Pickwick Abroad: A Companion to the Pickwick Papers — page 172: what you’re looking at

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’ : ‘ir ‘i : of ys : . & gai ' PICKWICK ABROAD. : : . 4 « ; 4 > ~* - B A s toilet. were disclused, I fuund that she wore{ ‘“ A'!l I can do is to imprison ber for the ~ false teeth made in the Palais Royal, a glass | assault,” said the magistrate. POERET ES Ps, eye fabricated in the Rue Saint Honoré, a| “And then she would: thrash me worse m cork leg that emanated from a shop in the | than ever when she came out of goal,’ whim- — Place des Victoires, a wig from the fashion- | pered the old man, sneaking away fromthe ‘s able barber’s in the Rue de la Paix, and aj office. ; wait variety of other artificial charms,which I can-| “ Call the next case,” said the Commissary, © not now enumerate.” wis Fir . A man.was brought forw: J, in the cus: | »“ And in what way do you wish me to as- | tody of a town-sergeant, charged with have | A sist you?” inquired the Commissary. ing galloped his donkey through the streets, 4 “* In what way!” shouted the little man. | to the danger and discomfiture’of all sohbet. “J will tell you the rest, and then you shall | and ‘honest citizens. The witness this) > see in what way youcan assist me, When | case was an English mechanic, whose evi: IT reproached her for having thus deceived | dence was delivered through the mediwmn me, she threw my own words.in my teeth,| of an interpreter. The defendant was in ‘Did you not say, cried she, ‘that it was| the habit of working in a brimstone loft, not fur my beauty that you loved me, and | and as his hands were generally full of bu-\_ that I should always be dear to you, hand-| siness, he had seldom time to wash either some orvugly, old or young, well or ill, rich | them or his face, so, that. he bore the ap- or poor ?— Yes, said I; ‘but I did not ex-, pearance of having returned from that piace pect to find an invalid in a young woman of where, according. to good authority, the ar- © two and twenty. Well, Sir, to be brief, this | ticle upon which he worked abounds in the morning all the bills came pouring in; a | greatest quantity and perfection. The don- thousand francs for the teeth, five hundred | key, being accustomed to the same conmuad- ' for the leg, two hundred for the wig, fifty for ity, matched its bene complexion; and. the eye, and other ztems to the amount of) the speed with which they made their way — | three thousand francs altogether.’ amongst the mass of carriages and carts in “T amsorry I can grant you no assistance.” the Faubourg Saint Honoré, added to the ) ¢ AY | ap 5 d observed the Commissary. “ You must ap- superstitious fears of the crowds that started oly to another tribunal. aside as they sped along, The awful im- “Stop a moment cried the old man.| pression was rather increased than dim- When I refused to pay the bills this morn- | nished, when upon being asked what was ing, we had a quarrel, which lasted till break- | the rider’s place of destination, be replied fast made its appearance. So when an ad-| with the most perfect nonchalance, ‘lo the mirable dish of mutton chops was placed | devil, to be sure!’ — upon the table, I thought I had better make | The English witness described the extraor- the best-of a bad job; and helping her to one | dinary appearance of the two ofienders, and of the larvest and best looking chops in the | the rapiuity of their progress, which seemed dish, I told her to make herself happy, and to have been luckily unpeded by a cart laden we would not dispute any more. ‘im not | with hay, at which the donkey stopped to ready formy breakfast yet, said she-—' Why | nibble, when the animal and its mder were —* not ? said 1. Because I have no appetite, | both taken into eustody by a town-serjeant, '~ said she.— How is that my dear love? said “ Wasthe man drunk?’ inquired the Com- — I, very. affectionately — Because I should | missary of Police, through the meduun ot like to give you a punch or two on the head | the interpreter. et ' first, was her very disrespectful answer— |} The reply shall be given in the native ‘Wi at for? said 1— Only just to give me | English of the witness. j ea: ali ippetite for my breaktast, said she, very | “ About half-and-half said that, highly coolly ; and jumping up, she pitched imto respectable man; “ but they knowed vell me right and left. Ireally think she would enoygh vot they wos up te both on’ em ; for not. have left off yet, had not ber cork-leg the dovkey vent up agin the wery hay he wos became untied, and down she plumped upow feedin’ on, like an. ungrateful beast as_ he the floor; so I seized the opportunity and, wos.’ , rau straight here.” _ The defendant protested that his donkey “Does your wife drink?” demanded the ' was. the most harmless animal that ever Commissary. ERE hyed, and thatthe speed at which he went “She is not ayerse to a drop,” answered could not have exceeded a pony’s trot. . Be - the old man © i sides, he observed, that the poor little féllow i ht ; 4 comicbooks.conm