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...Volume Two A Penn State University Electronic Classics Series Publication David Copperfield, Volume Two, Containing chapters twenty-nine through sixt... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. David Copperfield, Volume Two, Containing chapters twenty-nine through sixt... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. David Copperfield Vol. II 3 DAVID COPPERFIELD VOLUME TWO By Charles Dicke... ...penlow had said about touching the Commons and bringing down the country. David Copperfield Vol. II 4 Mrs. Steerforth was pleased to see me, and so... .... Is your profession really so engaging and interesting as to absorb your David Copperfield Vol. II 5 whole attention? I ask because I always want ... ...far from laying of it to you but his name is Steerforth, and he s a damned villain! Mr. Peggotty uttered no cry, and shed no tear, and moved no more,... ...e I think. How do you think my Ury looking, sir? I thought him looking as villainous as ever, and I replied that I saw no change in him. Oh, don t y... ...t warn t Em ly, I went on agen. By little and little, when I come to a new village or that, among the poor people, I found they know d about me. They ... ... ly s age, I ve found a-waiting fur me, at Our Saviour s Cross outside the village, fur to do me sim lar kindnesses. Some has had daughters as was dea...

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...s hanged for a piece of boyish incredulity; there, a few years afterwards, David Hume ruined Philosophy and Faith, an undisturbed and well- reputed ci... ...perspective of a mile or more of falling street, and beyond that woods and villas, and a blue arm of sea, and the hills upon the farther side. Ferguss... ...elow, you may still see, with its mills and foaming weir, the little rural village of Dean. Modern improvement has gone overhead on its high-level via... ...a mile or so in the green country. It is not so long ago since magisterial David Hume lent the authority of his example to the exodus from the Old Tow... ...eet which is still (so oddly may a jest become perpetuated) known as Saint David Street. Nor is the town so large but a holiday schoolboy may harry a ... ...aunt- ing flavour of the country. The last elm is dead in Elm Row; and the villas and the workmen’s quarters spread apace on all the borders of the ci... ... eyes, and set his heart beating for travel and pure air. CHAPTER VII. THE VILLA QUARTERS. MR. RUSKIN’S DENUNCIATION of the New T own of Edinburgh inc... ...an agree- able stimulation of the mind. But upon the subject of our recent villa architecture, I am frankly ready to mingle my tears with Mr. Ruskin’s...

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... the stamp of genius. Rowland envied the happy youth who, in a New England village, without aid or encourage- ment, without models or resources, had f... ...ur two young men were sitting beneath one of the high-stemmed pines of the Villa Ludovisi. They had been spending an hour in the mouldy little garden-... ...Rowland, in the geniality of a mood attuned to the mellow charm of a Roman villa, found a good word to say for the Guercino; but he chiefly talked of ... ... of mien that Rowland supposed she must have some proprietary right in the villa and was not just then in a hospitable mood. Beside her walked a littl... ...appily possessed her, and she was guiding her fleecy companion through the Villa Reale or the Boboli Gardens with the same superb defi- ance of irony.... ...ne of the persons who thought Roderick delight- fully fresh. “I may make a David,” said Roderick, “but I shall not try any more of the Old Testament p... ...Old Testament people. I don’t like the Jews; I don’t like pendulous noses. David, the boy David, is rather an exception; you can think of him and trea...

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... all the keep- sake views of Genoa. This palazzo is one of the magnificent villas on which Genoese nobles were wont to spend millions at the time when... ... that of the sky; when silence reigns on the quay and in the groves of the villa, and over the marble heads with yawning jaws, from which water myster... ...id dinner, and you will have the pic- ture presented by the terrace of the villa about the middle of May—a picture in which the predominant figure was... ...when it was proposed that they should spend a farewell day at the Consul’s villa. Leon de Lora had told Camille that her presence at the villa was the... ...tiful as the type of childhood so labori- ously sought out by the sculptor David to grace a tomb. This beautiful family was the object of Camille’s se... ...between my wall and her own little house. This dwelling, formerly a summer villa, was like a house of cards; it was not more than thirty feet deep, an...

