I see her grown up--gent'lmen--like a flower.

I'd lay down my life for her--Mas'r Davy--Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me--gent'lmen--than--she's all to me that ever I can want, and more than ever I--than ever I could say.

I--I love her true.

There ain't a gent'lman in all the land--nor yet sailing upon all the sea--that can love his lady more than I love her, though there's many a common man--would say better--what he meant.' I thought it affecting to see such a sturdy fellow as Ham was now, trembling in the strength of what he felt for the pretty little creature who had won his heart.

I thought the simple confidence reposed in us by Mr.Peggotty and by himself, was, in itself, affecting.