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1,589 | 27780_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim finds the stockade with all its provisions under the control of Silver and his men. Jim assumes that Captain Smollet and his men are dead and wishes he could have joined them. There were six buccaneers in the camp and one of them is severely injured. As the torch lights up the interior of the stockade, Silver recog... | [
"IN THE ENEMY'S CAMP",
"The red glare of the torch lighting up the interior of the blockhouse\nshowed me the worst of my apprehensions realized. The pirates were in\npossession of the house and stores; there was the cask of cognac, there\nwere the pork and bread, as before; and, what tenfold increased my\nhorror,... |
1,590 | 27780_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One of the buccaneers shows up later to borrow the light. Silver, by this time, has started talking to Jim in a friendly tone. Jim sees the group of buccaneers proceeding towards the stockade. Unlike Jim, Silver is hardly concerned. When the door opens, one of the men is pushed ahead to hand over a piece of paper to Si... | [
"THE BLACK SPOT AGAIN",
"The council of the buccaneers had lasted some time, when one of them\nre-entered the house, and with a repetition of the same salute, which\nhad in my eyes an ironical air, begged for a moment's loan of the torch.\nSilver briefly agreed, and this emissary retired again, leaving us\ntogeth... |
1,591 | 27780_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The wake up call comes from the sentinel who shouts on seeing Dr. Livesey. Though Jim is happy to hear this, he cant face him as he feels ashamed of his conduct. Silver welcomes the Doctor and tells him that he has a surprise for him. Dr. Livesey asks Silver if it was Jim. He proceeds to treat his patients without payi... | [
"ON PAROLE",
"I was wakened--indeed, we were all wakened, for I could see even the\nsentinel shake himself together from where he had fallen against the\ndoorpost--by a clear, hearty voice hailing us from the margin of the\nwood:",
"\"Blockhouse, ahoy!\" it cried. \"Here's the doctor.\"",
"And the doctor it w... |
1,592 | 27780_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Silver overhears Jims conversation with the Doctor. He praises Jim for keeping his word, despite the Doctors persistence. He tells Jim that theyll stick together at all odds. The buccaneers stuff themselves with a roasted ox. Silver also joins the gang and Jim sees that he, like any other pirate was gorging on the meal... | [
"THE TREASURE-HUNT--FLINT'S POINTER",
"\"Jim,\" said Silver, when we were alone, \"if I saved your life, you saved\nmine, and I'll not forget it. I seen the doctor waving you to run for\nit--with the tail of my eye, I did--and I seen you say no, as plain as\nhearing. Jim, that's one to you. This is the first glin... |
1,593 | 27780_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The men are exhausted by the time they reach the plateau. So they rest for a while. Talking in soft tones they discuss Flint and his men. Suddenly from the middle of the trees, the famous song of Billy Bones are heard. "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" Jim says, he had never seen the ... | [
"THE TREASURE-HUNT--THE VOICE AMONG THE TREES",
"Partly from the damping influence of this alarm, partly to rest Silver\nand the sick folk, the whole party sat down as soon as they had gained\nthe brow of the ascent.",
"The plateau being somewhat tilted toward the west, this spot on which we\nhad paused command... |
1,594 | 27780_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The world had come to an end for the pirates. The treasure for which they had sailed all the way has gone. Silver is quick to recall to this. He passes a double barrel pistol to Jim. He asks Jim to get into cover and cautions Jim. Jim hears the buccaneers saying that Silver had changed sides again. The pirates dig the ... | [
"THE FALL OF A CHIEFTAIN",
"There never was such an overturn in this world. Each of these six men\nwas as though he had been struck. But with Silver the blow passed almost\ninstantly. Every thought of his soul had been set full-stretch, like a\nracer, on that money; well, he was brought up in a single second, dea... |
1,595 | 27780_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | They start their work early next morning, for it is quite an effort to carry masses of gold bars first to the boat and then to the ship. Work is allocated for all. Gray and Ben go with the boat. Jim is busy packing the coins. Jim find them similar to the ones found in Billy Bones bag. They belong to all countries. This... | [
"AND LAST",
"The next morning we fell early to work, for the transportation of this\ngreat mass of gold near a mile by land to the beach, and thence three\nmiles by boat to the _Hispaniola_, was a considerable task for so small\na number of workmen. The three fellows still abroad upon the island did\nnot greatly ... |
1,600 | 766_chapters_1-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel is narrated in the voice of David Copperfield, Jr., who begins by describing the circumstances of his birth. He was born in Blunderstone Rookery, the name of his house, in Suffolk on a Friday, and he let out his first cry just as the clock struck midnight. A nurse present at his birth claimed that, because of... | [
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that\nstation will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my\nlife with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have\nbeen informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night.\nIt was remarked that the c... |
1,601 | 766_chapters_6-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After about a month of living alone at the boarding school, the man with the wooden stump begins cleaning the rooms of the buildings, signaling the return of the boys and teachers. Mr. Mell informs David that he is to meet Mr. Creakle, the school's headmaster, who seems intimidating. Mr. Creakle emphasizes that he is a... | [
"I HAD led this life about a month, when the man with the wooden leg\nbegan to stump about with a mop and a bucket of water, from which I\ninferred that preparations were making to receive Mr. Creakle and the\nboys. I was not mistaken; for the mop came into the schoolroom before\nlong, and turned out Mr. Mell and m... |
1,602 | 766_chapters_11-15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David begins working at Murdstone's and Grinby's warehouse washing and examining wine bottles. Three companions are working with him, two of whom go by the names of Mick Walker and Mealy Potatoes. David is very upset because they are not well-educated, and thus he has no hope of learning or becoming cultured through th... | [
"I know enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacity of\nbeing much surprised by anything; but it is matter of some surprise to\nme, even now, that I can have been so easily thrown away at such an age.\nA child of excellent abilities, and with strong powers of observation,\nquick, eager, delicate, and ... |
1,603 | 766_chapters_16-20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David and Mr. Wickfield go the next day to meet Dr. Strong, who is the master of David's new school. They also meet his wife, Annie, who is much younger than her husband. During the visit, Mr. Wickfield and Dr. Strong discuss a cousin of Annie's, Jack Maldon, and his new job. Dr. Strong wants him to get a job that send... | [
"Next morning, after breakfast, I entered on school life again. I went,\naccompanied by Mr. Wickfield, to the scene of my future studies--a grave\nbuilding in a courtyard, with a learned air about it that seemed very\nwell suited to the stray rooks and jackdaws who came down from the\nCathedral towers to walk with ... |
1,604 | 766_chapters_21-25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David stays with Steerforth for another week and meets Littimer, Steerforth's servant, who carries himself with such an air of respectability and haughtiness that it takes David by surprise. Once David's visit comes to an end, he convinces Steerforth to go with him to Yarmouth to visit Peggotty. Thus, they leave Littim... | [
"There was a servant in that house, a man who, I understood, was usually\nwith Steerforth, and had come into his service at the University, who\nwas in appearance a pattern of respectability. I believe there never\nexisted in his station a more respectable-looking man. He was taciturn,\nsoft-footed, very quiet in h... |
1,605 | 766_chapters_26-30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David's supervisor, Mr. Spenlow, invites David to his home for the weekend. David meets Mr. Spenlow's daughter there and instantly falls in love with Dora. He finds her almost ethereal in nature and has fallen for her even before he has spoken to her. David also is surprised to see Miss Murdstone, whom Mr. Spenlow hire... | [
