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"Miss Wardle and Mr. Tupman" by Robert Buss. “The Pickwick Papers” by Charles Dickens. Chapman & Hall, 1837. 1st ed.

Quoting from the book (page 74):

 

Mr. Tupman no sooner heard this avowal, than he proceeded to do what his enthusiastic emotions prompted, and what, for aught we know, (for we are but little acquainted with such matters,) people so circumstanced always do. He jumped up, and, throwing his arm round the neck of the spinster aunt, imprinted upon her lips numerous kisses, which after a due show of struggling and resistance, she received so passively, that there is no telling how many more Mr. Tupman might have bestowed, if the lady had not given a very affected start and exclaimed in an affrighted tone, –

 

“Mr. Tupman, we are observed! – we are discovered!”

 

[Note: Tracy Tupman is a member of the Pickwick Club and a traveling companion of Mr. Pickwick. He has a weakness for the fair sex which leads to several misadventures.]

 

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