| It was the day on which Mr Pecksniff had agreed to dine with Montague. |
| Mr Pecksniff looked up to the ceiling, and clasped his hands in rapture. |
| And did she think,' said Mr Pecksniff, with a playful tightening of his grasp 'that she could! |
| They have failed to realise that the presence of a Pecksniff, say, or a Micawber would destroy the book's delicate balance. |
| Miss Pecksniff only spoke to her Augustus, and to him in whispers. |
| Mr Pecksniff was, as a matter of course, greatly entertained by this retort. |
