The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2 (of 2)

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2 (of 2)

The cover of this book was created by the transcriber (using a blank cover and the title page) and is placed in the public domain. A more extensive transcribers note can be found at the end of this book. In an old abbey town, down in this part of the country, a long, long while agoso long, that the story must be a true one, because our great-grandfathers implicitly believed itthere officiated as sexton and grave-digger in the churchyard, one Gabriel Grub. It by no means follows that because a man is a sexton, and constantly surrounded by the emblems of mortality, therefore he should be a morose and melancholy man; your undertakers are the merriest fellows in the world; and I once had the honour of being on intimate terms with a mute, who in private life, and off duty, was as comical and jocose a little fellow as ever chirped out a devil-may-care song, without a hitch in his memory, or drained off the contents of a good stiff glass without stopping for breath. But, notwithstanding these precedents to the contrary, Gabriel Grub was an ill-conditioned, cross-grained, surly fellowa morose and lonely man, who consorted with nobody but himself, and an old wicker bottle which fitted into his large deep waistcoat pocketand who eyed each merry face, as it passed him by, with such a deep scowl of malice and ill-humour, as it was difficult to meet, without feeling something the worse for. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 47535
Author: Dickens, Charles
Release Date: Dec 4, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Aldin, Cecil, 1870-1935