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CHAPTER XIII
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Some Account of Eatanswill; of the State of Parties therein; and of the Election of a Member to serve in Parliament for that ancient, loyal, and patriotic1 Borough2
We will frankly3 acknowledge that, up to the period of our being first immersed in the voluminous papers of the Pickwick Club, we had never heard of Eatanswill; we will with equal candour admit that we have in vain searched for proof of the actual existence of such a place at the present day. Knowing the deep reliance to be placed on every note and statement of Mr. Pickwick’s, and not presuming to set up our recollection against the recorded declarations of that great man, we have consulted every authority, bearing upon the subject, to which we could possibly refer. We have traced every name in schedules A and B, without meeting with that of Eatanswill; we have minutely examined every corner of the pocket county maps issued for the benefit of society by our distinguished4 publishers, and the same result has attended our investigation5. We are therefore led to believe that Mr. Pickwick, with that anxious desire to abstain6 from giving offence to any, and with those delicate feelings for which all who knew him well know he was so eminently7 remarkable8, purposely substituted a fictitious9 designation, for the real name of the place in which his observations were made. We are confirmed in this belief by a little circumstance, apparently10 slight and trivial in itself, but when considered in this point of view, not undeserving of notice. In Mr. Pickwick’s note-book, we can just trace an entry of the fact, that the places of himself and
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adversary
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entirely
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metropolis
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humble
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instil
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(random access memory)随机存取存储器 | |
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perfectly
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