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Peggotty had considered herself highly privileged in being allowed to participate in these labours; and, although she still retained something of her old sentiment of awe in reference to my aunt, had received so many marks of encouragement and confidence, that they were the best friends possible. 'So good-bye, Barkis, said my aunt, 'and take care of yourself!
Peggotty, 'something o' my own build rough a good deal o' the sou'-wester in him wery salt but, on the whole, a honest sort of a chap, with his art in the right place. I thought I had never seen Ham grin to anything like the extent to which he sat grinning at us now. 'What does this here blessed tarpaulin go and do, said Mr.
I thought of myself, lying here, when that first great change was being wrought at home. I thought of the blue-eyed child who had enchanted me. I thought of Steerforth: and a foolish, fearful fancy came upon me of his being near at hand, and liable to be met at any turn. ''Tis like to be long, said Mr. Peggotty, in a low voice, 'afore the boat finds new tenants.
Ham carrying me on his back and a small box of ours under his arm, and Peggotty carrying another small box of ours, we turned down lanes bestrewn with bits of chips and little hillocks of sand, and went past gas-works, rope-walks, boat-builders' yards, shipwrights' yards, ship-breakers' yards, caulkers' yards, riggers' lofts, smiths' forges, and a great litter of such places, until we came out upon the dull waste I had already seen at a distance; when Ham said,
'He's a going out with the tide, said Mr. Peggotty to me, behind his hand. My eyes were dim and so were Mr. Peggotty's; but I repeated in a whisper, 'With the tide? 'People can't die, along the coast, said Mr. Peggotty, 'except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide.
Will you remember that? Peggotty, with some uneasy glances at me, curtseyed herself out of the room without replying; seeing, I suppose, that she was expected to go, and had no excuse for remaining. When we two were left alone, he shut the door, and sitting on a chair, and holding me standing before him, looked steadily into my eyes. I felt my own attracted, no less steadily, to his.
I asked her where she lived herself. She said, after a pause, in no place long. It were better not to know. Mr. Peggotty suggesting to me, in a whisper, what had already occurred to myself, I took out my purse; but I could not prevail upon her to accept any money, nor could I exact any promise from her that she would do so at another time. I represented to her that Mr.
If her uncle was turned out of house and home, and forced to lay down in a dyke, Mas'r Davy, said Mr. Peggotty, with no less pride than before, 'it's my belief she'd go along with him, now! But there'll be someone else, soon, someone else, soon, Em'ly!
There is something of a doleful air about that room to me, for Peggotty has told me I don't know when, but apparently ages ago about my father's funeral, and the company having their black cloaks put on. One Sunday night my mother reads to Peggotty and me in there, how Lazarus was raised up from the dead.
I must have read very perspicuously, or the poor soul must have been deeply interested, for I remember she had a cloudy impression, after I had done, that they were a sort of vegetable. I had reached that stage of sleepiness when Peggotty seemed to swell and grow immensely large.
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