"I saw no more of Uriah Heep, until the day when Agnes left town. I was\nat the coach office to take leave of her and see her go; and there was\nhe, returning to Canterbury by the same conveyance. It was some small\nsatisfaction to me to observe his spare, short-waisted, high-shouldered,\nmulberry-coloured great-co... |
1,606 | 766_chapters_31-35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David stays to help Peggotty settle the affairs of her husband, and he finds that the man's hoarding paid off for his wife. She has a large inheritance. Ham arrives alone, although he was expected to arrive with Little Em'ly. Ham tells everyone that Little Em'ly has run away, leaving a letter begging everyone to forget... | [
"It was not difficult for me, on Peggotty's solicitation, to resolve to\nstay where I was, until after the remains of the poor carrier should\nhave made their last journey to Blunderstone. She had long ago bought,\nout of her own savings, a little piece of ground in our old churchyard\nnear the grave of 'her sweet ... |
1,607 | 766_chapters_36-45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David goes the next day to see Dr. Strong about the position. Along the way, he decides that he will use this time to prove to Dora that he is willing to work hard and take care of her. He dreams of having earned a beautiful house for Dora and Jip to play in. Dr. Strong happily receives David and is excited to have hel... | [
"I began the next day with another dive into the Roman bath, and then\nstarted for Highgate. I was not dispirited now. I was not afraid of the\nshabby coat, and had no yearnings after gallant greys. My whole manner\nof thinking of our late misfortune was changed. What I had to do, was,\nto show my aunt that her pas... |
1,608 | 766_chapters_46-50 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As David is walking past the Steerforth residence one afternoon, he is summoned to speak with Miss Dartle. She is extremely cruel to him and constantly wishes death upon Little Em'ly. It turns out that she has information about Emily, which is related to David through Littimer. Littimer describes how she was admired in... | [
"I must have been married, if I may trust to my imperfect memory for\ndates, about a year or so, when one evening, as I was returning from a\nsolitary walk, thinking of the book I was then writing--for my success\nhad steadily increased with my steady application, and I was engaged at\nthat time upon my first work ... |
1,609 | 766_chapters_51-55 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Peggotty visits David and Miss Betsey to tell them Little Em'ly's story. Apparently she escaped from Littimer in a delirium but was rescued and nursed back to health by a woman whose husband was a sailor. Mr. Peggotty gets very overcome when talking about this woman, feeling so grateful to her for helping Emily. Li... | [
"It was yet early in the morning of the following day, when, as I was\nwalking in my garden with my aunt (who took little other exercise\nnow, being so much in attendance on my dear Dora), I was told that Mr.\nPeggotty desired to speak with me. He came into the garden to meet me\nhalf-way, on my going towards the g... |
1,610 | 766_chapters_56-64 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David goes to Steerforth's house to let Mrs. Steerforth know of her son's fate. The poor woman is now handicapped and spends her days lying in her son's old room. She never recovers from the shock of David's news. Miss Dartle lashes out at her just as she did with Little Em'ly. She claims that Mrs. Steerforth raised he... | [
"No need, O Steerforth, to have said, when we last spoke together, in\nthat hour which I so little deemed to be our parting-hour--no need to\nhave said, 'Think of me at my best!' I had done that ever; and could I\nchange now, looking on this sight!",
"They brought a hand-bier, and laid him on it, and covered him ... |
1,611 | 766_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David Copperfield is born on a Friday at 12:00 AM. The time of his birth makes several local women predict that he'll be unlucky, and he'll be able to see ghosts. David hasn't been able to see ghosts so far, but as to the first part of the prediction , the rest of the novel will prove whether or not they were correct. ... | [
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that\nstation will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my\nlife with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have\nbeen informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night.\nIt was remarked that the c... |
1,612 | 766_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The first things David can remember from early childhood are his pretty mother, and Peggotty, his mother's not-so-pretty housekeeper. He also remembers his house, which had a pigeon-house with no pigeons and a dog kennel with no dogs. David recalls a series of early sense impressions: of a graveyard covered with mossy ... | [
"The first objects that assume a distinct presence before me, as I look\nfar back, into the blank of my infancy, are my mother with her pretty\nhair and youthful shape, and Peggotty with no shape at all, and eyes so\ndark that they seemed to darken their whole neighbourhood in her face,\nand cheeks and arms so hard... |
1,613 | 766_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David and Peggotty finally arrive at Yarmouth, after a long, slow journey by cart . Peggotty loves Yarmouth; she finds it "the finest place in the universe" . It's now been several years since David's birth, and Ham Peggotty has grown to be a huge six foot tall grown up. Ham carries David on his back up to the Peggotty... | [
"The carrier's horse was the laziest horse in the world, I should hope,\nand shuffled along, with his head down, as if he liked to keep people\nwaiting to whom the packages were directed. I fancied, indeed, that he\nsometimes chuckled audibly over this reflection, but the carrier said\nhe was only troubled with a c... |
1,614 | 766_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David goes up to bed and feels so miserable that he can't stop crying. Mrs. Copperfield and Peggotty go up to look for David, and find him in bed under the covers. David's mother asks him what's wrong, and he says, "Nothing" . Mrs. Copperfield yells at Peggotty; she feels that Peggotty has turned David against her. Mrs... | [
"If the room to which my bed was removed were a sentient thing that could\ngive evidence, I might appeal to it at this day--who sleeps there now,\nI wonder!--to bear witness for me what a heavy heart I carried to it.\nI went up there, hearing the dog in the yard bark after me all the way\nwhile I climbed the stairs... |
1,615 | 766_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David's crying in the cart as they drive away when, suddenly, Peggotty jumps through the hedge next to the road and climbs onto the cart. She hugs David tightly, presses a purse into his hand, and then runs away. The carrier, Mr. Barkis, starts his driving again. The purse holds a bit of money and note: "For Davy. With... | [
"We might have gone about half a mile, and my pocket-handkerchief was\nquite wet through, when the carrier stopped short. Looking out to\nascertain for what, I saw, to My amazement, Peggotty burst from a hedge\nand climb into the cart. She took me in both her arms, and squeezed me\nto her stays until the pressure o... |
1,616 | 766_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After about a month of this, Mr. Creakle and the students of Salem House start to return from the summer holidays. Before bedtime one night, Tungay fetches David and takes him to Mr. Creakle's part of the building. Mr. Creakle is waiting with Mrs. Creakle, his wife, and Miss Creakle, his daughter. Mr. Creakle's face is... | [
"I HAD led this life about a month, when the man with the wooden leg\nbegan to stump about with a mop and a bucket of water, from which I\ninferred that preparations were making to receive Mr. Creakle and the\nboys. I was not mistaken; for the mop came into the schoolroom before\nlong, and turned out Mr. Mell and m... |
1,617 | 766_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day after this evening gossip-fest, school starts. Mr. Creakle announces to the boys that they should "come fresh up to the lessons" - that they should be fresh and ready for the semester - because he's going to be fresh and ready for punishment. After this little speech, Mr. Creakle comes to see David persona... | [
"School began in earnest next day. A profound impression was made\nupon me, I remember, by the roar of voices in the schoolroom suddenly\nbecoming hushed as death when Mr. Creakle entered after breakfast, and\nstood in the doorway looking round upon us like a giant in a story-book\nsurveying his captives.",
