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‘Go away!’ said Miss Betsey, shaking her head. ‘Go ? Why did Miss
Betsey say ‘Go
along! No boys here!’ away!’?

I watched her as she marched to
a corner of her garden and stooped to dig up some more. Then,
without a scrap of courage but with a great deal of
desperation, I went and stood beside her.

‘If you please, ma’am’, I began.
stooped
She started and looked up.

‘If you please, aunt.’ desperation

‘Eh?’ exclaimed Miss Betsey, in a tone of amazement that I had never
heard before.

‘If you please, aunt, I am your nephew.’

‘Oh, Lord!’ said my aunt and sat flat down on the garden path. amazement

‘I am David Copperfield. You had come on the night when I was born and seen my
dear mama. I have been very unhappy since she died. I have been taught nothing
and put to work that is not fit for me. It made me run away to you. I was robbed when I
first set out and have walked all the way.’ Here, I broke into a fit of crying.

My aunt sat on the gravel, staring at me. Then she
got up in a great hurry and took me into the parlour.
I was unable to control my sobs. She placed me
on the sofa, with a shawl under my head and the
handkerchief from her own head under my feet so sobs
gravel that I would not dirty the cover. Who did Miss

After a while, she rang the bell. ‘Janet’, said my ? Betsey ask Janet
aunt when her servant came in. ‘Go upstairs and to call from
tell Mr Dick that I wish to speak to him.’ upstairs?

Janet looked a little surprised to see me lying stiffly on the sofa.
My aunt, with her hands behind her, walked up and down the
room until a gentleman came in laughing.

‘Mr Dick,’ said my aunt, ‘Don’t be a fool, because nobody can
be more discreet than you can when you choose. We all know
that.’ parlour

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