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It was so expressively done, that she had no need to say a word. Mr. Peggotty understood her quite as well as if she had said a thousand. 'I'll go in now, Trot, said my aunt, 'and look after Little Blossom, who will be getting up presently. 'Not along of my being heer, ma'am, I hope? said Mr. Peggotty. 'Unless my wits is gone a bahd's neezing' by which Mr.

Presently they brought her to the fireside, very much confused, and very shy, but she soon became more assured when she found how gently and respectfully Steerforth spoke to her; how skilfully he avoided anything that would embarrass her; how he talked to Mr. Peggotty of boats, and ships, and tides, and fish; how he referred to me about the time when he had seen Mr.

They left me at the gate, not easily or lightly; and it was a strange sight to me to see the cart go on, taking Peggotty away, and leaving me under the old elm-trees looking at the house, in which there was no face to look on mine with love or liking any more. And now I fell into a state of neglect, which I cannot look back upon without compassion.

I feel more than other people do, and I show it more. It's my misfortun'. I really couldn't help thinking, as I sat taking in all this, that the misfortune extended to some other members of that family besides Mrs. Gummidge. But Mr. Peggotty made no such retort, only answering with another entreaty to Mrs. Gummidge to cheer up. 'I an't what I could wish myself to be, said Mrs. Gummidge.

'Nothing's the matter, bless you, Master Davy dear! she answered, assuming an air of sprightliness. 'Something's the matter, I'm sure. Where's mama? 'Where's mama, Master Davy? repeated Peggotty. 'Yes. Why hasn't she come out to the gate, and what have we come in here for? Oh, Peggotty! My eyes were full, and I felt as if I were going to tumble down.

Presently the carrier was at the door, my box was in the cart, and before I could realise it, my mother was holding me in a farewell embrace, and then I got into the cart, and the lazy horse started off. About half a mile away from home the carrier stopped, and Peggotty burst from a hedge and climbed into the cart.

Peggotty, that I called to him as he was going away. But I said, modestly Good Heaven, how it all comes back to me this long time afterwards ! 'Don't go, Steerforth, if you please. These are two Yarmouth boatmen very kind, good people who are relations of my nurse, and have come from Gravesend to see me. 'Aye, aye? said Steerforth, returning. 'I am glad to see them. How are you both?

I sat looking at Peggotty for some time, in a reverie on this supposititious case: whether, if she were employed to lose me like the boy in the fairy tale, I should be able to track my way home again by the buttons she would shed.

Steerforth, who was in great spirits, had been strolling about the beach before I was up, and had made acquaintance, he said, with half the boatmen in the place. Moreover, he had seen, in the distance, what he was sure must be the identical house of Mr. Peggotty, with smoke coming out of the chimney; and had had a great mind, he told me, to walk in and swear he was myself grown out of knowledge.

Little Em'ly had overcome her shyness, and was sitting by my side upon the lowest and least of the lockers, which was just large enough for us two, and just fitted into the chimney corner. Mrs. Peggotty with the white apron, was knitting on the opposite side of the fire. Peggotty at her needlework was as much at home with St.