? ? ? ? 'Master Davy, how should you like to go along with me and spend a fortnight at my brother's at Yarmouth? Wouldn't that be a treat?'
? ? ? ? 'Is your brother an agreeable man, Peggotty?' I inquired, provisionally.
? ? ? ? 'Oh, what an agreeable man he is!' cried Peggotty, holding up her hands. 'Then there's the sea; and the boats and ships; and the fishermen; and the beach; and Am to play with -'
? ? ? ? Peggotty meant her nephew Ham, mentioned in my first chapter; but she spoke of him as a morsel of English Grammar.
? ? ? ? I was flushed by her summary of delights, and replied that it would indeed be a treat, but what would my mother say?
? ? ? ? 'Why then I'll as good as bet a guinea,' said Peggotty, intent upon my face, 'that she'll let us go. I'll ask her, if you like, as soon as ever she comes home. There now!'
? ? ? ? 'But what's she to do while we're away?' said I, putting my small elbows on the table to argue the point. 'She can't live by herself.'
? ? ? ? If Peggotty were looking for a hole, all of a sudden, in the heel of that stocking, it must have been a very little one indeed, and not worth darning.
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