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I could have crep' in at the winder ef he wouldn't open the door, I was so took down by that message. But Mis Bascum wouldn't hear of it, and kep' stirrin' of me up till I was ashamed to eat 'umble pie fust; so I waited to see how soon he'd come round.
I said, 'Yes, boldly; not that I knew anything about it, Heaven forgive me! 'I hope you have, too, Master Copperfield, said Uriah. 'But I am sure you must have. 'Everybody must have, I returned. 'Oh, thank you, Master Copperfield, said Uriah Heep, 'for that remark! It is so true! Umble as I am, I know it is so true!
He was dressed as before, but his garments, soiled with clay and lime, no longer looked new. "What brings you here, pray?" demanded Miss Wilson. "I was led into the belief that you sent for me, lady," he replied. "The baker's lad told me so as he passed my 'umble cot this morning. I thought he were incapable of deceit." "That is quite right; I did send for you.
"Blowed if I wouldn't pull an oar to save a mate, if I were so mighty sure he was going to the devil!" observed a weather-beaten seaman, with gold earrings and a good deal of tattooing on his brawny arms. "Would you now!" said the coast guardsman, with a superior and sardonic smile. "Well, in my 'umble opinion, drowning's too good for him."
But Phoebe here Phoebe, junior, as we call's her she's a cut above us, and I'm proud to see any of her friends in my 'umble 'ouse. My good lady, sir," added Tozer, with another duck, indicating with a wave of his hand his wife, who had already once risen, wheezy, but knowing her manners, to make a kind of half-bow, half-curtsey from her chair.
Such a thought never came into my head! I shouldn't have deemed it at all proud if you had thought US too umble for you. Because we are so very umble. 'Have you been studying much law lately? I asked, to change the subject. 'Oh, Master Copperfield, he said, with an air of self-denial, 'my reading is hardly to be called study. I have passed an hour or two in the evening, sometimes, with Mr.
'I am well aware that I am the umblest person going, said Uriah Heep, modestly; 'let the other be where he may. My mother is likewise a very umble person. We live in a numble abode, Master Copperfield, but have much to be thankful for. My father's former calling was umble. He was a sexton. 'What is he now? I asked. 'He is a partaker of glory at present, Master Copperfield, said Uriah Heep.
"Your ladyship does me proud to take refuge from the onclemency of the yallovrments beneath my 'umble rooftree." His accent was barbarous; and he, like a low comedian, seemed to relish its vulgarity. As he spoke he came in among them for shelter, and propped his spade against the wall of the chalet, kicking the soil from his hobnailed blucher boots, which were new.
'Things are changed in this office, Miss Trotwood, since I was an umble clerk, and held your pony; ain't they? said Uriah, with his sickliest smile. 'But I am not changed, Miss Trotwood. 'Well, sir, returned my aunt, 'to tell you the truth, I think you are pretty constant to the promise of your youth; if that's any satisfaction to you.
"You were so polite as to say that you were about to honour my umble domicile with a visit," Mr. Bows said, with his sad voice. "Shall I show you the way? Mr. Pendennis and I are old friends, Mrs. Bolton very old acquaintances; and at the earliest dawn of his life we crossed each other."
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