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Copperfield, my dear fellow, how do you do? I cannot say I really cannot say that I was glad to see Mr. Micawber there; but I was glad to see him too, and shook hands with him, heartily, inquiring how Mrs. Micawber was. 'Thank you, said Mr. Micawber, waving his hand as of old, and settling his chin in his shirt-collar. 'She is tolerably convalescent.

'My love, he observed, 'perhaps you will allow me to remark that it is barely possible that I DO feel my position at the present moment. 'I think not, Micawber, she rejoined. 'Not fully. My dear Mr. Copperfield, Mr. Micawber's is not a common case. Mr. Micawber is going to a distant country expressly in order that he may be fully understood and appreciated for the first time. I wish Mr.

Micawber, before we had been there a week. I said, and thought, that they ought to be ashamed of themselves. 'Still, so it was, continued Mrs. Micawber. 'Under such circumstances, what could a man of Mr. Micawber's spirit do? But one obvious course was left. To borrow, of that branch of my family, the money to return to London, and to return at any sacrifice.

The finding of the plum was not a matter of world-wide importance, but it was a great pleasure for Jack Horner, and he did not care who knew it. What joy Mr. Micawber gets out of his own eloquence! We cannot begrudge him this unearned increment. We sympathize, as, "much affected, but still intensely enjoying himself, Mr.

Micawber, 'if you will mention to Copperfield what our present position is, which I have no doubt he will like to know, I will go and look at the paper the while, and see whether anything turns up among the advertisements. 'I thought you were at Plymouth, ma'am, I said to Mrs. Micawber, as he went out. 'My dear Master Copperfield, she replied, 'we went to Plymouth.

But this ironical expedient is, of course, less frequently serviceable than that of emphasis by direct proportion. Emphasis by Iteration.= Undoubtedly the easiest means of inculcating a detail of narrative is to repeat it again and again. Emphasis by iteration is a favorite device of Dickens. The reader is never allowed to forget the catch-phrase of Micawber or the moral look of Pecksniff.

That my papa was too partial, I well know; but that he was an observer of character in some degree, my duty and my reason equally forbid me to doubt. With these words, and resisting our entreaties that she would grace the remaining circulation of the punch with her presence, Mrs. Micawber retired to my bedroom.

Micawber folded up his letter, and handed it with a bow to my aunt, as something she might like to keep. There was, as I had noticed on my first visit long ago, an iron safe in the room. The key was in it. A hasty suspicion seemed to strike Uriah; and, with a glance at Mr. Micawber, he went to it, and threw the doors clanking open. It was empty.

He read this passage as if it were from an Act of Parliament; and appeared majestically refreshed by the sound of the words. "My charges against HEEP," he read on, glancing at him, and drawing the ruler into a convenient position under his left arm, in case of need, "are as follows." We all held our breath, I think. I am sure Uriah held his. "First," said Mr. Micawber, "When Mr.

'And I have a power of attorney from him in my pocket, to act for him in all matters. 'The old ass has drunk himself into a state of dotage, said Uriah, turning uglier than before, 'and it has been got from him by fraud! 'Something has been got from him by fraud, I know, returned Traddles quietly; 'and so do you, Mr. Heep. We will refer that question, if you please, to Mr. Micawber.