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| Postcards of the Past |
| Charles Dickens "Martin Chuzzlewit" |
| "What ? you go a lowerin the beer ?" Mrs Todgers and Bailey. |
| "I have found that a lamp-post is calculated to refine the mind." Mr Pecksniff. |
| "Well, there'd be some credit in being jolly with an inflammation of the lungs." Mark Tapley. |
| Mrs Gamp. (ST) |
| ""Where's the pudding" cried Tom. For he was cutting his jokes, Tom was." |
| This was Dickens' sixth novel, written after his first trip to the USA, and published in monthly parts from January 1843 to July 1844. Follow this link for more information, or alternatively, search the internet. |
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| "Betsey," said Mrs Gamp, filling her own glass, and passing the tea-pot, "I will now propoge a toast. My frequent pardner, Betsey Prig !" "Which, altering the name ro Sairah Gamp; I drink," said Mrs Prig, "with love and tenderness." Chapter xlix. |
| "Leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged !" Mrs Gamp. |
| Charity Pecksniff. |
| Another impression of Tom Pinch...... |
| ......and another of Mr Pecksniff. |
| "You may bestride my senseless corse, sir. That is very likely. I can imagine a mind like yours deriving great satisfaction from any measure of that kind. But while I continue to be called upon to exist, sir, you must strike at him through me." Mr Pecksniff. |
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| "Occasionally we had the presumption to console ourselves with the remark that Truth would in the end prevail, and Virtue be triumphant; but not often. My loves, you recollect ?" |
| "I have completed my arrangements for going to America; and you will be surprised to hear that i am to be accompanied by Mark Tapley, upon whom I have stumbled strangely in London." Martin. |
| "And even while the guard helped her man up with the trunk, did he send the glad echoes of his bugle careering down the chimneys of the distant Pecksniff, as if the coach expressed its exultation in the rescue of Tom Pinch". |
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