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Updated: June 11, 2025
Then, to his surprise, he would have seen this attractive person stop, examine her surroundings, and run down some steps into a rather dingy-looking second-hand bookshop. He would have gone about his affairs with a new and surprised conviction that the Almighty had the borough of Brooklyn under His especial care.
He caught up a dingy-looking document, opened it, and, thrusting the pen which was in his "ludship's" hand into the ink, he and the prisoner at the bar crowded up to see the signature which Charlie wrote as he had been told to do, in a distinct schoolboy's hand.
It was not a particularly cleanly place, but everything there, dealing as it did with Dave's pursuits, had its attraction, from the gun hanging upon a couple of wooden pegs to the nets and lines above the rough bed-place, with its sheep-skins and dingy-looking blanket. "I should like to take the gun and have a turn by ourselves," said Dick, gazing at the long rusty piece longingly.
Pickwick remembered to have very often observed them lounging under the archway when he had been walking past; and his curiosity was quite excited to know to what branch of the profession these dingy-looking loungers could possibly belong.
He smiled as he fingered the crisp, clean notes, and gazed lovingly upon the dingy-looking but potent check drawn on the old army bankers. "No nonsense about that signature," he cheerfully said. "Anstruther is no welsher," and, as he rang for his hot water and a morning refresher, he picked up the little note with an eager curiosity. "By Gad! she is a cool one! This is no vulgar darned occasion!
"Just as if a man can't do as he likes with his own hat," said the professor, with his face relaxing, as he crossed to one of the easy chairs, wheeled it forward, sat down, and then slipped off his hat, thrust his hand inside, whisked something out, and placed hat and stick under the table, before, with a good deal of flourish, he drew a very dingy-looking old scarlet fez over his starting black hair, with the big blue silk tassels hanging down behind, and settled himself comfortably by drawing up first one and then the other leg across and beneath him, a la turque.
Tadman's amiable kinsman requested her to hold her jaw, and to bring the board if she was going to play, or to say as much if she wasn't. Urged by this gentle reminder, Mrs. Tadman immediately produced a somewhat dingy-looking pack of cards and a queer little old-fashioned cribbage-board.
Indeed, it must be owned, in spite of all Malcolm's eloquence, Anna was singularly perverse on this subject, and absolutely refused to burn incense to his hero. As Anna must have her way on her birthday, Malcolm said no more, and the next moment they arrived at their destination a gray, dingy-looking old house, somewhat high and narrow, overlooking the river.
Shall we ask our kind friend the vicar to open it and read it out for us?" "O yes, yes," cried Jane, "if he will be so good." "With pleasure, dear friends," said Mr Maltby, and he held out his hand for the dingy-looking letter. Little did the writer imagine, when he penned that wretched scrawl, what a value it would have in the eyes of so many interested and anxious hearers. It was as follows:
"Do you recollect a certain visit to my chambers when you represented a judge of the Queen's Bench?" Charlie, Selwyn and Rex looked at each other, laughed, and nodded. "Do you remember signing a paper?" asked the justice. "Yes," said Charlie; "but it was an old dingy-looking one we didn't read it I just signed it for fun." "I told Charlie to put your name to it," broke in Rex, eagerly.
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