'Very,' replied Mr. Pickwick drily.
There was a coolness about all this, which, to a gentleman of an excitable temperament, had, under the circumstances, rather an exasperating tendency.Mr. Pickwick restrained his wrath by gigantic efforts;but when Perker wrote a cheque for the whole amount,and Fogg deposited it in a small pocket-book, with a triumphant smile playing over his pimply features,which communicated itself likewise to the stern countenance of Dodson, he felt the blood in his cheeks tingling with indignation.
