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'I wos a vaginer's boy, once.''When was that?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
Young beggars, male and female, as hasn't made a rise in their profession, takes up their quarters there sometimes; but it's generally the worn-out, starving, houseless creeturs as roll themselves in the dark corners o' them lonesome places--poor creeturs as ain't up to the twopenny rope.''And pray, Sam, what is the twopenny rope?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
'How was it you worn't one of us, last night?' inquired Sam, scrubbing his face with the towel.
'What's his name?' inquired Mr. Weller, colouring up very red with sudden excitement, and the friction of the towel combined.
'And what sort of a place have you got?' inquired Sam, as he filled his companion's glass, for the second time.
'I beg your pardon, Sir,' said Job, 'but that course of proceeding will never do.''Why not?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
'What is the name of the house?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
'And what steps, sir, do you mean to take to obtain redress?' inquired Mr. Winkle, gaining courage as he saw Pott losing it.
'Where did you tell the boy to meet us with the snack, Martin?' inquired Wardle.
It was, therefore, with a very rueful air that he replied--'Why, I suppose I must.''Ain't the gentleman a shot, Sir?' inquired the long gamekeeper.
'What do you mean by that observation, Sir?' inquired Mr. Winkle, angrily.
'Where shall I wheel him to, sir?' inquired Wilkins, with great timidity.
Dodson or Mr. Fogg at home, sir?' inquired Mr. Pickwick, gently, advancing, hat in hand, towards the partition.
'When will Mr. Dodson be back, sir?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
'Is Mr. Dodson in?' inquired Mr. Fogg.
His doubts were speedily dispelled, however; for the stout man having blown a thick cloud from his pipe, a hoarse voice, like some strange effort of ventriloquism, emerged from beneath the capacious shawls which muffled his throat and chest, and slowly uttered these sounds--'Wy, Sammy!''Who's that, Sam?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
She don't act as a vife, Sammy.''Don't she, though?' inquired Mr. Weller, junior.
'You're quite certain it was them, governor?' inquired Mr. Weller, junior.
'Well, what do you think of what your father says, Sam?' inquired Mr. Pickwick, with a smile.
Perker's people's gone, and I'm a-goin' to do the office out.''Are you Mr. Perker's servant?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
'Is Mr. Lowten here, ma'am?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
Everybody thought he'd gone out of town.''And how was he found out at last?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
'"What are we to do?" inquired the man of business.
CHAPTER XXII Mr. PICKWICK JOURNEYS TO IPSWICH AND MEETS WITH A ROMANTIC ADVENTURE WITH A MIDDLE-AGED LADY IN YELLOW CURL-PAPERS'That 'ere your governor's luggage, Sammy?' inquired Mr. Weller of his affectionate son, as he entered the yard of the Bull Inn, Whitechapel, with a travelling-bag and a small portmanteau.
'Now, gen'l'm'n,' said the hostler, 'coach is ready, if you please.''Is all my luggage in?' inquired Mr. Magnus.
'You're given to nervousness, ain't you, Sir?' inquired Mr. Weller, senior, eyeing the stranger askance, as he mounted to his place.
'What do you mean by a pike-keeper?' inquired Mr. Peter Magnus.
'Do you stop here, sir?' inquired Mr. Peter Magnus, when the striped bag, and the red bag, and the brown-paper parcel, and the leather hat-box, had all been deposited in the passage.
A corpulent man, with a fortnight's napkin under his arm, and coeval stockings on his legs, slowly desisted from his occupation of staring down the street, on this question being put to him by Mr. Pickwick; and, after minutely inspecting that gentleman's appearance, from the crown of his hat to the lowest button of his gaiters, replied emphatically--'No!''Nor any gentleman of the name of Snodgrass?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
'It's all in training, Sir,' said Sam.'What's in training, Sam?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
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