[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookDavid Copperfield CHAPTER 2 8/28
And then she stopped in her work, and looked at me, with her needle drawn out to its thread's length. 'But WERE you ever married, Peggotty ?' says I.'You are a very handsome woman, an't you ?' I thought her in a different style from my mother, certainly; but of another school of beauty, I considered her a perfect example.
There was a red velvet footstool in the best parlour, on which my mother had painted a nosegay.
The ground-work of that stool, and Peggotty's complexion appeared to me to be one and the same thing.
The stool was smooth, and Peggotty was rough, but that made no difference. 'Me handsome, Davy!' said Peggotty.
'Lawk, no, my dear! But what put marriage in your head ?' 'I don't know!--You mustn't marry more than one person at a time, may you, Peggotty ?' 'Certainly not,' says Peggotty, with the promptest decision. 'But if you marry a person, and the person dies, why then you may marry another person, mayn't you, Peggotty ?' 'YOU MAY,' says Peggotty, 'if you choose, my dear.
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