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The Pickwick Papers

CHAPTER XL
18/21

Until then, good-bye.' As Mr.Pickwick said this, he got into the coach which had by this time arrived, followed by the tipstaff.

Sam having stationed himself on the box, it rolled away.
'A most extraordinary man that!' said Perker, as he stopped to pull on his gloves.
'What a bankrupt he'd make, Sir,' observed Mr.Lowten, who was standing near.

'How he would bother the commissioners! He'd set 'em at defiance if they talked of committing him, Sir.' The attorney did not appear very much delighted with his clerk's professional estimate of Mr.Pickwick's character, for he walked away without deigning any reply.
The hackney-coach jolted along Fleet Street, as hackney-coaches usually do.

The horses 'went better', the driver said, when they had anything before them (they must have gone at a most extraordinary pace when there was nothing), and so the vehicle kept behind a cart; when the cart stopped, it stopped; and when the cart went on again, it did the same.
Mr.Pickwick sat opposite the tipstaff; and the tipstaff sat with his hat between his knees, whistling a tune, and looking out of the coach window.
Time performs wonders.

By the powerful old gentleman's aid, even a hackney-coach gets over half a mile of ground.


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