1 'Lord, Master Davy,' replied Peggotty.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE 2 I had been reading to Peggotty about crocodiles.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE 3 YOU MAY,' says Peggotty, 'if you choose, my dear.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE 4 'Certainly not,' says Peggotty, with the promptest decision.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE 5 Peggotty and I were sitting one night by the parlour fire, alone.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE 6 The stool was smooth, and Peggotty was rough, but that made no difference.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE 7 I had reached that stage of sleepiness when Peggotty seemed to swell and grow immensely large.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE 8 The ground-work of that stool, and Peggotty's complexion appeared to me to be one and the same thing.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE 9 One Sunday night my mother reads to Peggotty and me in there, how Lazarus was raised up from the dead.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE 10 But though Peggotty's eye wanders, she is much offended if mine does, and frowns to me, as I stand upon the seat, that I am to look at the clergyman.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE 11 Looking back, as I was saying, into the blank of my infancy, the first objects I can remember as standing out by themselves from a confusion of things, are my mother and Peggotty.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE 12 My opinion is,' said Peggotty, taking her eyes from me, after a little indecision and going on with her work, 'that I never was married myself, Master Davy, and that I don't expect to be.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE 13 In time my eyes gradually shut up; and, from seeming to hear the clergyman singing a drowsy song in the heat, I hear nothing, until I fall off the seat with a crash, and am taken out, more dead than alive, by Peggotty.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE 14 I have an impression on my mind which I cannot distinguish from actual remembrance, of the touch of Peggotty's forefinger as she used to hold it out to me, and of its being roughened by needlework, like a pocket nutmeg-grater.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE 15 Peggotty knowing nothing about her, and my mother saying nothing about her, she was quite a mystery in the parlour; and the fact of her having a magazine of jewellers' cotton in her pocket, and sticking the article in her ears in that way, did not detract from the solemnity of her presence.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 16 On the ground-floor is Peggotty's kitchen, opening into a back yard; with a pigeon-house on a pole, in the centre, without any pigeons in it; a great dog-kennel in a corner, without any dog; and a quantity of fowls that look terribly tall to me, walking about, in a menacing and ferocious manner.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE 17 Ham Peggotty, who went to the national school, and was a very dragon at his catechism, and who may therefore be regarded as a credible witness, reported next day, that happening to peep in at the parlour-door an hour after this, he was instantly descried by Miss Betsey, then walking to and fro in a state of agitation, and pounced upon before he could make his escape.
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