Identifier: cu31924013471481 (find matches)
Title: Works
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall, limited
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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ere he is ! said Sam, rising with great glee. Whywe were that wery moment a speaking o you. How are you ?Where have you been ? Come in. Laying his hand on the mulberry collar of the unresistingJob, Mr. Weller dragged him into the kitchen; and, lockingthe door, handed the key to Mr. Muzzle, who very coollybuttoned it up in a side-pocket. Well, heres a game ! cried Sam. Only think o mymaster havin the pleasure o meeting yourn, up stairs, and mehavin the joy o meetin you down here. How are you gettinon, and how is the chandlery bisness likely to do ? Well, Iam so glad to see you. How happy you look. Its quite atreat to see you ; aint it, Mr. Muzzle ? Quite, said Mr. Muzzle. So cheerful he is ! said Sam. In such good spirits ! said Muzzle. And so glad to see us—that makes it so much morecomfortable, said Sam. Sit down; sit down. Mr. Trotter suffered himself to be forced into a chair bythe fireside. He cast his small eyes, first on Mr. Weller, andthen on Mr. Muzzle, but said nothing. 392
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%^ . HJCi. ^y^-^^lfPii^A^^ eMC<9Mn/e4j ^^Z^7/?n^^?!y^i ME. MUZZLE INDIGNANT Well, now, said Sam, afore these here ladies, I shouldjest like to ask you, as a sort of curiosity, wether you dontcon-sider yourself as nice and well-behaved a young genlmn,as ever used a pink check pocket-handkerchief, and the numberfour collection ? And as was ever a-going to be married to a cook, saidthat lady, indignantly, the wilHn ! And leave off his evil ways, and set up in the chandleryline, arterwards, said the house-maid. Now, I 11 tell you what it is, young man, said Mr. Muzzle,solemnly, enraged at the last two allusions, this here lady(pointing to the cook) keeps company with me; and when youpresume, sir, to talk of keeping chandlers shops with her, youinjure me in one of the most delicatest points in which one mancan injure another. Do you understand me, sir 1 Here Mr. Muzzle, who had a great notion of his eloquence,in which he imitated his master, paused for a reply. But Mr. Trotter made no r

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