"Tung... |
1,618 | 766_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David makes his way to an inn in London, where he catches the mail coach heading for Suffolk. Eventually, he finds himself back on Mr. Barkis's coach. David assures Mr. Barkis that he has passed on the message - "Barkis is willing" - to Peggotty. Mr. Barkis replies that, anyway, nothing came of it. Peggotty never answe... | [
"When we arrived before day at the inn where the mail stopped, which was\nnot the inn where my friend the waiter lived, I was shown up to a nice\nlittle bedroom, with DOLPHIN painted on the door. Very cold I was, I\nknow, notwithstanding the hot tea they had given me before a large fire\ndownstairs; and very glad I... |
1,619 | 766_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two months pass between the end of winter holidays and David's birthday in March. He remembers this birthday particularly because of what happened on it. Mr. Sharp, the teacher at Salem House, comes in to the classroom and tells David to go to the parlor. David thinks he's going to get another care package from Peggott... | [
"I PASS over all that happened at school, until the anniversary of my\nbirthday came round in March. Except that Steerforth was more to be\nadmired than ever, I remember nothing. He was going away at the end of\nthe half-year, if not sooner, and was more spirited and independent than\nbefore in my eyes, and therefo... |
1,620 | 766_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The first thing Miss Murdstone does after the funeral is to fire Peggotty. Peggotty has a month to find another place to live. Peggotty explains to David why she's leaving. Miss Murdstone tells David that he's not going back to boarding school. But David's not sure what he is supposed to be doing: mostly, the Murdstone... | [
"The first act of business Miss Murdstone performed when the day of the\nsolemnity was over, and light was freely admitted into the house, was\nto give Peggotty a month's warning. Much as Peggotty would have disliked\nsuch a service, I believe she would have retained it, for my sake, in\npreference to the best upon... |
1,621 | 766_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As an adult, David isn't surprised by much, but he's still surprised to remember how young he was when he was thrown away. So, at 10 years old , David becomes a worker at Murdstone and Grinby's wine warehouse. David's job is to look at empty bottles, make sure they're not too flawed for use for bottling wine, rinse the... | [
"I know enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacity of\nbeing much surprised by anything; but it is matter of some surprise to\nme, even now, that I can have been so easily thrown away at such an age.\nA child of excellent abilities, and with strong powers of observation,\nquick, eager, delicate, and ... |
1,622 | 766_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Micawber manages to make deals with his creditors, and he is released from debtors prison. Mr. Micawber has to spend a little more time at the prison because there are fees to be settled, but he's going to go free soon. Back at the prison, Mr. Micawber celebrates with his club while David and Mrs. Micawber toast Mr... | [
"In due time, Mr. Micawber's petition was ripe for hearing; and that\ngentleman was ordered to be discharged under the Act, to my great joy.\nHis creditors were not implacable; and Mrs. Micawber informed me that\neven the revengeful boot-maker had declared in open court that he bore\nhim no malice, but that when mo... |
1,623 | 766_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David sits down for a time on a stoop to collect his thoughts. Luckily, it's a warm summer night. Unluckily, he has very little money and no real plan beyond walking all the way to Dover . He happens to walk past a shop that advertises buying used clothes, with the best price given for rags. David rolls up his waistcoa... | [
"For anything I know, I may have had some wild idea of running all the\nway to Dover, when I gave up the pursuit of the young man with the\ndonkey-cart, and started for Greenwich. My scattered senses were soon\ncollected as to that point, if I had; for I came to a stop in the Kent\nRoad, at a terrace with a piece o... |
1,624 | 766_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David comes downstairs the next morning to find his aunt deep, both in thought and in breakfast. David's really nervous because he still doesn't know what her long-term plans are for him. Miss Betsey informs David that she has written to Mr. Murdstone, and that they'll see what would happen next. David becomes deeply s... | [
"On going down in the morning, I found my aunt musing so profoundly over\nthe breakfast table, with her elbow on the tray, that the contents of\nthe urn had overflowed the teapot and were laying the whole table-cloth\nunder water, when my entrance put her meditations to flight. I felt sure\nthat I had been the subj... |
1,625 | 766_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David becomes good friends with Mr. Dick, and they frequently go kite-flying together. He also grows increasingly close to his aunt, who starts to call him by the nickname Trot . One day, she asks if David would like to go to school at Canterbury, which is near her home. David agrees, and Miss Betsey orders Janet to pa... | [
"Mr. Dick and I soon became the best of friends, and very often, when his day's work was done, went out together to fly the great kite. Every day of his life he had a long sitting at the Memorial, which never made the least progress, however hard he laboured, for King Charles the First always strayed into it, soone... |
1,626 | 766_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, David goes to his new school, accompanied by Mr. Wickfield. His new principal is named Doctor Strong. He seems somewhat distracted and out of it, but he also welcomes David. Doctor Strong gives David his hand, and David is embarrassed because Doctor Strong doesn't shake - David isn't sure what he shou... | [
"Next morning, after breakfast, I entered on school life again. I went,\naccompanied by Mr. Wickfield, to the scene of my future studies--a grave\nbuilding in a courtyard, with a learned air about it that seemed very\nwell suited to the stray rooks and jackdaws who came down from the\nCathedral towers to walk with ... |
1,627 | 766_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David writes to Peggotty several times to let her know that he has been taken in by his aunt and that he has started school with Doctor Strong. Peggotty writes back to David, and her letter is splotched with tears on David's behalf. Peggotty is still a little unsure about David's aunt. She hints to David that if he nee... | [
"It has not occurred to me to mention Peggotty since I ran away; but, of\ncourse, I wrote her a letter almost as soon as I was housed at Dover,\nand another, and a longer letter, containing all particulars fully\nrelated, when my aunt took me formally under her protection. On my being\nsettled at Doctor Strong's I ... |
1,628 | 766_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David looks back on his school days. David is not the least successful boy in school, but he's still a long way off from being the first one . Adams is not as superior as Steerforth, but David still wonders what he'll be when he leaves the school - he's sure that Adam will be amazing. David has a crush on Miss Shepherd... | [
"My school-days! The silent gliding on of my existence--the unseen,\nunfelt progress of my life--from childhood up to youth! Let me think,\nas I look back upon that flowing water, now a dry channel overgrown with\nleaves, whether there are any marks along its course, by which I can\nremember how it ran.",
"A mome... |
1,629 | 766_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David is very attached to Doctor Strong and happy at school, but he is ready to move on to the next phase of his life. David and Miss Betsey spend lots of time talking about what David should do with his life. Mr. Dick makes only one suggestion, that David should be a brazier . Miss Betsey looks so annoyed at this that... | [
"I am doubtful whether I was at heart glad or sorry, when my school-days\ndrew to an end, and the time came for my leaving Doctor Strong's. I had\nbeen very happy there, I had a great attachment for the Doctor, and I\nwas eminent and distinguished in that little world. For these reasons\nI was sorry to go; but for ... |
1,630 | 766_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, a chamber-maid knocks on David's door to tell him there's water for shaving outside his door. David blushes: he doesn't need to shave yet, and he's sure the chamber-maid knows it and is laughing at him. Steerforth is waiting for David in a private dining room. David feels rather shy in front of Steerf... | [
