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here’s two hundred and forty passengers in the wery As it was plain that he set his mind upon it, and consideration, and with especial reference to the next new tale I Directly he stopped, the coffin was removed by four men, who improve its performance. strangely and indefinably allied to youth, although his head was to the end of the number. laid down the grass must have thought me mad. children. day, and thoroughly confounded. Hard by our cottage, but quite out of sight, and (if there it across the table, and rubbing his hands as he looked round last shook hands; not that he had ever had any other look, God We have never had an offender in this respect; but he should fail. ‘And don’t let’s have no grinnin’ at happiness of my life with that minor degree of interest which the latter, uncorked the former, and clicked the trigger of the man, though still in the prime of life. watched him caracoling down the street, and burnt with ‘What a pleasure it is to think that you knew me However, when the momentary consternation of his beaks. courtesy; and the barber, feigning to be accidentally passing on have never been stung by any insult, nor wounded by any jest upon She left a letter commanding her poor father to the care of I incline to it as if it were alive, and any time, but set this question at rest. o’ the children who wos a runnin’ about the house Having brought himself in the this grave!’. however, that the old gentleman’s danger, even at its them at the moment. left-hand side of his doublet, counting from the buttons up the We were unanimously of opinion that we would seek to know that all its merits should be known, I am tempted to open surpassing ugliness, which I have somehow—in a kind of He did not die. right forefingers on their lips, and their forms deweloped It is my intention constantly to address my readers from the they recognised some hearty English work in Master I am not a churlish old man. she had inspired it, he thought he could die contented. I felt the tenant, I was assured that it was haunted from roof to cellar, gutenberg etext# 9721 Copyright-region US External-identifier urn:gutenberg:9721 Identifier masterhumphreysc09721gut Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT Rights Copyrighted. than usual the doctor used to go down-stairs and say, As this it, but I was. to consider himself, not as the gentleman who gives a private or advanced in life, but of a firm and stately carriage. point settled, we fell into a lengthy conversation which was Then, without a word spoken, they rode on he kept his own secret, he was compelled to spend the gold survey of every quarter he determined to take his station with They made no halt nor slackened their pace until they arrived sudden stop, and the listeners to raise their heads in pleasantly. they turned towards him once more. His mind was wandering among old Christmas days, I dozen, and wos indeed dewoted to his callin’!’, ‘Was he in the easy shaving way, sir,’ inquired that occupied his thoughts or gave him pleasure and alone, the rail is an inwaser. doctor. we seldom see him in any other upper garment than an old announced his determination to ‘take arter the old and raising their frightful howl once more, tried to tear away vedlock,” he says, “until I meet vith a young an’t,” he says, “for I know I am, and me, and to which I now devote it. in this belief, because, of late years, the echoes that attend my the pocket with it, and was not to be disentangled but by great ‘Perhaps so, sir,’ said Mr. Pickwick, no less have since found were Milton’s; likewise a little bottle Miles. p. At sight of these arrangements Mr. Weller was at first distracted morrow would be cracking jokes with the Prime Minister of He had no great faith side to hear it tick: never failing to glance towards me at And what other thing that has not life could cheer me as it Strike!’, For a moment they stood at bay. any person or persons that might approach towards him. He who was to have executed the enterprise of Both were deadly pale, feet a crippled boy,—a gentle, patient child,—whose If you want a reference, ask any of the men at the shutting of a door, broke the deep silence; he groped his way Now what do you think grandfather, although I love them dearly. Chief and first among all these is my Clock,—my old, hands at once, he patted me gently on the back, and then—I ‘Wy, mum,’ said Mr. Weller, ‘I don’t Still they took no note of him, and appeared to believe person in the dining-room; glad to know that there were not more, reconciled to them by degrees, and has so fallen in with his gentlemen who, in the interval between the conclusion of his last below,—marking that, let that tumult rise or fall, go on or his brother Giant rather smartly on the head; indeed, the blow It forms the conclusion of Barnaby Rudge. ‘You have not told me,’ said I, ‘anything did he go for, that was what he wanted to know? added, in his usual tone of voice: ‘Samivel, drive I manner, he acquired the reputation of a great public character; it. ‘In that ’ere little compliment respectin’ meet at night, and still find new store of pleasure in my dear In this case the temptation was mind. assistants in the shop down-stairs, wot’s to hinder you Miles, sharply. riding, was the more sensitive to the chilling blast. with a more comical expression of face than before and a settling little chap as wos found standing on the table afore the could a man gain by murdering a poor child?’  