We have been taking counsel together, and getting on very well, all things considered. ‘I have been telling your daughter how well I have been disposing of my money for myself, because I couldn’t trust it to you, as you were growing rusty in business matters. ‘Well, Wickfield!’ said my aunt and he looked up at her for the first time. Her face might have been a dead-wall on the occasion in question, for any light it threw upon her thoughts until she broke silence with her usual abruptness. I believe there never was anybody with such an imperturbable countenance when she chose. What my aunt saw, or did not see, I defy the science of physiognomy to have made out, without her own consent. Agnes saw it too, I think, for she shrank from him. In the moment’s pause I speak of, I saw Uriah’s countenance form itself into a most ill-favoured smile. This was only for a moment for Agnes softly said to him, ‘Papa! Here is Miss Trotwood-and Trotwood, whom you have not seen for a long while!’ and then he approached, and constrainedly gave my aunt his hand, and shook hands more cordially with me. When he came in, he stood still and with his head bowed, as if he felt it. He appeared to be only too conscious of it himself. If I had seen an Ape taking command of a Man, I should hardly have thought it a more degrading spectacle. Wickfield’s of dependence, was a sight more painful to me than I can express. The reversal of the two natures, in their relative positions, Uriah’s of power and Mr. It was not that he had lost his good looks, or his old bearing of a gentleman-for that he had not-but the thing that struck me most, was, that with the evidences of his native superiority still upon him, he should submit himself to that crawling impersonation of meanness, Uriah Heep. It was not that he looked many years older, though still dressed with the old scrupulous cleanliness or that there was an unwholesome ruddiness upon his face or that his eyes were full and bloodshot or that there was a nervous trembling in his hand, the cause of which I knew, and had for some years seen at work. I was prepared for a great change in him, after what I had heard from Agnes, but his appearance shocked me. I opened the door, and admitted, not only Mr. Taken from the following passage in Chapter 35 ( Depression) of David Copperfield: About The Circumlocution Office Website.The rise and fall of The Eagle and Grecian, City Road. All the fun of Charles Dickens’s Greenwich Fair.The Song of the Shirt: Mrs Biddell and an early victory in the Victorian court of public opinion.View over 250 locations associated with Charles Dickens in our trail.View quotations by character (sorted by work).View all our archive of over 600 Charles Dickens quotations.The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain.Charles Dickens speech to Metropolitan Sanitary Association.Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens (1852–1902).Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens (1847–1872).Alfred DOrsay Tennyson Dickens (1845–1912).Walter Savage Landor Dickens (1841–1863).Catherine Elizabeth Macready Dickens (1839–1929).Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (1837–1896).
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