'The chairman said that he was quite sure the hon. Pickwickian would withdraw the expression he had just made use of.

Mr Blotton, with all possible respect for the chair, was quite sure he would not.

The chairman felt it his imperative duty to demand of the honourable gentleman, whether he had used the expression which had just escaped him in a common sense.

Mr Blotton had no hesitation in saying that he had not - he had used the word in its Pickwickian sense. (Hear, hear.) He was bound to acknowledge that, personally, he entertained the highest regard and esteem for the honourable gentleman; he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view. (Hear, hear.)

Mr Pickwick felt much gratified by the fair, candid, and full explanation of his honourable friend. He begged it to be at once understood, that his own observations had been merely intended to bear a Pickwickian construction. (Cheers.)'

Here the entry terminates, as we have no doubt the debate did also, after arriving at such a highly satisfactory and intelligible point. We have no official statement of the facts which the reader will find recorded in the next chapter, but they have been carefully collated from letters and other authorities, so unquestionably genuine as to justify their narration in a connected form.

Vocabulary:

Withdraw: Take back.
Imperative: Something important that must be done at once.
Just escaped him: Meaning 'which he had just said'.
Entertained: Here it means 'had'.
Esteem: Opinion.
Merely: Only.
Candid: Plain and honest.
Bear: Here it means 'have'
Construction: Interpretation.
Terminates: Finishes.
Collated: Put together and organized.