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Wickfield my hand, preparatory to going away myself, he checked me and said; "Should you like to stay with us, Trotwood, or go elsewhere?" "To stay," I answered quickly. "You are sure?" "If you please. If I may." "Why, it's but a dull life that we lead here, boy, I'm afraid," he said. "Not more dull for me than Agnes, sir. Not dull at all!"
Wickfield's kind intention to give me my articles, which would otherwise not lay within the 'umble means of mother and self!" "Perhaps, when you're a regular lawyer, you'll be a partner in Mr. Wickfield's business, one of these days," I said to make myself agreeable; "and it will be Wickfield and Heep or Heep late Wickfield."
'I have kept your name and reputation for you, and your peace and quiet, and your house and home too, said Uriah, with a sulky, hurried, defeated air of compromise. 'Don't be foolish, Mr. Wickfield. If I have gone a little beyond what you were prepared for, I can go back, I suppose? There's no harm done. 'I looked for single motives in everyone, said Mr.
'But we have much to be thankful for. How much have I to be thankful for in living with Mr. Wickfield! I asked Uriah if he had been with Mr. Wickfield long? 'I have been with him, going on four year, Master Copperfield, said Uriah; shutting up his book, after carefully marking the place where he had left off. 'Since a year after my father's death. How much have I to be thankful for, in that!
Wickfield hastened to him. Without interchanging a word they went slowly out of the room together, Uriah looking after them. 'Well, Master Copperfield! said Uriah, meekly turning to me. 'The thing hasn't took quite the turn that might have been expected, for the old Scholar what an excellent man! is as blind as a brickbat; but this family's out of the cart, I think!
When they had gone my aunt announced that Mr. Dick would be joint guardian of me, with herself, and that I should be called Trotwood Copperfield. Thus I began my new life, in a new name, and with everything new about me. My aunt sent me to school at Canterbury, and, there being no room at the school for boarders, settled that I should board with her old lawyer, Mr. Wickfield.
Wickfield's room, which was the shadow of its former self having been divested of a variety of conveniences, for the accommodation of the new partner and stood before the fire, warming his back, and shaving his chin with his bony hand, while Mr. Wickfield and I exchanged greetings. 'You stay with us, Trotwood, while you remain in Canterbury? said Mr.
And though it is terrible to you to hear, said Mr. Wickfield, quite subdued, 'if you knew how terrible it is for me to tell, you would feel compassion for me! The Doctor, in the perfect goodness of his nature, put out his hand. Mr. Wickfield held it for a little while in his, with his head bowed down.
Though I saw an uneasy change in Mr. Micawber, which sat tightly on him, as if his new duties were a misfit, I felt I had no right to be offended. My telling him so, appeared to relieve him; and he shook hands with me. 'I am charmed, Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, 'let me assure you, with Miss Wickfield. She is a very superior young lady, of very remarkable attractions, graces, and virtues.
Strong would only have to say to her husband do I follow you? said Mr. Wickfield. 'Quite so, returned the other, would only have to say, that she wanted such and such a thing to be so and so; and it would be so and so, as a matter of course. 'And why as a matter of course, Mr. Maldon? asked Mr. Wickfield, sedately eating his dinner.
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