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1  How much of the practice I have just reduced to precept, I owe to Agnes, I will not repeat here.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
2  It was extremely difficult, I heard, to make out what he owed, or what he had paid, or of what he died possessed.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
3  I said I owed him more obligations than I could ever repay, and held him in a higher admiration than I could ever express.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION
4  I knew from her own lips that she regarded herself as the innocent cause of his errors, and as owing him a great debt she ardently desired to pay.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
5  I do not expect that you, who always rebelled against my just authority, exerted for your benefit and reformation, should owe me any good-will now.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
6  It was a great relief to me to do this, and to enlarge on the obligation that I owed to Steerforth for his care of me when I was unable to take care of myself.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
7  His creditors were not implacable; and Mrs. Micawber informed me that even the revengeful boot-maker had declared in open court that he bore him no malice, but that when money was owing to him he liked to be paid.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I ...