The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1887 Original Publisher: Chapman and Hall Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Social Science / Men's Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be ty...
MoreVolume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1887 Original Publisher: Chapman and Hall Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Social Science / Men's Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. A NEW ACQUAINTANCE -- THE STROLLER'S TALE -- A DISAGREEABLE INTERRUPTION, AND AN UNPLEASANT ENCOUNTER. MR. PICKWICK had felt some apprehensions in consequence of the unusual absence of his two friends, which their mysterious behaviour during the whole morninghadbyno means tended todimin- ish. It was, therefore, with more than ordinary pleasure that he rose to greet them when they again entered ; and with more than ordinary interest that he inquired what had occurred to detain them from his society. In reply to his questions on this point, Mr. Snodgrass was about to offer an historical account of the circumstances just now detailed, when he was suddenly checked by observing that there were present, not only Mr. Tupman and their stage-coach companion of the preceding day, but another stranger of equally singular appearance. It was a care-worn looking man, whose sallow face and deeply sunken eyes, were rendered still more striking than nature had made them, by the straight black hair which hung in matted disorder half way down his face. His eyes were almost unnaturally bright and piercing; his cheek-bones were high and prominent; and his jaws were so long and lank, that an observer would have supposed that he was drawing the flesh of his face in, for a moment, by some contraction of the muscles, if his half-opened mouth and immovable expression had not announced that it was his ord...
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