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We wheeled him off into a narrow street, where he took out his pocket-handkerchief, and stood with his back to a wall. If I looked as gravely at him as Traddles did, he must have found our company by no means inspiriting. 'It is my fate, said Mr.
My own appetite came back miraculously. I am ashamed to record it, but I really believe I forgot Dora for a little while. I am satisfied that Mr. and Mrs. Micawber could not have enjoyed the feast more, if they had sold a bed to provide it. Traddles laughed as heartily, almost the whole time, as he ate and worked. Indeed we all did, all at once; and I dare say there was never a greater success.
'Oh, you are in low spirits, Mr. Micawber, said Traddles. 'I am, sir, interposed Mr. Micawber. 'I hope, said Traddles, 'it is not because you have conceived a dislike to the law for I am a lawyer myself, you know. Mr. Micawber answered not a word. 'How is our friend Heep, Mr. Micawber? said I, after a silence. 'My dear Copperfield, returned Mr.
She was greatly pleased, and very merry; and we four, that is to say, my aunt, Mr. Dick, Traddles, and I, went down to Canterbury by the Dover mail that night. At the hotel where Mr. Micawber had requested us to await him, which we got into, with some trouble, in the middle of the night, I found a letter, importing that he would appear in the morning punctually at half past nine.
On the present occasion, Traddles was so hemmed in by the pagoda and the guitar-case, and Dora's flower-painting, and my writing-table, that I had serious doubts of the possibility of his using his knife and fork; but he protested, with his own good-humour, 'Oceans of room, Copperfield! I assure you, Oceans!
'Maidstone jail is a safer place of detention, observed Traddles; 'and though the law may be longer in righting us, and may not be able to right us so completely as you can, there is no doubt of its punishing YOU. Dear me, you know that quite as well as I! Copperfield, will you go round to the Guildhall, and bring a couple of officers? Here, Mrs.
'Well, my dear friend, said my aunt, after a pause, 'and you have really extorted the money back from him? 'Why, the fact is, returned Traddles, 'Mr. Micawber had so completely hemmed him in, and was always ready with so many new points if an old one failed, that he could not escape from us.
Never pausing for an answer to anything he said, Traddles, who had clapped me into an easy-chair by the fire, all this time impetuously stirred the fire with one hand, and pulled at my neck-kerchief with the other, under some wild delusion that it was a great-coat.
Traddles, that, at the expiration of that period, Mr. Micawber would be eligible as a Judge or Chancellor? 'He would be ELIGIBLE, returned Traddles, with a strong emphasis on that word. 'Thank you, said Mrs. Micawber. 'That is quite sufficient. If such is the case, and Mr. Micawber forfeits no privilege by entering on these duties, my anxiety is set at rest. I speak, said Mrs.
In any case, he will have the benevolence to consider this communication strictly private, and on no account whatever to be alluded to, however distantly, in the presence of Mr. Micawber. If Mr. 'Mr. Thomas Traddles's respectful friend and suppliant, 'What do you think of that letter? said Traddles, casting his eyes upon me, when I had read it twice.
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