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Updated: June 11, 2025
Why does Traddles look so important when he calls upon me this afternoon in the Commons where I still occasionally attend, for form's sake, when I have time? The realization of my boyish day-dreams is at hand. I am going to take out the licence. It is a little document to do so much; and Traddles contemplates it, as it lies upon my desk, half in admiration, half in awe.
'My dear Copperfield, cried Traddles, punctually appearing at my door, in spite of all these obstacles, 'how do you do? 'My dear Traddles, said I, 'I am delighted to see you at last, and very sorry I have not been at home before. But I have been so much engaged 'Yes, yes, I know, said Traddles, 'of course. Yours lives in London, I think. 'What did you say?
In this condition, he felt more incapable of finishing the Memorial than ever; and the harder he worked at it, the oftener that unlucky head of King Charles the First got into it. Before we went, I wrote Traddles a full statement of all that had happened, and Traddles wrote me back a capital answer, expressive of his sympathy and friendship.
As Traddles seemed to expect that I should assent to this as a matter of course, I nodded; and he went on, with the same sprightly patience I can find no better expression as before.
'You and your aunt will excuse me, Copperfield, if I touch upon a painful theme, as I greatly fear I shall, said Traddles, hesitating; 'but I think it necessary to bring it to your recollection. On the day of Mr. Micawber's memorable denunciation a threatening allusion was made by Uriah Heep to your aunt's husband.
'Agreeable! said I. 'Yes, returned Traddles with perfect innocence, 'it's a joke for us. They pretend that Sophy has a lock of it in her desk, and is obliged to shut it in a clasped book, to keep it down. We laugh about it. 'By the by, my dear Traddles, said I, 'your experience may suggest something to me.
But AFTER the dinner, when David and Traddles sat smoking alone, while from the drawing-room drifted down the notes of high-class, elevating music, played by the saintly Agnes, did they never, glancing covertly towards the empty chair between them, see the laughing, curl-framed face of a very foolish little woman one of those foolish little women that a wise man thanks God for making and wish, in spite of all, that it were flesh and blood, not shadow?
Your mistake in life is, that you do not look forward far enough. You are bound, in justice to your family, if not to yourself, to take in at a comprehensive glance the extremest point in the horizon to which your abilities may lead you. Mr. Micawber coughed, and drank his punch with an air of exceeding satisfaction still glancing at Traddles, as if he desired to have his opinion.
'But it won't come off! said Dora, trying very hard, and looking very much distressed. 'Do you know, Copperfield, said Traddles, cheerfully examining the dish, 'I think it is in consequence they are capital oysters, but I think it is in consequence of their never having been opened.
At the appointed time, my three visitors arrived together. Mr. Micawber with more shirt-collar than usual, and a new ribbon to his eye-glass; Mrs. Micawber with her cap in a whitey-brown paper parcel; Traddles carrying the parcel, and supporting Mrs. Micawber on his arm. They were all delighted with my residence. When I conducted Mrs.
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