1 'Yes,' said my mother, faintly.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 2 My mother answered she had had that pleasure.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 3 My mother bent her head, and begged her to walk in.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 4 'The name was Mr. Copperfield's choice,' returned my mother.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 5 She had never seen my mother, but she knew her to be not yet twenty.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 6 My mother had a sure foreboding at the second glance, that it was Miss Betsey.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 7 My mother had left her chair in her agitation, and gone behind it in the corner.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 8 He was double my mother's age when he married, and of but a delicate constitution.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 9 My mother couldn't help it notwithstanding, so she cried until she had had her cry out.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 10 My mother was too much afraid of her to refuse compliance with this odd request, if she had any disposition to do so.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 11 Then she made a frown and a gesture to my mother, like one who was accustomed to be obeyed, to come and open the door.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 12 She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 13 'Mrs. David Copperfield, I think,' said Miss Betsey; the emphasis referring, perhaps, to my mother's mourning weeds, and her condition.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 14 Miss Betsey, looking round the room, slowly and inquiringly, began on the other side, and carried her eyes on, like a Saracen's Head in a Dutch clock, until they reached my mother.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 15 The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 16 My mother was, no doubt, unusually youthful in appearance even for her years; she hung her head, as if it were her fault, poor thing, and said, sobbing, that indeed she was afraid she was but a childish widow, and would be but a childish mother if she lived.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN 17 My father had often hinted that she seldom conducted herself like any ordinary Christian; and now, instead of ringing the bell, she came and looked in at that identical window, pressing the end of her nose against the glass to that extent, that my poor dear mother used to say it became perfectly flat and white in a moment.
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