David Copperfield

They disliked me; and they sullenly, sternly, steadily, overlooked me.

‘That you may begin, in a small way, to have a reliance upon yourself, and to act for yourself,’ said my aunt, ‘I shall send you upon your trip, alone.

All this time I was so conscious of the waste of any promise I had given, and of my being utterly neglected, that I should have been perfectly miserable, I have no doubt, but for the old books. They were my only comfort; and I was as true to them as they were to me, and read them over and over I don’t know how many times more.

enchained

“As you have done it unto one of the least of these, you have done it unto me”,-

I have been afraid of myself.’ ‘You are afraid of nothing else, I think,’ said I. ‘Perhaps not, and yet may have enough to be afraid of too,’

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.

Thus I began my new life, in a new name, and with everything new about me.

This was done; and whom should Traddles and I then behold, to our amazement, in this converted Number Twenty Seven, but Uriah Heep!