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Then he untied his package of books and spread his treasures before him as a miser would his gold. He opened "David Copperfield", looked at the frontispiece which depicted a fat man making a very emphatic speech against someone by the name of Heep. It must all be very interesting, but it was altogether too big a book for him to begin to read now.
Born in 1812, died in 1870; became a reporter in 1835; visited America in 1842 and again in 1867-68; published "Sketches by Boz" in 1836, "Pickwick Papers" in 1836-37, "Oliver Twist" in 1838, "Martin Chuzzelwit" in 1843, "David Copperfield" in 1849, "Tale of Two Cities" in 1859; many years after his death appeared his "Letters" in several volumes.
Some years before this time, however, there had been growing in the mind of Dickens a certain formless discontent something to which he could not give a name, yet which, cast over him the shadow of disappointment. He expressed the same feeling in David Copperfield, when he spoke of David's life with Dora.
Dickens, in "David Copperfield," speaks of an old maid who keeps the remembrance of some one who might have made her an offer, the shadowy Pidger, in her heart until her death. I cannot forget these two men. I am constantly meeting with the children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren of the first.
The quotation is an adaptation of: It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh Which some did die to look on. "Antony and Cleopatra," Act I., Scene 4, lines 67-68. It is perhaps worth remarking that in David Copperfield Dickens has a school incident of a similar character. Mr. Hathaway. Matthias Hathaway, steward from 1790 to 1813. I was a hypochondriac lad.
'Miss Trotwood, he remarked, 'is very firm, no doubt, and not likely to give way to opposition. I have an admiration for her character, and I may congratulate you, Copperfield, on being on the right side. Differences between relations are much to be deplored but they are extremely general and the great thing is, to be on the right side': meaning, I take it, on the side of the moneyed interest.
Uriah, said I, bolting it out with some difficulty. 'Thank you, he returned, with fervour. 'Thank you, Master Copperfield! It's like the blowing of old breezes or the ringing of old bellses to hear YOU say Uriah. I beg your pardon. Was I making any observation? 'About Mr. Wickfield, I suggested. 'Oh! Yes, truly, said Uriah. 'Ah! Great imprudence, Master Copperfield.
'My dear Copperfield, returned Traddles, smiling, 'I haven't got anything to lend. 'You have got a name, you know, said I. 'Oh! You call THAT something to lend? returned Traddles, with a thoughtful look. 'Certainly. 'Oh! said Traddles. 'Yes, to be sure! I am very much obliged to you, Copperfield; but I am afraid I have lent him that already.
I've walked that distance on the Upper Road, and I know just how fast I walk, and if I can walk four miles in one hour." Magnus and Harran drove on, leaving Annixter trying to draw S. Behrman into a wrangle. When at length S. Behrman as well took himself away, Annixter returned to his hammock, finished the rest of his prunes and read another chapter of "Copperfield."
I tells Lahoma that I guess them two books is just about as near the real thing out in the big world as you can get. David Copperfield is sort of slow; I've went with people that knowed a powerful sight more than them characters in David. I used to drift about with a bunch of fellows that Uriah Heep couldn't have stood up against for five minutes.
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