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He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremelyagreeable, and, to crown the whole, he meant to be at the next assemblywith a large party.<>
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Lady Lucas quieted her fearsa little by starting the idea of his being gone to London only to geta large party for the ball; and a report soon followed that Mr. Bingleywas to bring twelve ladies and seven gentlemen with him to the assembly.<>
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And whenthe party entered the assembly room it consisted of only fivealtogether--Mr. Bingley, his two sisters, the husband of the eldest, andanother young man.<>
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At such an assembly as thisit would be insupportable.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Elizabeth listened in silence, but was not convinced; their behaviour atthe assembly had not been calculated to please in general; and with morequickness of observation and less pliancy of temper than her sister,and with a judgement too unassailed by any attention to herself, shewas very little disposed to approve them.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) The manner in which they spoke of the Meryton assembly was sufficientlycharacteristic.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) That the Miss Lucases and the Miss Bennets should meet to talk overa ball was absolutely necessary; and the morning after the assemblybrought the former to Longbourn to hear and to communicate.<>
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Theevening conversation, when they were all assembled, had lost much ofits animation, and almost all its sense by the absence of Jane andElizabeth.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Chapter 18Till Elizabeth entered the drawing-room at Netherfield, and looked invain for Mr. Wickham among the cluster of red coats there assembled, adoubt of his being present had never occurred to her.<>
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How wonderfully these sort of things occur! Who would havethought of my meeting with, perhaps, a nephew of Lady Catherine deBourgh in this assembly! I am most thankful that the discovery is madein time for me to pay my respects to him, which I am now going todo, and trust he will excuse my not having done it before.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "I had not at that time the honour of knowing any lady in the assemblybeyond my own party.<>
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The family were assembled in the breakfast room to receivethem.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) On Tuesday there was a large party assembled at Longbourn; and the twowho were most anxiously expected, to the credit of their punctualityas sportsmen, were in very good time.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Assembly, eh?No, Sir, not assembly, Sir.<>
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AN OLD-FASHIONED CARD-PARTY--THE CLERGYMAN'S VERSES--THESTORY OF THE CONVICT'S RETURNSeveral guests who were assembled in the old parlour rose to greet Mr.Pickwick and his friends upon their entrance; and during the performanceof the ceremony of introduction, with all due formalities, Mr. Pickwickhad leisure to observe the appearance, and speculate upon the charactersand pursuits, of the persons by whom he was surrounded--a habit in whichhe, in common with many other great men, delighted to indulge.<>
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A crowdof idlers were assembled in the road, looking at a hoarse man in thebalcony, who was apparently talking himself very red in the face inMr. Slumkey's behalf; but the force and point of whose arguments weresomewhat impaired by the perpetual beating of four large drums which Mr.Fizkin's committee had stationed at the street corner.<>
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With these words Mr. Pickwick descended to the parlour, where he foundbreakfast laid, and the family already assembled.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Amidst the cheers of the assembled throng, the band, and the constables,and the committee-men, and the voters, and the horsemen, and thecarriages, took their places--each of the two-horse vehicles beingclosely packed with as many gentlemen as could manage to stand uprightin it; and that assigned to Mr. Perker, containing Mr. Pickwick, Mr.Tupman, Mr. Snodgrass, and about half a dozen of the committee besides.<>
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COMPRISING A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE COMPANY AT THEPEACOCK ASSEMBLED; AND A TALE TOLD BY A BAGMANIt is pleasant to turn from contemplating the strife and turmoil ofpolitical existence, to the peaceful repose of private life.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Every one of the men, women, boys, girls, and babies, who were assembledto see the visitors in their fancy-dresses, screamed with delightand ecstasy, when Mr. Pickwick, with the brigand on one arm, and thetroubadour on the other, walked solemnly up the entrance.<>
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This interesting performancehaving concluded amidst the loud plaudits of the whole company, a boyforthwith proceeded to entangle himself with the rails of a chair,and to jump over it, and crawl under it, and fall down with it, and doeverything but sit upon it, and then to make a cravat of his legs, andtie them round his neck, and then to illustrate the ease with which ahuman being can be made to look like a magnified toad--all which featsyielded high delight and satisfaction to the assembled spectators.<>
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Mr. Weller, by his master's permission, retiredto spend the evening in his own way; and was shortly afterwards elected,by the unanimous voice of the assembled company, into the taproomchair, in which honourable post he acquitted himself so much to thesatisfaction of the gentlemen-frequenters, that their roars of laughterand approbation penetrated to Mr. Pickwick's bedroom, and shortened theterm of his natural rest by at least three hours.<>
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SHOWING HOW DODSON AND FOGG WERE MEN OF BUSINESS, ANDTHEIR CLERKS MEN OF PLEASURE; AND HOW AN AFFECTING INTERVIEW TOOK PLACEBETWEEN Mr. WELLER AND HIS LONG-LOST PARENT; SHOWING ALSO WHAT CHOICESPIRITS ASSEMBLED AT THE MAGPIE AND STUMP, AND WHAT A CAPITAL CHAPTERTHE NEXT ONE WILL BEIn the ground-floor front of a dingy house, at the very farthest end ofFreeman's Court, Cornhill, sat the four clerks of Messrs.<>
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Nearly all the inmates of theprison had assembled to witness its removal; they fell back on eitherside when the widower appeared; he walked hurriedly forward, andstationed himself, alone, in a little railed area close to the lodgegate, from whence the crowd, with an instinctive feeling of delicacy,had retired.<>
