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I did not fail to assure him that I would store these precepts in my mind, though indeed I had no need to do so, for, at the time, they affected me visibly. Next morning I met the whole family at the coach office, and saw them, with a desolate heart, take their places outside, at the back. 'Master Copperfield, said Mrs. Micawber, 'God bless you!
I felt the greatest admiration for the virtues of this young lady; and, honestly with the view of doing my best to prevent the good-nature of Traddles from being imposed upon, to the detriment of their joint prospects in life, inquired how Mr. Micawber was? 'He is quite well, Copperfield, thank you, said Traddles. 'I am not living with him at present. 'No? 'No.
W. and attested by Wilkins Micawber, are forgeries by HEEP. I have, in my possession, in his hand and pocket-book, several similar imitations of Mr. W.'s signature, here and there defaced by fire, but legible to anyone. I never attested any such document.
Micawber is a man whose soul cannot be made to understand the tyranny of time or the limits of human hope; but he will understand all these things if he goes to Australia. For it must be noted that Dickens does not use this emigration merely as a mode of exit. He does not send these characters away on a ship merely as a symbol suggesting that they pass wholly out of his hearer's life.
But as we all sat looking at them, and at the variously splendid toilets that rustled in, and fluttered, and finally settled, it was not possible to escape the great thought that in a few moments we should see at that queer, stiff table the creator of Sam Weller, and Oliver Twist, and Micawber, and Dick Swiveller, and the rest of the endless, marvellous company the greatest story-teller since Scott, one of the most famous names in literature since Fielding.
'Why, I am intimately acquainted with them! An opportune double knock at the door, which I knew well from old experience in Windsor Terrace, and which nobody but Mr. Micawber could ever have knocked at that door, resolved any doubt in my mind as to their being my old friends. I begged Traddles to ask his landlord to walk up. Traddles accordingly did so, over the banister; and Mr.
The oldest of the regular boys was named Mick Walker, and another boy in my department, on account of his complexion, was called Mealy Potatoes. No words can express the secret agony of my soul as I sunk into this companionship, and thought sadly of Traddles, Steerforth, and those other boys, whom I felt sure would grow up to be great men. I lodged with a Mr. Micawber who lived in Windsor Terrace.
Micawber, I may remark, had taken his full share of the general bow, and had received it with infinite condescension. 'But punch, my dear Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, tasting it, 'like time and tide, waits for no man. Ah! it is at the present moment in high flavour. My love, will you give me your opinion? Mrs. Micawber pronounced it excellent. 'Then I will drink, said Mr.
It may be briefly said that exaggeration takes for granted some degree of imbecility in the reader, whereas caricature takes for granted a high degree of intelligence. Dickens appeals to our intelligence in all his caricature, whether heavenly, as in Joe Gargery, or impish, as in Mrs. Micawber.
Micawber, 'I wish I had had the honour of knowing you at an earlier period. I was not always the wreck you at present behold. 'I hope Mrs. Micawber and your family are well, sir, said my aunt. Mr. Micawber inclined his head. 'They are as well, ma'am, he desperately observed after a pause, 'as Aliens and Outcasts can ever hope to be. 'Lord bless you, sir! exclaimed my aunt, in her abrupt way.
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