[Illustration: WITH A COUNTENANCE GREATLY MOLLIFIED BY THE SOFTENING INFLUENCE OF TOBACCO, REQUESTED HIM TO "FIRE AWAY"--Chap. xxxiii.] [Illustration: BEFORE SAM COULD INTERFERE TO PREVENT IT, HIS HEROIC PARENT HAD PENETRATED INTO A REMOTE CORNER OF THE ROOM, AND ATTACKED THE REVEREND MR. STIGGINS WITH MANUAL DEXTERITY--Chap. xxxiii.] [Illustration: AN ADMONITORY GESTURE FROM PERKER RESTRAINED HIM, AND HE LISTENED TO THE LEARNED GENTLEMAN'S CONTINUATION WITH A LOOK OF INDIGNATION--Chap. xxxiv.] [Illustration: POOR MR. PICKWICK! HE HAD NEVER PLAYED WITH THREE THOROUGH-PACED FEMALE CARD-PLAYERS BEFORE--Chap. xxxv.] [Illustration: HE NO SOONER HEARD THE HORRIBLE THREAT OF THE VALOROUS DOWLER, THAN HE BOUNCED OUT OF THE SEDAN--Chap. xxxvi.] [Illustration: MR. TUCKLE, DRESSED OUT WITH THE COCKED-HAT AND STICK, DANCED THE FROG HORNPIPE AMONG THE SHELLS ON THE TABLE--Chap. xxxvii.] [Illustration: MR BOB SAWYER'S BOY ... PEEPED THROUGH THE GLASS DOOR, AND THUS LISTENED AND LOOKED ON AT THE SAME TIME--Chap. xxxviii.] [Illustration: "UNLOCK THAT DOOR, AND LEAVE THIS ROOM IMMEDIATELY, SIR," SAID MR. WINKLE--Chap. xxxviii.] [Illustration: "MY DEAR," SAID MR. PICKWICK, LOOKING OVER THE WALL, AND CATCHING SIGHT OF ARABELLA ON THE OTHER SIDE. "DON'T BE FRIGHTENED, MY DEAR, 'TIS ONLY ME"--Chap. xxxix.] [Illustration: MR. PICKWICK SITTING FOR HIS PORTRAIT--Chap. xl.] [Illustration: LETTING HIS HAT FALL ON THE FLOOR, HE STOOD PERFECTLY FIXED AND IMMOVABLE WITH ASTONISHMENT--Chap. xlii.] [Illustration: WITH THIS, THE SPEAKER SNATCHED THAT ARTICLE OF DRESS FROM MR. PICKWICK'S HEAD--Chap. xli.] [Illustration: SAM, HAVING BEEN FORMALLY INTRODUCED .... AS THE OFFSPRING OF MR. WELLER, OF THE BELLE SAVAGE, WAS TREATED WITH MARKED DISTINCTION--Chap. xliii.] [Illustration: "DO YOU ALWAYS SMOKE ARTER YOU GOES TO BED, OLD COCK?" INQUIRED MR. WELLER OF HIS LANDLORD, WHEN THEY HAD BOTH RETIRED FOR THE NIGHT--Chap. xliv.] [Illustration: MR. STIGGINS, GETTING ON HIS LEGS AS WELL AS HE COULD, PROCEEDED TO DELIVER AN EDIFYING DISCOURSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY--Chap. xlv.] [Illustration: MRS. BARDELL SCREAMED VIOLENTLY; TOMMY ROARED; MRS. CLUFFINK SHRUNK WITHIN HERSELF AND MRS. SANDERS MADE OFF WITHOUT MORE ADO--Chap. xlvi.] [Illustration: MR. PICKWICK COULD SCARCELY BELIEVE THE EVIDENCE OF HIS OWN SENSES--Chap. xlvii.] [Illustration: THESE ATTENTIONS WERE DIRECTED, NOT TOWARDS HIM, BUT TO A YOUNG LADY WHO JUST THEN APPEARED AT THE FOOT OF THE STEPS--Chap. xlix.] [Illustration: MR. BOB SAWYER WAS SEATED: NOT IN THE DICKEY, BUT ON THE ROOF OF THE CHAISE--Chap. l.] [Illustration: SNATCHING UP A MEAL-SACK, EFFECTUALLY STOPPED THE CONFLICT BY DRAWING IT OVER THE HEAD AND SHOULDERS OF THE MIGHTY POTT--Chap. ii.] [Illustration: SUDDENLY AWARE THAT HE WAS IN THE PRESENCE OF A STRANGER, MR. BEN ALLEN ADVANCED--Chap. l.]