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Several times she has gone out early, and been absent until evening. Last night, Traddles, with this journey before her, it was almost midnight before she came home. You know what her consideration for others is. She will not tell me what has happened to distress her.
Traddles, exactly the same simple, unaffected fellow as he ever was, sits at the foot of the large table like a Patriarch; and Sophy beams upon him, from the head, across a cheerful space that is certainly not glittering with Britannia metal. And now, as I close my task, subduing my desire to linger yet, these faces fade away.
'Oh, thank Heaven! cried Agnes, fervently. 'But, said Traddles, 'the surplus that would be left as his means of support and I suppose the house to be sold, even in saying this would be so small, not exceeding in all probability some hundreds of pounds, that perhaps, Miss Wickfield, it would be best to consider whether he might not retain his agency of the estate to which he has so long been receiver.
How brown you are! How glad I am! Upon my life and honour, I never was so rejoiced, my beloved Copperfield, never! I was equally at a loss to express my emotions. I was quite unable to speak, at first. 'My dear fellow! said Traddles. 'And grown so famous! My glorious Copperfield! Good gracious me, WHEN did you come, WHERE have you come from, WHAT have you been doing?
Peggotty had modestly called it, up into our room unobserved, and made a great supper that evening. But Traddles couldn't get happily out of it. He was too unfortunate even to come through a supper like anybody else.
Yawler recommended me to one or two other offices, however Mr. Waterbrook's for one and I got a good many jobs. I am not a bad compiler, Copperfield, said Traddles, preserving the same air of cheerful confidence in all he said, 'but I have no invention at all; not a particle. I suppose there never was a young man with less originality than I have.
This gave me courage to protest most vehemently that I loved Dora better than I could tell, or anyone believe; that all my friends knew how I loved her; that my aunt, Agnes, Traddles, everyone who knew me, knew how I loved her, and how earnest my love had made me. For the truth of this, I appealed to Traddles.
But there was the long clock clucking away on the landing, and there was Sir Thomas Traddles purring on the hearth-rug, and there were the same plates on the dresser, and the same map of Africa over the fireplace, with a spot of red ink where my father died.
I have little doubt he would have preferred such an employment in his heart to all others. Traddles, who would not have smiled for the world, replied composedly: 'But you are a very good penman, sir. You told me so, Copperfield? 'Excellent! said I. And indeed he was. He wrote with extraordinary neatness. 'Don't you think, said Traddles, 'you could copy writings, sir, if I got them for you?
Poor Traddles? No, happy Traddles! They were certainly the very oddest pair that ever the moon shone on, Stony Durdles and the boy "Deputy." Durdles was a stone-mason, from which occupation, undoubtedly, came his nickname "Stony," and Deputy was a hideous small boy hired by Durdles to pelt him home if he found him out too late at night, which duty the boy faithfully performed.
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