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... below the path, where the pack-horses go climbing to the remote, infolded villages, in the cold gloom of the pass hangs the large, pale Christ. He is... ...the world below. They are 16 D. H. Lawrence the Churches of the Spirit of David, and their bells ring pas- sionately, imperiously, falling on the sub... ...or, and the slit of dark- ness beneath. Yet it was the chief church of the village. But the Church of San T ommaso perched over the village. Coming do... ...house-tops, against a glamour of foliaged hillside. I was submerged in the village, on the uneven, cobbled street, between old high walls and cavernou... ... it. It was very near. I could see it from the piazza by the lake. And the village itself had only a few hundreds of inhabitants. The church must be w... ...rs and caves of darkness. Going through these tiny chaotic backways of the village was like venturing through the labyrinth made by furtive creatures,... ...was Jesus crucified. The old transport, the old fulfilment of the Ego, the Davidian ecstasy, the assuming of all power and glory unto the self, the be...

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..., faces the town,—a soft agglomeration of gar- dens, vine-yards, scattered villas, gables and turrets of slate-roofed chateaux, terraces with gray bal... ...stical ar- chitecture, some turreted manor, some lonely tower, some gabled village, or historic site. Even, however, if you do everything,—which was n... ...ond. Let not your curiosity induce you, however, to pass by a modest white villa which overlooks the stream, enclosed in a fresh little court; for her... ...the general flatness,—the patches of vineyard, the scattered cottages, the villages, the chil- dren (planted and staring and almost always pretty), th... ...the little black bronze statue of the good King Rene (a weak production of David d’Angers), which, standing within sight, ornaments the melancholy fau... ... was of the dimmest), I ought to have stopped at Angouleme for the sake of David and Eve Sechard, of Lucien de Rubempre and of Madame de Bargeton, who... ... and, placed among the paint- ings, a bronze replica of the charming young David of Mercie. These things have been set out in the church of an old mon... ...rench painter. The produc- tions of M. Fabre, who followed in the steps of David, bear the stamp of a cold mediocrity; there is not much to be said ev... ...city. Easily first 126 A Little Tour in France are two large specimens of David Teniers, which are in- comparable for brilliancy and a glowing perfec...

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...s, both in life and in novels, which (and the latter especially) abound in villains of the most sombre sort, that we are to have for a constant com- p... ...he revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward and claimed a meeting; and you have the feelings of M... ...sea-shore, work himself up into such a rage and pas- sion with some of the villains whose wicked deeds he was describing and inventing, that the audie... ... motives that the present performer is desirous to show up and trounce his villains; but because he has a sincere hatred of them, which he cannot keep... ...arn my “kyind friends,” then, that I am going to tell a story of harrowing villainy and complicated—but, as I trust, intensely interesting—crime. My r... ...Rector and his lady walked on for a while. “Pitt can’t be such an infernal villain as to sell the reversion of the living. And that Methodist milksop ... ...husiasm, entreaty, reason, despair; shouting to his people; satirizing Mr. Davids for his sluggishness; inspiriting Mr. Moss into action; imploring, c...

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... Mr. Smallways’ aged father, could remember Bun Hill as an idyllic Kentish village. He had driven Sir Peter Bone until he was fifty and then he took t... ...or all the population of Bun Hill. And then had come the railway, and then villas and villas, and then the gas-works and the water-works, and a great,... ...r’s shop which he had set up in one of the smallest of the old surviv- ing village houses in the tail of the High Street had a sub- merged air, an air... ...h cable-bearing red poles. He had just passed over a compact, whitewashed, village with a straight church tower and steep red-tiled roofs. A number of... ...tric generating wheels. It was dotted with bright-look- ing, steep-roofed, villages, and each showed a distinctive and interesting church beside its w... ...or half an hour, and the Prince preached on faith and God’s friendship for David, and after- wards they all sang: “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott.” In ... ...on, rot about Alexander, rot about ‘is blessed family and ‘im and Gord and David and all that. Any one who wasn’t a dressed-up silly fool of a Prince ...

