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'I was so surprised at first, said I, giving him welcome with all the cordiality I felt, 'that I had hardly breath to greet you with, Steerforth. 'Well, the sight of me is good for sore eyes, as the Scotch say, replied Steerforth, 'and so is the sight of you, Daisy, in full bloom. How are you, my Bacchanal?
Let them do it at some other man. There's fame for him, and he's welcome to it. I was abashed at having made so great a mistake, and was glad to change the subject. Fortunately it was not difficult to do, for Steerforth could always pass from one subject to another with a carelessness and lightness that were his own.
'No, returned Steerforth, 'the advocates are civilians men who have taken a doctor's degree at college which is the first reason of my knowing anything about it. The proctors employ the advocates. Both get very comfortable fees, and altogether they make a mighty snug little party. On the whole, I would recommend you to take to Doctors' Commons kindly, David.
Sharp and Mr. Mell were both notable personages in my eyes; but Steerforth was to them what the sun was to two stars. Steerforth continued his protection of me, and proved a very useful friend; since nobody dared to annoy one whom he honoured with his countenance. He couldn't or at all events he didn't defend me from Mr.
'Of course it would be preferred, said Steerforth. 'And do it at once. The waiter immediately withdrew to make the exchange. Steerforth, very much amused at my having been put into forty-four, laughed again, and clapped me on the shoulder again, and invited me to breakfast with him next morning at ten o'clock an invitation I was only too proud and happy to accept.
'I have been taking leave of my usual walk, said I. 'And I have been sitting here, said Steerforth, glancing round the room, 'thinking that all the people we found so glad on the night of our coming down, might to judge from the present wasted air of the place be dispersed, or dead, or come to I don't know what harm. David, I wish to God I had had a judicious father these last twenty years!
Mell's old flute seemed more than once to sound mournfully in my ears; and that when at last Steerforth was tired, and I lay down in my bed, I fancied it playing so sorrowfully somewhere, that I was quite wretched. The new master came from a grammar school; and before he entered on his duties, dined in the parlour one day, to be introduced to Steerforth.
Steerforth, who gave me her hand more coldly than of yore, and with an augmentation of her former stateliness of manner, but still, I perceived and I was touched by it with an ineffaceable remembrance of my old love for her son. She was greatly altered. Her fine figure was far less upright, her handsome face was deeply marked, and her hair was almost white.
As to his situation which was a precious one, wasn't it? do you suppose I am not going to write home and take care that he gets some money?" We all thought this intention very noble in Steerforth, whose mother was a rich widow, and, it was said, would do anything he asked her.
'It's as good a phrase as another, said Steerforth. 'Thank you: whether people, who are like each other in their moral constitution, are in greater danger than people not so circumstanced, supposing any serious cause of variance to arise between them, of being divided angrily and deeply? 'I should say yes, said Steerforth. 'Should you? she retorted. 'Dear me!
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