1 'He might have done worse,' said my aunt.
2 Sophy arrives at the house of Dora's aunts, in due course.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT 3 She was happy to see me so happy, and promised to call on Dora's aunts without loss of time.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS 4 She was not in the drawing-room when I presented Agnes to her little aunts, but was shyly keeping out of the way.
5 During the five minutes or so that Mr. Chillip devoted to the delivery of this oration, my aunt eyed him narrowly.
6 It has since been considered almost a miracle that my aunt didn't shake him, and shake what he had to say, out of him.
7 I was wonderfully relieved to find that my aunt and Dora's aunts rubbed on, all things considered, much more smoothly than I could have expected.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS 8 My aunt made her promised visit within a few days of the conference; and within a few more days, Dora's aunts called upon her, in due state and form.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS 9 An aunt of my father's, and consequently a great-aunt of mine, of whom I shall have more to relate by and by, was the principal magnate of our family.
10 Mr. Chillip was fluttered again, by the extreme severity of my aunt's manner; so he made her a little bow and gave her a little smile, to mollify her.
11 This was in part confirmed by his aunt, who saw him at half past twelve o'clock, soon after his release, and affirmed that he was then as red as I was.
12 Of my aunt and Miss Clarissa remaining with us; and our walking in the garden; and my aunt, who has made quite a speech at breakfast touching Dora's aunts, being mightily amused with herself, but a little proud of it too.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT 13 I feel as if it were not for me to record, even though this manuscript is intended for no eyes but mine, how hard I worked at that tremendous short-hand, and all improvement appertaining to it, in my sense of responsibility to Dora and her aunts.
14 My poor dear mother, I suppose, had some momentary intention of committing an assault and battery upon my aunt, who could easily have settled her with one hand, even if my mother had been in far better training for such an encounter than she was that evening.
15 How they affected my aunt, nobody knew; for immediately upon the separation, she took her maiden name again, bought a cottage in a hamlet on the sea-coast a long way off, established herself there as a single woman with one servant, and was understood to live secluded, ever afterwards, in an inflexible retirement.
16 But Dora's aunts soon agreed to regard my aunt as an eccentric and somewhat masculine lady, with a strong understanding; and although my aunt occasionally ruffled the feathers of Dora's aunts, by expressing heretical opinions on various points of ceremony, she loved me too well not to sacrifice some of her little peculiarities to the general harmony.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS 17 I know that my aunt distressed Dora's aunts very much, by utterly setting at naught the dignity of fly-conveyance, and walking out to Putney at extraordinary times, as shortly after breakfast or just before tea; likewise by wearing her bonnet in any manner that happened to be comfortable to her head, without at all deferring to the prejudices of civilization on that subject.
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