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...ont, was equally impressed by the stirring up and exchange of ideas in the villages due to the movement of the war. Charles Lamb’s story of the discov... ...al Joffre sits in a pleasant little sitting-room in a very ordinary little villa conveniently close to Headquarters. He sits among fur- niture that ha... ...court. I went to see him from Udine. He occupied a moderate- sized country villa about half an hour by automobile from headquarters. I went over with ... ...ers. I went over with General Radcliffe; we drove through the gates of the villa past a single sentinel in an ordi- nary infantry uniform, up to the d... ...ficulty to 18 War and the Future be met? In Macedonia there were T urkish villages that were Christian and Bulgarians that were Moslem. There were fa... ...er my return from France a man who has stirred my curiosity for years, Mr. David Lubin, the prime mover in the organisation of the International Insti...

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...whale ship, and sailed away for the Pacific. Henry remained at home in the village. At eigh teen George was a sailor before the mast, and Henry was t... ... At twenty six George was a wanderer, a tramp, and Henry was pastor of the village church. Then George came home, and was Henry’s guest. One evening a... ...nce of a gull, as related by a natu ralist. The scene is a Scotch fishing village where the gulls were kindly treated. This particular gull visited a... ...s, and when it returned the house was vacant. Its friends had removed to a village three miles distant. Several months later it saw the head of the fa... ...nnot help himself, he has no authority over the mater. Wasn’t it right for David to go out and slay Goliath? Y.M. Yes. O.M. Then it would have been eq... ... when the plain facts show that he hasn’t? Why content that because he and David see the right alike, both must act alike? Why impose the same law... ...ellectual perceptions of right and wrong , and is not under their command. David’s temperament and training had Will, and it was a compulsory force; D... ...mands him to avoid danger, and he obeys, he has no choice. But neither the Davids nor the cowards pos sess Free Will—will that may do the right or do... ...es to feel contented with the way things go—his book is full of them. King David of Scotland . . . under color of religion caused his followers to dea...

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...s, both in life and in novels, which (and the latter especially) abound in villains of the most sombre sort, that we are to have for a constant com- p... ...he revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward and claimed a meeting; and you have the feelings of M... ...sea-shore, work himself up into such a rage and pas- sion with some of the villains whose wicked deeds he was describing and inventing, that the audie... ... motives that the present performer is desirous to show up and trounce his villains; but because he has a sincere hatred of them, which he cannot keep... ...arn my “kyind friends,” then, that I am going to tell a story of harrowing villainy and complicated—but, as I trust, intensely interesting—crime. My r... ...Rector and his lady walked on for a while. “Pitt can’t be such an infernal villain as to sell the reversion of the living. And that Methodist milksop ... ...husiasm, entreaty, reason, despair; shouting to his people; satirizing Mr. Davids for his sluggishness; inspiriting Mr. Moss into action; imploring, c... ...f the creditors themselves do the business. And Mr. Lewis representing Mr. Davids, of Red Lion Square, and Mr. Moss acting for Mr. Manasseh of Cursito...

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...also four shops in the High Street, and a moiety of the new row of genteel villas (so called in the advertisements), built out- side the town just bey... ...desk before her, took out her pen and paper, wrote on it slowly: ‘PAKENHAM VILLAS ‘Tuesday morning ‘My Dear Eleanor, ‘I—’ and then stopped, and looked... ... crown and sceptre, bushy beard, and lowering brow, with a poor deuce. ‘As David did Goliath, ’ says the archdeacon, pushing over the four cards to hi... ... it should be written. This is the same Dr Vesey Stanhope whose hospitable villa on the Lake of Como is so well known to the elite of English travelle...

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... and perambulators. At first it was bordered by fields on either side, but villas soon began to spring up, and presently the girls reached what looked... ...field, and talked about what associates had answered her letters, and what villages would send contingents of girls, and it sounded very dull to the y... ...ut then Aunt Lily would not allow her to walk down alone to the Case- ment Villas to see dear Constance, and would let that farmer keep all those drea... ....K. book so called, where, in the ‘Thirty Years’ War,’ all the people of a village took refuge from the soldiers in a field in the middle of a forest ... ...Yo n g e ney before in all their lives. The fog in the valleys, the sleepy villages, the half-roused stations, all gave rise to exclamations, and noth... ...o believe in Sam, a captain in the navy. Harry and John farming in Canada, David working as a clergy- man in the Black Country, George in. a governmen... ...ful. I did not think of publishing them for ever so long, but at last when David terribly wanted some money for his mission church, I thought I would ... ...ot stood still with Clare.’ ‘No, I hope I have grown rather more sensible. David set me to do stories for his lads, and, as he is dreadfully critical,... ...dy line. I never thought of the responsibility then, only when I wrote for David’s classes.’ ‘It is a responsibility , I suppose, in the way in which ...

