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Pickwick's presenting himself at the bar, an elderly female emerged from behind the screen therein, and presented herself before him. 'Is Mr. Lowten here, ma'am? inquired Mr. Pickwick. 'Yes, he is, Sir, replied the landlady. 'Here, Charley, show the gentleman in to Mr. Lowten. 'The gen'l'm'n can't go in just now, said a shambling pot-boy, with a red head, 'cos' Mr.
At Baker's the place was literally crowded with all kinds and characters, graded from the honorable judge down to the pot-boy; a pot-pouri of courtesy and companionship only exhibited in England on the near approach of elections.
"I want to make him drunk. I want to make you drunk if you like. I want to make him drunk here." "Spoke very 'andsome. I'll do what I can." He went out towards the water that lapped at the foot of the street. I gathered from the pot-boy that he was a person of influence beyond Admirals. In a few minutes I heard the noise of an advancing crowd, and the voice of Mr. Wessels.
Now where are you going to with that meazly-looking cab of yours? you've nearly run your shafts into my 'oss's ribs!" cried he to a cabman who nearly upset him. The Strand was kept alive by a few slip-shod housemaids, on their marrow-bones, washing the doorsteps, or ogling the neighbouring pot-boy on his morning errand for the pewters.
Lowten's a-singin' a comic song, and he'll put him out. He'll be done directly, Sir. The red-headed pot-boy had scarcely finished speaking, when a most unanimous hammering of tables, and jingling of glasses, announced that the song had that instant terminated; and Mr. Pickwick, after desiring Sam to solace himself in the tap, suffered himself to be conducted into the presence of Mr. Lowten.
Over the way, stuck under an overhanging window, was an orange-stall; the proprietress stood watching, whilst a crowd of vermin-like children ran forward, delighted at the prospect of seeing a woman beaten. Close by, in shirt-sleeves, the pot-boy flung open the public-house door, partly for the purpose of attracting custom, half with the intention of letting a little air into the bar-room.
'You Bob Gliddery, said Miss Abbey to this pot-boy, 'run round to Hexam's and tell his daughter Lizzie that I want to speak to her. With exemplary swiftness Bob Gliddery departed, and returned. Lizzie, following him, arrived as one of the two female domestics of the Fellowship Porters arranged on the snug little table by the bar fire, Miss Potterson's supper of hot sausages and mashed potatoes.
They always begin to crow when the public house shutters begin to be taken down, and they salute the pot-boy the instant he appears to perform that duty, as if he were Phœbus in person.”
"Such will be the fate of Roxmouth Castle!" he said "Some grinder of bones or maker of beer will purchase it, and perhaps point out the picture of the founder of the house as being that of a former pot-boy!" "The old order changeth," said Longford, with a chill smile "And I suppose we should learn to accustom ourselves to it.
Like everything else, the whisky had not been paid for and the pot-boy, arriving just as the case was being opened, had made a gallant effort to save it from being distributed free to his fellow-citizens. By the time he came to, the glasses were circulating merrily; and, on observing this, he accepted the situation philosophically enough, and took his turn and turn about with the others.
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