[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookDavid Copperfield CHAPTER 21 10/39
Is that long enough ?' I answered, laughing, that I thought we might get through it in that time, but that he must come also; for he would find that his renown had preceded him, and that he was almost as great a personage as I was. 'I'll come anywhere you like,' said Steerforth, 'or do anything you like.
Tell me where to come to; and in two hours I'll produce myself in any state you please, sentimental or comical.' I gave him minute directions for finding the residence of Mr.Barkis, carrier to Blunderstone and elsewhere; and, on this understanding, went out alone.
There was a sharp bracing air; the ground was dry; the sea was crisp and clear; the sun was diffusing abundance of light, if not much warmth; and everything was fresh and lively.
I was so fresh and lively myself, in the pleasure of being there, that I could have stopped the people in the streets and shaken hands with them. The streets looked small, of course.
The streets that we have only seen as children always do, I believe, when we go back to them.
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