? ? ? ? These preparations happily completed, I bought a little dessert in Covent Garden Market, and gave a rather extensive order at a retail wine-merchant's in that vicinity. When I came home in the afternoon, and saw the bottles drawn up in a square on the pantry floor, they looked so numerous (though there were two missing, which made Mrs. Crupp very uncomfortable), that I was absolutely frightened at them.
? ? ? ? One of Steerforth's friends was named Grainger, and the other Markham. They were both very gay and lively fellows; Grainger, something older than Steerforth; Markham, youthful-looking, and I should say not more than twenty. I observed that the latter always spoke of himself indefinitely, as 'a man', and seldom or never in the first person singular.
? ? ? ? 'A man might get on very well here, Mr. Copperfield,' said Markham - meaning himself.
? ? ? ? 'It's not a bad situation,' said I, 'and the rooms are really commodious.'
? ? ? ? 'I hope you have both brought appetites with you?' said Steerforth.
? ? ? ? 'Upon my honour,' returned Markham, 'town seems to sharpen a man's appetite.
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