1 We went home early in the evening.
2 At last the day came for going home.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 3 I'll ask her, if you like, as soon as ever she comes home.
4 But there he was, in church, and he walked home with us afterwards.
5 Anyhow, from India tidings of his death reached home, within ten years.
6 But our intimacy was much advanced by his taking me on his back to carry me home.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 7 Yes, and again, as we walk home, I note some neighbours looking at my mother and at me, and whispering.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 8 Now, all the time I had been on my visit, I had been ungrateful to my home again, and had thought little or nothing about it.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 9 Peggotty at her needlework was as much at home with St. Paul's and the bit of wax-candle, as if they had never known any other roof.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 10 She gently chid me for being rude; and, keeping me close to her shawl, turned to thank the gentleman for taking so much trouble as to bring her home.
11 Accordingly, when Mr. Peggotty came home about nine o'clock, this unfortunate Mrs. Gummidge was knitting in her corner, in a very wretched and miserable condition.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 12 It touches me nearly now, although I tell it lightly, to recollect how eager I was to leave my happy home; to think how little I suspected what I did leave for ever.
13 By and by, when we had dined in a sumptuous manner off boiled dabs, melted butter, and potatoes, with a chop for me, a hairy man with a very good-natured face came home.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 14 Again, I wonder whether any of the neighbours call to mind, as I do, how we used to walk home together, she and I; and I wonder stupidly about that, all the dreary dismal day.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 15 We went out to the door; and there was my mother, looking unusually pretty, I thought, and with her a gentleman with beautiful black hair and whiskers, who had walked home with us from church last Sunday.
16 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.
17 A word of encouragement and explanation, of pity for my childish ignorance, of welcome home, of reassurance to me that it was home, might have made me dutiful to him in my heart henceforth, instead of in my hypocritical outside, and might have made me respect instead of hate him.
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