The Steam-Packet: A Tale of the River and the Ocean — page 66: what you’re looking at

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4 ‘ ' - ; 3 4 d r | THE STEAM PACKET, 4} arranged with him, in a few words, the hour and place of meeting for the following morning. 3 Mr. Pifpaf now took leave of the two gentlemen; and the latter proceeded towards the shop to which the tailor had already alluded, Mr. Gibbins following in the rear. It would be useless to detail at length the conversation which passed between Captain Pentonville and Mr. Buckram upon this occasion. We shall, however, observe that, as the latter was bent upon accepting Mr. Pifpaf’s invitation, certain conditions were amicably settled be- tween them. According to those terms, Tom Gibbins was instructed how he was in future to denominate the tailor ;—secondly, Captain Pentonville advanced the said tailor the sum of ten pounds to purchase and stock a portmanteau ;—thirdly, the said tailor agreed not to inter- fere with Captain Pentonville in his love affair with Aramintha ;—and fourthly, Captain Pentonville consented to support the said tailor’s assumed rank to the utmost of his power. Under these auspicious circumstances, the livery was procured for Mr. Thomas Gibbins; and the great events of the steam excursion were anxiously awaited by all parties interested in them. CHAPTER V. IN WHICH THE PIFPAF FAMILY ARE AT LENGTH GRATIFIED BY THE FORMATION OF AN ACQUAINTANCE WHICH THEY DEEM EMINENTLY ARISTOCRATIC.—THE STEAM EXCURSION COMMENCES, At eight o’clock on the memorable morning of the 3d of June, 1840, Mr. Buckram and Captain Pentonville door of Mr. Pifpaf’s hospitable dwel- ling; and they were forthwith intro- duced into the breakfast-room, while » Lom Gibbins deposited their luggage j in the hall. The soi-disant noble- man entered the room with an awful swagger, which passed current as a debonair and jaunty gait; and he | ogled the young ladies, when intro- duced to them, in a manner which was highly flattering when charac- teristic.of aristocratic condescension ; but which, in connexion with VYeEeomichooks emerged from a hackney-coach at the (E(0)