[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookDavid Copperfield CHAPTER 21 7/39
We went down by the Mail.
I was so concerned, I recollect, even for the honour of Yarmouth, that when Steerforth said, as we drove through its dark streets to the inn, that, as well as he could make out, it was a good, queer, out-of-the-way kind of hole, I was highly pleased.
We went to bed on our arrival (I observed a pair of dirty shoes and gaiters in connexion with my old friend the Dolphin as we passed that door), and breakfasted late in the morning. Steerforth, who was in great spirits, had been strolling about the beach before I was up, and had made acquaintance, he said, with half the boatmen in the place.
Moreover, he had seen, in the distance, what he was sure must be the identical house of Mr.Peggotty, with smoke coming out of the chimney; and had had a great mind, he told me, to walk in and swear he was myself grown out of knowledge. 'When do you propose to introduce me there, Daisy ?' he said.
'I am at your disposal.
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