[The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookThe Pickwick Papers CHAPTER XXVIII 12/25
It is a remarkable fact that those of Mr.Snodgrass bore constant reference to Emily Wardle; and that the principal figure in Mr.Winkle's visions was a young lady with black eyes, and arch smile, and a pair of remarkably nice boots with fur round the tops. Mr.Pickwick was awakened early in the morning, by a hum of voices and a pattering of feet, sufficient to rouse even the fat boy from his heavy slumbers.
He sat up in bed and listened.
The female servants and female visitors were running constantly to and fro; and there were such multitudinous demands for hot water, such repeated outcries for needles and thread, and so many half-suppressed entreaties of 'Oh, do come and tie me, there's a dear!' that Mr.Pickwick in his innocence began to imagine that something dreadful must have occurred--when he grew more awake, and remembered the wedding.
The occasion being an important one, he dressed himself with peculiar care, and descended to the breakfast-room. There were all the female servants in a bran new uniform of pink muslin gowns with white bows in their caps, running about the house in a state of excitement and agitation which it would be impossible to describe. The old lady was dressed out in a brocaded gown, which had not seen the light for twenty years, saving and excepting such truant rays as had stolen through the chinks in the box in which it had been laid by, during the whole time.
Mr.Trundle was in high feather and spirits, but a little nervous withal.
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