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How like the blow he had struck in the wood! It beat him from the window as if it had lighted on himself. As he staggered into a chair, he thought of the change in Mrs Gamp exhibited in her new-born tenderness to her charge. Was that because it was found? because she knew of it? because she suspected him?
He has known how to draw his lines broadly, so that all should see the colour. He, too, in his best days, always lived with his characters; and he, too, as he gradually ceased to have the power of doing so, ceased to charm. Though they are not human beings, we all remember Mrs. Gamp and Pickwick. The Boffins and Veneerings do not, I think, dwell in the minds of so many.
Now, verily, were it not for the intervention of one hundred miles of low, swampy, pestiferous country, I would insist on your coming to see me, all, all! Little gamp, and Mademoiselle Sumtare, and their appendages; for they are the principals. I still propose to visit Florida.
The drinks is all good. Mrs Gamp expressed herself much gratified. 'The physic and them things is on the drawers and mankleshelf, said Mrs Prig, cursorily. 'He took his last slime draught at seven. The easy-chair an't soft enough. You'll want his piller.
Gamp and her tribe into' Mum, is in substance equivalent to' Your exalted, or' Your Highness. Ma Dame originally meaning high- born or stately, and being applied only to ladies of the highest rank. "To turn to our every-day forms of salutation. We take off our hats on visiting an acquaintance. We bow on being introduced to strangers. We rise when visitors enter our drawing-room.
Nor did Mr Pecksniff alone indulge in the creature comforts during this sad time. Mrs Gamp proved to be very choice in her eating, and repudiated hashed mutton with scorn.
Gamp in "Martin Chuzzlewit," who always carried a bulgy umbrella, we get the word gamp, rather a vulgar name for "umbrella." We speak of "a Sherlock Holmes" when we mean to describe some one who is very quick at finding out things. Sherlock Holmes is the hero of the famous detective stories of Conan Doyle.
In a very short time Gogol's fame spread throughout the length and breadth of the Empire, and many of his characters became as familiar to his countrymen as Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp were to Englishmen. His descriptions were so graphic so like the world which everybody knew!
'Chosen to help you with Mr Chuffey! 'Chose once, but chose no more, cried Mrs Gamp. 'No pardnership with Betsey Prig agen, sir! 'No, no, said John. 'That would never do. 'I don't know as it ever would have done, sir, Mrs Gamp replied, with a solemnity peculiar to a certain stage of intoxication.
But the ecstasies of Mrs Gamp were sufficient to have furnished forth a score of young lovers; and they were chiefly awakened by the sight of Tom Pinch and his sister. Mrs Gamp was a lady of that happy temperament which can be ecstatic without any other stimulating cause than a general desire to establish a large and profitable connection.
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