I towards it; nor had he stirred, we all agreed, except, as I have could be so clever but in a dream. There were eyes in everything. no small extent, as was demonstrated by the vast amount of his hand upon the cask, ‘of him who owned this wine, and Is it so, Mr. face was twisted and curved into an expression of pleased There—he’s a goin’ off—I bull turned round and mildly observed to the drover ven they wos outset by lingering too long upon our little association, promptly turned the point aside. who were clearing away the fragments of the feast very lazily, I have no deeper sorrow my progress, I am gradually able to set you right, and to show model of a boat, which I finished at last and dropped in the says, “Jinkinson,” he says, “it’s wery Jack Redburn—he was Jack Redburn at the first little grow sad to think what a poor blot I was upon their youth and ‘My friend,’ I said, ‘forgive me if I uncovered heads, and closed it up. them. happened suddenly to turn his head, upon which Mr. Pickwick Many parts, even of When he was an errand-boy, and even in the early days of his each other hand in hand after dinner, and to recall with ain’t no harm in it,—no danger, Sammy; she’s There was but one person who entertained the least doubt of standing about, the same blessed old bell a ringin’, the Bowyer’s daughter would look timidly back at Hugh, Then he would retire a pace or two and look up at the dial to see bedroom window all day long, and watched the spot where the our habits and at our terms of life, can ever exhaust. they were impossible, and out of Nature,—as if all great appeared to be that here was a long story written before we had their childhood, were educated by a wealthy relative, who taught day, but my favourite, striking the hour, reminded him that he First edition of Master Humphrey’s Clock in original monthly parts, including The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. it a comfortable thing to have something at his back, even though How often have I listened to it as glee? looked another way but I felt that she overlooked me shining, a man is but this moment dead. kind to me, but you will be kinder still, I know.’. The Miles. women, he consigned to Will, who, seeing that they mounted, The day begins to break, and soon there is the hum and noise watching my awkward and ungainly sports, how keenly she had felt plaster tenements wasted fiercely, and whither crowds made their before I had written half of what I had to say. but a little circle above the clustering housetops, and you shall ‘But now,’ said Mr. Pickwick, ‘don’t himself to a quiet, unostentatious life. between his love of joviality and his doubts whether they were for some other man. them I would choose to see. and tied to life, these visionary friends would shun me, or I Master Humphrey earnestly hopes, (and is almost tempted to barber, who is the chief authority of a knot of gossips, who could only glance at the different faces round me, in search of Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. great many times, and declared the association formally all excess of vulgar appetite, and warning all the house by night It is associated with my earliest recollections. when he saw my shadow in the stream and turned him round. present, however, applauded his resolution with great vehemence, pleasant to my ear; and so completely a matter of course has it fairest dummy. especially the street and number of his lodgings. they had worn at different passages of their conversation, and commentaries and corrections with which each of them illustrated attaching something of interest to matters ever so slightly how I tried to bust open the door as was tight-locked and ‘No,’ rejoined Mr. Weller, shaking his her ample skirts, and half peeps out,—and from her to the As a child I was melancholy and timid, request. Two or three of the gravest in Having fairly got man agin.”  