David Copperfield Page #2

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Oh.

No sweethearts, I believe?

What?

No person courting.

Oh no, no.

Ahh.

Well, when you was talking

to her private,

Perhaps you'd tell her

that Barkis is willing.

That Barkis is willing.

Is that all the message?

Well, y... y... ya... yes.

Barkis is willing.

Very well, Mr. Barkis.

I'll tell her.

Yon's our house, Master Davy.

Put me down.

Ooo, it's a real boat

that's been in the water.

Yes.

But it's upside down. Hahahaha.

Well, it's all so delightful.

See the pretty dears.

Well, I made it, so how are you?

Hah ha, Lass!

Ahh, Daniel.

Well sir, I'm glad to see you sir.

Very glad.

You'll find us rough, sir.

But you'll find us ready.

Haa ha, how's my little Emily?

Ha ha ha, blue like your eyes, my pretty.

That come in a big boat

all the way from France.

Thank you!

Oh, drat that chimney.

I am a Ione lorn creature,

and... and everything

Goes contrary with me.

Oh, it'll soon leave off poor girl.

It's the same for all of us.

But I feel it more.

Oh, oh, I've got a visitation

in the back!

Oh, mmm, it's the creeps.

Too bad, too bad.

Oh, I ain't what I wish myself to be,

am I?

I'd better go in

the poor house and die,

And be a riddance.

She's been thinking of the old one.

Mr. Peggotty.

Yes sir?

Did you give you son the name Ham

Because you lived in a sort of ark?

No sir, t'was given by his father,

my brother

Joe.

Dead, Mr. Peggotty?

Drown dead.

But little Emily, Mr. Peggotty,

she's your daughter, isn't she?

No sir. My brother-in-law,

Tom, was her father.

Dead, Mr. Peggotty?

Drown dead.

Haven't you any children, Mr. Peggotty?

No Master, I'm a bachelor.

A bachelor?

Why, who's that Mr. Peggotty?

That's Mrs. Gummidge.

Gummidge. Why I merely thought...

Come Davy, come!

I'll show you to your room.

Now that Mrs. Gummidge,

her husband was Dan's partner.

He was drowned.

Was he the oldest?

Yes dear.

Emily, and her cousin Ham, are orphans.

My brother adopted them.

Mrs. Gummidge too.

Oh, he's as good as gold

and as true as steel.

But he gets very angry when people

talk about his helping people.

I'll be careful.

Oh Peggotty, I just remembered.

I have a message for you

from Mr. Barkis.

What message?

All he said was, "Barkis is willing."

Hahahaha, and I gave up on him,

hahahaha.

What is it?

What are you laughing at?

What is it?

He's an attractive man, though.

He wants to marry me, hahahaha.

Oh, oh, but I wouldn't

leave you or your mother

For a whole basket of buttons.

Especially now.

Why not?

Oh, nothing, nothing.

I would go away over there in a big ship.

That's France,

where my blue beads come from.

And Spain's there.

We're only poor fisher folk,

But some day I might be a lady,

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