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I said, ‘Yes,’ boldly; not that I knew anything about it,
Heaven forgive me!
‘I hope you have, too, Master Copperfield,’ said Uriah.
‘But I am sure you must have.’
‘Everybody must have,’ I returned.
‘Oh, thank you, Master Copperfield,’ said Uriah Heep,
‘for that remark! It is so true! Umble as I am, I know it is so
true! Oh, thank you, Master Copperfield!’ He writhed him-
self quite off his stool in the excitement of his feelings, and,
being off, began to make arrangements for going home.
‘Mother will be expecting me,’ he said, referring to a pale,
inexpressive-faced watch in his pocket, ‘and getting uneasy;
for though we are very umble, Master Copperfield, we are
much attached to one another. If you would come and see
us, any afternoon, and take a cup of tea at our lowly dwell-
ing, mother would be as proud of your company as I should
be.’
I said I should be glad to come.
‘Thank you, Master Copperfield,’ returned Uriah, put-
ting his book away upon the shelf - ‘I suppose you stop here,
some time, Master Copperfield?’
I said I was going to be brought up there, I believed, as
long as I remained at school.
‘Oh, indeed!’ exclaimed Uriah. ‘I should think YOU
would come into the business at last, Master Copperfield!’
I protested that I had no views of that sort, and that no
such scheme was entertained in my behalf by anybody; but
Uriah insisted on blandly replying to all my assurances, ‘Oh,
yes, Master Copperfield, I should think you would, indeed!’