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Resumed in sentence

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'Unworthiness for HER only, mind, sir,' resumed Mr. Pickwick; 'for to show that I was not wholly unworthy, sir, I should take a brief review of my past life, and present condition.
The procession then reformed; the chairmen resumed their stations; and the march was re-commenced.
I don't wish to say anything to make you uncomfortable, young man, but your master's an old brute, and I wish I had him here to tell him so.''I wish you had,' said Sam.'To see how dreadful she takes on, going moping about, and taking no pleasure in nothing, except when her friends comes in, out of charity, to sit with her, and make her comfortable,' resumed Mrs. Cluppins, glancing at the tin saucepan and the Dutch oven, 'it's shocking!''Barbareous,' said Mrs. Sanders.
'But the plaintiff must get it,' resumed Mrs. Cluppins.
Whereupon Mr. Winkle gallantly inquired if it couldn't be done by deputy: to which the young lady with the black eyes replied 'Go away,' and accompanied the request with a look which said as plainly as a look could do, 'if you can.''My dear friends,' resumed Mr. Pickwick, 'I am going to propose the health of the bride and bridegroom--God bless 'em (cheers and tears).
He walked away; and Mr. Pickwick's countenance resumed its customary benign expression.
The particular friends resumed their attack upon the breakfast, more freely than before, as if the recollection of last night's supper had imparted a new relish to the meal.
Mr. Weller resumed his pipe with critical solemnity, and Sam once more commenced, and read as follows:'"Lovely creetur I feel myself a damned--"''That ain't proper,' said Mr. Weller, taking his pipe from his mouth.
Mr. Weller nodded approvingly, and Sam resumed.
'I was there,' resumed Mrs. Cluppins, 'unbeknown to Mrs. Bardell; I had been out with a little basket, gentlemen, to buy three pound of red kidney pertaties, which was three pound tuppence ha'penny, when I see Mrs. Bardell's street door on the jar.''On the what?' exclaimed the little judge.
'They have heard all about me.''You are the gentleman residing on Clapham Green,' resumed Bantam, 'who lost the use of his limbs from imprudently taking cold after port wine; who could not be moved in consequence of acute suffering, and who had the water from the king's bath bottled at one hundred and three degrees, and sent by wagon to his bedroom in town, where he bathed, sneezed, and the same day recovered.
Mrs. Craddock closed the door, and Mr. Pickwick resumed his writing.
Mr. Pickwick went to his bedchamber, and Mr. Dowler resumed his seat before the fire, in fulfilment of his rash promise to sit up till his wife came home.
'And you know,' resumed Mr. John Smauker, with an air of sublime protection--'you know, as you're a stranger, perhaps, they'll be rather hard upon you at first.''They won't be wery cruel, though, will they?' inquired Sam.
'I left a note for you,' resumed Dowler.
'You're a amiably-disposed young man, Sir, I don't think,' resumed Mr. Weller, in a tone of moral reproof, 'to go inwolving our precious governor in all sorts o' fanteegs, wen he's made up his mind to go through everythink for principle.
'Why, how did you come here?' said Mary, when the conversation to which this interruption had been offered, was resumed.
'There's nothing you want to give out for the man to brush, my dear creature, is there?' resumed Smangle.
What a rum thing time is, ain't it, Neddy?'The gentleman to whom these observations were addressed, who appeared of a taciturn and thoughtful cast, merely echoed the inquiry; Mr. Roker, shaking off the poetical and gloomy train of thought into which he had been betrayed, descended to the common business of life, and resumed his pen.
'I called in Goswell Street,' resumed Mr. Jackson, 'and hearing that you were here, from the slavey, took a coach and came on.
'Sorry for that,' resumed Perker, 'because it will form the subject of our conversation.'
The little man gave a double-knock on the lid of his snuff-box, opened it, took a great pinch, shut it up again, and repeated the words, 'With you.''I say, my dear Sir,' resumed the little man, who seemed to gather confidence from the snuff--'I say, that her speedy liberation or perpetual imprisonment rests with you, and with you alone.
'Upon my word,' exclaimed Mr. Pickwick, who by this time had resumed his spectacles, and was looking from Arabella to Winkle, and from Winkle to Arabella, with as much delight depicted in his countenance as warmheartedness and kindly feeling can communicate to the human face--'upon my word!
Satisfied with this assurance, Mr. Pickwick once more drew his head into the chaise and pulled up the glass; but he had scarcely resumed the conversation which Mr. Bob Sawyer had interrupted, when he was somewhat startled by the apparition of a small dark body, of an oblong form, on the outside of the window, which gave sundry taps against it, as if impatient of admission.
Under the auspices of the three, the bottled ale and the Madeira were promptly disposed of; and when (the horses being once more put to) they resumed their seats, with the case-bottle full of the best substitute for milk-punch that could be procured on so short a notice, the key-bugle sounded, and the red flag waved, without the slightest opposition on Mr. Pickwick's part.
'Yes, Sir,' resumed Pott, 'it is.'Here, bending towards Mr. Pickwick, he whispered in a deep, hollow voice,'A Buff ball, Sir, will take place in Birmingham to-morrow evening.''God bless me!' exclaimed Mr. Pickwick.
The landlord took a step or two towards the door; the stranger fixing his eyes upon him, resumed.
'I will drink my rum-and-water,' said Mr. Slurk, 'by the kitchen fire.'So, gathering up his hat and newspaper, he stalked solemnly behind the landlord to that humble apartment, and throwing himself on a settle by the fireside, resumed his countenance of scorn, and began to read and drink in silent dignity.
'How it ever come to that 'ere pass,' resumed the parent Weller, 'I can't say.
Having delivered this warning, Mr. Weller resumed his pipe with a more serene countenance; the disclosure of these matters appearing to have eased his mind considerably.
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