Chapter 45: XLIV

XLIV Treats of divers little matters which occurred in the Fleet, and of Mr. Winkle’s mysterious behaviour; and shows how the poor chancery prisoner obtained his release at last. Mr. Pickwick felt a great deal too much touched by the warmth of Sam’s attachment, to be able to exhibit any manifestation of anger or displeasure at the precipitate course he had adopted, in voluntarily consigning himself to a debtor’s prison for an indefinite period. The only point on which he persevered in dem…