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CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets. I went away fr...

CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS One thing more, I had to do, before yielding myself to the shock of these emotions. It was, to conceal what had occurred, from those who were going away; and to dismiss them ...

CHAPTER 56. THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD No need, O Steerforth, to have said, when we last spoke together, in that hour which I so little deemed to be our parting-hour—no need to have said, ‘Think of me...

CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST I now approach an event in my life, so indelible, so awful, so bound by an infinite variety of ties to all that has preceded it, in these pages, that, from the beginning of my narr...

CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER’S TRANSACTIONS This is not the time at which I am to enter on the state of my mind beneath its load of sorrow. I came to think that the Future was walled up before me, that th...

CHAPTER 53. ANOTHER RETROSPECT I must pause yet once again. O, my child-wife, there is a figure in the moving crowd before my memory, quiet and still, saying in its innocent love and childish beauty, ...

CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION When the time Mr. Micawber had appointed so mysteriously, was within four-and-twenty hours of being come, my aunt and I consulted how we should proceed; for my aun...

CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY It was yet early in the morning of the following day, when, as I was walking in my garden with my aunt (who took little other exercise now, being so much ...

CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY’S DREAM COMES TRUE By this time, some months had passed since our interview on the bank of the river with Martha. I had never seen her since, but she had communicated with Mr....

CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY I received one morning by the post, the following letter, dated Canterbury, and addressed to me at Doctor’s Commons; which I read with some surprise: ‘MY DEAR SIR,...

CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came out and was very successful. I was not stunned by the ...

CHAPTER 47. MARTHA We were now down in Westminster. We had turned back to follow her, having encountered her coming towards us; and Westminster Abbey was the point at which she passed from the lights ...

CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE I must have been married, if I may trust to my imperfect memory for dates, about a year or so, when one evening, as I was returning from a solitary walk, thinking of the book ...

CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT’S PREDICTIONS It was some time now, since I had left the Doctor. Living in his neighbourhood, I saw him frequently; and we all went to his house on two or three oc...

CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING It was a strange condition of things, the honeymoon being over, and the bridesmaids gone home, when I found myself sitting down in my own small house with Dora; quite thro...

CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT Once again, let me pause upon a memorable period of my life. Let me stand aside, to see the phantoms of those days go by me, accompanying the shadow of myself, in dim pr...

CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF I feel as if it were not for me to record, even though this manuscript is intended for no eyes but mine, how hard I worked at that tremendous short-hand, and all improvement apper...

CHAPTER 41. DORA’S AUNTS At last, an answer came from the two old ladies. They presented their compliments to Mr. Copperfield, and informed him that they had given his letter their best consideration,...

CHAPTER 40. THE WANDERER We had a very serious conversation in Buckingham Street that night, about the domestic occurrences I have detailed in the last chapter. My aunt was deeply interested in them, ...

CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP My aunt, beginning, I imagine, to be made seriously uncomfortable by my prolonged dejection, made a pretence of being anxious that I should go to Dover, to see that all ...