four o’clock in the
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Good-bye , good-bye ! ' and protesting all the way downstairs that he was most satisfied , and most delighted , and most overpowered , and most flattered , Angelo Cyrus Bantam , Esquire , M.C. , stepped into a very elegant chariot that waited at the door , and rattled off . At the appointed hour , Mr. Pickwick and his friends , escorted by Dowler , repaired to the Assembly Rooms , and wrote their names down in the book -- an instance of condescension at which Angelo Bantam was even more overpowered than before . Tickets of admission to that evening 's assembly were to have been prepared for the whole party , but as they were not ready , Mr. Pickwick undertook , despite all the protestations to the contrary of Angelo Bantam , to send Sam for them at four o'clock in the afternoon , to the M.C. 's house in Queen Square . Having taken a short walk through the city , and arrived at the unanimous conclusion that Park Street was very much like the perpendicular streets a man sees in a dream , which he can not get up for the life of him , they returned to the White Hart , and despatched Sam on the errand to which his master had pledged him . Sam Weller put on his hat in a very easy and graceful manner , and , thrusting his hands in his waistcoat pockets , walked with great deliberation to Queen Square , whistling as he went along , several of the most popular airs of the day , as arranged with entirely new movements for that noble instrument the organ , either mouth or barrel . Arriving at the number in Queen Square to which he had been directed , he left off whistling and gave a cheerful knock , which was instantaneously answered by a powdered-headed footman in gorgeous livery , and of symmetrical stature .