"When the chambermaid tapped at my door at eight o'clock, and informed\nme that my shaving-water was outside, I felt severely the having no\noccasion for it, and blushed in my bed. The suspicion that she laughed\ntoo, when she said it, preyed upon my mind all the time I was dressing;\nand gave me, I was conscious, ... |
1,631 | 766_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Steerforth keeps a servant named Littimer, who is the most respectable and imposing-looking man imaginable. This man brings David the shaving water he continues not to need and helps him dress. Littimer informs David that breakfast is at 9:30. Every morning, David and Littimer have this exact same conversation, and it ... | [
"There was a servant in that house, a man who, I understood, was usually\nwith Steerforth, and had come into his service at the University, who\nwas in appearance a pattern of respectability. I believe there never\nexisted in his station a more respectable-looking man. He was taciturn,\nsoft-footed, very quiet in h... |
1,632 | 766_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Steerforth and David spend about two weeks in Yarmouth. They mostly stay together, but David hates sailing and Steerforth loves it. So, Steerforth frequently goes out at night with the fisherman while David stays over with Peggotty and Mr. Barkis. David also goes on long walks by himself to see the old places of his ch... | [
"Steerforth and I stayed for more than a fortnight in that part of the\ncountry. We were very much together, I need not say; but occasionally we\nwere asunder for some hours at a time. He was a good sailor, and I was\nbut an indifferent one; and when he went out boating with Mr. Peggotty,\nwhich was a favourite amu... |
1,633 | 766_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Having seen Emily's raw emotion after meeting with Martha Endell, David feels that he has witnessed something extremely private. He doesn't even want to talk about her with Steerforth. David gets a letter from Miss Betsey asking what he wants to do next. After parting from all the Yarmouth Peggottys and Mr. Omer and hi... | [
"When I awoke in the morning I thought very much of little Em'ly, and her\nemotion last night, after Martha had left. I felt as if I had come into\nthe knowledge of those domestic weaknesses and tendernesses in a sacred\nconfidence, and that to disclose them, even to Steerforth, would be\nwrong. I had no gentler fe... |
1,634 | 766_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that David's off living like a real adult on his own, he's feeling very grand. At the same time, it's kind of lonely - he doesn't have a particularly tight relationship with Mrs. Crupp, and he misses Agnes. David goes over to Highgate, to Mrs. Steerforth's house, to see if Steerforth is around. But he's not - he's ... | [
"It was a wonderfully fine thing to have that lofty castle to myself, and\nto feel, when I shut my outer door, like Robinson Crusoe, when he had\ngot into his fortification, and pulled his ladder up after him. It was a\nwonderfully fine thing to walk about town with the key of my house in my\npocket, and to know th... |
1,635 | 766_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David's mostly recovered from his hangover the next day when a letter arrives from Agnes. Agnes makes no reference to the theater incident, but she does tell David that she is in town staying with her friends the Waterbrooks, and she would like it if David came by. David feels so awkward and nervous that he writes and ... | [
"I was going out at my door on the morning after that deplorable day of\nheadache, sickness, and repentance, with an odd confusion in my mind\nrelative to the date of my dinner-party, as if a body of Titans had\ntaken an enormous lever and pushed the day before yesterday some months\nback, when I saw a ticket-porte... |
1,636 | 766_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David doesn't see Uriah again until the day that Agnes leaves London. He tries to be kind to Uriah, since Agnes is watching, but he's concerned that Agnes is going to do exactly what Uriah expects: marry him to save her father from ruin. David is sure that Agnes is unaware of Uriah's schemes. He is also sure that, if h... | [
"I saw no more of Uriah Heep, until the day when Agnes left town. I was\nat the coach office to take leave of her and see her go; and there was\nhe, returning to Canterbury by the same conveyance. It was some small\nsatisfaction to me to observe his spare, short-waisted, high-shouldered,\nmulberry-coloured great-co... |
1,637 | 766_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David decides to catch up with his old school friend, Traddles. He finds Traddles's lodging house in a shabby little side street. The house actually reminds him a lot of the days he spent boarding with the Micawbers. Indeed, just as David arrives, he sees a milkman asking the servant girl at the house if anyone is goin... | [
"It may have been in consequence of Mrs. Crupp's advice, and, perhaps,\nfor no better reason than because there was a certain similarity in the\nsound of the word skittles and Traddles, that it came into my head, next\nday, to go and look after Traddles. The time he had mentioned was more\nthan out, and he lived in... |
1,638 | 766_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David spends most of his time before his dinner party not eating and generally making himself sick with love for Dora. Mrs. Crupp cooks up the food for David's dinner party, but only on condition that he'll eat out every night for the next two weeks. David feels terribly bullied by Mrs. Crupp. Mr. and Mrs. Micawber and... | [
"Until the day arrived on which I was to entertain my newly-found\nold friends, I lived principally on Dora and coffee. In my love-lorn\ncondition, my appetite languished; and I was glad of it, for I felt\nas though it would have been an act of perfidy towards Dora to have a\nnatural relish for my dinner. The quant... |
1,639 | 766_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David asks Mr. Spenlow for some time off, which he gives - why not, since David's not getting a salary? Mrs. Steerforth and Miss Dartle both welcome David to their home in Highgate. David notices that Miss Dartle seems to be watching him and Steerforth very closely, as though comparing their faces. Every time David sta... | [
"I mentioned to Mr. Spenlow in the morning, that I wanted leave of\nabsence for a short time; and as I was not in the receipt of any salary,\nand consequently was not obnoxious to the implacable Jorkins, there was\nno difficulty about it. I took that opportunity, with my voice sticking\nin my throat, and my sight f... |
1,640 | 766_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David arrives at Yarmouth and goes to an inn, not wanting to disturb Peggotty at this difficult time. David goes out, but it's late evening, and almost everything is shut. He does find Mr. Omer in his shop. David asks Mr. Omer if he knows how Mr. Barkis is. Mr. Omer replies that he doesn't know because he can't ask: it... | [
"I got down to Yarmouth in the evening, and went to the inn. I knew that\nPeggotty's spare room--my room--was likely to have occupation enough\nin a little while, if that great Visitor, before whose presence all\nthe living must give place, were not already in the house; so I betook\nmyself to the inn, and dined th... |
1,641 | 766_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David decides to stay in Peggotty's house until Mr. Omer comes to pick up Mr. Barkis's body. Peggotty asks David to take care of Mr. Barkis's will. They open the chest Mr. Barkis kept hidden under his bed. In it, they find a huge amount of money: 3,000 pounds, which is about U.S.$336,000 in today's money . Mr. Barkis l... | [
"It was not difficult for me, on Peggotty's solicitation, to resolve to\nstay where I was, until after the remains of the poor carrier should\nhave made their last journey to Blunderstone. She had long ago bought,\nout of her own savings, a little piece of ground in our old churchyard\nnear the grave of 'her sweet ... |
1,642 | 766_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David finds himself thinking of Steerforth as a beloved friend who has now died - he can't imagine that he'll ever see Steerforth again. The entire town has heard about the Peggottys' misfortune, and they treat the family gently. The next morning, David comes to the boat house and finds Mr. Peggotty with Ham and Peggot... | [
"What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more tow... |
1,643 | 766_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meanwhile, while all of this craziness has been going on with the Peggottys, David has been loving Dora from afar. So, as soon as he comes back to London, he walks over to her house so that he can walk around it, thinking of her. David tells Peggotty about his love for Dora. Peggotty has no idea why David should feel t... | [
