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'What makes you suppose there is any young lady in the case, Mrs. Crupp? said I. 'Mr. Copperfull, said Mrs. Crupp, with a great deal of feeling, 'I'm a mother myself. For some time Mrs. Crupp could only lay her hand upon her nankeen bosom, and fortify herself against returning pain with sips of her medicine. At length she spoke again.

Crupp, said I, 'I must beg you not to connect the young lady in my case with a barmaid, or anything of that sort, if you please. 'Mr. Copperfull, returned Mrs. Crupp, 'I'm a mother myself, and not likely. I ask your pardon, sir, if I intrude. I should never wish to intrude where I were not welcome. But you are a young gentleman, Mr.

Copperfull would have his heart in his mouth, when he see his dear relations. 'Holloa! said my aunt to Peggotty, who quailed before her awful presence. 'How are YOU? 'You remember my aunt, Peggotty? said I. 'For the love of goodness, child, exclaimed my aunt, 'don't call the woman by that South Sea Island name!

Copperfull? 'Nothing, ma'am, returned my aunt. 'I shall do very well, I thank you. Mrs.

'When the present set were took for you by your dear aunt, Mr. Copperfull, said Mrs. Crupp, 'my remark were, I had now found summun I could care for. "Thank Ev'in!" were the expression, "I have now found summun I can care for!" You don't eat enough, sir, nor yet drink. 'Is that what you found your supposition on, Mrs. Crupp? said I. 'Sir, said Mrs.

'Never say die, sir! If She don't smile upon you, there's a many as will. You are a young gentleman to be smiled on, Mr. Copperfull, and you must learn your walue, sir. Mrs. Crupp always called me Mr. Copperfull: firstly, no doubt, because it was not my name; and secondly, I am inclined to think, in some indistinct association with a washing-day.

Copperfull, and my adwice to you is, to cheer up, sir, to keep a good heart, and to know your own walue. If you was to take to something, sir, said Mrs. Crupp, 'if you was to take to skittles, now, which is healthy, you might find it divert your mind, and do you good. With these words, Mrs.