[Works Illustrated library edition] . ing pre-scriptions. These preliminaries adjusted, the punch was tasted,and pronounced excellent; and it having been arranged thatBob Sawyer and Ben Allen should be considered at liberty tofill twice to Mr. Winkles once, they started fair, with greatsatisfaction and good-fellowship. There was no singing, because Mr. Bob Sawyer said it wouldntlook professional; but to make amends for this deprivationthere was so much talking and laughing that it might have beenheard, and very likely was, at the end of the street: which con-versation materially lightened the
[Works Illustrated library edition] . ing pre-scriptions. These preliminaries adjusted, the punch was tasted,and pronounced excellent; and it having been arranged thatBob Sawyer and Ben Allen should be considered at liberty tofill twice to Mr. Winkles once, they started fair, with greatsatisfaction and good-fellowship. There was no singing, because Mr. Bob Sawyer said it wouldntlook professional; but to make amends for this deprivationthere was so much talking and laughing that it might have beenheard, and very likely was, at the end of the street: which con-versation materially lightened the hours and improved the mindof Mr. Bob Sawyers boy, who, instead of devoting the eveningto his ordinary occupation of writing his name on the counter,and rubbing it out again, peeped through the glass door, andthus listened and looked on at the same time. The mirth of Mr. Bob Sawyer was rapidly ripening into thefurious ; Mr. Ben Allen was fast relapsing into the sentimental;and the punch had well-nigh disappeared altogether ; when the. THE PICKWICK CLUB. 173 boy hastily running in, announced that a young woman hadjust come over, to say that Sawyer late Nockemorf was wanteddirectly, a- couple of streets off. This broke up the party. Sawyer, understanding the message, after some twenty repe-titions, tied a wet cloth round his head to sober himself, andhaving partially succeeded, put on his green spectacles and issuedforth. Resisting all entreaties to stay till he came back, and find-ing it quite impossible to engage Mr. Ben Allen in any intelligibleconversation on the subject nearest his heart, or indeed on anyother, Mr. Winkle took his departure, and returned to the Bush. The anxiety of his mind, and the numerous meditations whichArabella had awakened, prevented his share of the mortar ofpunch producing that effect upon him which it would have had,under other circumstances. So, after taking a glass of soda waterand brandy at the bar, he turned into the coffee-room, dispiri
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