. Dicken's works . , and everypossible manifestation of reluctance. When he is at last adjusted like a lay-figure, , retiring behind the table, holds up hisbears paw, and says, My friends ! This is thesignal for a general settlement of the prentices giggle internally, and nudge eachother. Guster falls into a staring and vacant state,. BLEAK HOUSE. 107 compounded of stunned admiration of Mr. Chadbandand pity for the friendless outcast whose conditiontouches her nearly. Mrs. Snagsby silently laystrains of gunpowder. Mrs. Chadband composes her-self grimly by the fire, and
. Dicken's works . , and everypossible manifestation of reluctance. When he is at last adjusted like a lay-figure, , retiring behind the table, holds up hisbears paw, and says, My friends ! This is thesignal for a general settlement of the prentices giggle internally, and nudge eachother. Guster falls into a staring and vacant state,. BLEAK HOUSE. 107 compounded of stunned admiration of Mr. Chadbandand pity for the friendless outcast whose conditiontouches her nearly. Mrs. Snagsby silently laystrains of gunpowder. Mrs. Chadband composes her-self grimly by the fire, and warms her knees : find-ing that sensation favorable to the reception ofeloquence. It happens that Mr. Chadband has a pulpit habitof fixing some member of his congregation withhis eye, and fatly arguing his points with that par-ticular person; who is understood to be expected tobe moved to an occasional grunt, groan, gasp, orother audible expression of inward working; whichexpression of inward working, being echoed bysome elderly lady in the next pew, and so communi-cated, like a game of forfeits, through a circle ofthe more fermentable sinners present, serves thepurpose of parliamentary cheering, and gets steam up. From mere force of habit,Mr. Chadband, in saying My friends ! has restedhis eye on Mr. Snagsby; and proceeds to make thatill
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