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The carriage remained in waiting; so did Mr Tapley. Mr Chuzzlewit betook himself to Todger's. He was shown, by the degenerate successor of Mr Bailey, into the dining-parlour; where for his visit was expected Mrs Todgers immediately appeared. 'You are dressed, I see, for the wedding, he said. Mrs Todgers, who was greatly flurried by the preparations, replied in the affirmative.
Readers of Martin Chuzzlewhit will remember how "Baily Junior," who was once bootboy at Mrs. Todger's boarding-house, imagined that Mrs. Gamp was in love with him, and that her life was blighted by the suspicion that such a passion was hopeless. I, in common with other imaginative boys, was frequently beatified by the magic of a not unlike illusion.
If these be follies, then Fiery Face go on and prosper! If they be not, then Fiery Face avaunt! But set the crunched bonnet at some other single gentleman, in any case, for one is lost to thee for ever! Todger's was in high feather, and mighty preparations for a late breakfast were astir in its commercial bowers.
He had lost tone. He took me to his club; nothing more than a taproom, reserved to himself and men with whom he would not have exchanged a cigar light in London. The jokes were bad and flat. A laid-up captain of an old London boat sad old rascal was he! led the conversation. Who was drunk last night? How did the Major get the key into the lock? Who paid for Todger's last go?
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