? ? ? ? 'No, no, no!' returned the Doctor. 'To give Annie pleasure, by making some provision for the companion of her childhood. Nothing else.'
? ? ? ? 'So I found,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'I couldn't doubt it, when you told me so. But I thought - I implore you to remember the narrow construction which has been my besetting sin - that, in a case where there was so much disparity in point of years -'
? ? ? ? 'That's the way to put it, you see, Master Copperfield!' observed Uriah, with fawning and offensive pity.
? ? ? ? '- a lady of such youth, and such attractions, however real her respect for you, might have been influenced in marrying, by worldly considerations only. I make no allowance for innumerable feelings and circumstances that may have all tended to good. For Heaven's sake remember that!'
? ? ? ? 'How kind he puts it!' said Uriah, shaking his head.
? ? ? ? 'Always observing her from one point of view,' said Mr. Wickfield; 'but by all that is dear to you, my old friend, I entreat you to consider what it was; I am forced to confess now, having no escape -'
? ? ? ? 'No! There's no way out of it, Mr. Wickfield, sir,' observed Uriah, 'when it's got to this.
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