[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookDavid Copperfield CHAPTER 14 12/28
I suppose it will go in, one of these days.
He hasn't been able to draw it up yet, without introducing that mode of expressing himself; but it don't signify; it keeps him employed.' In fact, I found out afterwards that Mr.Dick had been for upwards of ten years endeavouring to keep King Charles the First out of the Memorial; but he had been constantly getting into it, and was there now. 'I say again,' said my aunt, 'nobody knows what that man's mind is except myself; and he's the most amenable and friendly creature in existence.
If he likes to fly a kite sometimes, what of that! Franklin used to fly a kite.
He was a Quaker, or something of that sort, if I am not mistaken.
And a Quaker flying a kite is a much more ridiculous object than anybody else.' If I could have supposed that my aunt had recounted these particulars for my especial behoof, and as a piece of confidence in me, I should have felt very much distinguished, and should have augured favourably from such a mark of her good opinion.
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