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Weller,' said Mrs. Craddock, upon the morning of this very eventful day, 'here's a letter for you.''Wery odd that,' said Sam; 'I'm afeerd there must be somethin' the matter, for I don't
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any gen'l'm'n in my circle of acquaintance as is capable o' writin' one.''Perhaps something uncommon has taken place,' observed Mrs. Craddock.
'Nothing, my dear boy, nothing,' said Ben.'You
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Arabella, Winkle?
Another man, evidently very drunk, who had probably been tumbled into bed by his companions, was sitting up between the sheets, warbling as much as he could
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of a comic song, with the most intensely sentimental feeling and expression; while a third, seated on one of the bedsteads, was applauding both performers with the air of a profound connoisseur, and encouraging them by such ebullitions of feeling as had already roused Mr. Pickwick from his sleep.
'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
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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.
'You
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the gentleman very well, I dare say, Sam,' replied Mr. Pickwick, 'or else you are more unmindful of your old acquaintances than I think you are.
Do you recollect, with all the eagerness of a child's love, one day pressing upon her acceptance, two small caraway-seed biscuits and one sweet apple, neatly folded into a circular parcel with the leaf of a copy-book?''I do,' replied Bob Sawyer.
While Mr. Pickwick was mixing his brandy-and-water, the one-eyed man looked round at him earnestly, from time to time, and at length said--'I think I've seen you before.''I don't
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you,' rejoined Mr. Pickwick.
I don't quite
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how many tumblers of whiskey-toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the bailie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of "Willie brewed a peck o' maut"; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going, especially as drinking had set in at seven o'clock, in order that he might get home at a decent hour.
'I see that you
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it with satisfaction,' said Mr. Pickwick, attempting to call up a sneer for the first time in his life, and failing most signally in so doing.
'Oh, I recollect; I left it on my dressing-table this morning,' said Wardle.
There are several people in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may
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in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in his interest.
My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.
He heard her with the most earnest attention, but seeming to
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himself, said no more on the subject, and began directly to speak of his pleasure at seeing them in London, making the usual inquiries about their journey, and the friends they had left behind.
"Why, to be sure," said he, seeming to
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himself, "people have little, have very little in their power.
If you only hope to have your assertion contradicted, as I must suppose to be the case, you ought to
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that I am the last person in the world to do it.
He too was much distressed; and they sat down together in a most promising state of embarrassment.--Whether he had asked her pardon for his intrusion on first coming into the room, he could not recollect; but determining to be on the safe side, he made his apology in form as soon as he could say any thing, after taking a chair.
"But, upon my soul, I did NOT know it," he warmly replied; "I did not
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that I had omitted to give her my direction; and common sense might have told her how to find it out."
It will suffice, then, to tell them that at the moment at which, discouraged by so many fruitless investigations, we were about to abandon our search, we at length found, guided by the counsels of our illustrious friend Paulin Paris, a manuscript in folio, endorsed 4772 or 4773, we do not
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which, having for title, "Memoirs of the Comte de la Fere, Touching Some Events Which Passed in France Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XIII and the Commencement of the Reign of King Louis XIV."
"Oh, very shortly, madame," said he; "but I do not precisely
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the date of the day.
I
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now,’ said the officer, in a jeering tone; ’well, what do you want with me?’ ’I want you to spare time to take a walk with me.’ ’Tomorrow morning, if you like, with the greatest pleasure.’
"Here is the story, monseigneur," resumed the trembling host; "for I now
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you.
"No," replied d’Artagnan, "if I
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well what you said, it was nothing out of the common way."
"Our conditions said, ’No revenge,’ you will please to recollect."
I recollect."
Can you
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all that?""Perfectly, madame."
Do you think he would
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you?""My faith, monsieur, he was in such trouble that I doubt if he can have retained a very clear recollection of me.""Well, go and talk with the boy," said d’Artagnan, "and make out if you can from his conversation whether his master is dead."
"Well, then, I am your servant, Monsieur Baron," said d’Artagnan, "though you have names rather difficult to recollect."
You
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perfectly all I have told you, do you not?""Your Eminence will judge: the ball of Madame the Constable; the night at the Louvre; the evening at Amiens; the arrest of Montague; the letter of Madame de Chevreuse."
Where were we?""I
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you were saying," said d’Artagnan, "that after having demanded my head of the cardinal, Milady had quit the shores of France.
I cannot
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whether it was by steel or by poison; only of this I am sure, I have dreamed he was dead, and you know my dreams never deceive me.
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