The "White Horse Cellar" is also mentioned in Bleak House in the
communication from Kenge and Carboys to Esther Summerson as her
halting-place in London. Here she was met by their clerk, Mr.
Guppy, who later, in his declaration of love to her, reminded her
of his services on that occasion--"I think you must have seen that
I was struck with those charms on the day when I waited at the
whytorseller. I think you must have remarked that I could not
forbear a tribute to those charms when I put up the steps of
the 'ackney coach."




CHAPTER XIII

FOUR BATH INNS AND THE "BUSH," BRISTOL



On their arrival at Bath, Mr. Pickwick and his friends and
Mr. Dowler and his wife "respectively retired to their private
sitting-rooms at the White Hart Hotel, opposite the great Pump
Room . . . where waiters, from their costume, might be mistaken
for Westminster boys, only they destroyed the illusion by behaving
themselves so much better."

Mr. Pickwick had scarcely finished his breakfast next morning when
Mr. Dowler brought in no less a person than his friend, Angelo Cyrus
Bantam, Esquire, to introduce to him, and to administer his stock
greeting, "Welcome to Ba-ath, sir. This is, indeed, an acquisition.