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The Hall was a queer place, I thought, with higher pews in it than a

church,--and with people hanging over the pews looking on,--and with

back in chairs, with

folded ar

the newspapers,--and with so black portraits on the walls,

which arded as a co-plaster Here, in a corner ned and

attested, and I was "bound"; Mr Pu me all the while

as if we had looked in on our way to the scaffold, to have those little

preliot rid of the boys who had been put

into great spirits by the expectation of seeing me publicly tortured,

and ere much disappointed to find thatround me, ent back to Pumblechook's And there uineas, that nothing would serve

her but we must have a dinner out of that windfall at the Blue Boar, and

that Pu the Hubbles

and Mr Wopsle

It was agreed to be done; and a most melancholy day I passed For,

it inscrutably appeared to stand to reason, in the minds of the whole