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law of imprisonment for debt. I set down this remembrance here,
because it is an instance to myself of the manner in which I fitted
my old books to my altered life, and made stories for myself, out of
the streets, and out of men and women; and how some main points
in the character I shall unconsciously develop, I suppose, in
writing my life, were gradually forming all this while.
There was a club in the prison, in which Mr. Micawber, as a
gentleman, was a great authority. Mr. Micawber had stated his
idea of this petition to the club, and the club had strongly
approved of the same. Wherefore Mr. Micawber (who was a
thoroughly good-natured man, and as active a creature about
everything but his own affairs as ever existed, and never so happy
as when he was busy about something that could never be of any
profit to him) set to work at the petition, invented it,ugg boots sale, engrossed it
on an immense sheet of paper, spread it out on a table, and
appointed a time for all the club, and all within the walls if they
chose, to come up to his room and sign it.
When I heard of this approaching ceremony, I was so anxious to
see them all come in, one after another, though I knew the greater
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part of them already, and they me, that I got an hour’s leave of
absence from Murdstone and Grinby’s, and established myself in a
corner for that purpose. As many of the principal members of the
club as could be got into the small room without filling it,ugg bailey button boots,
supported Mr. Micawber in front of the petition,discount ugg boots, while my old
friend Captain Hopkins (who had washed himself, to do honour to
so solemn an occasion) stationed himself close to it, to read it to all
who were unacquainted with its contents. The door was then
thrown open, and the general population began to come in, in a
long file: several waiting outside, while one entered, affixed his
signature, and went out. To everybody in succession, Captain
Hopkins said: ‘Have you read it?’—‘No.’—‘Would you like to hear
it read?’ If he weakly showed the least disposition to hear it,
Captain Hopkins, in a loud sonorous voice, gave him every word of
it. The Captain would have read it twenty thousand times, if
twenty thousand people would have heard him, one by one. I
remember a certain luscious roll he gave to such phrases as ‘The
people’s representatives in Parliament assembled,’ ‘Your
petitioners therefore humbly approach your honourable house,’
‘His gracious Majesty’s unfortunate subjects,’ as if the words were
something real in his mouth, and delicious to taste; Mr. Micawber,
meanwhile, listening with a little of an author’s vanity, and
contemplating (not severely) the spikes on the opposite wall.
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