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of an extraordinary nature will turn up on that shore. It is
no distance - comparatively speaking; and though consid-
eration is due to the kindness of your proposal, I assure you
that is a mere matter of form.’
Shall I ever forget how, in a moment, he was the most
sanguine of men, looking on to fortune; or how Mrs. Micaw-
ber presently discoursed about the habits of the kangaroo!
Shall I ever recall that street of Canterbury on a market-day,
without recalling him, as he walked back with us; express-
ing, in the hardy roving manner he assumed, the unsettled
habits of a temporary sojourner in the land; and looking at
the bullocks, as they came by, with the eye of an Australian
farmer!
11 David Copperfield
