? ? ? ? 'When I was but an umble clerk, she always looked down upon me. She was for ever having my Agnes backwards and forwards at her ouse, and she was for ever being a friend to you, Master Copperfield; but I was too far beneath her, myself, to be noticed.'
? ? ? ? 'Well?' said I; 'suppose you were!'
? ? ? ? '- And beneath him too,' pursued Uriah, very distinctly, and in a meditative tone of voice, as he continued to scrape his chin.
? ? ? ? 'Don't you know the Doctor better,' said I, 'than to suppose him conscious of your existence, when you were not before him?'
? ? ? ? He directed his eyes at me in that sidelong glance again, and he made his face very lantern-jawed, for the greater convenience of scraping, as he answered:
? ? ? ? 'Oh dear, I am not referring to the Doctor! Oh no, poor man! I mean Mr. Maldon!'
? ? ? ? My heart quite died within me. All my old doubts and apprehensions on that subject, all the Doctor's happiness and peace, all the mingled possibilities of innocence and compromise, that I could not unravel, I saw, in a moment, at the mercy of this fellow's twisting.
? ? ? ? 'He never could come into the office, without ordering and shoving me about,' said Uriah.
Pages:
961
962
963
964
965
966
967
968
969
970
971
972
973
974
975
976
977
978
979
980
981
982
983
984
985