But, as I knew I could not come next day, when I should have a good deal to prepare in the evening, Mr.Micawber arranged that he would call at Doctor Strong's in the course of the morning (having a presentiment that the remittance would arrive by that post), and propose the day after, if it would suit me better.

Accordingly I was called out of school next forenoon, and found Mr.Micawber in the parlour; who had called to say that the dinner would take place as proposed.

When I asked him if the remittance had come, he pressed my hand and departed.
As I was looking out of window that same evening, it surprised me, and made me rather uneasy, to see Mr.Micawber and Uriah Heep walk past, arm in arm: Uriah humbly sensible of the honour that was done him, and Mr.
Micawber taking a bland delight in extending his patronage to Uriah.

But I was still more surprised, when I went to the little hotel next day at the appointed dinner-hour, which was four o'clock, to find, from what Mr.Micawber said, that he had gone home with Uriah, and had drunk brandy-and-water at Mrs.Heep's.
'And I'll tell you what, my dear Copperfield,' said Mr.Micawber, 'your friend Heep is a young fellow who might be attorney-general.

If I had known that young man, at the period when my difficulties came to a crisis, all I can say is, that I believe my creditors would have been a great deal better managed than they were.' I hardly understood how this could have been, seeing that Mr.Micawber had paid them nothing at all as it was; but I did not like to ask.