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‘
I
am
,
sir
,
’
replied
Mr
.
Weller
.
‘
These
other
gentlemen
,
I
presume
,
are
legatees
,
are
they
?
’
inquired
Pell
,
with
a
congratulatory
smile
.
‘
Sammy
is
a
leg
-
at
-
ease
,
’
replied
Mr
.
Weller
;
‘
these
other
gen
’
l
’
m
’
n
is
friends
o
’
mine
,
just
come
to
see
fair
;
a
kind
of
umpires
.
’
‘
Oh
!
’
said
Pell
,
‘
very
good
.
I
have
no
objections
,
I
’
m
sure
.
I
shall
want
a
matter
of
five
pound
of
you
before
I
begin
,
ha
!
ha
!
ha
!
’
It
being
decided
by
the
committee
that
the
five
pound
might
be
advanced
,
Mr
.
Weller
produced
that
sum
;
after
which
,
a
long
consultation
about
nothing
particular
took
place
,
in
the
course
whereof
Mr
.
Pell
demonstrated
to
the
perfect
satisfaction
of
the
gentlemen
who
saw
fair
,
that
unless
the
management
of
the
business
had
been
intrusted
to
him
,
it
must
all
have
gone
wrong
,
for
reasons
not
clearly
made
out
,
but
no
doubt
sufficient
.
This
important
point
being
despatched
,
Mr
.
Pell
refreshed
himself
with
three
chops
,
and
liquids
both
malt
and
spirituous
,
at
the
expense
of
the
estate
;
and
then
they
all
went
away
to
Doctors
’
Commons
.
The
next
day
there
was
another
visit
to
Doctors
’
Commons
,
and
a
great
to
-
do
with
an
attesting
hostler
,
who
,
being
inebriated
,
declined
swearing
anything
but
profane
oaths
,
to
the
great
scandal
of
a
proctor
and
surrogate
.
Next
week
,
there
were
more
visits
to
Doctors
’
Commons
,
and
there
was
a
visit
to
the
Legacy
Duty
Office
besides
,
and
there
were
treaties
entered
into
,
for
the
disposal
of
the
lease
and
business
,
and
ratifications
of
the
same
,
and
inventories
to
be
made
out
,
and
lunches
to
be
taken
,
and
dinners
to
be
eaten
,
and
so
many
profitable
things
to
be
done
,
and
such
a
mass
of
papers
accumulated
that
Mr
.
Solomon
Pell
,
and
the
boy
,
and
the
blue
bag
to
boot
,
all
got
so
stout
that
scarcely
anybody
would
have
known
them
for
the
same
man
,
boy
,
and
bag
,
that
had
loitered
about
Portugal
Street
,
a
few
days
before
.
At
length
all
these
weighty
matters
being
arranged
,
a
day
was
fixed
for
selling
out
and
transferring
the
stock
,
and
of
waiting
with
that
view
upon
Wilkins
Flasher
,
Esquire
,
stock
-
broker
,
of
somewhere
near
the
bank
,
who
had
been
recommended
by
Mr
.
Solomon
Pell
for
the
purpose
.
It
was
a
kind
of
festive
occasion
,
and
the
parties
were
attired
accordingly
.
Mr
.
Weller
’
s
tops
were
newly
cleaned
,
and
his
dress
was
arranged
with
peculiar
care
;
the
mottled
-
faced
gentleman
wore
at
his
button
-
hole
a
full
-
sized
dahlia
with
several
leaves
;
and
the
coats
of
his
two
friends
were
adorned
with
nosegays
of
laurel
and
other
evergreens
.
All
three
were
habited
in
strict
holiday
costume
;
that
is
to
say
,
they
were
wrapped
up
to
the
chins
,
and
wore
as
many
clothes
as
possible
,
which
is
,
and
has
been
,
a
stage
-
coachman
’
s
idea
of
full
dress
ever
since
stage
-
coaches
were
invented
.
Mr
.
Pell
was
waiting
at
the
usual
place
of
meeting
at
the
appointed
time
;
even
he
wore
a
pair
of
gloves
and
a
clean
shirt
,
much
frayed
at
the
collar
and
wristbands
by
frequent
washings
.
