1 After another absence, he again returned.
2 My father and Miss Betsey never met again.
3 We went on again, picking up shells and pebbles.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 4 Not pretty, interposed my mother, laying her fingers on my lips again.
5 I promised, of course; and we kissed one another over and over again, and I soon fell fast asleep.
6 But it passed with the action of rising from her chair; and she sat down again very meekly, and fainted.
7 He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in the dark and a strong draught, until he was again sent for.
8 'For being quite alone and dependent on myself in this rough world again, yes, I fear he did indeed,' sobbed my mother.
9 But he sat and looked at her, notwithstanding, for nearly two hours, as she sat looking at the fire, until he was again called out.
10 Mr. Chillip could do nothing after this, but sit and look at her feebly, as she sat and looked at the fire, until he was called upstairs again.
11 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.
12 Whether it was the following Sunday when I saw the gentleman again, or whether there was any greater lapse of time before he reappeared, I cannot recall.
13 We all acknowledged that we felt this something of a disappointment; but Mrs. Gummidge said she felt it more than we did, and shed tears again, and made that former declaration with great bitterness.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 14 I sat looking at Peggotty for some time, in a reverie on this supposititious case: whether, if she were employed to lose me like the boy in the fairy tale, I should be able to track my way home again by the buttons she would shed.
15 On the walls there were some common coloured pictures, framed and glazed, of scripture subjects; such as I have never seen since in the hands of pedlars, without seeing the whole interior of Peggotty's brother's house again, at one view.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 16 The doctor having been upstairs and come down again, and having satisfied himself, I suppose, that there was a probability of this unknown lady and himself having to sit there, face to face, for some hours, laid himself out to be polite and social.
17 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.
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