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...radius, sir. The boy delivers telegrams directly to this door from Pardons village.” “One has to take a good deal on trust in this country,” he murmur... ...ding to business, wakes de- sire in a man; and the telegraph office at the village of Fri- ars Pardon, where they sold picture post-cards and pegtops,... ...d this has been rather a shock to you.” Sophie nodded, and fled toward the village. Her body failed her for a moment; she dropped beneath a hedge, and... ...eisurely lunch, where talk came and went in low-voiced eddies that had the village for their centre. Sophie heard the vicar and Sir Walter address her... ...27 Kipling ies with a two-paged discourse on patriotism, the leaflets of a Village Improvement Society, of which she was president, and a demand for a... ...nt or two off our starboard bow The Leek, the great cloud-breaker of Saint David’s Head, swings its unmistakable green beam twenty-five degrees each w... ...of rudder is unaffected by the new rules, so we may expect to see the Long-Davidson make 93 Kipling (the patent on which has just expired) come large... ...ivate treaty, racing B.B. Tarpon (76 winning flags) 120 knt., 60 ft.; Long-Davidson double under-rake rudder, new this season and unstrained. 850 nom....

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...e end o’ the world to the other, by God! And here ‘s a scoundrel stinks of villany, and I’ve proclaimed him ‘ware my gates as a common trespasser, and... ...h him in a heat of wrath till he cried out for fresh taxes to chastise the villains. Yet at the sight of the beg- gars at his gates he groaned at the ... ...ng lively again. We agreed that it would be a good thing if we entered the village and bought something. None of the shops were open. We walked throug... ...es, and sat on a branch talking of birds’ eggs till hunger drove us to the village street, where, near the public-house, we met the man-tramp, who whi... ...st of his gains from never asking questions. I was glad enough to quit the village in a hurry, for the driver of the geese, or a man dreadfully resemb... ... her he was prepared to marry her as soon as she played her harp like King David. The intense folly of his asking a girl to play like David made me de...

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...rming islets which float ashore on the beaches, where the inhabitants of a village on the left bank of the Strom- fiord gather them up, split, broken ... ...whether of the Pole or T ropics. At the foot of the hills of Jarvis lies a village of some two hundred wooden houses, where an isolated population liv... ...s nearly as much separated from Christiana by inaccessible precipices. The village of Jarvis might perhaps have communicated with the interior of Nor-... ...nds the church, built with a simplicity in keeping with the poverty of the villagers. A graveyard surrounds the chancel, and a little farther on you s... ...ghting the im- mensely tall wax-candles that are used in Norway. “Nothing, David, I am too weary.” Seraphitus unfastened his pelisse lined with sable,... ...ning sun.” And the old man wept. CHAPTER II SERAPHITA LATER IN THE EVENING David re-entered the salon. “I know who it is you have come to announce,” s... ...e subject drop. T ell me what you think of this bearskin rug which my poor David has spread out.” “It is very handsome.” “Did you ever see me wear thi... ...ed thing upon the mother’s breast, and it never cried. If you question old David he will confirm these facts about his mistress, for whom he feels an ... ...usehold there remained after the death of the master and mistress only old David, who, in spite of his eighty-two years, suffices to wait on his mistr...

