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If Dowler were supposed to have gone in pursuit of him, then Mr. Winkle must have fled, and if he were supposed to have gone to seek a friend, then Dowler was rather compromised. No doubt both gentlemen agreed to support the one story that they had gone away for mutual satisfaction, and had made it up. Then, we are told, if it were theatre night perhaps the visitors met at the theatre. Did Mr.
Winkle said these words, Mr. Pickwick felt, with some astonishment, that Sam's fingers were trembling at the gaiters, as if he were rather surprised or startled. Sam looked up at Mr. Winkle, too, when he had finished speaking; and though the glance they exchanged was instantaneous, they seemed to understand each other. 'Do you know anything of this, Sam? said Mr. Pickwick sharply.
'Peace of mind and happiness of confiding females, murmured Mr. Winkle, with an air of abstraction. 'It's a conspiracy, said Mr. Pickwick, at length recovering the power of speech; 'a base conspiracy between these two grasping attorneys, Dodson and Fogg. Mrs. Bardell would never do it; she hasn't the heart to do it; she hasn't the case to do it.
"Lothario has a pain," whispered "Rip" Van Winkle sympathetically, and Brewster laughed. Peggy did not hesitate an instant after hearing the laugh. She walked straight toward the sheik. Her cheeks were pink and her eyes were flashing dangerously. The persistent brown slaves followed with the jewels, but she ignored them completely.
In the autumn of last year a Dutchman of the name of Van der Winkle sold out by his agent for three millions of livres in our stock on one day, for which he bought up bills upon Hamburg and London. He lodged in the Hotel des Quatre Nations, Rue Grenelle, where the landlord, who is a patriot, introduced some police agents into his apartments during his absence.
This is the fair view of it as a picture of ordinary human life. But, as we look, the low wail of the sad music is in our ears, the scene changes to a weird world of faery, the story merges in a dream, and Rip Van Winkle smiles at us from a realm beyond the diocese of conscience. If conscience, indeed, will obtrude, conscience shall be satisfied.
As she stepped out into the green meadow, she was so happy that she danced and as she danced, her little silver slippers twinkled and glittered. "Isn't she wonderful?" whispered Winkle to Twinkle. "Yes. She is so lovely that I am afraid she will not stay with us," whispered Twinkle to Winkle.
We had tried bathing at sunrise, but the water was not deep enough to swim in. So we had paddled around picking up "conches" those great ornamental shells which house with such fanciful magnificence an animal something like our winkle, the hard white flesh of which, cut up fine, makes an excellent salad; that is, as old Tom made it.
A writer in a popular periodical draws the following graphic sketch of his performance of this character: If there is something especially charming in the ideal of Rip Van Winkle that Irving has drawn, there is something even more human, sympathetic and attractive in the character reproduced by Jefferson.
But, tried by this standard, Rip Van Winkle, as Mr. Jefferson plays it, is far from an immoral play. The picture as he paints it is moral in the same sense that nature is moral.
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