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CHAPTER II THE FIRST DAY'S JOURNEY, AND THE FIRST EVENING'S ADVENTURES; WITH THEIR CONSEQUENCESThat punctual servant of all work, the sun, had just risen, and begun to strike a light on the morning of the thirteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, when Mr. Samuel Pickwick burst like another sun from his slumbers, threw open his
chamber
window, and looked out upon the world beneath.
Mr. Tupman rang the bell, purchased the tickets, and ordered
chamber
candlesticks.
Seven o'clock had hardly ceased striking on the following morning, when Mr. Pickwick's comprehensive mind was aroused from the state of unconsciousness, in which slumber had plunged it, by a loud knocking at his
chamber
door.
The rich, sweet smell of the hay-ricks rose to his
chamber
window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air; and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were to them a fountain of inspiration.
The sun was shining brilliantly into his chamber, when he awoke, and the morning was far advanced.
'Up a wide and ancient staircase the smart girl preceded Tom, shading the
chamber
candle with her hand, to protect it from the currents of air which in such a rambling old place might have found plenty of room to disport themselves in, without blowing the candle out, but which did blow it out nevertheless--thus affording Tom's enemies an opportunity of asserting that it was he, and not the wind, who extinguished the candle, and that while he pretended to be blowing it alight again, he was in fact kissing the girl.
It startled him at first, but thinking, on a moment's reflection, that it must be some young fellow in the next chamber, who had been dining out, he put his feet on the fender, and raised the poker to stir the fire.
He paused when he got outside the door--shook his head--walked on--stopped-- snuffed the candle--shook his head again--and finally proceeded slowly to his chamber, apparently buried in the profoundest meditation.
Mr. Pickwick yawned several times when he had arrived at the end of this little manuscript, carefully refolded, and replaced it in the inkstand drawer, and then, with a countenance expressive of the utmost weariness, lighted his
chamber
candle, and went upstairs to bed.
About half-past twelve o'clock, when Mr. Winkle had been revelling some twenty minutes in the full luxury of his first sleep, he was suddenly awakened by a loud knocking at his
chamber
door, which, being repeated with increased vehemence, caused him to start up in bed, and inquire who was there, and what the matter was.
'I've been assaulted in the execution of my dooty by your servant in your
chamber.
I rang the bell and was shown up to the
chamber
which had formerly been in part my own.
Be in your
chamber
then at that hour, and do not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask."
I fear that I have brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug chamber."
Two days ago some repairs were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the
chamber
in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in which she slept.
"This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?""Exactly so.
Holmes refused to examine the third chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her fate.
Then he did the same with the wood-work with which the
chamber
was panelled.
Dr. Grimesby Roylott's
chamber
was larger than that of his step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished.
Twice he struck at the
chamber
door without any reply from within.
The ceiling of this small
chamber
is really the end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of many tons upon this metal floor.
When I had made it clear to them, I returned to the main
chamber
of the machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity.
Her prolonged absence having caused some comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that she had only come up to her
chamber
for an instant, caught up an ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage.
The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror.
He hurried to his
chamber
and was down again in a few minutes dressed as a common loafer.
You have been brought there to personate someone, and the real person is imprisoned in this
chamber.
But I must object to your dooming Colonel Brandon and his wife to the constant confinement of a sick chamber, merely because he chanced to complain yesterday (a very cold damp day) of a slight rheumatic feel in one of his shoulders."
Mrs. Jennings therefore attending her up stairs into the sick chamber, to satisfy herself that all continued right, left her there again to her charge and her thoughts, and retired to her own room to write letters and sleep.
"He must not wander into the palace from this chamber," said the Queen passionately, turning to Kate.
On leaving the paternal chamber, the young man found his mother, who was waiting for him with the famous recipe of which the counsels we have just repeated would necessitate frequent employment.
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