Stairs
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I heard the tread of footsteps on the
stairs.
'Mercy upon me,' said Mr. Pickwick, struggling violently, 'I hear somebody coming up the
stairs.
At length the sound of feet was audible upon the stairs, and then the light of a candle shone through the keyhole of the door.
He had scarcely had time to form this conclusion, when a window above
stairs
was thrown up, and three or four female voices repeated the query--'Who's there?'
The boarders, and the teachers, and the servants, fell back upon the stairs, and upon each other; and never was such a screaming, and fainting, and struggling beheld.
Mr. Wicks!''Sir,' said the two clerks, appearing at the bottom of the
stairs.
As Fogg put himself very temptingly within the reach of Mr. Pickwick's clenched fist, there is little doubt that that gentleman would have complied with his earnest entreaty, but for the interposition of Sam, who, hearing the dispute, emerged from the office, mounted the stairs, and seized his master by the arm.
And without the slightest ceremony, Mr. Weller hauled his master down the stairs, and down the court, and having safely deposited him in Cornhill, fell behind, prepared to follow whithersoever he should lead.
After climbing two pairs of steep and dirty stairs, he found his anticipations were realised.
Before the attorney, who had recognised his voice from above stairs, could order the servant to admit him, he had rushed up the staircase, and entered the drawing-room pale and breathless.
The more
stairs
Mr. Pickwick went down, the more
stairs
there seemed to be to descend, and again and again, when Mr. Pickwick got into some narrow passage, and began to congratulate himself on having gained the ground-floor, did another flight of
stairs
appear before his astonished eyes.
'How de do, sir?' said Mr. Muzzle, as he conducted Mr. Weller down the kitchen
stairs.
'It's below stairs, Sir,' said Sam, and he ran down after it.
He ought to be ashamed of himself (here Mrs. Raddle sobbed) to allow his wife to be treated in this way by a parcel of young cutters and carvers of live people's bodies, that disgraces the lodgings (another sob), and leaving her exposed to all manner of abuse; a base, faint- hearted, timorous wretch, that's afraid to come upstairs, and face the ruffinly creatures--that's afraid--that's afraid to come!'Mrs. Raddle paused to listen whether the repetition of the taunt had roused her better half; and finding that it had not been successful, proceeded to descend the
stairs
with sobs innumerable; when there came a loud double knock at the street door; whereupon she burst into an hysterical fit of weeping, accompanied with dismal moans, which was prolonged until the knock had been repeated six times, when, in an uncontrollable burst of mental agony, she threw down all the umbrellas, and disappeared into the back parlour, closing the door after her with an awful crash.
It's the door straight afore you, when you gets to the top of the stairs.'
Having given this instruction, the handmaid, who had been brought up among the aboriginal inhabitants of Southwark, disappeared, with the candle in her hand, down the kitchen stairs, perfectly satisfied that she had done everything that could possibly be required of her under the circumstances.
A heavy footstep was heard upon the stairs, and Jack Hopkins presented himself.
'Only a man fallen out of a four pair of
stairs'
window; but it's a very fair case indeed.''Do you mean that the patient is in a fair way to recover?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
Sam had solaced himself with a most agreeable little dinner, and was waiting at the bar for the glass of warm mixture in which Mr. Pickwick had requested him to drown the fatigues of his morning's walks, when a young boy of about three feet high, or thereabouts, in a hairy cap and fustian overalls, whose garb bespoke a laudable ambition to attain in time the elevation of an hostler, entered the passage of the George and Vulture, and looked first up the stairs, and then along the passage, and then into the bar, as if in search of somebody to whom he bore a commission; whereupon the barmaid, conceiving it not improbable that the said commission might be directed to the tea or table spoons of the establishment, accosted the boy with--'Now, young man, what do you want?''Is there anybody here, named Sam?' inquired the youth, in a loud voice of treble quality.
'Do you recollect, Mrs. Cluppins,' said Serjeant Buzfuz, after a few unimportant questions--'do you recollect being in Mrs. Bardell's back one pair of stairs, on one particular morning in July last, when she was dusting Pickwick's apartment?''Yes, my Lord and jury, I do,' replied Mrs. Cluppins.
If they wos a pair o' patent double million magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o
' stairs
and a deal door; but bein' only eyes, you see, my wision 's limited.'
Crossing the greengrocer's shop, and putting their hats on the
stairs
in the little passage behind it, they walked into a small parlour; and here the full splendour of the scene burst upon Mr. Weller's view.
Apparently much consoled by this reflection, Mr. Weller once more deposited the key in his pocket, and descending the remainder of the
stairs
without any fresh visitations of conscience, was soon, in common with the other inmates of the house, buried in profound repose.
Having said all this in a breath, Mr. Roker mounted another flight of
stairs
with Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller following at his heels.
Deserved it all--but suffered much--very.'Wholly unable to keep up appearances any longer, and perhaps rendered worse by the effort he had made, the dejected stroller sat down on the stairs, and, covering his face with his hands, sobbed like a child.
With these words they disappeared down the
stairs.
It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the
stairs
were steep, rugged, and broken.
ha!'Mr. Lowten concluded with a loud laugh, half in jocularity, and half in derision, which was prematurely cut short by the sound of Perker's footsteps on the stairs, at the first approach of which, he vaulted on his stool with an agility most remarkable, and wrote intensely.
Now, whether the shake had jumbled the fat boy's faculties together, instead of arranging them in proper order, or had roused such a quantity of new ideas within him as to render him oblivious of ordinary forms and ceremonies, or (which is also possible) had proved unsuccessful in preventing his falling asleep as he ascended the stairs, it is an undoubted fact that he walked into the sitting-room without previously knocking at the door; and so beheld a gentleman with his arms clasping his young mistress's waist, sitting very lovingly by her side on a sofa, while Arabella and her pretty handmaid feigned to be absorbed in looking out of a window at the other end of the room.
Mr. Weller--here--come back!'Sam saw that his master's injunctions were not to be disobeyed; and, catching his father by the arm as he was descending the stairs, dragged him back by main force.
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