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They
have
no
fixed
offices
,
their
legal
business
being
transacted
in
the
parlours
of
public
-
houses
,
or
the
yards
of
prisons
,
whither
they
repair
in
crowds
,
and
canvass
for
customers
after
the
manner
of
omnibus
cads
.
They
are
of
a
greasy
and
mildewed
appearance
;
and
if
they
can
be
said
to
have
any
vices
at
all
,
perhaps
drinking
and
cheating
are
the
most
conspicuous
among
them
.
Their
residences
are
usually
on
the
outskirts
of
‘
the
Rules
,
’
chiefly
lying
within
a
circle
of
one
mile
from
the
obelisk
in
St
.
George
’
s
Fields
.
Their
looks
are
not
prepossessing
,
and
their
manners
are
peculiar
.
Mr
.
Solomon
Pell
,
one
of
this
learned
body
,
was
a
fat
,
flabby
,
pale
man
,
in
a
surtout
which
looked
green
one
minute
,
and
brown
the
next
,
with
a
velvet
collar
of
the
same
chameleon
tints
.
His
forehead
was
narrow
,
his
face
wide
,
his
head
large
,
and
his
nose
all
on
one
side
,
as
if
Nature
,
indignant
with
the
propensities
she
observed
in
him
in
his
birth
,
had
given
it
an
angry
tweak
which
it
had
never
recovered
.
Being
short
-
necked
and
asthmatic
,
however
,
he
respired
principally
through
this
feature
;
so
,
perhaps
,
what
it
wanted
in
ornament
,
it
made
up
in
usefulness
.
‘
I
’
m
sure
to
bring
him
through
it
,
’
said
Mr
.
Pell
.
‘
Are
you
,
though
?
’
replied
the
person
to
whom
the
assurance
was
pledged
.
‘
Certain
sure
,
’
replied
Pell
;
‘
but
if
he
’
d
gone
to
any
irregular
practitioner
,
mind
you
,
I
wouldn
’
t
have
answered
for
the
consequences
.
’
‘
Ah
!
’
said
the
other
,
with
open
mouth
.
‘
No
,
that
I
wouldn
’
t
,
’
said
Mr
.
Pell
;
and
he
pursed
up
his
lips
,
frowned
,
and
shook
his
head
mysteriously
.
Now
,
the
place
where
this
discourse
occurred
was
the
public
-
house
just
opposite
to
the
Insolvent
Court
;
and
the
person
with
whom
it
was
held
was
no
other
than
the
elder
Mr
.
Weller
,
who
had
come
there
,
to
comfort
and
console
a
friend
,
whose
petition
to
be
discharged
under
the
act
,
was
to
be
that
day
heard
,
and
whose
attorney
he
was
at
that
moment
consulting
.
‘
And
vere
is
George
?
’
inquired
the
old
gentleman
.
Mr
.
Pell
jerked
his
head
in
the
direction
of
a
back
parlour
,
whither
Mr
.
Weller
at
once
repairing
,
was
immediately
greeted
in
the
warmest
and
most
flattering
manner
by
some
half
-
dozen
of
his
professional
brethren
,
in
token
of
their
gratification
at
his
arrival
.
The
insolvent
gentleman
,
who
had
contracted
a
speculative
but
imprudent
passion
for
horsing
long
stages
,
which
had
led
to
his
present
embarrassments
,
looked
extremely
well
,
and
was
soothing
the
excitement
of
his
feelings
with
shrimps
and
porter
.
