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Mr Pecksniff went on to inform his daughters of the purport and history of the round-robin aforesaid, which was in brief, that the commercial gentlemen who helped to make up the sum and substance of that noun of multitude signifying many, called Todgers's, desired the honour of their presence at the general table, so long as they remained in the house, and besought that they would grace the board at dinner-time next day, the same being Sunday.
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841
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Todgers on the smallest provocation; and it was a way he had; it was a part of the gentle placidity of his disposition.
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Todgers soon joined him; and the bachelor cousin, the hairy young gentleman, and Mr and Mrs Spottletoe, arrived in quick succession.
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They had predicted it to Mrs Todgers, as she (Todgers) could depone, that very morning.
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Todgers was occupied in knitting, and seldom spoke.
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Pecksniff now repeated the Todgers performance on a comfortable scale, as if he intended it to last some time; and in his disengaged hand, catching hers, employed himself in separating the fingers with his own, and sometimes kissing them, as he pursued the conversation thus:
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Todgers of his unalterable regard; and having done so, went back to business.
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Todgers and the young ladies that, overcome by his feelings, he had retired in tears, he unexpectedly turned up again at the very top of the tune, gasping for breath.
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Miss Pecksniff submitted that Todgers might not have been a fair specimen.
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Then he dashes more butter and some water from the tea-kettle into the frying-pan -- for he is as fond of gravy as "Todgers 'boarders" -- pours this over the mushrooms, and sits down to a feast that has some poetry about it.
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