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Charles Dickens: David CopperfieldCHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION (continued)I arrived at the office so soon, after all, that I had half an hour's loitering about the Commons, before old Tiffey, who was always first, appeared with his key. Then I sat down in my shady corner, looking up at the sunlight on the opposite chimney-pots, and thinking about Dora; until Mr. Spenlow came in, crisp and curly. 'How are you, Copperfield?' said he. 'Fine morning!' 'Beautiful morning, sir,' said I. 'Could I say a word to you before you go into Court?' 'By all means,' said he. 'Come into my room.' I followed him into his room, and he began putting on his gown, and touching himself up before a little glass he had, hanging inside a closet door. 'I am sorry to say,' said I, 'that I have some rather disheartening intelligence from my aunt.' 'No!' said he. 'Dear me! Not paralysis, I hope?' 'It has no reference to her health, sir,' I replied. 'She has met with some large losses. In fact, she has very little left, indeed.' 'You as-tound me, Copperfield!' cried Mr. Spenlow. I shook my head. 'Indeed, sir,' said I, 'her affairs are so changed, that I wished to ask you whether it would be possible - at a sacrifice on our part of some portion of the premium, of course,' I put in this, on the spur of the moment, warned by the blank expression of his face - 'to cancel my articles?' What it cost me to make this proposal, nobody knows. It was like asking, as a favour, to be sentenced to transportation from Dora. 'To cancel your articles, Copperfield? Cancel?' This is page 586 of 1019. [Mark this Page] Mark any page to add this title to Your Bookshelf. (0 / 10 books on shelf) Buy a copy of David Copperfield at Amazon.com
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