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Dickens, Charles

"David Copperfield"

A gentleman lounging, full dressed, on a sofa, with an opera-glass in his hand, passed before my view, and also my own figure at full length in a glass. Then I was being ushered into one of these boxes, and found myself saying something as I sat down, and people about me crying 'Silence!' to somebody, and ladies casting indignant glances at me, and - what! yes! - Agnes, sitting on the seat before me, in the same box, with a lady and gentleman beside her, whom I didn't know. I see her face now, better than I did then, I dare say, with its indelible look of regret and wonder turned upon me.


? ? ? ? 'Agnes!' I said, thickly, 'Lorblessmer! Agnes!'


? ? ? ? 'Hush! Pray!' she answered, I could not conceive why. 'You disturb the company. Look at the stage!'


? ? ? ? I tried, on her injunction, to fix it, and to hear something of what was going on there, but quite in vain. I looked at her again by and by, and saw her shrink into her corner, and put her gloved hand to her forehead.


? ? ? ? 'Agnes!' I said. 'I'mafraidyou'renorwell.'


? ? ? ? 'Yes, yes. Do not mind me, Trotwood,' she returned. 'Listen! Are you going away soon?'


? ? ? ? 'Amigoarawaysoo?' I repeated.


? ? ? ? 'Yes.'


? ? ? ? I had a stupid intention of replying that I was going to wait, to hand her downstairs.


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