1 I mourned for my child-wife, taken from her blooming world, so young.
2 But, as years went on, my dear boy would have wearied of his child-wife.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 53. ANOTHER RETROSPECT 3 We made quite a gay procession of it, and my child-wife was the gayest there.
4 I laughingly asked my child-wife what her fancy was in desiring to be so called.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING 5 How the time wears, I know not; until I am recalled by my child-wife's old companion.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 53. ANOTHER RETROSPECT 6 I am far from sure, now, that it was right to do this, but I did it for my child-wife's sake.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING 7 I have begun to fear, remotely, that the day may never shine, when I shall see my child-wife running in the sunlight with her old friend Jip.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 53. ANOTHER RETROSPECT 8 I had been unhappy in trying it; I could not endure my own solitary wisdom; I could not reconcile it with her former appeal to me as my child-wife.
9 I had hoped that lighter hands than mine would help to mould her character, and that a baby-smile upon her breast might change my child-wife to a woman.
10 I fancy his figure before me now, standing near her sofa, with his rough cap in his hand, and the blue eyes of my child-wife raised, with a timid wonder, to his face.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE 11 On further consideration this appeared so likely, that I abandoned my scheme, which had had a more promising appearance in words than in action; resolving henceforth to be satisfied with my child-wife, and to try to change her into nothing else by any process.
12 She was soon my child-wife indeed; sitting down on the floor outside the Chinese House, ringing all the little bells one after another, to punish Jip for his recent bad behaviour; while Jip lay blinking in the doorway with his head out, even too lazy to be teased.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING 13 If I tacitly checked this playfulness, and persisted, she would look so scared and disconsolate, as she became more and more bewildered, that the remembrance of her natural gaiety when I first strayed into her path, and of her being my child-wife, would come reproachfully upon me; and I would lay the pencil down, and call for the guitar.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING