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One evening, while Joab was besieging Rabbath Ammon, David rose from his bed and walked upon the roof of the royal palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing; and she was very beautiful. And David sent to ask about the woman; and some one said, "Is not this Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" Then David sent messengers to bring her; and she came to him, but later returned to her home.
I felt then, more than ever, that she was my better Angel; and if I thought of her sweet face and placid smile, as though they had shone on me from some removed being, like an Angel, I hope I thought no harm. I have said that the company were all gone; but I ought to have excepted Uriah, whom I don't include in that denomination, and who had never ceased to hover near us.
Since David twice spared the life of Saul when he came to murder him, wept on the neck of Jonathan, threw himself upon the ground in anguish when his child sickened, and bewailed, with a broken heart, the loss of Absalom it proves that he did not coolly plot and deliberately consummate the murder of Uriah!
He gave this proceeding, throughout, the appearance of having originated in Mr. W.'s own dishonest intention, and of having been accomplished by Mr. W.'s own dishonest act; and has used it, ever since, to torture and constrain him." 'You shall prove this, you Copperfield! said Uriah, with a threatening shake of the head. 'All in good time! 'Ask HEEP Mr.
'Do you set a watch upon Miss Wickfield, and make her home no home, because of me? said I. 'Oh! Master Copperfield! Those are very arsh words, he replied. 'Put my meaning into any words you like, said I. 'You know what it is, Uriah, as well as I do. 'Oh no! You must put it into words, he said. 'Oh, really! I couldn't myself.
The history of the great labor controversies after the war properly begins with the Knights of Labor, an association which originated in Philadelphia in 1869 as the result of the efforts of a garment cutter named Uriah S. Stephens.
'But we have much to be thankful for. How much have I to be thankful for in living with Mr. Wickfield! I asked Uriah if he had been with Mr. Wickfield long? 'I have been with him, going on four year, Master Copperfield, said Uriah; shutting up his book, after carefully marking the place where he had left off. 'Since a year after my father's death. How much have I to be thankful for, in that!
Uriah, without lifting his eyes from the ground, shuffled across the room with his hand to his chin, and pausing at the door, said: 'Copperfield, I have always hated you. You've always been an upstart, and you've always been against me. 'As I think I told you once before, said I, 'it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world.
"What a prophet you have shown yourself, Master Copperfield!" said Uriah, reminding me of my early words. "You may not recollect it; but when a person is 'umble, a person treasures such things up. But the 'umblest persons, Master Copperfield, may be instruments of good. I am glad to think I have been the instrument of good to Mr. Wickfield, and that I may be more so.
I replied that I was certain he was; but that I had not known him long myself, though he was a friend of my aunt's. 'Oh, indeed, Master Copperfield, said Uriah. 'Your aunt is a sweet lady, Master Copperfield!
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