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Mr. Snodgrass was about to reply, when he was interrupted by a shout from Mr. Pickwick.
'Hollo!' was the red-headed man's reply.
Having uttered this brief reply, and apparently satisfied himself with another scrutiny, the red-headed man resumed his work.
A murmur of curiosity was of course the reply; and the old gentleman proceeded to recite, with the aid of sundry promptings from his wife, the lines in question.
The old gentleman fired by way of reply.
Every gentleman who hears me, is probably acquainted with the reply made by an individual, who --to use an ordinary figure of speech--"hung out" in a tub, to the emperor Alexander:--"if I were not Diogenes," said he, "I would be Alexander."
'Never!' was the valorous reply.
Under this impression, he said with great firmness--'What do you want here, Sir?''Supper's ready, sir,' was the prompt reply.
'Not above three-quarters of an hour,' was everybody's reply.
'Number twenty-two wants his boots.''Ask number twenty-two, vether he'll have 'em now, or vait till he gets 'em,' was the reply.
'Come in,' said a man's voice, in reply to Sam's rap at the door.
Mr. Winkle, to whom the question was more peculiarly addressed, made no reply.
Mrs. Bardell could only reply by a look.
'Very,' was the reply of his followers, as they coughed slightly, and looked dubiously at each other.
'Everything, my dear Sir,' was the little man's reply.
'Should you?' was the only reply of the bagman, who continued to smoke with great vehemence.
Two or three minutes passing without any reply, he gave another tap rather louder, and then another rather louder than that.
No reply: very odd.
We shall have a jovial party on the first, and we'll give Winkle another chance--eh, old boy?'Mr. Pickwick made no reply, he did not even ask after his friends at Dingley Dell, and shortly afterwards retired for the night, desiring Sam to fetch his candle when he rung.
'Nathaniel Pipkin could make no reply, so old Lobbs shook him backwards and forwards, for two or three minutes, by way of arranging his ideas for him.
Whatever thoughts the threat of a separation might have awakened in Mr. Pott's mind, he forbore to give utterance to them, and contented himself by saying, with great humility:--'My dear, will you hear me?'A fresh train of sobs was the only reply, as Mrs. Pott grew more hysterical, requested to be informed why she was ever born, and required sundry other pieces of information of a similar description.
Mr. Pickwick made no reply, but, pushing the letter across the table, and desiring Mr. Tupman to read it aloud, fell back in his chair with a look of vacant astonishment quite alarming to behold.
Mr. Winkle dismounted without saying anything in reply to this observation; but he thought within himself, that if the party remained in the open air, till he had filled one of the bags, they stood a considerable chance of catching colds in their heads.
'Come; a glass of punch!''With great pleasure,' said Mr. Pickwick; the satisfaction of whose countenance, after drinking it, bore testimony to the sincerity of the reply.
Captain Boldwig!' was the only reply.
'Come in, can't you!' cried a voice from behind the partition, in reply to Mr. Pickwick's gentle tap at the door.
There was no reply; so Mr. Pickwick sat down unbidden, and listened to the loud ticking of the clock and the murmured conversation of the clerks.
This was an unanswerable reply, and silence prevailed again.
There was something so odd in the old man's sudden energy, and the subject which had called it forth, that Mr. Pickwick was prepared with no observation in reply; and the old man checking his impetuosity, and resuming the leer, which had disappeared during his previous excitement, said--'Look at them in another light--their most common-place and least romantic.
The son walked up to the pot of ale, and nodding significantly to his parent, took a long draught by way of reply.
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