I was affected by the story altogether.

How far my emotions were influenced by the recollections of my childhood, I don't know.

Whether I had come there with any lingering fancy that I was still to love little Em'ly, I don't know.

I know that I was filled with pleasure by all this; but, at first, with an indescribably sensitive pleasure, that a very little would have changed to pain.
Therefore, if it had depended upon me to touch the prevailing chord among them with any skill, I should have made a poor hand of it.

But it depended upon Steerforth; and he did it with such address, that in a few minutes we were all as easy and as happy as it was possible to be.
'Mr.Peggotty,' he said, 'you are a thoroughly good fellow, and deserve to be as happy as you are tonight.