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He raised himself in bed, and extended his hand, as if he were about to say something more; but suddenly checking himself, turned round, and bade his valet 'Good-night. 'Good-night, Sir, replied Mr. Weller.
Winkle, clinging most affectionately to Mr. Weller. 'I find I've got a couple of coats at home, that I don't want, Sam. You may have them, Sam. "'Thank'ee, Sir, replied Mr. Weller. "'Never mind touching your hat, Sam, said Mr. Winkle, hastily. 'You needn't take your hand away to do that. I meant to have given you five shillings this morning for a Christmas-box, Sam.
Weller. 'It's a dreadful trial to a father's feelin's, that 'ere, Sammy 'Nonsense, said Sam. 'I ain't a-goin' to get married, don't you fret yourself about that; I know you're a judge of these things. Order in your pipe and I'll read you the letter. There!
His legs were encased in knee-cord breeches, and painted top-boots; and a copper watch-chain, terminating in one seal, and a key of the same material, dangled loosely from his capacious waistband. We have said that Mr. Weller was engaged in preparing for his journey to London he was taking sustenance, in fact.
'There is no "of course" in the case, Sam, said Mr. Pickwick, gradually breaking into a smile, in spite of the uneasiness which Sam's obstinacy had given him. 'The fame of the gentleman in question, never reached my ears. 'No, sir! exclaimed Mr. Weller. 'You astonish me, Sir; he wos a clerk in a gov'ment office, sir. 'Was he? said Mr. Pickwick. 'Yes, he wos, Sir, rejoined Mr.
Weller dealt the dancing and quivering Stiggins as he drove him towards the trough. This quality, whether expressed intellectually or physically, is the profoundly popular and eternal quality in Dickens; it is the thing that no one else could do. This quality is the quality which has always given its continuous power and poetry to the common people everywhere.
'Vy, sir, said Sam, grinning still more, 'he wishes to know vether she 'In short, interposed old Mr. Weller decisively, a perspiration breaking out upon his forehead, 'vether that 'ere old creetur is or is not a widder. Mr. Pickwick laughed heartily, and so did I, as I replied decisively, that 'my housekeeper was a spinster. 'There! cried Sam, 'now you're satisfied.
Under this long process, the worst that can be said is that the English humorist has been slowly driven downwards in the social scale. Falstaff was a knight, Sam Weller was a gentleman's servant, and some of our recent restrictions seem designed to drive Sam Weller to the status of the Artful Dodger.
'I hope, Sir, said Sam, addressing his master, 'I hope there's no harm in a young man takin' notice of a young 'ooman as is undeniably good-looking and well-conducted. 'Certainly not, said Mr. Pickwick. 'Not by no means, acquiesced Mr. Weller, affably but magisterially. 'So far from thinking there is anything wrong in conduct so natural, resumed Mr.
Micawber and Mrs. Gamp and Mr. Pecksniff and Betsy Trotwood and Bill Sikes and Dick Swiveller and Bob Sawyer and Sam Weller and Mark Tapley and Old Scrooge.
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