? ? ? ? and through a pleasant smell of summer flowers, growing in gardens and carried into town on hucksters' heads, intent on this first effort to meet our altered circumstances.
? ? ? ? I arrived at the office so soon, after all, that I had half an hour's loitering about the Commons, before old Tiffey, who was always first, appeared with his key. Then I sat down in my shady corner, looking up at the sunlight on the opposite chimney-pots, and thinking about Dora; until Mr. Spenlow came in, crisp and curly.
? ? ? ? 'How are you, Copperfield?' said he. 'Fine morning!'
? ? ? ? 'Beautiful morning, sir,' said I. 'Could I say a word to you before you go into Court?'
? ? ? ? 'By all means,' said he. 'Come into my room.'
? ? ? ? I followed him into his room, and he began putting on his gown, and touching himself up before a little glass he had, hanging inside a closet door.
? ? ? ? 'I am sorry to say,' said I, 'that I have some rather disheartening intelligence from my aunt.'
? ? ? ? 'No!' said he. 'Dear me! Not paralysis, I hope?'
? ? ? ? 'It has no reference to her health, sir,' I replied. 'She has met with some large losses.
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