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He conferred a few momentswith Mr. Tupman apart, and then signified his readiness to proceedto the mayor's residence, merely begging the parties then and thereassembled, to take notice, that it was his firm intention to resent thismonstrous invasion of his privileges as an Englishman, the instant hewas at liberty; whereat the parties then and there assembled laughedvery heartily, with the single exception of Mr. Grummer, who seemed toconsider that any slight cast upon the divine right of magistrates was aspecies of blasphemy not to be tolerated.<>
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A GOOD-HUMOURED CHRISTMAS CHAPTER, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNTOF A WEDDING, AND SOME OTHER SPORTS BESIDE: WHICH ALTHOUGH IN THEIR WAY,EVEN AS GOOD CUSTOMS AS MARRIAGE ITSELF, ARE NOT QUITE SO RELIGIOUSLYKEPT UP, IN THESE DEGENERATE TIMESAs brisk as bees, if not altogether as light as fairies, did thefour Pickwickians assemble on the morning of the twenty-second day ofDecember, in the year of grace in which these, their faithfully-recordedadventures, were undertaken and accomplished.<>
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Many ofthe hearts that throbbed so gaily then, have ceased to beat; many ofthe looks that shone so brightly then, have ceased to glow; the hands wegrasped, have grown cold; the eyes we sought, have hid their lustre inthe grave; and yet the old house, the room, the merry voices and smilingfaces, the jest, the laugh, the most minute and trivial circumstancesconnected with those happy meetings, crowd upon our mind at eachrecurrence of the season, as if the last assemblage had been butyesterday! Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusionsof our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures ofhis youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands ofmiles away, back to his own fireside and his quiet home!But we are so taken up and occupied with the good qualities of thissaint Christmas, that we are keeping Mr. Pickwick and his friendswaiting in the cold on the outside of the Muggleton coach, whichthey have just attained, well wrapped up in great-coats, shawls, andcomforters.<>
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As Mr. Weller concluded this moral tale, with which the fat boy appearedmuch affected, they all three repaired to the large kitchen, in whichthe family were by this time assembled, according to annual customon Christmas Eve, observed by old Wardle's forefathers from timeimmemorial.<>
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As he went his way, up the ancientstreet, he saw the cheerful light of the blazing fires gleam through theold casements, and heard the loud laugh and the cheerful shouts of thosewho were assembled around them; he marked the bustling preparations fornext day's cheer, and smelled the numerous savoury odours consequentthereupon, as they steamed up from the kitchen windows in clouds.<>
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Mr. Winkle gradually insinuated himself into the good graces of Mr.Benjamin Allen, and even joined in a friendly conversation with Mr.Bob Sawyer; who, enlivened with the brandy, and the breakfast, and thetalking, gradually ripened into a state of extreme facetiousness, andrelated with much glee an agreeable anecdote, about the removal of atumour on some gentleman's head, which he illustrated by means of anoyster-knife and a half-quartern loaf, to the great edification ofthe assembled company.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The secretary having sneezed in a very impressive manner, and the coughwhich always seizes an assembly, when anything particular is going to bedone, having been duly performed, the following document was read:'REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE BRICK LANE BRANCH OF THE UNITED GRANDJUNCTION EBENEZER TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATION'Your committee have pursued their grateful labours during the pastmonth, and have the unspeakable pleasure of reporting the followingadditional cases of converts to Temperance.<>
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Anthony Humm now moved that the assembly do regale itself with a song.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) At the appointed hour, Mr. Pickwick and his friends, escorted by Dowler,repaired to the Assembly Rooms, and wrote their names down in thebook--an instance of condescension at which Angelo Bantam was even moreoverpowered than before.<>
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Tickets of admission to that evening's assemblywere to have been prepared for the whole party, but as they were notready, Mr. Pickwick undertook, despite all the protestations to thecontrary of Angelo Bantam, to send Sam for them at four o'clock in theafternoon, to the M.<>
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, the Master of the Ceremonies, emerged from hischariot at the door of the Assembly Rooms in the same wig, the sameteeth, the same eye-glass, the same watch and seals, the same rings, thesame shirt-pin, and the same cane.<>
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Colonel Wugsby, and all the great people, and all the morningwater-drinkers, met in grand assemblage.<>
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If it were theatre-night,perhaps they met at the theatre; if it were assembly-night, they metat the rooms; and if it were neither, they met the next day.<>
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At this, the assembled selections laughed very heartily; and onegentleman in a yellow waistcoat, with a coach-trimming border, whispereda neighbour in green-foil smalls, that Tuckle was in spirits to-night.<>
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Deciding on this line of conduct, Mr.Lowten took up his hat, and begging the assembled company to appoint adeputy-chairman during his temporary absence, led the way to the nearestcoach-stand.<>
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May I come in and see where ithappened?"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) When she returned to the room with the visitor, however, other membersof the family had assembled, and those of a less psychic habit hadthought it convenient to light the lamps.<>
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"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) By this time they had assembled again in the room, and the detective wasgetting his papers together for departure.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) Even greater, however, was the bewilderment which attended thesuccessive stages of the benevolent conspiracy of the general's wife,who had assembled her little group of sympathizers to storm the castleof the misanthrope.<>
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Whenthey assembled by agreement at a quiet hotel quite near the castle,there was no sign of Hugo Romaine, until a belated telegram from alawyer told them that the great actor had suddenly left the country.<>
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