? ? ? ? 'Besides,' said Em'ly, as she looked about for shells and pebbles, 'your father was a gentleman and your mother is a lady; and my father was a fisherman and my mother was a fisherman's daughter, and my uncle Dan is a fisherman.'
? ? ? ? 'Dan is Mr. Peggotty, is he?' said I.
? ? ? ? 'Uncle Dan - yonder,' answered Em'ly, nodding at the boat-house.
? ? ? ? 'Yes. I mean him. He must be very good, I should think?'
? ? ? ? 'Good?' said Em'ly. 'If I was ever to be a lady, I'd give him a sky-blue coat with diamond buttons, nankeen trousers, a red velvet waistcoat, a cocked hat, a large gold watch, a silver pipe, and a box of money.'
? ? ? ? I said I had no doubt that Mr. Peggotty well deserved these treasures. I must acknowledge that I felt it difficult to picture him quite at his ease in the raiment proposed for him by his grateful little niece, and that I was particularly doubtful of the policy of the cocked hat; but I kept these sentiments to myself.
? ? ? ? Little Em'ly had stopped and looked up at the sky in her enumeration of these articles, as if they were a glorious vision.
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