Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 15, 2025
'I am obliged to you. Put it down, if you please. 'I found it, said Tom, slowly 'when I went to bolt the vestry-window in the pew. So he had. Mr Pecksniff had taken it off when he was bobbing up and down, lest it should strike against the panelling; and had forgotten it.
When Tom came back, he found old Martin sitting by the window, and Mr Pecksniff in an imposing attitude at the table. Tom saw, at a glance, that it was his own salary for the current quarter. 'Have you fastened the vestry-window, Mr Pinch? said Pecksniff. 'Yes, sir. 'Thank you. Put down the keys if you please, Mr Pinch. Tom placed them on the table.
I grieve to say that sleeping in the church after a fatiguing ramble, I overheard just now some fragments, he emphasised that word, 'of a dialogue between two parties; and one of them locking the church when he went out, I was obliged to leave it myself by the vestry-window. Do me the favour to secure that vestry-window, Mr Pinch, and then come back to me.
Constrained and altered in his manner, downcast and dejected, visibly confused; not liking to look Pecksniff in the face. The honest man bestowed a glance on Mr Chuzzlewit, as who should say 'You see! and addressed himself to Tom in these terms: 'Mr Pinch, I have left the vestry-window unfastened. Will you do me the favour to go and secure it; then bring the keys of the sacred edifice to me!
'The vestry-window, sir? cried Tom. 'You understand me, Mr Pinch, I think, returned his patron. 'Yes, Mr Pinch, the vestry-window.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking