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He said he would never, never part with it any more; and I thought he must be quite a fool not to know that it would fall to pieces in a day or two. Peggotty began to be less with us, of an evening, than she had always been.
'Nothing, returned Mrs. Gummidge. 'You've come from The Willing Mind, Dan'l? 'Why yes, I've took a short spell at The Willing Mind tonight, said Mr. Peggotty. 'I'm sorry I should drive you there, said Mrs. Gummidge. 'Drive! I don't want no driving, returned Mr. Peggotty with an honest laugh. 'I only go too ready. 'Very ready, said Mrs. Gummidge, shaking her head, and wiping her eyes.
Peggotty! says I. 'Sir, says he. 'Did you give your son the name of Ham, because you lived in a sort of ark? Mr. Peggotty seemed to think it a deep idea, but answered: 'No, sir. I never giv him no name. 'Who gave him that name, then? said I, putting question number two of the catechism to Mr. Peggotty. 'Why, sir, his father giv it him, said Mr. Peggotty. 'I thought you were his father!
'Nothink's nat'ral to me but to be lone and lorn. 'No, no, said Mr. Peggotty, soothing her sorrows. 'Yes, yes, Dan'l! said Mrs. Gummidge. 'I ain't a person to live with them as has had money left. Thinks go too contrary with me. I had better be a riddance. 'Why, how should I ever spend it without you? said Mr. Peggotty, with an air of serious remonstrance. 'What are you a talking on?
In this coffer, his riches hid themselves with such a tenacious modesty, that the smallest instalments could only be tempted out by artifice; so that Peggotty had to prepare a long and elaborate scheme, a very Gunpowder Plot, for every Saturday's expenses.
Ham nodded to me several times, as if he would have said so too. 'This here little Em'ly of ours, said Mr. She ain't my child; I never had one; but I couldn't love her more. You understand! I couldn't do it! 'I quite understand, said Steerforth. 'I know you do, sir, returned Mr. Peggotty, 'and thankee again.
In time my eyes gradually shut up; and, from seeming to hear the clergyman singing a drowsy song in the heat, I hear nothing, until I fall off the seat with a crash, and am taken out, more dead than alive, by Peggotty.
Now a person wouldn't think it, fur to see this little thing alongside a rough-weather chap like me, said Mr. Peggotty, looking round at both of us, with infinite pride; 'but the sea ain't more salt in it than she has fondness in her for her uncle a foolish little Em'ly! 'Em'ly's in the right in that, Mas'r Davy! said Ham. 'Lookee here!
Peggotty was naturally in low spirits at leaving what had been her home so many years, and where the two strong attachments of her life for my mother and myself had been formed. She had been walking in the churchyard, too, very early; and she got into the cart, and sat in it with her handkerchief at her eyes. So long as she remained in this condition, Mr. Barkis gave no sign of life whatever.
With what a demure assumption of being immensely older and wiser than I, the fairy little woman said I was 'a silly boy'; and then laughed so charmingly that I forgot the pain of being called by that disparaging name, in the pleasure of looking at her. Mr. Barkis and Peggotty were a good while in the church, but came out at last, and then we drove away into the country. As we were going along, Mr.
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