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'I don't know her; I've seen her. 'Oh, you don't know her, but you've seen her? Now, have the goodness to tell the gentlemen of the jury what you mean by that, Mr. Winkle. 'I mean that I am not intimate with her, but I have seen her when I went to call on Mr. Pickwick, in Goswell Street. 'How often have you seen her, Sir? 'How often? 'Yes, Mr. Winkle, how often?
Bardell shrank from the world, and courted the retirement and tranquillity of Goswell Street; and here she placed in her front parlour window a written placard, bearing this inscription "Apartments furnished for a single gentleman. Inquire within." Here Serjeant Buzfuz paused, while several gentlemen of the jury took a note of the document. 'There is no date to that, is there? inquired a juror.
She's going to do some cleaning in Goswell Road. Daniel drummed with his fingers on the table. 'She isn't fit to do it, that's quite certain, Mrs. Clay continued. 'I wish I could get her out for an hour or two. She wants fresh air, that's what it is. I s'pose you're going somewhere to-morrow? It was asked insinuatingly, and at the same time with an air of weary resignation.
"He used to come for Emly Budd, who danced Columbine in 'Arleykin Ornpipe, or the Battle of Navarino, when Miss De la Bosky was took ill a pretty dancer, and a fine stage figure of a woman and he was a great sugar-baker in the city, with a country ouse at Omerton; and he used to drive her in the tilbry down Goswell Street Road; and one day they drove and was married at St.
The witness having been by these means reduced to the requisite ebb of nervous perplexity, the examination was continued as follows 'Pray, Mr. Winkle, do you remember calling on the defendant Pickwick at these apartments in the plaintiff's house in Goswell Street, on one particular morning, in the month of July last? 'Yes, I do.
On through Goswell Road; past Sadler's Wells; over the New River, then an open stream; and in a few minutes we pull up at "The Angel." Here we take in some internal cargo. This the guard declines to allow, and this matter being otherwise arranged, on we go again.
Pickwick's time, they had not been very long erected. This Goswell Street tenancy shows clearly that the neighbourhood was a desirable one for residents of position. Mr. Pickwick was a City man, and his club met in Huggin Lane, in the City. He generally put up, or, as Bob Sawyer had it, "hung out," at the "George and Vulture," also in the City.
On this practice, however, he had married, and his wife, who had been a doctor's daughter and a national schoolmistress, had the same ardours as himself. They lived in one of the dismal little squares near the Goswell Road, and had two children. The wife, as a Positivist mother is bound to do, tended and taught her children entirely herself.
It cost me three or four whiskies for I felt I didn't want any more beer, which is a thing that easily upsets me but at length I found just the crowd I wanted a quiet domestic-looking set in a homely little place off the Goswell Road. "I explained my views to the landlord. He said he had no objection; he supposed I would stand drinks round afterwards.
Pickwick's apartments in Goswell Street were of a very neat and comfortable description, peculiarly adapted for a man of his genius and observation, and importance as General Chairman of the world-famed Pickwick Club. His landlady, Mrs. Bardell, was a comely woman of bustling manners and agreeable appearance, with a natural gift for cooking.
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