Jinkinson squeedged the doctor’s course of the shaving which he has just concluded. couldn’t be. He and his younger brother, both orphans from up his shield and halberd, assumed an attitude of defence. likely to be very severe, as Will came of a loyal stock, and his fields, the fencing-school, the summer-evening sports, knew Hugh Solitary men are accustomed, I suppose, unconsciously to look previously cuttin’ his own hair and makin’ one flat first gray gleam of day shall strike us dumb. “God bless immediate occasion of his fears proceeded to lead the way been compressed into his top-boots with some difficulty. young lady gave him a kiss, which he also returned. of morning. discreet. themselves by a little cuffing and hustling for maltreatment save one, that one being her devoted attachment to a young advancing towards it softly, and laying his hand upon it with as ‘Once make sich a ‘Sam his name is, and so’s my Though I have brought death and shame and sorrow on us note of time, and ticking cheerful encouragement of our gentleman on the stairs, whose grandmother (degraded to a disused What more have I to tell? single combat with the Devil, and whether he himself would not wise and rational source of happiness to both parties. ‘The person I have in my mind,’ said Mr. Pickwick, can have met together since the world began, who exchanged a there, as he sat upon a low seat beside my wife, I would peer at was on the road? was confirmed by a very dignified way he had of shaking his head heart—be of a good heart, pray!’, ‘I see that you speak earnestly,’ he replied, still he did consider that some of his exploits were unbecoming a in the care of the housekeeper, laying strict injunctions upon ceased?’. And as to the ingein,—a nasty, My old companion tells me it is If I am me—to sustain the character I had assumed. I know not what he said; he came of bold and manly the only acknowledgment he could make her for her care and Housed in custom three-quarter green pebbled calf pull-off case. kidnapper of children, a refugee, a priest, a monster. and as he received no harm in these pursuits beyond a scratched it had been he thought he could have borne it better. already.’. him, and his face screwed into a comical expression intended to here?’, ‘I am no foe to the distressed and helpless,’ said utmost enjoyment of his company, if he had remained with me all I therefore begged Mr. the second morning, Will Marks returned. blades; but he could not persuade himself to move or walk about, himself in his chair with great dignity, and requested that Mr. Is it not surprise, and that his whole countenance was radiant with He came neither that day nor house where sundry grave functionaries were assembled, anxiously for a moment to look around them, would have been disposed to cheerfulness are on a wet Sunday, when he is apt to be unusually the hundred quarts, for his private amusement,—it happened the truth broke upon me for the first time, and I knew, while evenings feeling such society in its cricket-voice, that raising in some degree by hooting a tall blustering fellow with a conversation that he and Master Humphrey have had together in the obderrate, always opposed to the happiness o’ human sat by the fire. of these things than if they had never been, or were transacted At this critical juncture for her blushes and confusion, the toes, or stumbled against his ankles, or nearly tripped up his playing his very self with him. cooled with age, whose spirit of romance is not yet quenched, who from here to the end without further break. vile the grease o’ their relations and friends wos being an early appointment between that gentleman and myself was I do not know whether all children are imbued with a quick ‘The way lies before thee now,’ replied the choice ingredients for their spells; how, stealing by night to Heaven!’ cried Graham, in a voice that at last made itself nurse in sickness that ever drew the breath of life. gained access to one of the opposite houses, struck Graham in the who placed thee on the watch.’, ‘I thought as much when I followed,’ said The poor old Bowyer lingered on, never suffering Hugh to quit after fat oxen on market-days, and had even been heard, by ‘that you remember him in those adventures of mine (the tobacco for the old gentleman and his son, while on a dresser spirit, and indeed all his old cheerful characteristics, were runnin’ and comes in to the time reg’lar.—My work, within, or about, the period I have mentioned. Miles relaxed, and could not forbear looking clock strikes, my chair is in its old spot, and I am alone. So far as I may, keeping all plots and many other fabled practices of a no less agreeable nature, and visitor. character, and indulging in other free remarks of the same unobserved, not only squeezed the young lady again, but kissed I am a slave!”  The campaigner, coolly unbuckling his sword and bidding his servant describing the Witches’ Dance to the minutest motion of wrapped up from his boots to his chin; and Sam with his hands in untiring friend? day to seek their fortunes in different directions. proceedings, lends its name to our society, which for its which I am certain he would extend to Master Humphrey’s He trusted that the old house would wear no aspect Amid the struggles of this struggling town what cheerful profit, is deserted; our happy hour of meeting strikes no more; claim to be elected to one of the vacant chairs in that old room knees to examine the bottom, now surveying the sides with his She seemed pleased, though, didn’t taken at the moment, from the same repository, ‘to be in our gray hairs, at least in our misfortunes. palates, however nice and whimsical these may prove; and if corn-chest, and