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'I'm a lone lorn creetur' myself, and everythink that reminds me of creetur's that ain't lone and lorn, goes contrary with me. 'Come, old gal! cried Mr. Peggotty. 'Take and heave it. 'No, Dan'l, returned Mrs. Gummidge, whimpering and shaking her head. 'If I felt less, I could do more.
'This come to Missis Gummidge, he said, opening another, 'two or three months ago.'After looking at it for some moments, he gave it to me, and added in a low voice, 'Be so good as read it, sir. I read as follows: 'Oh what will you feel when you see this writing, and know it comes from my wicked hand!
Gummidge, who only shook her head over her knitting. 'What's amiss? said Mr. Peggotty, with a clap of his hands. Mrs. Gummidge did not appear to be able to cheer up. She took out an old black silk handkerchief and wiped her eyes; but instead of putting it in her pocket, kept it out, and wiped them again, and still kept it out, ready for use. 'What's amiss, dame? said Mr. Peggotty.
I bore up against the separation from Mr. Peggotty and Mrs. Gummidge, but my agony of mind at leaving little Em'ly was piercing. We went arm-in-arm to the public-house where the carrier put up, and I promised, on the road, to write to her. Now, all the time I had been on my visit, I had been ungrateful to my home again, and had thought little or nothing about it.
Gummidge in 'David Copperfield' over again," said Rose. "You recollect her, girls, don't you? When the porridge was burnt, you know, 'All of us felt the disappointment, but Mrs. Gummidge felt it the most. Isn't Lilly a real Mrs. Gummidge, girls?" The observation changed Lilly's tears into anger. "You're as hateful and as horrid as you can be, Rose Red," she exclaimed angrily.
You don't feel like me, Dan'l; thinks don't go contrary with you, nor you with them; you had better do it yourself. Gummidge must do it. So Mrs.
"We are within a quarter of a mile of the rapids now. What are the chances of running them safely?" "I have taken a canoe through them twice," replied Moralle, "and I could do it again. That is, provided I can paddle and look where I am going. Shall I try it, sir?" "No, not yet; wait a little," I answered. "I don't like this silence," exclaimed Gummidge.
Gummidge had their aprons to their eyes, and Ham had just stepped out 'to take a turn on the beach'. He presently came home, very glad to see me; and I hope they were all the better for my being there. We spoke, with some approach to cheerfulness, of Mr. Peggotty's growing rich in a new country, and of the wonders he would describe in his letters.
She knows I'm a going to tell, here his delight broke out again, 'and has made off. Would you be so good as look arter her, Mawther, for a minute? Mrs. Gummidge nodded and disappeared. 'If this ain't, said Mr. Peggotty, sitting down among us by the fire, 'the brightest night o' my life, I'm a shellfish biled too and more I can't say.
Alcide, you've missed a glass of wine and a cigar, you early bird." His head was clear enough now. He realized his good fortune. He had never been so happy in his life. He called the pups and romped with them until an unlucky misstep sent Mrs Gummidge, with a shriek, to the top of the wardrobe, whence she glared at Gethryn and spit at the delighted raven.
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