[The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookThe Pickwick Papers CHAPTER I 5/8
Stage-coaches were upsetting in all directions, horses were bolting, boats were overturning, and boilers were bursting.
(Cheers--a voice "No.") No! (Cheers.) Let that honourable Pickwickian who cried "No" so loudly come forward and deny it, if he could.
(Cheers.) Who was it that cried "No"? (Enthusiastic cheering.) Was it some vain and disappointed man--he would not say haberdasher (loud cheers)--who, jealous of the praise which had been--perhaps undeservedly--bestowed on his (Mr.Pickwick's) researches, and smarting under the censure which had been heaped upon his own feeble attempts at rivalry, now took this vile and calumnious mode of--- 'Mr.BLOTTON (of Aldgate) rose to order.
Did the honourable Pickwickian allude to him? (Cries of "Order," "Chair," "Yes," "No," "Go on," "Leave off," etc.) 'Mr.PICKWICK would not put up to be put down by clamour.
He had alluded to the honourable gentleman.
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