David Copperfield - Chapter 17
Somebody Turns Up
During written correspondence with Peggoty David finds out that the Murdstones have left The Rookery abandoned and marks the final loss of his old childhood home. It gives him some cause for reflection.
He also comes to spend a lot of time with Mr Dick who quickly becomes a firm favourite at his school. He confides in David one day that there is a strange man lurking in the shadows around the home he shares with David's aunt. David puts this down to his 'condition'. One day when he is walking with Mr Dick back to his coach he espies Uriah who invites him to take tea with him and his mother. This he does albeit reluctantly, whilst there a stranger pays them a visit.
During written correspondence with Peggoty David finds out that the Murdstones have left The Rookery abandoned and marks the final loss of his old childhood home. It gives him some cause for reflection.
He also comes to spend a lot of time with Mr Dick who quickly becomes a firm favourite at his school. He confides in David one day that there is a strange man lurking in the shadows around the home he shares with David's aunt. David puts this down to his 'condition'. One day when he is walking with Mr Dick back to his coach he espies Uriah who invites him to take tea with him and his mother. This he does albeit reluctantly, whilst there a stranger pays them a visit.
- classic
- dickens
During a particularly awkward tea with Uriah and his mother, Mrs Heep, David is grateful for the intervention of a passing stranger.
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