"All this time, I had gone on loving Dora, harder than ever. Her idea was\nmy refuge in disappointment and distress, and made some amends to me,\neven for the loss of my friend. The more I pitied myself, or pitied\nothers, the more I sought for consolation in the image of Dora. The\ngreater the accumulation of dece... |
1,644 | 766_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David writes to Agnes telling her all about his love for Dora. He also tells her about little Emily's flight from Yarmouth, though he doesn't explicitly mention Steerforth's name. While David had been away with the Spenlows, Tommy Traddles had dropped by a couple times. Each time, he found Peggotty at David's house. To... | [
"I wrote to Agnes as soon as Dora and I were engaged. I wrote her a long\nletter, in which I tried to make her comprehend how blest I was, and\nwhat a darling Dora was. I entreated Agnes not to regard this as a\nthoughtless passion which could ever yield to any other, or had the\nleast resemblance to the boyish fan... |
1,645 | 766_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David suggests that Mr. Dick could stay in the same place where Mr. Peggotty slept during his stay in London. Mr. Dick tells David that he has no idea how Miss Betsey came to lose all her money. David is so frustrated that he takes it out on Mr. Dick, and explains that no money means starvation for Miss Betsey and Mr. ... | [
"As soon as I could recover my presence of mind, which quite deserted me in the first overpowering shock of my aunt's intelligence, I proposed to Mr. Dick to come round to the chandler's shop, and take possession of the bed which Mr. Peggotty had lately vacated. The chandler's shop being in Hungerford Market, and H... |
1,646 | 766_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David is starting to perk up a bit. He's got a new goal in mind: he is going to repay Miss Betsey for all of her kindness to him in earlier days. What's more, he's going to make enough money to marry Dora. David travels to Highgate to see Doctor Strong. David is an hour early, so he gives in to curiosity and goes acros... | [
"I began the next day with another dive into the Roman bath, and then\nstarted for Highgate. I was not dispirited now. I was not afraid of the\nshabby coat, and had no yearnings after gallant greys. My whole manner\nof thinking of our late misfortune was changed. What I had to do, was,\nto show my aunt that her pas... |
1,647 | 766_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David is so excited to be sacrificing for Dora's sake that he almost becomes a vegetarian . But meanwhile, Dora has no idea that David is busy working hard in her name. Miss Betsey, David, and Mr. Dick are all relatively comfortable in their new homes. David's aunt has won out with Mrs. Crupp, who basically never leave... | [
"My new life had lasted for more than a week, and I was stronger than\never in those tremendous practical resolutions that I felt the crisis\nrequired. I continued to walk extremely fast, and to have a general idea\nthat I was getting on. I made it a rule to take as much out of myself\nas I possibly could, in my wa... |
1,648 | 766_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David continues with his plan on reporting on Parliamentary Debates. He learns shorthand, but it is really hard. Traddles, Miss Betsey, and Mr. Dick help him to learn by staging debates slowly, with pauses for him to catch up. David really is working very hard: he is always on time at both Doctor Strong's home and at t... | [
"I did not allow my resolution, with respect to the Parliamentary\nDebates, to cool. It was one of the irons I began to heat immediately,\nand one of the irons I kept hot, and hammered at, with a perseverance\nI may honestly admire. I bought an approved scheme of the noble art and\nmystery of stenography (which cos... |
1,649 | 766_chapter_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Miss Betsey is worried about David's state of mind. She sends him to Dover to check up on the cottage and to oversee the tenant's signing of a long-term lease. Janet has gone into Annie's service, so David sees her regularly. David is glad to go because he wants to spend a few hours talking to Agnes. Doctor Strong is h... | [
"My aunt, beginning, I imagine, to be made seriously uncomfortable by my\nprolonged dejection, made a pretence of being anxious that I should go\nto Dover, to see that all was working well at the cottage, which was\nlet; and to conclude an agreement, with the same tenant, for a longer\nterm of occupation. Janet was... |
1,650 | 766_chapter_40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David tells Miss Betsey all about his visit with the Wickfields. Miss Betsey paces up and down, a sign that she is worried. She reads David's note to Dora's aunts and approves of it. David mails it and waits for a response. One snowy afternoon, as David is walking home from Doctor Strong's house, he sees a woman walkin... | [
"We had a very serious conversation in Buckingham Street that night,\nabout the domestic occurrences I have detailed in the last chapter. My\naunt was deeply interested in them, and walked up and down the room with\nher arms folded, for more than two hours afterwards. Whenever she was\nparticularly discomposed, she... |
1,651 | 766_chapter_41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David gets a reply from Dora's aunts: they ask him to come and meet them, and to bring a friend. He replies that it would be an honor and invites Traddles. David is disappointed because his old confidant, Miss Mills, has gone to India with her father. He worries endlessly over what to wear. David feels a little annoyed... | [
"At last, an answer came from the two old ladies. They presented their\ncompliments to Mr. Copperfield, and informed him that they had given his\nletter their best consideration, 'with a view to the happiness of\nboth parties'--which I thought rather an alarming expression, not\nonly because of the use they had mad... |
1,652 | 766_chapter_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David tells us that he could never have succeeded in the world without his commitment to punctuality and determination. He learned much of this dedication from Agnes. Speaking of Agnes, she comes to visit Doctor Strong for two weeks with Mr. Wickfield Mrs. Heep goes along, too, because she needs a rest cure. And who sh... | [
"I feel as if it were not for me to record, even though this manuscript\nis intended for no eyes but mine, how hard I worked at that tremendous\nshort-hand, and all improvement appertaining to it, in my sense of\nresponsibility to Dora and her aunts. I will only add, to what I have\nalready written of my perseveran... |
1,653 | 766_chapter_43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David takes a moment to stand back and observe his past life. He has turned 21, and he has started making a living as a journalist reporting on debates in Parliament. Traddles has also tried to work as a journalist, but he's not great at it. Instead, he's managed to get a job as a lawyer. David starts writing fiction p... | [
"Once again, let me pause upon a memorable period of my life. Let me\nstand aside, to see the phantoms of those days go by me, accompanying\nthe shadow of myself, in dim procession.",
"Weeks, months, seasons, pass along. They seem little more than a summer\nday and a winter evening. Now, the Common where I walk w... |
1,654 | 766_chapter_44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David finds the early days of his marriage very odd: it's so weird to see Dora all the time, without having to make special excursions to see her. It still seems a special thing to come home late knowing that Dora would be there waiting for him. Neither David nor Dora know anything about keeping house. Their first serv... | [
"It was a strange condition of things, the honeymoon being over, and the\nbridesmaids gone home, when I found myself sitting down in my own\nsmall house with Dora; quite thrown out of employment, as I may say, in\nrespect of the delicious old occupation of making love.",
"It seemed such an extraordinary thing to ... |
1,655 | 766_chapter_45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Since David is now living so close to Doctor Strong, he sees the Doctor all the time. Mrs. Markleham has come to live in Doctor Strong's house permanently. She is a selfish woman who constantly needs to be amused. She often claims to want to go out for Annie's sake, when really, she just wants excursions and pleasant t... | [
"It was some time now, since I had left the Doctor. Living in his\nneighbourhood, I saw him frequently; and we all went to his house on two\nor three occasions to dinner or tea. The Old Soldier was in permanent\nquarters under the Doctor's roof. She was exactly the same as ever, and\nthe same immortal butterflies h... |
