Obliged
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'I'm wery much
obliged
to you, old gen'l'm'n,' replied Sam, 'for consulting my conwenience, and I'm still more
obliged
to the other gen'l'm'n, who looks as if he'd just escaped from a giant's carrywan, for his wery 'andsome suggestion; but I should prefer your givin' me a answer to my question, if it's all the same to you.
The pretty housemaid had stood the candle on the floor; and, as it gave a very dim light, Sam was
obliged
to go down on HIS knees before he could see whether it really was his own hat or not. it was a remarkably small corner, and so--it was nobody's fault but the man's who built the house--Sam and the pretty housemaid were necessarily very close together.
"You'd better not carry that 'ere watch," says the old gen'l'm'n's friends, "you'll be robbed on it," says they."Shall I?" says he."Yes, you will," says they."Well," says he, "I should like to see the thief as could get this here watch out, for I'm blessed if I ever can, it's such a tight fit," says he, "and wenever I vants to know what's o'clock, I'm
obliged
to stare into the bakers' shops," he says.
'Yes,' said the barrister's clerk, producing his own box, and offering it with the greatest cordiality; 'and the best of it is, that as nobody alive except myself can read the serjeant's writing, they are
obliged
to wait for the opinions, when he has given them, till I have copied 'em, ha-ha-ha!''Which makes good for we know who, besides the serjeant, and draws a little more out of the clients, eh?' said Perker; 'ha, ha, ha!'At this the serjeant's clerk laughed again--not a noisy boisterous laugh, but a silent, internal chuckle, which Mr. Pickwick disliked to hear.
He's in the hospital now,' said Jack Hopkins, 'and he makes such a devil of a noise when he walks about, that they're
obliged
to muffle him in a watchman's coat, for fear he should wake the patients.'
'Sir, I'm very much
obliged
to you for the caution, and I'll leave particular directions with the servant to lock up the spoons,' replied Mr. Gunter.
'Wot's the matter now?' said Sam.'Nev'r mind, Sammy,' replied Mr. Weller, 'it'll be a wery agonisin' trial to me at my time of life, but I'm pretty tough, that's vun consolation, as the wery old turkey remarked wen the farmer said he wos afeerd he should be
obliged
to kill him for the London market.'
To this, the other king (who was the weaker of the two) replied that he was very much
obliged
to his friend and brother for all his goodness and magnanimity, and that his daughter was quite ready to be married, whenever Prince Bladud liked to come and fetch her.
At length Mr. Winkle began to dream that he was at a club, and that the members being very refractory, the chairman was
obliged
to hammer the table a good deal to preserve order; then he had a confused notion of an auction room where there were no bidders, and the auctioneer was buying everything in; and ultimately he began to think it just within the bounds of possibility that somebody might be knocking at the street door.
'Wery much
obliged
for your good opinion, sir,' replied Sam.
I am very much
obliged
to you indeed, gentlemen, for your patronage, and also for your recommendations, gentlemen, whenever additional assistance in waiting is required.
'Wery much
obliged
to you, old fellers,' said Sam, ladling away at the punch in the most unembarrassed manner possible, 'for this here compliment; which, comin' from sich a quarter, is wery overvelmin'.
'If I find it necessary to carry you away, pick-a-back, o' course I shall leave it the least bit o' time possible afore you; but allow me to express a hope as you won't reduce me to extremities; in saying wich, I merely quote wot the nobleman said to the fractious pennywinkle, ven he vouldn't come out of his shell by means of a pin, and he conseqvently began to be afeered that he should be
obliged
to crack him in the parlour door.'
'Ah, indeed,' said Sam.'Ve thought ve should ha' been
obliged
to strait-veskit him last night; he's been a-ravin' all day; and he says if he can't see you afore to-morrow night's over, he vishes he may be somethin' unpleasanted if he don't drownd hisself.''Oh, no, no, Mr. Weller!' said Arabella, clasping her hands.
That's all, my dear.''Indeed, Mr. Pickwick, I am very much
obliged
to you for your kindness and consideration,' replied Arabella, drying her tears with her handkerchief.
