the first-floor front, I believe? 'Yes, it were, Sir, replied Mrs. Cluppins. 'What were you doing in the back room, ma'am? inquired the little judge. 'My Lord and jury, said Mrs.

Bardell's opinions of the opposite sex, gentlemen, were derived from a long contemplation of the inestimable qualities of her lost husband. She had no fear, she had no distrust, she had no suspicion; all was confidence and reliance. "Mr. Bardell," said the widow "Mr. Bardell was a man of honour, Mr. Bardell was a man of his word, Mr. Bardell was no deceiver, Mr.