1,656 | 766_chapter_46 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One night, about a year after his marriage, David is walking home. He happens to go past Mrs. Steerforth's house. David sees the blinds drawn and the whole house shut up. He feels a bit depressed and doesn't notice anyone around him until suddenly, a woman's voice rings out. It's the voice of Mrs. Steerforth's maid ask... | [
"I must have been married, if I may trust to my imperfect memory for\ndates, about a year or so, when one evening, as I was returning from a\nsolitary walk, thinking of the book I was then writing--for my success\nhad steadily increased with my steady application, and I was engaged at\nthat time upon my first work ... |
1,657 | 766_chapter_47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the end of an alley near the Thames River, David sees Martha going into a run-down wooden building. The neighborhood is grimy, dark, and empty. David signals to Mr. Peggotty to stay where he is. Martha looks wild as she stands muttering to herself. David touches her arm and calls her name. Martha screams and babbles... | [
"We were now down in Westminster. We had turned back to follow her,\nhaving encountered her coming towards us; and Westminster Abbey was\nthe point at which she passed from the lights and noise of the leading\nstreets. She proceeded so quickly, when she got free of the two currents\nof passengers setting towards an... |
1,658 | 766_chapter_48 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David is working hard at a book. He doesn't plan to make many references to his fictional works; they speak for themselves. David has been married for about a year and a half , and they have given up their housekeeping lessons. Instead, they have an extremely awful page. David is worried that they'll never get rid of t... | [
"I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the\npunctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came out and was very\nsuccessful. I was not stunned by the praise which sounded in my ears,\nnotwithstanding that I was keenly alive to it, and thought better of\nmy own performance, I have lit... |
1,659 | 766_chapter_49 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David receives a letter at his law office that shocks him. The letter is from Mr. Micawber. Mr. Micawber writes that he has hit a run of bad luck, and that he wants to confide in his old friend. Mr. Micawber has decided that he must take a brief vacation from Canterbury because life has become awful. He hopes that both... | [
"I received one morning by the post, the following letter, dated\nCanterbury, and addressed to me at Doctor's Commons; which I read with\nsome surprise:",
"'MY DEAR SIR,",
"'Circumstances beyond my individual control have, for a considerable\nlapse of time, effected a severance of that intimacy which, in the\nl... |
1,660 | 766_chapter_50 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David doesn't hear anything from Martha Endell for several months, but she's in touch with Mr. Peggotty. David thinks more and more that Emily must be dead. Mr. Peggotty's faith that she's alive never changes. Dora grows to like Mr. Peggotty and sees him quite often. One night, Mr. Peggotty tells David that Martha has ... | [
"By this time, some months had passed since our interview on the bank\nof the river with Martha. I had never seen her since, but she had\ncommunicated with Mr. Peggotty on several occasions. Nothing had come of\nher zealous intervention; nor could I infer, from what he told me, that\nany clue had been obtained, for... |
1,661 | 766_chapter_51 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David is walking with Miss Betsey in the garden early the next morning when Mr. Peggotty comes by to speak to David. Miss Betsey shakes Mr. Peggotty's hand and starts to go inside. Mr. Peggotty asks her to stay. He tells them that he brought Emily to his lodging house the night before. Mr. Peggotty recounts Emily's sto... | [
"It was yet early in the morning of the following day, when, as I was\nwalking in my garden with my aunt (who took little other exercise\nnow, being so much in attendance on my dear Dora), I was told that Mr.\nPeggotty desired to speak with me. He came into the garden to meet me\nhalf-way, on my going towards the g... |
1,662 | 766_chapter_52 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The day that David is supposed to go and meet Mr. Micawber, he doesn't want to leave Dora. She's not doing very well. But Dora won't hear of David staying behind, so finally she convinces both David and Miss Betsey to go to Canterbury. Dora is excited because they'll come back with so much news. So, the upshot is that ... | [
"When the time Mr. Micawber had appointed so mysteriously, was within\nfour-and-twenty hours of being come, my aunt and I consulted how we\nshould proceed; for my aunt was very unwilling to leave Dora. Ah! how\neasily I carried Dora up and down stairs, now!",
"We were disposed, notwithstanding Mr. Micawber's stip... |
1,663 | 766_chapter_53 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David has to pause to recount the death of Dora. He sees Dora once again as though they were in their cottage once more. She has been sick for long enough that David doesn't really remember what she is like when she is well. Jip seems also, suddenly, very old. Dora never complains and is grateful for David and Miss Bet... | [
"I must pause yet once again. O, my child-wife, there is a figure in the\nmoving crowd before my memory, quiet and still, saying in its innocent\nlove and childish beauty, Stop to think of me--turn to look upon the\nLittle Blossom, as it flutters to the ground!",
"I do. All else grows dim, and fades away. I am ag... |
1,664 | 766_chapter_54 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After a time, David's grief becomes so intense that he begins to think that he will never be happy again. David associates this terrible time with Agnes, who is the first person he sees when he wakes up from his faint. He and his friends decide that it would be best for David to go abroad. The only thing David is waiti... | [
"This is not the time at which I am to enter on the state of my mind\nbeneath its load of sorrow. I came to think that the Future was walled\nup before me, that the energy and action of my life were at an end, that\nI never could find any refuge but in the grave. I came to think so, I\nsay, but not in the first sho... |
1,665 | 766_chapter_55 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The time is coming quickly for Mr. Peggotty, Emily, and the Micawbers to sail to Australia. David often sees Peggotty and Mr. Peggotty together, but he never sets eyes on Emily. He changes his mind about sending a letter to Emily as she departs Britain with her uncle. David wants to give Emily a chance to reply if she ... | [
"I now approach an event in my life, so indelible, so awful, so bound by\nan infinite variety of ties to all that has preceded it, in these pages,\nthat, from the beginning of my narrative, I have seen it growing larger\nand larger as I advanced, like a great tower in a plain, and throwing\nits fore-cast shadow eve... |
1,666 | 766_chapter_56 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Having seen Steerforth's drowned body, David remembers the last thing Steerforth said to him: "Think of me at my best!" . David can't help but do that, even now. The fishermen bring Steerforth's body to the same room in which Ham's body has been laid, but they decide that's kind of wrong. So, they move Steerforth's bod... | [
"No need, O Steerforth, to have said, when we last spoke together, in\nthat hour which I so little deemed to be our parting-hour--no need to\nhave said, 'Think of me at my best!' I had done that ever; and could I\nchange now, looking on this sight!",
"They brought a hand-bier, and laid him on it, and covered him ... |
1,667 | 766_chapter_57 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David decides not to tell Mr. Peggotty or Emily about what has happened to Steerforth or Ham. He asks Mr. Micawber to help him keep the secret, which Mr. Micawber promises to do. David notices that Mr. Micawber and Master Micawber have started behaving like swashbuckling adventurers in preparation for their trip to Aus... | [
"One thing more, I had to do, before yielding myself to the shock of\nthese emotions. It was, to conceal what had occurred, from those who\nwere going away; and to dismiss them on their voyage in happy ignorance.\nIn this, no time was to be lost.",
"I took Mr. Micawber aside that same night, and confided to him t... |
1,668 | 766_chapter_58 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David travels away from England for the first time. Slowly, he comes to realize how far he is from everything he loves. He feels this immense and deepening grief over the loss of Dora. Feeling worse and worse, David roams from place to place. When he feels at his darkest, he thinks he should die. David travels like thi... | [