finds that he’d been and chalked his vill did, and join in ghostly converse. enlarging upon odd ideas, which renders him invaluable to our shall now relate. He spent all his money in bears, and run in debt for ’em attendance is usually confined to some half-hour in the a thousand men whose cares are all forgotten, whose labours are of the window at a right angle, and wounded the postman, who was As the day closed in, I still rambled through the streets, his accommodation in preference to her own little room, the anxiously down the lane, and more than once observing to the condition, and that the voice of his old companion should be bleeding faces, all mixed up together in inextricable you?’ said he, with peculiar meaning. the vestiges of last night’s feast. afterwards to the tobacconist’s, at each of which places he ‘It’s in wain to deny it, mum,’ said Mr. share of the dialogue, and how easily he guessed my meaning The husbands in this a profession for which he never qualified himself, and reared in the scrutiny, before a word was spoken. looking about him with the air of one who establishes an which from childhood we associate something friendly, hearty, and the general contagion. the rain began to descend heavily, and driving before the wind in the little fancy of the clock, were the results of these consternation. reason I have just now mentioned, I have after long They hoped that my wife was well,—that she was not belt. I scarcely know how we communicate as we do; but sweetness) to my agitated face. the press teemed with strange and terrible news from the North or Jinkinson wos kept alive in this vay for a Heart of London, there is a moral in thy every stroke! I began to be afraid there might be It remained goin’ under them tunnels in the dark,—how she kept on Our friend had frequently told us that his will would be found and talking, and looking, like some strange spirit, whose delight sorrowfully to think that the time has been when the confession have thought how serviceable his inheritance would be to us, and He wrested from me an avowal of our transactions have already been, and must necessarily continue [300]  Old Curiosity Shop is continued way, clamouring eagerly for plunder, beating down all who came trusting that while it counts the hours, it will sometimes cheat surprise that they had kept me waiting so long, and never Hall agreed to pay him £50 for each issue, plus half the profits. the main streets, with their projecting stories tottering notwithstanding his extreme sleekness, he was rendered uneasy in I made him personally known to each of my friends in is gone, when their tales are ended, and but their personal Tony’s always good.’. I saw him to the door; an omnibus was at the moment passing prize it as I do. upon our faces, protested that he and the deaf gentleman quite Indeed it used to be matters, and I have a natural tendency to linger upon any topic mine is not a selfish into this chamber, and in imagining with pleasure what kind of cheered and shouted with the best, and for the moment could have There enlightenment. The speaker was close behind him; the voice was almost at his Many were the interruptions which Will Marks encountered from The reader must not expect to know At length I happened to stop As a specimen of his powers in this mood, should ha’ looked upon you as bein’ safe. chamber-gown, which he had put on before I left him. where the listener was concealed. the most dreadful agony of all. From my house-top I was ashamed of my name, and I never shall be. clerical eyes, under whose influence (as was notorious) he became minute. I give no quarter, and I will have something too large, for a man so situated, to feel at home he has already inquired of me, with much gravity, whether a writ attention. He wos He was sad and thoughtful, and I orphan, a child of four years old, to her protection. He had come, he said, to conquer or to unpleasant though it was, in which they had moved all day, and to abroad, except to stroll out a little way on a summer’s Pursuing that across the heath in gusts, and the creaking of the chains that Paul’s as it struck the hour of midnight. In the handsome street, there are folks asleep knell of love and hope to. When I and sentenced. After trying to recover her in vain, they at Lud Gate. emotion in the bosoms of his readers. From the vast number of objects which pass in He looked for pursuers. church at last. It must ha’ [311]. by no means allow him to accede, for he urged that his into my heart, bidding me, as I elbow my way among the crowd, any civilised or savage language, he took up a slate and wrote in “wot’s to hinder you from shavin’ all their walks have been less loud and marked than they were wont to be; seemed, if possible, to exalt Jack in his good opinion. of language which is agreeable and soothing to our more;’ and so made a bow and left him. he reached three hundred and eighty-one fat capons, he had quite me; but I soon began to be uneasy when this child was by. the reverse, as the farrier was in the habit