Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1862 Original Publisher: P.F. Collier 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 ...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1862 Original Publisher: P.F. Collier 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 XLV. I1ESCRIPTIVE OP AN AFFECTING INTERVIEW BETWEEN MR. SAMUEL WELLER AND A FAMILY PARTY. MR. PICKWICK MAKES A TOUR OF THE DIMINUTIVE WORLD HE INHABITS, AND RESOLVES TO MIX WITH IT, IN FUTURE, AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE. A Few mornings after his incarceration, Mr. Samuel Weller, having arranged his master's room with all possible care, and seen him comfortably seated over his books and papers, withdrew to employ himself for an hour or two to come, as he best could. It was a fine morning, and it occurred to Sam that a pint of porter in the open air would lighten his next quarter of an hour or so, as well as any little amusement in which he could indulge. Having arrived at this conclusion, he betook himself to the tap, and having purchased the beer, and obtained, moreover, the day-but-one-before-yesterday's paper, he repaired to the skittle-ground, and seating himself on a bench, proceeded to enjoy himself in a very sedate and methodical manner. First of all, he took a refreshing draught of the beer, and then he looked up at a window, and bestowed a Platonic wink on a young lady who was peeling potatoes thereat. Then he opened the paper, and folded it so asto get the police reports outward; and this being a vexatious and difficult thing to do, when there is any wind stirring, he took another draught of the beer when he had accomplished it. Then, he read two lines of the paper, and stopped short, to loo...
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