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Not to lengthen these particulars, I need only add, that she made a handsome provision for all my possible wants during my month of trial; that Steerforth, to my great disappointment and hers too, did not make his appearance before she went away; that I saw her safely seated in the Dover coach, exulting in the coming discomfiture of the vagrant donkeys, with Janet at her side; and that when the coach was gone, I turned my face to the Adelphi, pondering on the old days when I used to roam about its subterranean arches, and on the happy changes which had brought me to the surface.
Steerforth observed, more in jest than earnest, that she feared her son led but a wild life at college, Miss Dartle put in thus: 'Oh, really? You know how ignorant I am, and that I only ask for information, but isn't it always so? I thought that kind of life was on all hands understood to be eh? 'It is education for a very grave profession, if you mean that, Rosa, Mrs.
Yet his very elbows, when he had his back towards me, seemed to teem with the expression of his fixed opinion that I was extremely young. 'Can I do anything more, sir? I thanked him and said, No; but would he take no dinner himself? 'None, I am obliged to you, sir. 'Is Mr. Steerforth coming from Oxford? 'I beg your pardon, sir? 'Is Mr. Steerforth coming from Oxford?
'James Steerforth, the best wish I can leave you is that you may come to be ashamed of what you have done today. At present I would prefer to see you anything rather than a friend, to me, or to anyone in whom I feel an interest.
Somebody said to me, 'Let us go to the theatre, Copperfield! There was no bedroom before me, but again the jingling table covered with glasses; the lamp; Grainger on my right hand, Markham on my left, and Steerforth opposite all sitting in a mist, and a long way off. The theatre? To be sure. The very thing. Come along!
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.
I laid my hand upon the latch; and whispering Steerforth to keep close to me, went in. A murmur of voices had been audible on the outside, and, at the moment of our entrance, a clapping of hands: which latter noise, I was surprised to see, proceeded from the generally disconsolate Mrs. Gummidge. But Mrs. Gummidge was not the only person there who was unusually excited. Mr.
There was little of especial moment in my first half-term at Salem House, except the quarrel which took place between Steerforth and Mr. Mell; and an unexpected visit from Ham and Mr. Peggotty when I had the delight of introducing those rollicking fellows to Steerforth, whose bright, easy manner charmed them, as it did most persons.
Steerforth, upon whom Dickens evidently prided himself, I must confess, never laid hold of me. He is a melodramatic young man. The worst I could have wished him would have been that he should marry Rose Dartle and live with his mother. It would have served him right for being so attractive. Old Peggotty and Ham are, of course, impossible. One must accept them also as types.
'I have been seafaring better employed. 'Littimer was here today, to inquire for you, I remarked, 'and I understood him that you were at Oxford; though, now I think of it, he certainly did not say so. 'Littimer is a greater fool than I thought him, to have been inquiring for me at all, said Steerforth, jovially pouring out a glass of wine, and drinking to me.
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