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'Thank you, answered Tom. 'Yes. Don't come down. 'Do you know that I should like one little word in private with you Mr Pinch? said Tigg, following him. 'One minute of your company in the skittle-ground would very much relieve my mind. Might I beseech that favour?
Martin drew back involuntarily, for he knew the voice at once. 'I shall never be full of my wheat, said Mr Tigg, 'as long as I come here. Ha, ha! Not bad! Make it two-and-six, my dear friend, positively for this occasion only. Half-a-crown is a delightful coin. Two-and-six. Going at two-and-six! For the last time at two-and-six!
As we moved in the same circle, I was brought necessarily into his society. I do not think I ever heard him say anything that was true, kind, or interesting; but there was entertainment in the man's demeanour. You might call him a half-educated Irish Tigg. Our Russian made a remarkable contrast to this impossible fellow. Rumours and legends were current in the steerages about his antecedents.
'If I come here to ask a question or two, and get a document or two to consider of, I don't bind myself to anything. Let's understand that, you know, said Jonas. 'My dear fellow! cried Tigg, clapping him on the shoulder, 'I applaud your frankness. If men like you and I speak openly at first, all possible misunderstanding is avoided.
Mr Tigg and I are not on such an intimate footing that you need be at all uneasy, I give you my solemn assurance of that, Tom. You are quite comfortable now? 'Quite, said Tom. 'Then once more, good night! 'Good night! cried Tom; 'and such pleasant dreams to you as should attend the sleep of the best fellow in the world!
'Then Mark Tapley had not only the great politeness to follow me to this house, but is waiting now, to see me home again. And for that attention, sir, added Mr Tigg, stroking his moustache, 'I can tell you, that Mark Tapley had better in his infancy have been fed to suffocation by Mrs Tapley, than preserved to this time.
Behind us lies penury and squalor, before us glitters jewelled opulence. From Mr. David Crimp to Montague Tigg, Esq. The Golden Balls, May 28. Dear Mr. Tigg, You always WERE full of your chaff, but you must have been drinking when you wrote all that cock-and-a-bull gammon. Thirty pounds! No; nor fifteen; nor as many pence.
'This is dreadful. The rapacity of these people is absolutely frightful! 'It's not only the Spottletoes either, Tigg, said Slyme, looking at that gentleman and speaking at Mr Pecksniff. 'Anthony Chuzzlewit and his son have got wind of it, and have come down this afternoon. I saw 'em not five minutes ago, when I was waiting round the corner.
Nobody but Mr Tigg, who, notwithstanding his extreme shabbiness, was still understood to be in some sort a lady's man, in right of his upper lip and his frogs, indicated a doubt of the justifiable nature of these measures; and he only ogled the three Miss Chuzzlewits with the least admixture of banter in his admiration, as though he would observe, 'You are positively down upon her to too great an extent, my sweet creatures, upon my soul you are!
'At the first start, my dear fellow, said Montague, 'to show you how correct your judgment is, we had a couple of unlucky deaths that brought us down to a grand piano. 'Brought you down where? cried Jonas. 'I give you my sacred word of honour, said Tigg Montague, 'that I raised money on every other individual piece of property, and was left alone in the world with a grand piano.
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