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The Pickwick Papers

CHAPTER XXXIV
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Then there entered two or three more Serjeants; and among them, one with a fat body and a red face, who nodded in a friendly manner to Mr.Serjeant Snubbin, and said it was a fine morning.
'Who's that red-faced man, who said it was a fine morning, and nodded to our counsel ?' whispered Mr.Pickwick.
'Mr.Serjeant Buzfuz,' replied Perker.

'He's opposed to us; he leads on the other side.

That gentleman behind him is Mr.Skimpin, his junior.' Mr.Pickwick was on the point of inquiring, with great abhorrence of the man's cold-blooded villainy, how Mr.Serjeant Buzfuz, who was counsel for the opposite party, dared to presume to tell Mr.Serjeant Snubbin, who was counsel for him, that it was a fine morning, when he was interrupted by a general rising of the barristers, and a loud cry of 'Silence!' from the officers of the court.

Looking round, he found that this was caused by the entrance of the judge.
Mr.Justice Stareleigh (who sat in the absence of the Chief Justice, occasioned by indisposition) was a most particularly short man, and so fat, that he seemed all face and waistcoat.

He rolled in, upon two little turned legs, and having bobbed gravely to the Bar, who bobbed gravely to him, put his little legs underneath his table, and his little three-cornered hat upon it; and when Mr.Justice Stareleigh had done this, all you could see of him was two queer little eyes, one broad pink face, and somewhere about half of a big and very comical-looking wig.
The judge had no sooner taken his seat, than the officer on the floor of the court called out 'Silence!' in a commanding tone, upon which another officer in the gallery cried 'Silence!' in an angry manner, whereupon three or four more ushers shouted 'Silence!' in a voice of indignant remonstrance.


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