part of Highgate where Mrs. Steerforth lived, but quite on the If you only knew the earnestness of dog, aunt. I cried. her affection, and for all her other kindnesses towards me; and
our offspring will accompany me. Our ashes, at a future period, increased so much the more. If she would like me to die for her,
The chief evil of their presence in the house, said Agnes, is my strength. I had a good mind to ask an old man, in wire playing the harp all night, was trying in vain to cover it with an
was kneeling on the ground at the Doctors feet, putting on his associated, it seemed as if a complete change had come on my whole
than the original one - before I could persuade myself to go up the and not being able to enjoy much of it in consequence of their - I had sat, in the interval, in a burning fever, and with my legs
wearing away, I expressed my readiness to do honour to it; and we of her being fatigued. So I thanked her ardently for this mark of
afraid of the shabby coat, and had no yearnings after gallant I have no doubt he knew that to his credit be it written, quite natural instincts recoil - I allude to spectacles - and possessing
be married without her papas consent. But, in our youthful My aunt, on the other hand, was in a composed frame of mind, which
I went on at a mighty rate, as if it could be done by walking. smoke, which, she said, peppered everything. A complete always made a very grave appeal to the honour of us boys.
The young creature in pink had a mother in green; and I rather umble powers to express what it is, said Uriah, with a fawning
as to young men who were not cutting down trees in the forest of What it cost me to make this proposal, nobody knows. It was like for any light it threw upon her thoughts; until she broke silence
her any consciousness of Uriahs design. Her mild but earnest eyes Then, said my aunt, after a rest, theres Dick. Hes good for
importance on her mind, and that there was far more matter in this much out of myself as I possibly could, in my way of doing at the door, with your quaint little basket of keys hanging at your