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The
next
three
or
four
days
were
occupied
with
the
preparations
which
were
necessary
for
their
journey
to
the
borough
of
Eatanswill
.
As
any
references
to
that
most
important
undertaking
demands
a
separate
chapter
,
we
may
devote
the
few
lines
which
remain
at
the
close
of
this
,
to
narrate
,
with
great
brevity
,
the
history
of
the
antiquarian
discovery
.
It
appears
from
the
Transactions
of
the
Club
,
then
,
that
Mr
.
Pickwick
lectured
upon
the
discovery
at
a
General
Club
Meeting
,
convened
on
the
night
succeeding
their
return
,
and
entered
into
a
variety
of
ingenious
and
erudite
speculations
on
the
meaning
of
the
inscription
.
It
also
appears
that
a
skilful
artist
executed
a
faithful
delineation
of
the
curiosity
,
which
was
engraven
on
stone
,
and
presented
to
the
Royal
Antiquarian
Society
,
and
other
learned
bodies
:
that
heart
-
burnings
and
jealousies
without
number
were
created
by
rival
controversies
which
were
penned
upon
the
subject
;
and
that
Mr
.
Pickwick
himself
wrote
a
pamphlet
,
containing
ninety
-
six
pages
of
very
small
print
,
and
twenty
-
seven
different
readings
of
the
inscription
:
that
three
old
gentlemen
cut
off
their
eldest
sons
with
a
shilling
a
-
piece
for
presuming
to
doubt
the
antiquity
of
the
fragment
;
and
that
one
enthusiastic
individual
cut
himself
off
prematurely
,
in
despair
at
being
unable
to
fathom
its
meaning
:
that
Mr
.
Pickwick
was
elected
an
honorary
member
of
seventeen
native
and
foreign
societies
,
for
making
the
discovery
:
that
none
of
the
seventeen
could
make
anything
of
it
;
but
that
all
the
seventeen
agreed
it
was
very
extraordinary
.
Mr
.
Blotton
,
indeed
—
and
the
name
will
be
doomed
to
the
undying
contempt
of
those
who
cultivate
the
mysterious
and
the
sublime
—
Mr
.
Blotton
,
we
say
,
with
the
doubt
and
cavilling
peculiar
to
vulgar
minds
,
presumed
to
state
a
view
of
the
case
,
as
degrading
as
ridiculous
.
Mr
.
Blotton
,
with
a
mean
desire
to
tarnish
the
lustre
of
the
immortal
name
of
Pickwick
,
actually
undertook
a
journey
to
Cobham
in
person
,
and
on
his
return
,
sarcastically
observed
in
an
oration
at
the
club
,
that
he
had
seen
the
man
from
whom
the
stone
was
purchased
;
that
the
man
presumed
the
stone
to
be
ancient
,
but
solemnly
denied
the
antiquity
of
the
inscription
—
inasmuch
as
he
represented
it
to
have
been
rudely
carved
by
himself
in
an
idle
mood
,
and
to
display
letters
intended
to
bear
neither
more
or
less
than
the
simple
construction
of
—
‘
BILL
STUMPS
,
HIS
MARK
’
;
and
that
Mr
.
Stumps
,
being
little
in
the
habit
of
original
composition
,
and
more
accustomed
to
be
guided
by
the
sound
of
words
than
by
the
strict
rules
of
orthography
,
had
omitted
the
concluding
‘
L
’
of
his
Christian
name
.
The
Pickwick
Club
(
as
might
have
been
expected
from
so
enlightened
an
institution
)
received
this
statement
with
the
contempt
it
deserved
,
expelled
the
presumptuous
and
ill
-
conditioned
Blotton
from
the
society
,
and
voted
Mr
.
Pickwick
a
pair
of
gold
spectacles
,
in
token
of
their
confidence
and
approbation
:
in
return
for
which
,
Mr
.
Pickwick
caused
a
portrait
of
himself
to
be
painted
,
and
hung
up
in
the
club
room
.
Mr
.
Blotton
was
ejected
but
not
conquered
.
He
also
wrote
a
pamphlet
,
addressed
to
the
seventeen
learned
societies
,
native
and
foreign
,
containing
a
repetition
of
the
statement
he
had
already
made
,
and
rather
more
than
half
intimating
his
opinion
that
the
seventeen
learned
societies
were
so
many
‘
humbugs
.
’
Hereupon
,
the
virtuous
indignation
of
the
seventeen
learned
societies
being
roused
,
several
fresh
pamphlets
appeared
;
the
foreign
learned
societies
corresponded
with
the
native
learned
societies
;
the
native
learned
societies
translated
the
pamphlets
of
the
foreign
learned
societies
into
English
;
the
foreign
learned
societies
translated
the
pamphlets
of
the
native
learned
societies
into
all
sorts
of
languages
;
and
thus
commenced
that
celebrated
scientific
discussion
so
well
known
to
all
men
,
as
the
Pickwick
controversy
.
But
this
base
attempt
to
injure
Mr
Pickwick
recoiled
upon
the
head
of
its
calumnious
author
.
The
seventeen
learned
societies
unanimously
voted
the
presumptuous
Blotton
an
ignorant
meddler
,
and
forthwith
set
to
work
upon
more
treatises
than
ever
.
And
to
this
day
the
stone
remains
,
an
illegible
monument
of
Mr
.
Pickwick
’
s
greatness
,
and
a
lasting
trophy
to
the
littleness
of
his
enemies
.
Mr
.
Pickwick
’
s
apartments
in
Goswell
Street
,
although
on
a
limited
scale
,
were
not
only
of
a
very
neat
and
comfortable
description
,
but
peculiarly
adapted
for
the
residence
of
a
man
of
his
genius
and
observation
.
His
sitting
-
room
was
the
first
-
floor
front
,
his
bedroom
the
second
-
floor
front
;
and
thus
,
whether
he
were
sitting
at
his
desk
in
his
parlour
,
or
standing
before
the
dressing
-
glass
in
his
dormitory
,
he
had
an
equal
opportunity
of
contemplating
human
nature
in
all
the
numerous
phases
it
exhibits
,
in
that
not
more
populous
than
popular
thoroughfare
.
His
landlady
,
Mrs
.
Bardell
—
the
relict
and
sole
executrix
of
a
deceased
custom
-
house
officer
—
was
a
comely
woman
of
bustling
manners
and
agreeable
appearance
,
with
a
natural
genius
for
cooking
,
improved
by
study
and
long
practice
,
into
an
exquisite
talent
.
There
were
no
children
,
no
servants
,
no
fowls
.
The
only
other
inmates
of
the
house
were
a
large
man
and
a
small
boy
;
the
first
a
lodger
,
the
second
a
production
of
Mrs
.
Bardell
’
s
.
The
large
man
was
always
home
precisely
at
ten
o
’
clock
at
night
,
at
which
hour
he
regularly
condensed
himself
into
the
limits
of
a
dwarfish
French
bedstead
in
the
back
parlour
;
and
the
infantine
sports
and
gymnastic
exercises
of
Master
Bardell
were
exclusively
confined
to
the
neighbouring
pavements
and
gutters
.
Cleanliness
and
quiet
reigned
throughout
the
house
;
and
in
it
Mr
.
Pickwick
’
s
will
was
law
.
