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You are not to associate with servants. The kitchen will not improve you, in the many respects in which you need improvement. Of the woman who abets you, I say nothing since you, Clara, addressing my mother in a lower voice, 'from old associations and long-established fancies, have a weakness respecting her which is not yet overcome. 'A most unaccountable delusion it is! cried Miss Murdstone.
As Peggotty was wont to tell me, long ago, the followers of my father to the same grave were made ready in the same room. There are Mr. Murdstone, our neighbour Mr. Grayper, Mr.
We all got up then; and my mother said hurriedly that, as it was so late, and Mr. and Miss Murdstone approved of early hours for young people, perhaps I had better go to bed. I kissed her, and went upstairs with my candle directly, before they came in.
'Mrs. Chillip does go so far as to say, pursued the meekest of little men, much encouraged, 'that what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance. And do you know I must say, sir, he continued, mildly laying his head on one side, 'that I DON'T find authority for Mr. and Miss Murdstone in the New Testament? 'I never found it either! said I.
Thus the holidays lagged away, until the morning came when Miss Murdstone gave me the closing cup of tea of the vacation. I was not sorry to go. I had lapsed into a stupid state; but I was recovering a little and looking foward to Steerforth. I kissed my mother, and had climbed into the carrier's cart when I heard her calling me.
'Miss Spenlow endeavoured, said Miss Murdstone, 'to bribe me with kisses, work-boxes, and small articles of jewellery that, of course, I pass over. The little dog retreated under the sofa on my approaching him, and was with great difficulty dislodged by the fire-irons.
She brought with her two uncompromising hard black boxes, with her initials on the lids in hard brass nails. When she paid the coachman she took her money out of a hard steel purse, and she kept the purse in a very jail of a bag which hung upon her arm by a heavy chain, and shut up like a bite. I had never, at that time, seen such a metallic lady altogether as Miss Murdstone was.
'Peggotty, I said in a thoughtful whisper, one evening, when I was warming my hands at the kitchen fire, 'Mr. Murdstone likes me less than he used to. He never liked me much, Peggotty; but he would rather not even see me now, if he can help it. 'Perhaps it's his sorrow, said Peggotty, stroking my hair. 'I am sure, Peggotty, I am sorry too.
MY mother's lips moved, as if she answered 'Yes, my dear Edward, but she said nothing aloud. 'I was sorry, David, I remarked, said Mr. Murdstone, turning his head and his eyes stiffly towards me, 'to observe that you are of a sullen disposition. This is not a character that I can suffer to develop itself beneath my eyes without an effort at improvement. You must endeavour, sir, to change it.
'Shall I be given up to him? I faltered. 'I don't know, said my aunt. 'We shall see. 'Oh! I can't think what I shall do, I exclaimed, 'if I have to go back to Mr. Murdstone! 'I don't know anything about it, said my aunt, shaking her head. 'I can't say, I am sure. We shall see. My spirits sank under these words, and I became very downcast and heavy of heart.
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