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'Undoubtedly it is a very difficult question. And I am far from feeling sure that it is a question any one is authorized to discuss. Good evening to you. 'You don't know that the Spottletoes are here, I suppose? said Mr Tigg. 'What do you mean, sir? what Spottletoes? asked Pecksniff, stopping abruptly on his way to the door.
'Positively, you know, that's ha, ha, ha! observed the doctor, laying down his knife and fork for one instant, and then going to work again, pell-mell 'that's epigrammatic; quite! 'You're tolerably comfortable, I hope? said Tigg, apart to Jonas. 'Oh! You needn't trouble your head about ME, he replied, 'Famous! 'I thought it best not to have a party, said Tigg. 'You feel that?
Though turned and twisted upside down, and inside out, as great men have been sometimes known to be; though no longer Montague Tigg, but Tigg Montague; still it was Tigg; the same Satanic, gallant, military Tigg. The brass was burnished, lacquered, newly stamped; yet it was the true Tigg metal notwithstanding.
'The wretched man who has been murdered, Mr Chuzzlewit went on to say; 'then passing by the name of 'Tigg, suggested Mark. 'Of Tigg; brought begging messages to me on behalf of a friend of his, and an unworthy relative of mine; and finding him a man well enough suited to my purpose, I employed him to glean some news of you, Martin, for me.
His Excellency the COMTE DE MONTE CRISTO. K.G., K.C.B., Knight of the Black Eagle. Directors. CHEVY SLIME, Esq., Berkeley Square. MONTAGUE TIGG, Esq., Park Lane. Secretary. DAVID CRIMP, Esq. Archaeological Adviser. Dr. SPIEGELMANN, Berlin. Then the prospectus! Treasure-hunting too long left to individual and uneducated enterprise. Need of organised and instructed effort.
'If that is Mr Pinch, cried Tigg, kissing his hand again, and beginning to follow his head into the room, 'he will permit me to say that I greatly esteem and respect his character, which has been most highly commended to me by my friend Pecksniff; and that I deeply appreciate his talent for the organ, notwithstanding that I do not, if I may use the expression, grind myself.
'He need, replied Jonas; 'for of all the precious old dummies in appearance that I ever saw, he's about the worst. He's afraid of me, I think. 'It's my belief, said Tigg, 'that you are Poison to him. Nadgett! give me that towel! He had as little occasion for a towel as Jonas had for a start.
To the extent of such a trifling loan as a crownpiece to a man of your talents, I look upon Mr Pecksniff as certain; and seeing at this juncture that the expression of Mr Pecksniff's face by no means betokened that he shared this certainty, Mr Tigg laid his finger on his nose again for that gentleman's private and especial behoof; calling upon him thereby to take notice that the requisition of small loans was another instance of the peculiarities of genius as developed in his friend Slyme; that he, Tigg, winked at the same, because of the strong metaphysical interest which these weaknesses possessed; and that in reference to his own personal advocacy of such small advances, he merely consulted the humour of his friend, without the least regard to his own advantage or necessities.
Make it two-and-six, and come and see me! The shopman was so highly entertained by this piece of humour that Mr Tigg himself could not repress some little show of exultation. It vented itself, in part, in a desire to see how the occupant of the next box received his pleasantry; to ascertain which he glanced round the partition, and immediately, by the gaslight, recognized Martin.
You remind me of Whittington, afterwards thrice Lord Mayor of London. I give you my unsullied word of honour, that you very strongly remind me of that historical character. You are a pair of Whittingtons, gents, without the cat; which is a most agreeable and blessed exception to me, for I am not attached to the feline species. My name is Tigg; how do you do?
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