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Title: (Works. Illustrated library edition)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall, Ld
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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acquaintance andfriends were hopelessly abandoned and profligate wretches:which consideration, he said, could not but afford him the liveliestsatisfaction. He furthermore conjured him to avoid, above all things, thevice of intoxication, which he likened unto the filthy habits ofswine, and to those poisonous and baleful drugs which, beingchewed in the mouth, are said to filch away the memory. Atthis point of his discourse, the reverend and red-nosed gentle-man became singularly incoherent, and staggering to and fro inthe excitement of his eloquence, was fain to catch at the back ofa chair to preserve his perpendicular. Mr. Stiggins did not desire his hearers to be upon their guardagainst those false prophets and wretched mockers of religion,who, without sense to expound its first doctrines, or hearts tofeel its first principles, are more dangerous members of societythan the common criminal: imposing, as they necessarily do,upon the weakest and worst-informed natures, casting scorn and
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THE PICKWICK CLUB. 293 contempt on what should be held most sacred, and bringing intopartial disrepute large bodies of virtuous and well-conductedpersons of many excellent sects and persuasions ; but as he leantover the back of the chair for a considerable time, and closingone eye, winked a good deal with the other, it is presumed thathe thought all this, but kept it to himself. During the delivery of the oration, Mrs. Weller sobbed andwept at the end of the paragraphs : while Sam, sitting cross-legged on a chair and resting his arms on the top-rail, regardedthe speaker with great suavity and blandness of demeanour,occasionally bestowing a look of recognition on the old gentle-man, who was delighted at the beginning, and went to sleepabout half-way. Brayvo ! wery pretty! said Sam, when the red-nosed man,having finished, pulled his worn gloves on : thereby thrustinghis fingers through the broken tops till the knuckles were dis-closed to view. Wery pretty. I hope it may do you good, Sam

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