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Answered in sentence

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'I know I OUGHT to do, if I got on as well as I deserved; but I don't, my Lord,' answered the chemist.
Arriving at the number in Queen Square to which he had been directed, he left off whistling and gave a cheerful knock, which was instantaneously answered by a powdered-headed footman in gorgeous livery, and of symmetrical stature.
He answered, with as much calmness as he could assume, that he perfectly remembered the young lady referred to, and sincerely trusted she was in good health.
Nobody answered; the next man who came in, was bailed by the whole three; and he in his turn shouted for another firm; and then somebody else roared in a loud voice for another; and so forth.
'Certain sure,' replied Pell; 'but if he'd gone to any irregular practitioner, mind you, I wouldn't have answered for the consequences.'
'Well, I think he was; I think I may say he was,' answered the one-eyed man.
This answered better; it whiled away the time, and kept him from wondering where he was going, and how it was that he found himself in such an odd situation.
A smart servant-girl answered the knock, and started on beholding the three strangers.
'You have fully made up your mind to go?''I have sir,' answered Job.
I answered in this way because I was sitting before the fire at the time, drinking my grog rather thoughtfully, and I knew my throwing in an undecided word now and then, would induce her to continue talking.
'Not a bit of it,' answered Wardle; 'she has been crying and moping ever since, except last night, between tea and supper, when she made a great parade of writing a letter that I pretended to take no notice of.''You want my advice in this matter, I suppose?' said Perker, looking from the musing face of Mr. Pickwick to the eager countenance of Wardle, and taking several consecutive pinches of his favourite stimulant.
As these tokens were rather calculated to awaken suspicion than allay it, and were somewhat embarrassing besides, they were occasionally answered by a frown or shake of the head from Arabella, which the fat boy, considering as hints to be on his guard, expressed his perfect understanding of, by smirking, grinning, and winking, with redoubled assiduity.
'Hear, hear!' said Pell; 'to congratulate Mr. Weller, on his coming into possession of his property, eh?Ha! ha!''I'm quite agreeable, gen'l'm'n,' answered Mr. Weller.
"Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing himself down into an armchair.
"I am following you closely," I answered.
"Which are?""Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the bell.
Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she."I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a questioning and rather startled gaze.
"Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger planted halfway down the column.
From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to do.'"'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who would apply.'"'Not so many as you might think,' he answered.
"'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is willing to fill a vacancy in the League.'"'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered.
Have you a family?'"I answered that I had not.
Will you be ready to-morrow?'"'Certainly,' I answered.
He answered that the name was new to him.
"I make nothing of it," I answered frankly.
"To smoke," he answered.
"Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, closing the door.
"You have no chance at all.""So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness.
"And I you," Holmes answered.
Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the assistant answered it.
"It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings true.""It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning.
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