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me more than to see a lady of your time of life heading so fine a
family, and looking so young and well.'
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Ah!' said the old lady, after a short pause: 'it's all very fine, I dare say;
but I can't hear him.'
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Grandma's rather put out now,' said Miss Isabella Wardle, in a low
tone; 'but she'll talk to you presently.'
Mr Pickwick nodded his readiness to humour the infirmities of age,
and entered into a general conversation with the other members of the
circle.
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Delightful situation this,' said Mr Pickwick.
Delightful!' echoed Messrs. Snodgrass, Tupman, and Winkle.
Well, I think it is,' said Mr Wardle.
There ain't a better spot o' ground in all Kent, sir,' said the hard-
headed man with the pippin - face; 'there ain't indeed, sir - I'm sure
there ain't, Sir.' The hard-headed man looked triumphantly round, as
if he had been very much contradicted by somebody, but had got the
better of him at last.
'There ain't a better spot o' ground in all Kent,' said the hard-headed
man again, after a pause.
'
'Cept Mullins's Meadows,' observed the fat man solemnly. 'Mullins's
Meadows!' ejaculated the other, with profound contempt.
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Ah, Mullins's Meadows,' repeated the fat man.
Reg'lar good land that,' interposed another fat man.
And so it is, sure-ly,' said a third fat man.
Everybody knows that,' said the corpulent host.
The hard-headed man looked dubiously round, but finding himself in
a minority, assumed a compassionate air and said no more. 'What are
they talking about?' inquired the old lady of one of her
granddaughters, in a very audible voice; for, like many deaf people,
she never seemed to calculate on the possibility of other persons
hearing what she said herself.
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About the land, grandma.'
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