Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 16, 2025
Pickwick, Wardle, Tupman and Co., are all described as old gentlemen, none of the party being over fifty; but they had to dress up to the part of old gentlemen, and with the aid of corpulence, "circular spectacles," &c, conveyed the idea of seventy.
Pickwick, gazing with solemn sternness at his friend 'you don't mean to say, Mr. Tupman, that it is your intention to put yourself into a green velvet jacket, with a two-inch tail? 'Such IS my intention, Sir, replied Mr. Tupman warmly. 'And why not, sir? 'Because, Sir, said Mr. Pickwick, considerably excited 'because you are too old, Sir. 'Too old! exclaimed Mr. Tupman.
Tupman squeezing her hand under the table, she brightened up too, and looked rather knowing, as if matrimony in reality were not quite so far off as some people thought for; whereupon everybody laughed again, and especially old Mr. Wardle, who enjoyed a joke as much as the youngest. As to Mr.
Tupman had already signalised himself, in form and manner following: first, the fat boy fetched from a peg behind the old lady's bedroom door, a close black satin bonnet, a warm cotton shawl, and a thick stick with a capacious handle; and the old lady, having put on the bonnet and shawl at her leisure, would lean one hand on the stick and the other on the fat boy's shoulder, and walk leisurely to the arbour, where the fat boy would leave her to enjoy the fresh air for the space of half an hour; at the expiration of which time he would return and reconduct her to the house.
'Mercy upon me, said Mr. Pickwick, struggling violently, 'I hear somebody coming up the stairs. Don't, don't, there's a good creature, don't. But entreaty and remonstrance were alike unavailing; for Mrs. Bardell had fainted in Mr. Pickwick's arms; and before he could gain time to deposit her on a chair, Master Bardell entered the room, ushering in Mr. Tupman, Mr. Winkle, and Mr. Snodgrass. Mr.
'Must I tell him? whispered the magistrate to Jinks. 'I think you had better, sir, whispered Jinks to the magistrate. 'An information has been sworn before me, said the magistrate, 'that it is apprehended you are going to fight a duel, and that the other man, Tupman, is your aider and abettor in it. Therefore eh, Mr. Jinks? 'Certainly, sir.
'They'll hardly know what she's meant for; will they? inquired Mr. Snodgrass. 'Of course they will, replied Mr. Winkle indignantly. 'They'll see her lyre, won't they? 'True; I forgot that, said Mr. Snodgrass. 'I shall go as a bandit,'interposed Mr. Tupman. 'What! said Mr. Pickwick, with a sudden start. 'As a bandit, repeated Mr. Tupman, mildly. 'You don't mean to say, said Mr.
Oliver Twist was his encore. It was the second opportunity given to him by those who had rolled about with laughter over Tupman and Jingle, Weller and Dowler. Under such circumstances a stagey reciter will sometimes take care to give a pathetic piece after his humorous one; and with all his many moral merits, there was much that was stagey about Dickens.
At the upper end of the room was a table, with a white cloth upon it, well covered with a roast fowl, bacon, ale and et ceteras; and at the table sat Mr. Tupman, looking as unlike a man who had taken his leave of the world as possible. "On the entrance of his friends, that gentleman laid down his knife and fork, and with a mournful air advanced to meet them." Mr.
It was in the evening, however, that the Peacock presented attractions which enabled the two friends to resist even the invitations of the gifted, though prosy, Pott. It was in the evening that the 'commercial room' was filled with a social circle, whose characters and manners it was the delight of Mr. Tupman to observe; whose sayings and doings it was the habit of Mr. Snodgrass to note down.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking