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David Copperfield

CHAPTER 24
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I considered it frosty.
Steerforth dusted me under a lamp-post, and put my hat into shape, which somebody produced from somewhere in a most extraordinary manner, for I hadn't had it on before.

Steerforth then said, 'You are all right, Copperfield, are you not ?' and I told him, 'Neverberrer.' A man, sitting in a pigeon-hole-place, looked out of the fog, and took money from somebody, inquiring if I was one of the gentlemen paid for, and appearing rather doubtful (as I remember in the glimpse I had of him) whether to take the money for me or not.

Shortly afterwards, we were very high up in a very hot theatre, looking down into a large pit, that seemed to me to smoke; the people with whom it was crammed were so indistinct.

There was a great stage, too, looking very clean and smooth after the streets; and there were people upon it, talking about something or other, but not at all intelligibly.

There was an abundance of bright lights, and there was music, and there were ladies down in the boxes, and I don't know what more.


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