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Barkis's decease; and indeed he came in like a bridegroom. But neither Peggotty nor I had eyes for him, when we saw, in company with him, Mr. Murdstone. He was very little changed. His hair looked as thick, and was certainly as black, as ever; and his glance was as little to be trusted as of old. 'Ah, Copperfield? said Mr. Spenlow. 'You know this gentleman, I believe?
Spenlow was very difficult to move from the beaten track. You know what he was! I am disposed to think he had made no will. 'Oh, I know he had! said I. They both stopped and looked at me. 'On the very day when I last saw him, said I, 'he told me that he had, and that his affairs were long since settled. Mr. jorkins and old Tiffey shook their heads with one accord.
Spenlow, by a great effort, just lifted his head far enough out of his cravat to shake it, and answered, anticipating the word 'salary': 'No. I will not say what consideration I might give to that point myself, Mr. Copperfield, if I were unfettered. Mr. Jorkins is immovable. I was quite dismayed by the idea of this terrible Jorkins.
Spenlow on appearing before the clients in that airy attire; now I was hungrily picking up the crumbs that fell from old Tiffey's daily biscuit, regularly eaten when St.
She was so unusually roused, that I was glad to compound for an affectionate hug, elicited by this revival in her mind of our old injuries, and to make the best I could of it, before Mr. Spenlow and the clerks. Mr. Spenlow did not appear to know what the connexion between Mr.
When he told me I had better take a week to consider of what he had said, how could I say I wouldn't take a week, yet how could I fail to know that no amount of weeks could influence such love as mine? 'In the meantime, confer with Miss Trotwood, or with any person with any knowledge of life, said Mr. Spenlow, adjusting his cravat with both hands. 'Take a week, Mr. Copperfield.
As I did not care, however, to get to Highgate before one or two o'clock in the day, and as we had another little excommunication case in court that morning, which was called The office of the judge promoted by Tipkins against Bullock for his soul's correction, I passed an hour or two in attendance on it with Mr. Spenlow very agreeably.
'When I explained my altered position to you, sir, I began again, substituting a new form of expression for what was so unpalatable to him, 'this concealment, into which I am so unhappy as to have led Miss Spenlow, had begun. Since I have been in that altered position, I have strained every nerve, I have exerted every energy, to improve it. I am sure I shall improve it in time.
I was jealous of everybody. I couldn't bear the idea of anybody knowing Mr. Spenlow better than I did. It was torturing to me to hear them talk of occurrences in which I had had no share.
'Miss Spenlow endeavoured, said Miss Murdstone, 'to bribe me with kisses, work-boxes, and small articles of jewellery that, of course, I pass over. The little dog retreated under the sofa on my approaching him, and was with great difficulty dislodged by the fire-irons.
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