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On hearing this report those who were assembled being four commercial travellers far gone in liquor taking up the weapons which came nearest to hand to wit, four syphons formed themselves two deep and marched into the coffee-room. Aware at once from Mr.
An hour later he was sitting in the coffee-room, smoking and glancing vacantly over the papers while he waited for dinner, when he became aware of being timidly but intently examined by a small round-faced gentleman with eyeglasses who sat alone at the adjoining table. "Hullo Buttles!"
When we drove up to the Blue Boar after a drizzly ride, whom should I see come out under the gateway, toothpick in hand, to look at the coach, but Bentley Drummle! As he pretended not to see me, I pretended not to see him. It was a very lame pretence on both sides; the lamer, because we both went into the coffee-room, where he had just finished his breakfast, and where I ordered mine.
With this the parties separated, very much to their common satisfaction; Mr. Pickwick once more retracing his steps to the lodge, and the three companions adjourning to the coffee-room, there to spend the five shillings which the clerical gentleman had, with admirable prudence and foresight, borrowed of him for the purpose. 'I knowed it! said Mr. Roker, with a chuckle, when Mr.
In one end of the building will be situated the bar, where the common herd congregate in their libations, and in the other the coffee-room; where the more exalted lords of the creation assemble to discuss, at the same time, the liquors and edibles of mine host, their own local politics, and bucolic topics; ever the subjects of paramount importance to the squatter.
He was a small stout man, with bushy red whiskers, a good-natured face, and little twinkling black eyes. With a civil bow he made way for Richard to pass him, and then followed him down stairs into the coffee-room. It was a huge apartment, and quite empty except for their two selves.
"I see but one thing for it," said I, gloomily, as I strode through the coffee-room, with my head sunk and my hands behind my back "I see but one thing left I must be taken ill to-night, and not be able to leave my bed in the morning a fever a contagious fever blue and red spots all over me and be raving wildly before breakfast time; and if ever any discovery takes place of my intimacy above stairs, I must only establish it as a premonitory symptom of insanity, which seized me in the packet.
Besides, it doesn't do to look too closely at these things, and you must allow something for keeping up the coffee-room, you know fire, candles, and so on. Jorrocks. But blow me tight, you surely don't want a candle to breakfast by?
They were used to change, and the mere coming of armies could not be permitted to derange them. Within a fortnight that little coffee-room of theirs had been crowded with English soldiers in retreat; then with Germans stern, on edge, sure of being in Paris in a few days; then with the same Germans falling back, a trifle dismayed but in good order, and then the pursuing French.
And so the visitor finds it to-day, although the interior of the coffee-room may have been denuded of its compartments which the interview between Pip and Bentley Drummie in Great Expectations suggests were there on that occasion. It was in this room that the Pickwickians breakfasted and awaited the arrival of the chaise to take them to Dingley Dell; and it was over its blinds that Mr.