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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Ed. By'boz'.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Ed By'boz' Author:Charles Dickens General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VII. THE CHIEF FEATURES OF WHICH WILL BE FOUND TO BE AN AUTIIEHTIC VERSION OF THE LEGEND OF PRINCE BLADDD, AND A MOST EXTRAORDINARY CALAMITY THAT BEFELL MB. WINKLE. As Mr. Pickwick contemplated a stay of at least two months in Bath, he deemed it advisable to take private lodgings Tor himself and friends for that period; and as a favourable opportunity offered for their securing, on moderate terms, the upper portion of a house in the Royal Crescent, which was larger than they required Mr. and Mrs. Dowler offered to relieve them of a bed-room and sitting-room. This proposition was at once accepted , and in three days' time they were all located in their new abode, when Mr. Pickwick began to drink the waters with the utmost assiduity. Mr. Pickwick took them systematically. He drank a quarter of a pint before breakfast, and then walked up a hill; and another quarter of a pint after breakfast, and then walked down a hill; and after every fresh quarter of a pint, Mr. Pickwick declared, in the most solemn and emphatic terms, that he felt a great deal better, whereat his friends were very much delighted, though they had not been previously aware that there was anything the matter with him. The great pump-room is a spacious saloon, ornamented with Corinthian pillars, and a music gallery and a Tompion clock, and a statue of Nash, and a golden inscription, to which all the water-drinkers should attend, for it appeals to them in the cause of a deserving charity. There is a large bar with a marble vase, out of which the pumper gets the water, and a number of yellow- looking tumblers, out of which the com...« less