Посмертные записки Пиквикского клуба

A good-humoured Christmas Chapter, containing an Account of a Wedding, and some other Sports beside:

           Theoldladysubmittedtothispieceofpracticalpolitenesswithallthedignitywhichbefittedsoimportantandseriousasolemnity,buttheyoungerladies,notbeingsothoroughlyimbuedwithasuperstitiousvenerationforthecustom,orimaginingthatthevalueofasaluteisverymuchenhancedifitcostalittletroubletoobtainit,screamedandstruggled,andranintocorners,andthreatenedandremonstrated,anddideverythingbutleavetheroom,untilsomeofthelessadventurousgentlemenwereonthepointofdesisting,whentheyallatoncefoundituselesstoresistanylonger,andsubmittedtobekissedwithagoodgrace.Mr.Winklekissedtheyoungladywiththeblackeyes,andMr.SnodgrasskissedEmily;andMr.Weller,notbeingparticularabouttheformofbeingunderthemistletoe,kissedEmmaandtheotherfemaleservants,justashecaughtthem.Astothepoorrelations,theykissedeverybody,notevenexceptingtheplainerportionsoftheyoungladyvisitors,who,intheirexcessiveconfusion,ranrightunderthemistletoe,assoonasitwashungup,withoutknowingit!Wardlestoodwithhisbacktothefire,surveyingthewholescene,withtheutmostsatisfaction;andthefatboytooktheopportunityofappropriatingtohisownuse,andsummarilydevouring,aparticularlyfinemince-pie,thathadbeencarefullyputby,forsomebodyelse.

           Now,thescreaminghadsubsided,andfaceswereinaglow,andcurlsinatangle,andMr.

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