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'We were trespassing, it seems, said Wardle. 'I don't care, said Mr. Pickwick, 'I'll bring the action. 'No, you won't, said Wardle. 'I will, by But as there was a humorous expression in Wardle's face, Mr. Pickwick checked himself, and said, 'Why not? 'Because, said old Wardle, half-bursting with laughter, 'because they might turn on some of us, and say we had taken too much cold punch.
I dare say that, yielding to the giddiness, I swooned: and yet I can remember no interval. The circles seemed to have hold of me, to be drawing me down, and yet down; until, like a diver half-bursting for breath, I found strength, sprang upwards, and reached the surface with a cry. The cry rang in my ears yet. But had it come, after all, from my own lips?
As a glorified one she stood before them. Her joy beamed through tears. The next morning she felt herself singularly unwell. Her feet trembled; her cheeks were like marble. She seated herself in the warm sunshine which came in through the window. Outside stood the trees with large, half-bursting buds. A few mild nights would make the wood green.
The place was swarming with delegates: delegates from country districts, red-faced farmers in flapping linen coats and wide-brimmed hats; delegates from the cities, dapper, well-groomed, cordial-voiced; delegates of the true political type, shaven, obsequious, alert; delegates of the cast that belongs at home, outspoken, honest-eyed, remote; stout delegates, with half-bursting waistbands, thin delegates, with shrunken chests.
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