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"Now we must consider what is to be done with you David Copperfield. I shall have to write to your step-father." "Will I be given back to him?" "I don' know?"
"Perhaps, we shall see? You have comitted a very reckless act. Running away is a serious business you know. What did you mean by coming here?"
"Poor little fellow"
"How does the world go? come sit. How did you sleep, were you comfortable? Don't mention this to anyone. It's a mad world. As mad as bedlam."
What are you writing Mr. ***?" "It's my life story! My memorial. The problem is KIng Charles the first keeps on trying to make his way in there. It's very unreasonable."
"Do you recollect the date he had his head cut off?" "I believe it was 1649, sir?" "If it was so long ago, I could the people put his ideas into my head?"
"How long has Mr. *** been writing his memorial?" "10 years or more, don't worry about it" "What do you think of him? Come on speak out" "Is he out of his mind?" "Not a bit"
"He is not mad, he has been called mad by his family, they would have put him away, if I had not stepped in"
"Mr. *** is the most friendly creature in existence. I rely on his judgement on all important matters."
"Before long my stepfather replied to my aunt's letter. Informing her that he was coming to speak to her himself."
"Donkeys are on my property, get them out of here. How dare you trespass. Go away." "Aunt it is my stepfather" "I don't care who it is."
"I don't allow anyone to ride on my grass, I make no exceptions." "That is rather akward to strangers."
This boy, has a bad and violent temper" "Of all the boys in the world this is the worst boy" "Indeed" "I placed this boy in a respectable business and he ran away from it"
"About this respectable business? A blacking factory? I he had been your own boy, you would have put him there just the same?"
"I have my own reason for bring up this perticular boy. "I see" "I have come to take my step-son back. I will deal with him as I think right and dispose of him as I think proper"
"Iff you step between us now, you do so forever."
"What does the boy say, are you ready to go David?" "Please don't let me go, they made my mother unhappy and they never cared for me. I want to stay here with you and Mr. ***"
"Mr. ***, what shall I do with this child?" "I would have him measured for a suit of clothes directly!"
"Mr. ***, give me you hand for your common sense. I'll take my chance with the boy. If he is all you say he is, I can at least do for him as much as you have done."
"But, I don't believe a word of it!" "If you were a man!" "Do you think I don't know what you did to this child's mother? When you made quite sure she was your's you began to train her and break her"
"Like a caged bird. Wearing her live away" "This is insanity or intoxication" " You broke her heart, then you punished the boy out of guilt. There is the truth and you and you instrument may make the most of it."
"Who are you calling an instrument?" "Good day sir and good by!"
"Let me see you ride a donkey on my lawn again, and I'll knock your bonnet off and step on it."
"Oh, Mr. ***, you will be joint gardian with me over this boy" "I'll be delighted"
"My aunt said I should not continue my education and I happily agreed' "You will be the smartest boy in the school" "My new school was in Canterbury and and she promised it would be nice"
I was to live with my aunt's lawyer her old and trusted friend.
"Is Mr. Whitfield at home?" "Yes, he is expecting you, if you please to follow me"
"I am most gratful to you old friend. I'm sure my nephew will be very happy here. I must go If I am to be home before dark. Never be mean in anything, never be false, never be cruel. Avoid those three vices and I can always be hopeful of you."
"There is just a little dust in my eye, it's nothing, nothing." Come and meet my little housekeeper"
"This is Agnes, my daughter. She looks after me in everyway. She will show you to your room.:
"We lead a very quite and dull life here" Not more dull for me than Agnes sir?" "Is it dull for you Agnes?" "Of course not Papa" "She must stay where I can keep her safe, I lost her mother too young."
"You are tired Papa?" "Yes, I should go to bed now" You are company for us both."
"It is wholesome to have you here." Put out the candles Agnes"
"I hope you are comfortable?" Yes, thank you Mr. Heep" "
"I suppose you are a great lawyer?" " Me, no I'm only a clerk at present. My mother and I are very humble people" "Where is your father" "He is dead"
I have much to be grateful for." "Perhaps you will be a partner in his business someday?" "No I have no ambition for that."
"I suppose you will be coming here from time to time?" "I will stay here as long as I'm at school" "Then maybe you will come into the business? "What I would most like to do is write stories one day" "A most worthy ambition. I bid you good evening"
"My new school was an excellent place and very different from my former one., before long my past life became so strange to me that I began to believe it never happened."
"Time steals on, the years glide by silently and I move from childhood to youth. The boy I was seems no part of me now, I remember him as something left behind on the road of life."