1 I thought it was better to borrow Captain Hopkins's knife and fork, than Captain Hopkins's comb.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ... 2 Six tea, two salt, and a pair of sugars, I have at different times borrowed money on, in secret, with my own hands.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ... 3 For this express reason, I had borrowed the half-guinea, that I might not be without a fund for my travelling-expenses.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I ... 4 I was not so savagely independent as to say anything in reply, but that if ever I borrowed money of anyone, I would borrow it of her.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 37. A LITTLE COLD WATER 5 I was not so savagely independent as to say anything in reply, but that if ever I borrowed money of anyone, I would borrow it of her.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 37. A LITTLE COLD WATER 6 After which he borrowed a shilling of me for porter, gave me a written order on Mrs. Micawber for the amount, and put away his pocket-handkerchief, and cheered up.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ... 7 This nerved me to get rid of Mary Anne, who went so mildly, on receipt of wages, that I was surprised, until I found out about the tea-spoons, and also about the little sums she had borrowed in my name of the tradespeople without authority.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING 8 I never could have derived anything like the pleasure from spending the money Mr. Dick had given me, that I felt in sending a gold half-guinea to Peggotty, per post, enclosed in this last letter, to discharge the sum I had borrowed of her: in which epistle, not before, I mentioned about the young man with the donkey-cart.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP