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The truculent Dowler figured before in "The Tuggs at Ramsgate" a very amusing and Pickwickian tale under the title of Capt. Waters, who exhibits the same simulated ferocity and jealousy of his spouse. Cruickshank's sketch, too, of the Captain is like that of Dowler when throwing up the window in the Crescent. Mrs. Waters is made as attractive as Mrs.
Winkle's first impulse was to give a violent pull at the nearest bell-handle, but that unfortunately happened to be immediately behind Mr. Dowler's head. He had made one step towards it, before he checked himself. As he did so, Mr. Dowler very hastily drew back. 'Mr. Winkle, Sir. Be calm. Don't strike me. I won't bear it. A blow! Never! said Mr. Dowler, looking meeker than Mr.
Winkle took up his quarters at the "Bush," there only to encounter later in the day "the figure of the vindictive and sanguinary Dowler" himself. Explanations soon smoothed over their little differences, and they parted for the night "with many protestations of eternal friendship." In the meantime, Sam Weller had been sent posthaste on Mr. Winkle's heels with instructions from Mr.
'Servants is in the arms o' Porpus, I think, said the short chairman, warming his hands at the attendant link-boy's torch. 'I wish he'd give 'em a squeeze and wake 'em, observed the long one. 'Knock again, will you, if you please, cried Mrs. Dowler from the chair. 'Knock two or three times, if you please.
Dowler, although not easily put down, was, after some trouble, convinced that he had made a mistake, and sat down without making an apology, and with a mental resolve to strike in at the first favourable opportunity. When these and various other toasts had been drunk and replied to, the health of Mr Crashington, as a very old friend of the bride's family, was proposed.
Dowler brought in no less a person than his friend, Angelo Cyrus Bantam, Esquire, to introduce to him, and to administer his stock greeting, "Welcome to Ba-ath, sir. This is, indeed, an acquisition. Most welcome to Ba-ath, sir."
It was rather a cool evening for the season of the year, and the gentleman drew his chair aside to afford the new-comer a sight of the fire. What were Mr. Winkle's feelings when, in doing so, he disclosed to view the face and figure of the vindictive and sanguinary Dowler! Mr.
Dowler bounced off the bed as abruptly as an India-rubber ball, and rushing into the front room, arrived at one window just as Mr. Pickwick threw up the other, when the first object that met the gaze of both, was Mr. Winkle bolting into the sedan-chair. 'Watchman, shouted Dowler furiously, 'stop him hold him keep him tight shut him in, till I come down.
"Oh, but these are your own special old friends, Mrs. Vansittart and Mrs. Dowler. Do let them come in; they will amuse you poor dears, you know they always call after dark." These visitors, friends of former days, were social derelicts, who had, so to speak, "gone ashore" in Rangoon.
The "Saracen's Head" is proud of its Dickens associations; the actual chair he sat in, the actual jug he drank from, and the actual room he slept in are each shown with much ado to visitors; whilst several anecdotes associated with the novelist's visit on the occasion are re-told with perfect assurance of their truth. Arriving at Bristol after his flight from Mr. Dowler at Bath, Mr.
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