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Peggotty, taken aback, looked from Mrs. Gummidge to me, and from me to Mrs. Gummidge, as if he had been awakened from a sleep. 'Doen't ye, dearest Dan'l, doen't ye! cried Mrs. Gummidge, fervently. 'Take me 'long with you, Dan'l, take me 'long with you and Em'ly! I'll be your servant, constant and trew.
'My niece, Em'ly, is alive, sir! he said, steadfastly. 'I doen't know wheer it comes from, or how 'tis, but I am told as she's alive! He looked almost like a man inspired, as he said it. I waited for a few moments, until he could give me his undivided attention; and then proceeded to explain the precaution, that, it had occurred to me last night, it would be wise to take.
Doen't I want you more now, than ever I did? 'I know'd I was never wanted before! cried Mrs. Gummidge, with a pitiable whimper, 'and now I'm told so! How could I expect to be wanted, being so lone and lorn, and so contrary! Mr.
I wonder, he said thoughtfully, 'if you could see my Em'ly now, Mas'r Davy, whether you'd know her! 'Is she so altered? I inquired. 'I doen't know. I see her ev'ry day, and doen't know; But, odd-times, I have thowt so. A slight figure, said Mr.
Overpowered by sudden grief, he sobbed aloud. I laid my trembling hand upon the hand he put before his face. 'Thankee, sir, he said, 'doen't take no notice. In a very little while he took his hand away and put it on his breast, and went on with his story.
'And yet, he added, 'Mas'r Davy, I have felt so sure as she was living I have know'd, awake and sleeping, as it was so trew that I should find her I have been so led on by it, and held up by it that I doen't believe I can have been deceived. No! Em'ly's alive! He put his hand down firmly on the table, and set his sunburnt face into a resolute expression.
As Em'ly wishes of it, and as she's hurried and frightened, like, besides, I'll leave her till morning. Let me stay too! 'No, no, said Mr. Peggotty. 'You doen't ought a married man like you or what's as good to take and hull away a day's work. And you doen't ought to watch and work both. That won't do. You go home and turn in. You ain't afeerd of Em'ly not being took good care on, I know.
I doen't know, you see, but maybe she believed or hoped he had drifted out to them parts, where the flowers is always a-blowing, and the country bright. 'It is likely to have been a childish fancy, I replied. 'When she was lost, said Mr. Peggotty, 'I know'd in my mind, as he would take her to them countries.
Theer! Go along with t'other loving art! What' Em'ly? Eh, my pretty? The sound of her voice had not reached me, but he bent his head as if he listened to her, and then said: 'Let you stay with your uncle? Why, you doen't mean to ask me that! Stay with your uncle, Moppet? When your husband that'll be so soon, is here fur to take you home?
'Even more so, I do assure you, than his ventersome ways, though both belongs to the alteration in him. I doen't know as he'd do violence under any circumstances, but I hope as them two may be kep asunders. We had come, through Temple Bar, into the city.
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