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If there's slaves in them parts where you're a-going, I'll be bound to you for one, and happy, but doen't ye leave me behind, Dan'l, that's a deary dear! 'My good soul, said Mr. Peggotty, shaking his head, 'you doen't know what a long voyage, and what a hard life 'tis! 'Yes, I do, Dan'l! I can guess! cried Mrs. Gummidge.
'E was a reg'ler devil, 'e was; and they do zay as 'ow 'e be about 'ere even now, although 'e baint been 'eard of for zum taime. And more; they zay that zumwheres near this vury plaace 'o 'as buried tons of goold and silver, precious stones, and all kinds of vallybles; but 'ow far that be true I doen't knaw.
She doen't ought to know any such, but I can't deny her, when the tears is on her face. He put his hand into the breast of his shaggy jacket, and took out with great care a pretty little purse.
When he went to it again, Em'ly was nigh him. The t'other was inside. He's the man. 'For the Lord's love, said Mr. Peggotty, falling back, and putting out his hand, as if to keep off what he dreaded. 'Doen't tell me his name's Steerforth!
But they were both as grave and steady as the sea itself, then lying beneath a dark sky, waveless yet with a heavy roll upon it, as if it breathed in its rest and touched, on the horizon, with a strip of silvery light from the unseen sun. 'We have had a mort of talk, sir, said Mr. Peggotty to me, when we had all three walked a little while in silence, 'of what we ought and doen't ought to do.
Peggotty, standing with his legs pretty wide apart, and rubbing his hands up and down them in his comfortable satisfaction, as he looked alternately at us and at the fire. 'I doen't know but I am. Not, you see, to look at. 'Not azackly, observed Peggotty. 'No, laughed Mr. Peggotty, 'not to look at, but to to consider on, you know. I doen't care, bless you! Now I tell you.
Paul's upon the lid, the yard-measure in the cottage, and the bit of wax-candle; and there they all were, just as if they had never been disturbed. Mrs. Gummidge appeared to be fretting a little, in her old corner; and consequently looked quite natural, too. 'You're first of the lot, Mas'r Davy! said Mr. Peggotty with a happy face. 'Doen't keep in that coat, sir, if it's wet. 'Thank you, Mr.
'I doen't know, said Mr. Peggotty, 'for sure, when her 'art begun to fail her; but all the way to England she had thowt to come to her dear home. Soon as she got to England she turned her face tow'rds it.
You doen't know half the change that's come, in course of time, upon me, when you think it likely. Well! he paused a moment, then went on. 'You doen't understand how 'tis that this here gentleman and me has wished to speak to you. You doen't understand what 'tis we has afore us. Listen now! His influence upon her was complete.
'Whereby, said he, 'I know, both as she would go to the wureld's furdest end with me, if she could once see me again; and that she would fly to the wureld's furdest end to keep off seeing me. For though she ain't no call to doubt my love, and doen't and doen't, he repeated, with a quiet assurance of the truth of what he said, 'there's shame steps in, and keeps betwixt us.
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