'Nothing that I am aware of, I am
obliged
to you,' replied Mr. Pickwick.
Much
obliged
to you, Mr. Weller.
'But consider, Sam,' Mr. Pickwick remonstrated, 'the sum is so small that it can very easily be paid; and having made up My mind that you shall stop with me, you should recollect how much more useful you would be, if you could go outside the walls.''Wery much
obliged
to you, sir,' replied Mr. Weller gravely; 'but I'd rayther not.''Rather not do what, Sam?''Wy, I'd rayther not let myself down to ask a favour o' this here unremorseful enemy.''But it is no favour asking him to take his money, Sam,' reasoned Mr. Pickwick.
"See arter the TIMES, Thomas; let me look at the MORNIN' HERALD, when it's out o' hand; don't forget to bespeak the CHRONICLE; and just bring the 'TIZER, vill you:" and then he'd set vith his eyes fixed on the clock, and rush out, just a quarter of a minit 'fore the time to waylay the boy as wos a-comin' in with the evenin' paper, which he'd read with sich intense interest and persewerance as worked the other customers up to the wery confines o' desperation and insanity, 'specially one i-rascible old gen'l'm'n as the vaiter wos always
obliged
to keep a sharp eye on, at sich times, fear he should be tempted to commit some rash act with the carving-knife.
'Mother-in-law,' said Sam, politely saluting the lady, 'wery much
obliged
to you for this here wisit.--Shepherd,
Wery much
obliged
to you for your good opinion, Sir.'At this point of the conversation, a sound, indecorously approaching to a laugh, was heard to proceed from the chair in which the elder Mr. Weller was seated; upon which Mrs. Weller, on a hasty consideration of all the circumstances of the case, considered it her bounden duty to become gradually hysterical.
Wot do you say to another o' the same dimensions?''I would rather not, I am much
obliged
to you, Sir,' replied Job--'much rather not.''Vell, then, wot do you say to some wittles?' inquired Sam.
At length, when this determination had been announced half a hundred times, the old lady suddenly bridling up and looking very majestic, wished to know what she had done that no respect was to be paid to her years or station, and that she should be
obliged
to beg and pray, in that way, of her own nephew, whom she remembered about five-and-twenty years before he was born, and whom she had known, personally, when he hadn't a tooth in his head; to say nothing of her presence on the first occasion of his having his hair cut, and assistance at numerous other times and ceremonies during his babyhood, of sufficient importance to found a claim upon his affection, obedience, and sympathies, for ever.
Besides,' said Bob, lowering his voice to a confidential whisper, 'they will be all the better for it; for, being nearly out of drugs, and not able to increase my account just now, I should have been
obliged
to give them calomel all round, and it would have been certain to have disagreed with some of them.
reduced counsels, Sammy.''Wery kind o' the old lady to think o' me,' said Sam, 'and I'm wery much
obliged
to her.''The rest will be inwested in my name,' continued the elder Mr. Weller; 'and wen I'm took off the road, it'll come to you, so take care you don't spend it all at vunst, my boy, and mind that no widder gets a inklin' o' your fortun', or you're done.'
'The agent at Liverpool said he had been
obliged
to you many times when you were in business, and he would be glad to take him on your recommendation.'
There now, Mr. Pickwick, if you can make it convenient to reduce your eyes to their usual size again, and to let me hear what you think we ought to do, I shall feel rather
obliged
to you!'The testy manner in which the hearty old gentleman uttered this last sentence was not wholly unwarranted; for Mr. Pickwick's face had settled down into an expression of blank amazement and perplexity, quite curious to behold.
'You are a hard- hearted, unfeeling, cruel monster.''You are a little rebel,' replied Wardle, in the same tone, 'and I am afraid I shall be
obliged
to forbid you the house.
If you have any opportunity of recommending me to any of your friends, gentlemen, I shall be very much
obliged
to you, and so will they too, when they come to know me.
If you'll take care on it for me, sir, I shall be wery much
obliged
to you.
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