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...sons of meanest position; subsequently he put him out to nurse with a poor villager, and then, at a later period, made him accustom himself to the mos... ... Fano, and Urbino. He arrived at the beginning of May 1581, at Bagno della Villa, where he established himself, order to try the waters. There, we fin... ...n end to them courageously and promptly.” He was still at the waters of La Villa, when, on the 7th September 1581, he learned by letter that he had be... ...d his supreme and sworn detes- tation of all vice, but principally of that villainous traffic which disguises itself under the honourable name of just... ...ng the Dauphin in his expedition beyond the Alps, and taking the Castle of Villano by assault, and all within it being put to the sword by the fury of... ...use of the holy and divine Psalms, with which the Holy Ghost inspired King David. We ought not to mix God in our actions, but with the highest reveren...

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...hich had obscured it all day, looked brightly down upon a little Wiltshire village, within an easy journey of the fair old town of Salisbury. Like a s... ...indows lights began to glance and wink upon the darkening fields. Then the village forge came out in all its bright importance. The lusty bellows roar... ...once, of a cer tain Dragon who swung and creaked complainingly be fore the village alehouse door. A faded, and an ancient dragon he was; and many a wi... ...he door. Now, there being no medical practitioner actually resident in the village, but a poor apothecary who was also a grocer and general dealer, th... ...Dickens the agricultural districts? How are our friends the P .’s? Ha, ha! David, pay particular attention to this gentleman immediately, as a friend ... ...sorely.’ ‘He wants money, sorely!’ cried Mr Tigg with excessive sympathy. ‘David, will you have the goodness to do your very utmost for my friend, who... .... You will deal with my friend as if he were myself. A gold hunting-watch, David, engine-turned, capped and jewelled in four holes, escape movement, h... ...mendation would have an immense effect upon the shopman; ‘what do you say, David, to my friend? Be very par- ticular to deserve my custom and recommen... ...o my friend? Be very par- ticular to deserve my custom and recommendation, David.’ ‘I can lend you three pounds on this, if you like’ said the shopman...

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...black shadow at midday. It was a mile and a half from the end house of the village, and its loneliness was very doubtfully relieved by an ambiguous fa... ..., and spoke in a confidential manner, and one sad eye regarded the distant village, and one was bright and wicked. “Got to be meathured every blethed ... ...his farm. It was three miles and a half alto- gether, through the park and villages and then along the green glades of the Hickleybrow preserves. The ... ... rumours of the great chicken Mr. Skinner was producing had been about the village for some weeks. “Lor!” she cried, “it’s what I expected.” She seems... ... at once. Almost simultaneously Mr. Skelmersdale himself appeared down the village, gripping a watering-pot by the spout, and very white in the face. ... ...ad been mellow from the first was now climacterically ripe. The beard of a David hid his redundancy of chin; he wore no watch chain out of refine- men... ...eered also. The Vicar passing on the other side swept off the hat from his David’s brow unheeded…. Redwood remained standing in the doorway for a long... ...sometimes the Vicar played master—a minute, middle-aged, rather breathless David pelting a childish Goliath with reproof and reproach and dictatorial ...

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...t Rockstone Rockstone and Rockquay had once been separate places— a little village perched on a cliff of a promontory, and a small fishing hamlet with... ...cial, although the one had its shops, the other its handsome crescents and villas. The station was at Rockquay, and there was an uphill drive to reach... ... people she had never heard of, and the letting or not letting of half the villas in Rockstone; 26 Charlotte M. Young and she found it so dull that s... ... ordained in the Advent Ember week, and at once begin work with his cousin David Merrifield in the Black Country. Their aunts would not go with them, ... ...ox she handed him a note, which he pulled open and then burst out, ‘Cousin David! Hurrah! Scrumptious!’ com- mencing a war-dance at the same moment. ‘... ...crumptious!’ com- mencing a war-dance at the same moment. ‘What is it? Has David asked you?’ demanded both his sisters at the same moment. ‘Hurrah! Ye... ... hurrah— “Harry, mm—mm—mm—brothers, 20th mm— mm. Your affectionate cousin, David Merrifield.”’ ‘Let me read it to you,’ volunteered Gillian. ‘Wouldn’t... ... might be doubtful. ‘He really does ask him,’ said Aunt Jane. ‘Your cousin David, I mean. He says that he and Harry can put up all the three boys betw... ...de, only pausing to review the notices of palatial, ru- ral, and desirable villas in the house-agent’s window, and to consider in what proportion thei...