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By paying the costs , you can obtain a full release and discharge from the damages ; and , further , a voluntary statement , under her hand , that this business was from the very first fomented and encouraged by these men , Dodson and Fogg . She entreats me to intercede with you , and implores your pardon . '' Before Mr. Pickwick could reply , there was a low murmuring of voices outside , and a hesitating knock at the door ; and Mr. Winkle , Mr. Tupman , and Mr. Snodgrass entering most opportunely , at last , by their united pleadings , Mr. Pickwick was fairly argued out of his resolutions . At three o'clock that afternoon Mr. Pickwick took a last look at his little room , and made his way as well as he could through the throng of debtors who pressed eagerly forward to shake him by the hand , until he reached the lodge steps . He turned here to look about him , and his eye brightened as he did so . In all the crowd of wan , emaciated faces , he saw not one which was not the happier for his sympathy and charity . As for Sam Weller , having dispatched Job Trotter to procure his formal discharge , his next proceeding was to invest his whole stock of ready money in the purchase of five-and-twenty gallons of mild porter , which he himself dispensed on the racket-ground to everybody who would partake of it .