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Thus, to take "Martin Chuzzlewit" alone, I should call the joke about the Lord No-zoo a simple joke: but I should call the joke about Mrs. Todgers's vision of a wooden leg a subtle joke.
'Martin Chuzzlewit' was a favorite book with him, and so was the 'Old Curiosity Shop. No doubt a fancied affinity with Tom Pinch through their common love of music made him like that most sentimental and improbable personage, whom he would have disowned and laughed to scorn if he had met him in life; but it was a purely altruistic sympathy that he felt with Little Nell and her grandfather.
Much conversation at breakfast is a weariness of the flesh. We want to eat what is necessary, and then to go about our work or play. If American citizens in a boarding-house could endure these long palavers, they must have been very unlike the hasty feeders caricatured in "Martin Chuzzlewit."
'I couldn't return to him, she said, with an instinctive reference to his having forced her marriage on. 'I could not return to him. 'I know it, Mr Chuzzlewit resumed; 'and I am here because I know it. Come with me!
Gradually his hands became tightly clasped upon the elbows of the chair, his eyes dilated with surprise, his mouth opened, his hair stood more erect upon his forehead than its custom was, until, at length, when the old man rose in bed, and stared at him with scarcely less emotion than he showed himself, the Pecksniff doubts were all resolved, and he exclaimed aloud: 'You ARE Martin Chuzzlewit!
'It goes against my wishes to have it in progress just now, I assure you, sir, said Mrs Todgers; 'but Miss Pecksniff's mind was set upon it, and it really is time that Miss Pecksniff was married. That cannot be denied, sir. 'No, said Mr Chuzzlewit, 'assuredly not. Her sister takes no part in the proceedings? 'Oh, dear no, sir.
Meantime, old Martin Chuzzlewit remained shut up in his own chamber, and saw no person but his young companion, saving the hostess of the Blue Dragon, who was, at certain times, admitted to his presence. So surely as she came into the room, however, Martin feigned to fall asleep.
'Dear me, Mr Pinch! Is it possible that you are out upon this very inclement morning? 'Yes, sir, cried Tom, advancing eagerly, 'Mr Chuzzlewit and I, sir. 'Oh! said Mr Pecksniff, looking not so much at Martin as at the spot on which he stood. 'Oh! Indeed. Do me the favour to see to the trunks, if you please, Mr Pinch.
'It will be well to leave that in our charge, perhaps, said John. 'But do not mind it now. As he said this, he held up his hand to bespeak Martin's attention. It was already fixed upon the man before him, who, after a short silence said, in a low, weak, hollow voice: 'What relation was Mr Anthony Chuzzlewit, who Who died to me? said Martin. 'He was my grandfather's brother.
You have no decency; you make no secret of your temper; you have exposed yourself to Mr Chuzzlewit a hundred times. 'Myself! cried Cherry, with a bitter smile. 'Oh indeed! I don't mind that. 'Me, too, then, said Mr Pecksniff. His daughter answered with a scornful laugh.
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