You nodded to me, sir ?' 'Pooh, pooh, nonsense.

You didn't nod to anybody, Pickwick?
A mistake, a mistake,' said Perker.
'The gentleman handed me his card,' replied Mr.Pickwick, producing it from his waistcoat pocket.

'I accepted it, as the gentleman seemed to wish it--in fact I had some curiosity to look at it when I should be at leisure.

I--' The little attorney burst into a loud laugh, and returning the card to the lame man, informing him it was all a mistake, whispered to Mr.
Pickwick as the man turned away in dudgeon, that he was only a bail.
'A what!' exclaimed Mr.Pickwick.
'A bail,' replied Perker.
'A bail!' 'Yes, my dear sir--half a dozen of 'em here.

Bail you to any amount, and only charge half a crown.