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Pickwick's billet, the one expressed his opinion that it was 'a rig, and the other his conviction that it was 'a go. Having recorded their feelings in these very intelligible terms, they looked at Mr. Pickwick and each other in awkward silence.
Then the literary men nearly always make the subject of drink attractive in one way or other. We laugh at Mr. Pickwick and all his gay set of brandy-bibbers; we laugh at John Ridd, with his few odd gallons of ale per day; but let any man be seen often in the condition which led to Mr. Pickwick's little accident, and see what becomes of him. He is soon shunned like a scabbed sheep.
Smangle's attire, by the appearance of which the skill of laundresses in getting up gentlemen's linen is generally tested, that he was fain to turn upon his heel, and, for the present at any rate, to give up all design on Mr. Pickwick's purse and wardrobe.
His face was round and shiny, like Mr Pickwick's, big glasses were stuck on the end of his nose, and the top of his head was as bright and bare as a glass bottle. He never moved when I entered, but raised his placid eyebrows and waited on me to speak. It was not an easy job, with about five minutes to spare, to tell a stranger who I was and what I wanted, and to win his aid. I did not attempt it.
Pickwick immediately rang the bell, and a coach having been procured, the four Pickwickians and Mr. Perker ensconced themselves therein, and drove to Guildhall; Sam Weller, Mr. Lowten, and the blue bag, following in a cab. 'Lowten, said Perker, when they reached the outer hall of the court, 'put Mr. Pickwick's friends in the students' box; Mr. Pickwick himself had better sit by me.
'Take anything now, Sir? said the waiter, lighting the candle in desperation at Mr. Pickwick's silence. 'Tea or coffee, Sir? Dinner, sir? 'Nothing now. 'Very good, sir. Like to order supper, Sir? 'Not just now. 'Very good, Sir. Here, he walked slowly to the door, and then stopping short, turned round and said, with great suavity 'Shall I send the chambermaid, gentlemen?
'Now, shiny Villiam, said the hostler to the deputy hostler, 'give the gen'lm'n the ribbons. 'Shiny Villiam' so called, probably, from his sleek hair and oily countenance placed the reins in Mr. Pickwick's left hand; and the upper hostler thrust a whip into his right. 'Wo-o! cried Mr. Pickwick, as the tall quadruped evinced a decided inclination to back into the coffee-room window.
'Leave him alone, said the green-coated stranger; 'brandy-and-water jolly old gentleman lots of pluck swallow this ah! capital stuff. Having previously tested the virtues of a bumper, which had been mixed by the dismal man, the stranger applied the glass to Mr. Pickwick's mouth; and the remainder of its contents rapidly disappeared.
Arabella looked bashfully at her lord and master, who replied, 'Only three days. 'Only three days, eh? said Mr. Pickwick. 'Why, what have you been doing these three months? 'Ah, to be sure! interposed Perker; 'come, account for this idleness. You see Mr. Pickwick's only astonishment is, that it wasn't all over, months ago. 'Why the fact is, replied Mr.
Pickwick, 'that is one of the most charming and agreeable circumstances that could possibly have occurred to me! I should not have written down this short conversation, but that it developed a slight point in Mr. Pickwick's character, with which I was not previously acquainted. He has a secret pride in his legs.
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