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'Sit down, and take your breakfast, Mark, said Tom. 'Make him sit down and take his breakfast, Martin. 'Oh! I gave him up, long ago, as incorrigible, Martin replied. 'He takes his own way, Tom. You would excuse him, Miss Pinch, if you knew his value. 'She knows it, bless you! said Tom. 'I have told her all about Mark Tapley. Have I not, Ruth? 'Yes, Tom.
And it is easily conceivable that, at no distant day, the oddities of Captain Cuttle, Deportment Turveydrop, Mark Tapley, and Newman Noggs will seem as far-fetched and impossible as those of Captain Otter, Fastidious Brisk and Sir Amorous La-Foole. When Dickens was looking about for some one to take Seymour's place as illustrator of Pickwick, Thackeray applied for the job, but without success.
But his grandson he had refused to see until to-morrow, when Mr Tapley was instructed to summon him to the Temple at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
The carriage remained in waiting; so did Mr Tapley. Mr Chuzzlewit betook himself to Todger's. He was shown, by the degenerate successor of Mr Bailey, into the dining-parlour; where for his visit was expected Mrs Todgers immediately appeared. 'You are dressed, I see, for the wedding, he said. Mrs Todgers, who was greatly flurried by the preparations, replied in the affirmative.
Mr Tapley set himself to obey these orders with great alacrity, and pending their execution, it may be presumed his flagging spirits revived; inasmuch as he several times observed, below his breath, that in respect of its power of imparting a credit to jollity, the Screw unquestionably had some decided advantages over the Dragon.
There is no credit in being happy when the sun is shining, as dear old Mark Tapley would have said; but it will really be praiseworthy if we succeed in being festive this afternoon. Come, Peggy, dearie!" Peggy turned her dreary little face and stared at the table. From outside came the sound of the opening and shutting of the door, of footsteps in the hall.
"I found George B. Tapley in a little tent with a window flap open. He was a fattish man with an immediate eye, in a black skull-cap, with a four-ounce diamond screwed into the bosom of his red sweater. "'Are you George B. Tapley? I asks. "'I swear it, says he. "'Well, I've got it, says I. "'Designate, says he.
You'll not have such another opportunity for showing your jolly disposition, my fine fellow, as long as you live. And therefore, Tapley, Now's your time to come out strong; or Never! 'Hallo, Pecksniff! cried Mr Jonas from the parlour. 'Isn't somebody a-going to open that precious old door of yours? 'Immediately, Mr Jonas. Immediately.
The old man looked about him, with a smile, until his eyes rested on Tom Pinch's sister; when he smiled the more. 'We will all dine here together, he said; 'and as you and Mary have enough to talk of, Martin, you shall keep house for us until the afternoon, with Mr and Mrs Tapley. I must see your lodgings in the meanwhile, Tom. Tom was quite delighted. So was Ruth. She would go with them.
I am not going to relapse, Mark, said Martin; 'but, good Heaven, if we should be left in some wild part of this country without goods or money! 'Well, sir! replied the imperturbable Tapley; 'from what we've seen already, I don't know whether, under those circumstances, we shouldn't do better in the wild parts than in the tame ones.
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