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You have never understood them, and they have never understood you. Mr. Micawber coughed. 'They have never understood you, Micawber, said his wife. 'They may be incapable of it. If so, that is their misfortune. I can pity their misfortune. 'I am extremely sorry, my dear Emma, said Mr.
'Or, if confiding anything to friends will be more likely to relieve you, you shall impart it to us, Mr. Micawber, said Traddles, prudently. 'Gentlemen, returned Mr. Micawber, 'do with me as you will! I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants I beg your pardon; I should have said the elements.
It was not easy to answer her inquiries; still less to whisper Mr. Peggotty, when Mr. Micawber brought him in, that I had given the letter, and all was well. But I did both, and made them happy. If I showed any trace of what I felt, my own sorrows were sufficient to account for it. 'And when does the ship sail, Mr. Micawber? asked my aunt. Mr.
Trevor died, and Doggie, as soon as he had recovered from the intensity of his grief, looked out upon a lonely world. Phineas, like Mrs. Micawber, swore he would never desert him. In the perils of Polar exploration or the comforts of Denby Hall, he would find Phineas McPhail ever by his side. The first half-dozen or so of these declarations consoled Doggie tremendously.
'Oh, you are in low spirits, Mr. Micawber, said Traddles. 'I am, sir, interposed Mr. Micawber. 'I hope, said Traddles, 'it is not because you have conceived a dislike to the law for I am a lawyer myself, you know. Mr. Micawber answered not a word. 'How is our friend Heep, Mr. Micawber? said I, after a silence. 'My dear Copperfield, returned Mr.
The thing about any figure of Dickens, about Sam Weller or Dick Swiveller, or Micawber, or Bagstock, or Trabb's boy, the thing about each one of these persons is that he cannot be exhausted. A Dickens character hits you first on the nose and then in the waistcoat, and then in the eye and then in the waistcoat again, with the blinding rapidity of some battering engine.
But this ironical expedient is, of course, less frequently serviceable than that of emphasis by direct proportion. 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.
At length all was hushed, and WILKINS MICAWBER, ESQUIRE, presented himself to return thanks. Far be it from us, in the present comparatively imperfect state of the resources of our establishment, to endeavour to follow our distinguished townsman through the smoothly-flowing periods of his polished and highly-ornate address!
Why, thus, if you please, that it seems to me as if I ought to be there six months of the year, and that somebody ought to want me to do something that would bring me there. But somebody, who is that? Why, nobody. You can't see him; you can't find him; Micawber never caught him, though he was hunting for him all his life, always hoped the creature would turn up, though he never did.
Though I could be "managed" by anyone who wanted to get something out of me, I was never put upon or bullied, because if attempts were made to coerce me, I was, like the immortal Mr. Micawber, not disinclined for a scrap. I stood erect before my fellow-boy, and when he tried to bully me I punched his head. Mr. Micawber's comment is too moving not to be recorded.
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