? ? ? ? How merry little Em'ly made herself about it! With what a demure assumption of being immensely older and wiser than I, the fairy little woman said I was 'a silly boy'; and then laughed so charmingly that I forgot the pain of being called by that disparaging name, in the pleasure of looking at her.
? ? ? ? Mr. Barkis and Peggotty were a good while in the church, but came out at last, and then we drove away into the country. As we were going along, Mr. Barkis turned to me, and said, with a wink, - by the by, I should hardly have thought, before, that he could wink:
? ? ? ? 'What name was it as I wrote up in the cart?'
? ? ? ? 'Clara Peggotty,' I answered.
? ? ? ? 'What name would it be as I should write up now, if there was a tilt here?'
? ? ? ? 'Clara Peggotty, again?' I suggested.
? ? ? ? 'Clara Peggotty BARKIS!' he returned, and burst into a roar of laughter that shook the chaise.
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