? ? ? ? 'Come then!' said I. 'For the sake of Miss Wickfield -'
? ? ? ? 'My Agnes!' he exclaimed, with a sickly, angular contortion of himself. 'Would you be so good as call her Agnes, Master Copperfield!'
? ? ? ? 'For the sake of Agnes Wickfield - Heaven bless her!'
? ? ? ? 'Thank you for that blessing, Master Copperfield!'he interposed.
? ? ? ? 'I will tell you what I should, under any other circumstances, as soon have thought of telling to - Jack Ketch.'
? ? ? ? 'To who, sir?' said Uriah, stretching out his neck, and shading his ear with his hand.
? ? ? ? 'To the hangman,' I returned. 'The most unlikely person I could think of,' - though his own face had suggested the allusion quite as a natural sequence. 'I am engaged to another young lady. I hope that contents you.'
? ? ? ? 'Upon your soul?' said Uriah.
? ? ? ? I was about indignantly to give my assertion the confirmation he required, when he caught hold of my hand, and gave it a squeeze.
? ? ? ? 'Oh, Master Copperfield!' he said. 'If you had only had the condescension to return my confidence when I poured out the fulness of my art, the night I put you so much out of the way by sleeping before your sitting-room fire, I never should have doubted you.
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