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The Pickwick Papers

CHAPTER XXXVI
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THE CHIEF FEATURES OF WHICH WILL BE FOUND TO BE.
AN AUTHENTIC VERSION OF THE LEGEND OF PRINCE BLADUD, AND A MOST EXTRAORDINARY CALAMITY THAT BEFELL Mr.WINKLE As Mr.Pickwick contemplated a stay of at least two months in Bath, he deemed it advisable to take private lodgings for himself and friends for that period; and as a favourable opportunity offered for their securing, on moderate terms, the upper portion of a house in the Royal Crescent, which was larger than they required, Mr.and Mrs.Dowler offered to relieve them of a bedroom and sitting-room.

This proposition was at once accepted, and in three days' time they were all located in their new abode, when Mr.Pickwick began to drink the waters with the utmost assiduity.

Mr.Pickwick took them systematically.

He drank a quarter of a pint before breakfast, and then walked up a hill; and another quarter of a pint after breakfast, and then walked down a hill; and, after every fresh quarter of a pint, Mr.Pickwick declared, in the most solemn and emphatic terms, that he felt a great deal better; whereat his friends were very much delighted, though they had not been previously aware that there was anything the matter with him.
The Great Pump Room is a spacious saloon, ornamented with Corinthian pillars, and a music-gallery, and a Tompion clock, and a statue of Nash, and a golden inscription, to which all the water-drinkers should attend, for it appeals to them in the cause of a deserving charity.


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