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'I didn't expect he'd cut up so rough, Master Copperfield, said Uriah. 'But it's nothing. I'll be friends with him tomorrow. It's for his good. I'm umbly anxious for his good. I gave him no answer, and went upstairs into the quiet room where Agnes had so often sat beside me at my books. Nobody came near me until late at night. I took up a book, and tried to read.
There is the picture of the shepherd-boy, to which must be added the exquisite psalm which later traditions put in his mouth; the victory over the giant; the most pathetic story of the moody and wayward Saul the power of music over his melancholy, the alternations of jealous rage and compunction; the friendship with Jonathan, more tender and pure than the friendships Plato pictures; the dramatic fortunes of the outlaw; the family tragedies full of crime and horror; the dark story of Amnon, Tamar, and Absalom; the passion of fatherhood in fullest intensity, with the agonized prayers for the sick child and the heartbroken lament over Absalom; the group of valiant captains and their chivalrous exploits; the risk of life to bring to their homesick chief a drink from the well of Bethlehem; the story of Bathsheba and Uriah lust, treachery, and murder; the prophet's rebuke; the years declining under heavy shadows.
Don't you consider she ought to have some choice in the matter whether she should follow the sprightly David or cling to the melancholy Uriah?" "Oh, don't jest like that, Viviette," he cried. "It hurts!" "I'm sorry, Dick," she said innocently. "But, really, Bathsheba has her feelings. What am I to do?" "Choose, dear, between us. Choose now in Heaven's name, choose."
One evening he was walking on the flat roof of his house, as the people of that country always do, and he saw a little way off a very beautiful woman. He sent a servant to ask who she was, and found she was the wife of Uriah who was in the army with Joab, fighting the Ammonites.
They attacked the heavy bars on the window with sledges and axes, but with no success. They tried to pry away the bricks with crowbars, but this, too, failed, and it was quite apparent to all that if Uriah Watkins was to be saved it could be accomplished only by the slow and laborious task of sawing through the bars. Could this be done? Had they the time to accomplish the task?
There was something in the tone of this reply, which made Uriah look at the speaker again, with a very sinister and suspicious expression. But, seeing only Traddles, with his good-natured face, simple manner, and hair on end, he dismissed it as he replied, with a jerk of his whole body, but especially his throat: 'I am sorry for that, Mr. Traddles. You would have admired him as much as we all do.
"Did you ever see such a coincidence? This letter is from Professor Uriah Snodgrass, and listen to what he says: 'Dear Mr. Slade, or Ned. I write thus as I want one of you to read it in a hurry, and one of you may be away from home.
'It is not fancy, said Agnes, shaking her head. 'His hand trembles, his speech is not plain, and his eyes look wild. I have remarked that at those times, and when he is least like himself, he is most certain to be wanted on some business. 'By Uriah, said Agnes.
"Oh, no, Master Copperfield," returned Uriah, shaking his head, "I am much too 'umble for that!" It must have been five or six years later, when I was in London, that Uriah recalled my prophecy to me. Agnes had noticed as I had noticed, long before this, a gradual alteration in Mr. Wickfield.
Dick, Uriah Heep, Betsy Trotwood, Dick Swiveiler, Mr. Mantalini, Harold Skimpole, Sairey Gamp, always appear with their appropriate insignia. We should remember that it is for our sakes. According to the canons of literary art, a fact should be stated clearly once and for all.
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