56. An important Conference takes place between
Mr. Pickwick and Samuel Weller, at which his
Parent assists--An old Gentleman in a snuff-
coloured Suit arrives unexpectedly

57. In which the Pickwick Club is finally dissolved,
and everything concluded to the Satisfaction
of Everybody





THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS
OF
THE PICKWICK CLUB




CHAPTER I
THE PICKWICKIANS


The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts
into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier
history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would
appear to be involved, is derived from the perusal of the following
entry in the Transactions of the Pickwick Club, which the editor
of these papers feels the highest pleasure in laying before his