"It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the\nghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many\nunavailing sorrows and regrets.",
"I went away from England; not knowing, even then, how great the shock\nwas, that I had to bear. I left all who were dear to me, and went away;... |
1,669 | 766_chapter_59 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David arrives in London in winter. He's been away for three years, so he expects to find everything changed, Indeed, Miss Betsey has returned to Dover and Traddles is doing well as a lawyer. David surprises Traddles with his return. He's a little disappointed because no one in Traddles's neighborhood seems aware of who... | [
"I landed in London on a wintry autumn evening. It was dark and raining,\nand I saw more fog and mud in a minute than I had seen in a year. I\nwalked from the Custom House to the Monument before I found a coach;\nand although the very house-fronts, looking on the swollen gutters, were\nlike old friends to me, I cou... |
1,670 | 766_chapter_60 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David and Miss Betsey spend much of the evening catching up. Miss Betsey asks when David will be going to visit Canterbury. David plans to go the next day. Miss Betsey warns him that Mr. Wickfield has grown suddenly old, though he is a much better man. David's aunt tells him that Agnes continues to be as serious and be... | [
"My aunt and I, when we were left alone, talked far into the night. How\nthe emigrants never wrote home, otherwise than cheerfully and hopefully;\nhow Mr. Micawber had actually remitted divers small sums of money, on\naccount of those 'pecuniary liabilities', in reference to which he had\nbeen so business-like as b... |
1,671 | 766_chapter_61 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David spends some time finishing up his book at his aunt's house. Sometimes David travels in to London to see Traddles, who is managing his business affairs. It turns out that Sophy has been training as a copy clerk to keep up with Traddles's work. David compliments Traddles and Sophy as being two of the happiest peopl... | [
"For a time--at all events until my book should be completed, which would\nbe the work of several months--I took up my abode in my aunt's house at\nDover; and there, sitting in the window from which I had looked out at\nthe moon upon the sea, when that roof first gave me shelter, I quietly\npursued my task.",
"In... |
1,672 | 766_chapter_62 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's Christmas, and David has been home for two months. He rides over to Agnes's house at least once a week and sometimes more. David still respects her more than any other woman he knows. He has accepted that he loves Agnes, but he still feels too ashamed of his own blindness in marrying Dora to do anything about it. ... | [
"The year came round to Christmas-time, and I had been at home above\ntwo months. I had seen Agnes frequently. However loud the general voice\nmight be in giving me encouragement, and however fervent the emotions\nand endeavours to which it roused me, I heard her lightest word of\npraise as I heard nothing else.",
... |
1,673 | 766_chapter_63 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's now been about ten years since Agnes and David were married. David and Agnes are sitting by the fire with three of their children. A stranger comes in asking to see David. A couple of the children, including their youngest, little Agnes, hide at the news that a stranger is coming to see David. This stranger is a h... | [
"What I have purposed to record is nearly finished; but there is yet an\nincident conspicuous in my memory, on which it often rests with delight,\nand without which one thread in the web I have spun would have a\nravelled end.",
"I had advanced in fame and fortune, my domestic joy was perfect, I had\nbeen married... |
1,674 | 766_chapter_64 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David is starting on his last chapter, and he's going to spend it looking back one last time at all of the characters of his story. He sees Agnes sitting next to him, surrounded by family and friends. He sees Miss Betsey, 80 years old but tough as ever, with Peggotty by her side. Miss Betsey has finally become a godmot... | [
"And now my written story ends. I look back, once more--for the last\ntime--before I close these leaves.",
"I see myself, with Agnes at my side, journeying along the road of life.\nI see our children and our friends around us; and I hear the roar of\nmany voices, not indifferent to me as I travel on.",
"What fa... |
1,675 | 766_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David was born in the "Rookery," in Blunderstone, Suffolk, England, on a Friday just as the clock began to strike midnight. This was thought to be an unlucky omen by some women of the neighborhood and by the nurse who attended his birth. A few hours before David's birth, however, Mrs. Copperfield is unexpectedly visite... | [
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that\nstation will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my\nlife with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have\nbeen informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night.\nIt was remarked that the c... |
1,676 | 766_chapters_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ham, Peggotty's nephew who was present at David's birth, is waiting for them at a Yarmouth public-house and leads them to the hulk of an old ship drawn up on land; it has been renovated into a sort of "real home" and that is where the Peggotty family lives. Although everything has a strong odor of fish, the boat is cle... | [
"The carrier's horse was the laziest horse in the world, I should hope,\nand shuffled along, with his head down, as if he liked to keep people\nwaiting to whom the packages were directed. I fancied, indeed, that he\nsometimes chuckled audibly over this reflection, but the carrier said\nhe was only troubled with a c... |
1,677 | 766_chapters_5-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before the cart goes half a mile it stops, and Peggotty appears from behind a hedgerow. Without saying a word, she hugs David and gives him some cakes to eat and a purse containing money, the coins wrapped in a note in his mother's handwriting, saying, "For Davy. With my love." Mr. Barkis, the cart driver , consoles Da... | [
"We might have gone about half a mile, and my pocket-handkerchief was\nquite wet through, when the carrier stopped short. Looking out to\nascertain for what, I saw, to My amazement, Peggotty burst from a hedge\nand climb into the cart. She took me in both her arms, and squeezed me\nto her stays until the pressure o... |
1,678 | 766_chapters_7-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Creakle opens school the next day by switching a good number of the boys, including David, with a cane; "Half the establishment was writhing and crying before the day's work began," Dickens comments. The beatings are David's most vivid recollection of the school, along with the abuse suffered by poor Traddles who w... | [
"School began in earnest next day. A profound impression was made\nupon me, I remember, by the roar of voices in the schoolroom suddenly\nbecoming hushed as death when Mr. Creakle entered after breakfast, and\nstood in the doorway looking round upon us like a giant in a story-book\nsurveying his captives.",
"Tung... |
1,679 | 766_chapters_9-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David's tenth birthday falls on a foggy school day during March, and he is called into Mr. Creakle's parlor, happily anticipating a basket from Peggotty. Instead he is told by the proprietor's wife that his mother has died. "If ever child were stricken with sincere grief, I was," says David, as he prepares to return ho... | [
"I PASS over all that happened at school, until the anniversary of my\nbirthday came round in March. Except that Steerforth was more to be\nadmired than ever, I remember nothing. He was going away at the end of\nthe half-year, if not sooner, and was more spirited and independent than\nbefore in my eyes, and therefo... |
1,680 | 766_chapters_11-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Murdstone and Grinby's warehouse is on a wharf; the entire building is overrun with rats and "discoloured with the dirt and smoke of a hundred years." David's job, along with three or four other boys his age, is to wash bottles and paste on new labels. David is introduced to Mr. Micawber, with whom he is to live, and t... | [
