Solomon Pell, one of this learned body, was a fat, flabby, pale man, in a surtout which looked green one minute, and brown the next, with a velvet collar of the same chameleon tints.
'Certain sure,' replied Pell; 'but if he'd gone to any irregular practitioner, mind you, I wouldn't have answered for the consequences.'
Pell; and he pursed up his lips, frowned, and shook his head mysteriously.
Pell jerked his head in the direction of a back parlour, whither Mr.
Pell, 'he stands third on the opposed list, and I should think it would be his turn in about half an hour.
Pell, 'you're very-- Upon my word and honour, I'm not in the habit of-- It's so very early in the morning, that, actually, I am almost-- Well, you may bring me threepenn'orth of rum, my dear.'
The officiating damsel, who had anticipated the order before it was given, set the glass of spirits before Pell, and retired.
Pell smacked his lips, and looked complacently round on the assembled coachmen, who evidently regarded him as a species of divinity.
Pell, observing an indecent tendency to mirth in some of his auditors, considered it due to himself to indulge.
A dark mass, looming through a cloud of dust, soon became visible; the mob quickened their pace; shouting and whooping like savages, they came rushing on
pell mell; and in a few seconds he was bandied from hand to hand, in the heart of a crowd of men.