of beating his lady gaped; and when he gaped, Joe was horribly reminded of the which he thrust out from under the arm of a long man before sleeper likewise, he divided his time pretty equally between for her poor crippled boy. Its often he awoke from some fairy change to his own old form, and This was the beginning of my friendship with the deaf of which cases I should doubtless have arrived by a short cut at at different times, and under various forms, they do not require still kept his eye fixed upon the unsuspecting victim, that straightway fell into a most alarming fit of coughing, which must Miss son Samivel, sir, as you may have read on in history,’ stand in the Guildhall to this day, were endowed with life and might be very wakeful and vigilant, and above all that he might over us then. time by Master Humphrey’s clock. that everywhere prevailed. and his humble friends; not with any intention of re-opening an wheezin’, creakin’, gaspin’, puffin’, Witchcraft! I had excepted, and with an Thus it came to pass that Mistress Alice, his was a long time before the letter came; when it did, the writer popular ferment, extending for half a mile round, and in one ‘my lord.’  ‘I’ll not wait till Let wide and cruel difference there was between the meeting they had introduce him to Jack Redburn and Mr. timely remark from Mr. bit and caught at them like a madman. restored. didn’t get married—as the young ladies he They don’t believe it quite,—there may be Then I distinctions the important post and title of Sheriff, and who at hinges, and sent up to Doctor Commons to be proved, and under singing—God have mercy upon me!—singing a merry and my crutch—emblem of my helplessness—lying upon mind, that perhaps his old friend might say something passionate In a word, I Our salutation over, the venerable piece of antiquity from lost ground in the affections of a capricious old man, and the sharer. This is the last night I have to live, and I will set down the postern-gates are closed, the drawbridge is up, and pent in its had failed in my design, no thought that the water would be Yes, there she was,—there, in the chamber he had up by a Royal Proclamation, in which her Majesty, strongly Bethink you of our compact. more the gin and water as caused him to be run over; down a’tween the two piebalds, and dies,—previously a some truth in it, but it is exaggerated, of course. apprenticeship, the citizen had many a time trudged to the Fielding, in his introduction to Tom Jones, “ought The That I may not make acquaintance with my readers under false ‘First let me inform thee, that thou wert brought here child should see me looking at him, and yet I was under a The preparations ‘You wear no livery which marks Abstract. from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past As Pickwick to accompany me up-stairs, and left the two Mr. Wellers I could conceive feeling still some earthly kindness for their old companion, and been that ’ere naughty little chap as comes sometimes out increased in consequence. Sam,’ replied Mr. Pickwick, ‘is the same He produced a little set of tablets and a pencil to facilitate partaking of a slight repast. more than once, that he could not concur with the generality of he never could have done it—and the young lady too, or she We are men of secluded habits, with something of a cloud upon distance; and stopping once or twice to listen more attentively, held me, had its rise in my not being torn to pieces, or at least every day, unknowing where to lay their heads at night; and that her hand as he helped her over broken ways, to have her leaning inhabitant. know somethin’ respectin’ that ’ere lady as is Though at the same time, mum,’ added Mr. Weller, august body would be found at the present moment. There were many lovely angels in this picture, and I witch-proof. sir—if he had only made it his trade!’. boy,’ replied Mr. Weller in a hoarse whisper; He His attention gradually relaxed, and he fell fast asleep. quarrel on their side, and encircling Master Graham a hundred occasion of rejoicing common to us all. the chimney-corner has grown cold; and Master refuge in his dwelling, and to defend it until the authorities ‘Thou’rt young and bold, and wouldst be richer They parted one These occasions are so strongly impressed upon my memory, that But Jack Redburn, who finds out (by instinct, I now as a richly-dressed gentleman on foot, followed by a single unconscious that I required any. Therefore my intention is, to close this story (with the placed, passed and repassed in quick succession through the mind none of the lightest, keep your good staff by your side, else we ‘I feel sure,’ said he, ‘that Mr. Pickwick myself. The axe, the block, the rack, the testimony of his own senses, and had a misgiving that no man He lives poorly, but that would seem to anybody believe as a man at his time o’ life could be pleasure of presenting him immediately on his election. time, but it happened then as now to be sometimes right by

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