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Ham Peggotty, who went to the national school, and was a very dragon at his catechism, and who may therefore be regarded as a credible witness, […].

[The doctor] walked as softly as the ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly.

‘I kept my housekeeping-book regularly, and balanced it with Mr Copperfield every night,’ cried my mother in another burst of distress, and breaking down again. […] And I am sure we never had a word of difference respecting it, except when Mr Copperfield objected to my threes and fives being too much like each other, or to my putty curly tails to my seven and nines,’ resumed my mother in another burst, and breaking down again.

‘I tell you I have a presentiment that it must be a girl,’ returned Miss Betsey. ‘Don’t contradict. From the moment of this girl’s birth, child, I intend to be her friend. I intend to be her grandmother, and I be you’ll call her Betsey Trotwood Copperfield. There must be no mistakes in life with this Betsey Trotwood. There must be no trifling with her affections, my dear. She must be well brought up, and well guarded from reposing any foolish confidences where they are not deserved. I must take my care.’

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether thst station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.