Pickwick Abroad: A Companion to the Pickwick Papers — page 175: what you’re looking at

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- - for the purpose of per: -and repaired to where r . more elevated walks of lace-weaving. But | should be induced to swallow if she soon discovered that her husband had | mained insensible to his affectio been in France before, and that he had | The Commissary settled the ' Y : PIOKWICK ABROAD. $ ms 159 to. Paris; where he entered the'| had procured some laud.wnum which he she still re ~ : latter by another wife living; whereupon she sepa- | desiring the“interpreter to inform the prison- rated from hin, and he had made frequent | er that he must be handed over to the interview with her, aoe uading her to renew their former aan se She, however, determined to have nothing more to say to attempts to obtain a him; and the consequence was that a few an’ lets days previously she rege Vv the ensuing effusion : : “ Dear beller, ) “my mind has bin in a compleat state of anx eye ity ever since you made a wow never to see me agin. as I can’t have yer comperny as we used to have. i have been obligated 2 perwade the strete vere you live all day cos ven I nocks no yon cums we in. I ean’t live vith any piece o mini till [hear from yer sveet lipps as you von’t have nothink to do more vith me. mi luv, I can’t live vith Hout your sveet cumperny. I mite as vell be kicked out 0’ the walls o the Creation Mi luy, if you vill kum back an’ enjoye wunce more vith your Hie Benjamin the sveets 0’ maytri- mony—aa’ i will make you a cumfertable home—i will prommis you on the bible not to hide you amy more—mi luy—i only hided you ty make you the more fonderer on me. but as u vbjecth to sitch mezzhures 1 shall never undertake that transackshun no more. if udont kum an’ se me now u shall repent it cos 1 carry somethink allays about me. | “ver trew luv, “B,J.” A? The Commissary inquired, through the interpreter, what Mr. Benjamin Juddery meant by threatening the life of a woman whom he had so grossly deceived? If he were mm the habit of carrying something about him in order to do her a bodily and? perhaps mortal injury, he, the magistrate, must do what he could to prevent his sanzui- nary purpose from being carried into eifect. ‘he defendant, casting’a look of the most piteous and expostulatory description at the object of his affection, who on her part seemed to be wholly unconscious herself of the tender passion, declared that the mean- ig of the expression complained of had been entirely misuuderstood, He protested that he would sooner die than harbor a tho ight injurious» to the person of his much-loved Arabella, and that all he meant was that he | hysterics simultaneously. tender mercies of the King’s Procurator and the Court’ of Assize, on a charge of bigamy ; and when the wife implored the forbearance _ of the magistrate, she was acquainted with the fact that in France the ends of justice are invariably secured by the public prose- eutor, whom no bribes can turn away from. the straight path which impartiality and ~ honor point out for him to pursue. The last case, previous to that of Made- moiselle Anastasie de Volage, was then called: and this was it;— : An individual, who earried.on the double callings of porter to a house and tailor to men’s clothes, was found by the patrol, to- — wards the “small hours” seated in a most peculiar condition in the middle of the Place Vendome. It appears that he was strenuously advised by one of the patrol to retire to his couch, and that with a look of solemn earnestness he replied, “My dear fellow, nothing would please me more than to be in bed; but the truth is, the Place Vendome is running round at this moment, and Tam only waiting here till my own. door passes.” The patrol very good-naturedly offered his services to transport the inebriate gentleman to his own dwelling if he would only inform | him of the number; but the inebriate gentle man vouchsafed no other answer than by making faces inthe face of the patrol, and when the patrol tried to pick the inebriate gentleman up, the mebriate gentleman knocked the patrol down. The tailo-porter, or porto-tavlor, whichever term the reader may choose to adopt, hav- ing but little to say in his defence, was fined in the sum of five francs to the King, and ordered to apologise to the individual whom he had so roughly handled. The first, second, antepenultimate, penul- timate, and last of the minor cases having been thus disposed of, the Commissary ot Police retired for a few moments, to partake of a slight refection in an adjoining room; and on his return, Mademoiselle Anastasie was again summoned to his presence. Her old mother followed in the rear, and precipt- tated herself ina corner once more, where she fell into a chair and a vic-ent fit of - : (C(O) ~*