"I know enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacity of\nbeing much surprised by anything; but it is matter of some surprise to\nme, even now, that I can have been so easily thrown away at such an age.\nA child of excellent abilities, and with strong powers of observation,\nquick, eager, delicate, and ... |
1,681 | 766_chapters_13-14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Determined to reach Miss Betsey's home in Dover, David sets out on foot. He passes a small second-hand clothing store, sells his waistcoat for a small sum, and then spends the night in a haystack near Salem House School. David, "a dusty, sunburnt, half-clothed figure," arrives in Dover after six days of traveling and i... | [
"For anything I know, I may have had some wild idea of running all the\nway to Dover, when I gave up the pursuit of the young man with the\ndonkey-cart, and started for Greenwich. My scattered senses were soon\ncollected as to that point, if I had; for I came to a stop in the Kent\nRoad, at a terrace with a piece o... |
1,682 | 766_chapters_15-16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is decided that David will attend school in Canterbury, and the next day Miss Trotwood escorts David on his journey. In Canterbury they stop at the office of Mr. Wickfield, a lawyer, and are welcomed at the door by a Mr. Uriah Heep, a red-haired clerk about fifteen years old. Miss Trotwood has come for advice on whi... | [
"Mr. Dick and I soon became the best of friends, and very often, when his day's work was done, went out together to fly the great kite. Every day of his life he had a long sitting at the Memorial, which never made the least progress, however hard he laboured, for King Charles the First always strayed into it, soone... |
1,683 | 766_chapters_17-18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David, in corresponding with Peggotty, returns the half guinea she loaned him, and he learns from her that the Murdstones have moved from the house in Blunderstone, leaving it "shut up, to be let or sold." At school, David is visited, occasionally, by his aunt and also by Mr. Dick on alternate Wednesdays. On one of Mr.... | [
"It has not occurred to me to mention Peggotty since I ran away; but, of\ncourse, I wrote her a letter almost as soon as I was housed at Dover,\nand another, and a longer letter, containing all particulars fully\nrelated, when my aunt took me formally under her protection. On my being\nsettled at Doctor Strong's I ... |
1,684 | 766_chapters_19-20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Unsure of what he wishes to do in the world, David is encouraged by Aunt Betsey to visit Peggotty so that he may have "a little change" and "thereby form a cooler judgment." His aunt gives him a "handsome purse of money, and a portmanteau" , and he sets out. David first stops at Canterbury to say goodbye to Agnes and M... | [
"I am doubtful whether I was at heart glad or sorry, when my school-days\ndrew to an end, and the time came for my leaving Doctor Strong's. I had\nbeen very happy there, I had a great attachment for the Doctor, and I\nwas eminent and distinguished in that little world. For these reasons\nI was sorry to go; but for ... |
1,685 | 766_chapters_21-22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During his stay at the Steerforth home, David is much impressed with Littimer, a servant there. "He surrounded himself with an atmosphere of respectability, and walked secure in it. It would have been next to impossible to suspect him of anything wrong, he was so thoroughly respectable," David says of Littimer. Finally... | [
"There was a servant in that house, a man who, I understood, was usually\nwith Steerforth, and had come into his service at the University, who\nwas in appearance a pattern of respectability. I believe there never\nexisted in his station a more respectable-looking man. He was taciturn,\nsoft-footed, very quiet in h... |
1,686 | 766_chapters_23-24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Steerforth and David depart by coach the next morning, leaving Littimer behind to do "what he has to do," as Steerforth cryptically comments. During the journey, David tells Steerforth about the previous night's encounter with Martha Endell, the "fallen woman." David seeks Steerforth's advice about which profession he ... | [
"When I awoke in the morning I thought very much of little Em'ly, and her\nemotion last night, after Martha had left. I felt as if I had come into\nthe knowledge of those domestic weaknesses and tendernesses in a sacred\nconfidence, and that to disclose them, even to Steerforth, would be\nwrong. I had no gentler fe... |
1,687 | 766_chapters_25-26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two mornings after the dinner party, just as David is about to leave his room, a messenger arrives with a letter from Agnes, asking him to meet her at the home of Mr. Waterbrook, her father's London agent. When David meets Agnes, he reproaches himself for his conduct at the theatre. Agnes is forgiving, and David calls ... | [
"I was going out at my door on the morning after that deplorable day of\nheadache, sickness, and repentance, with an odd confusion in my mind\nrelative to the date of my dinner-party, as if a body of Titans had\ntaken an enormous lever and pushed the day before yesterday some months\nback, when I saw a ticket-porte... |
1,688 | 766_chapters_27-28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David goes to visit Tommy Traddles, who lives in a very poor section of Camden Town, where garbage and junk clutter the streets. David finds Traddles' apartment house, whose "genteel air" reminds him of the days he spent with Mr. and Mrs. Micawber. They discuss their school days and Traddles' life since leaving school.... | [
"It may have been in consequence of Mrs. Crupp's advice, and, perhaps,\nfor no better reason than because there was a certain similarity in the\nsound of the word skittles and Traddles, that it came into my head, next\nday, to go and look after Traddles. The time he had mentioned was more\nthan out, and he lived in... |
1,689 | 766_chapters_29-30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David is cordially received at the Steerforth residence, especially by Rosa Dartle, who begins asking him questions about Steerforth's activities. She blames David for keeping Steerforth away from home longer than usual, and she hints that something may cause a quarrel between Steerforth and his mother. Steerforth flat... | [
"I mentioned to Mr. Spenlow in the morning, that I wanted leave of\nabsence for a short time; and as I was not in the receipt of any salary,\nand consequently was not obnoxious to the implacable Jorkins, there was\nno difficulty about it. I took that opportunity, with my voice sticking\nin my throat, and my sight f... |
1,690 | 766_chapters_31-32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David is entrusted with the will of the deceased Mr. Barkis, and he prides himself on his ability to read the document and distribute the items in the proper manner. David has found the will in the mysterious box which Barkis carried with him religiously all these years. Along with the will, the box contains "miniature... | [
"It was not difficult for me, on Peggotty's solicitation, to resolve to\nstay where I was, until after the remains of the poor carrier should\nhave made their last journey to Blunderstone. She had long ago bought,\nout of her own savings, a little piece of ground in our old churchyard\nnear the grave of 'her sweet ... |
1,691 | 766_chapters_33-34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David reveals how much he loves Dora Spenlow; thoughts of her continually enter his mind and he despises any man who does not realize how wonderful Dora is. In the meantime, he manages Peggotty's affairs, "proving the will" and putting all her business in an orderly fashion. After the legal matters are settled, David t... | [
"All this time, I had gone on loving Dora, harder than ever. Her idea was\nmy refuge in disappointment and distress, and made some amends to me,\neven for the loss of my friend. The more I pitied myself, or pitied\nothers, the more I sought for consolation in the image of Dora. The\ngreater the accumulation of dece... |
1,692 | 766_chapters_35-36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After David gets his aunt settled, he has a long discussion with Mr. Dick about her poverty. When Mr. Dick begins to cry, David has to cheer him up. Peggotty and Mr. Dick then leave for the night, and David and his aunt talk about Dora, his new-found love. Miss Trotwood implies that the girl is "light-headed" and "sill... | [
"As soon as I could recover my presence of mind, which quite deserted me in the first overpowering shock of my aunt's intelligence, I proposed to Mr. Dick to come round to the chandler's shop, and take possession of the bed which Mr. Peggotty had lately vacated. The chandler's shop being in Hungerford Market, and H... |
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