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1,693	766_chapters_37-38	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Crupp attempts to intimidate Miss Trotwood as she tried to intimidate Peggotty but David's Aunt Betsey proves too strong a character for her, and David observes that Mrs. Crupp "subsided into her own kitchen, under the impression that my aunt was mad." David is very comfortable in his aunt's care. Although David l...	[ "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...
1,694	766_chapters_39-40	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Aunt Betsey sends David to Dover to supervise the renting of her cottage, the only possession she has left; she hopes that this responsibility will lift David out of his depression. David rapidly concludes the business in Dover and continues on to Canterbury to visit Mr. Wickfield and Agnes. At Mr. Wickfleld's house, D...	[ "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...
1,695	766_chapters_41-42	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	David receives a reply to his letter to Dora's aunts, Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa Spenlow, stating that he may call upon them -- accompanied by a "confidential friend" if they so desire. David asks Traddles to go with him, and during the trip Traddles passes the time with the story of his own engagement to Sophy and...	[ "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...
1,696	766_chapters_43-44	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	David reminisces about his life and remembers how his love for Dora continued to grow. He is now twenty-one and has "tamed that savage stenographic mystery " and reports the debates in Parliament for "a morning newspaper." He is also writing for magazines with some success and says, "Altogether, I am well off." His gre...	[ "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...
1,697	766_chapters_45-46	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	David frequently sees Dr. Strong and observes that his marriage is becoming more troubled. Mrs. Markleham, the "Old Soldier," drags Annie around to operas, concerts, and other forms of entertainment, even though Annie would prefer to stay at home. Although Dr. Strong encourages Annie to get out more, the selfish Mrs. M...	[ "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...
1,698	766_chapters_47-48	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	David and Mr. Peggotty catch up with Martha just as she approaches the bank of a river . David realizes she is about to commit suicide, and, with the help of Mr. Peggotty, he pulls her back from the edge of the water. Martha begins to sob that it would be best if she jumped in the river because her life is so miserable...	[ "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...
1,699	766_chapters_49-50	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	David receives a long, flowery letter addressed to him at Doctors' Commons from Mr. Micawber in which he tells David that he wants to meet with him and Traddles at King's Bench Prison. The letter is perplexing, and David reads it several times to unscramble its meaning. David and Traddles meet Mr. Micawber at the desig...	[ "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...
1,700	766_chapters_51-52	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next morning, Mr. Peggotty tells David and his aunt about Em'ly's escape from Littimer. Em'ly had run along the beach until she fell down with exhaustion, and when she awoke, there was a woman leaning over her. The woman recognized Em'ly and took her home, where she cared for her and arranged for Em'ly to sail to F...	[ "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...
1,701	766_chapters_53-54	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	David remembers back to the time of his wife's death after Dora had been ill for some time. In fact, David cannot remember when she was not sick. David noticed that Jip, Dora's dog, had become quite old and pathetically feeble, just like his mistress. Dora tells David to write a letter to Agnes asking her to come, and ...	[ "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...
1,702	766_chapters_55-56	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	David has written to Em'ly at Ham's request and in the return letter, she asks him to thank Ham for his kindness and bid him farewell. David decides that since he has a few days before the emigrants' ship leaves, he will go to Yarmouth and deliver the note to Ham personally. On the way to Yarmouth a great storm begins ...	[ "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...
1,703	766_chapters_57-58	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	David decides to keep the news of Steerforth's tragic death from Mr. Peggotty and Em'ly. He enlists the aid of Mr. Micawber, who agrees to keep newspaper reports from reaching the group before they sail. David wants Mr. Peggotty and Em'ly to depart "in happy ignorance" for their new life in Australia. David, his aunt, ...	[ "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...
1,704	766_chapters_59-60	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	David returns to London on a wintry autumn evening and he plans to surprise his friends, who do not expect him until Christmas. At Gray's Inn Coffee-house, David asks a waiter about "Mr. Traddies' . . . reputation among the lawyers," but the waiter doesn't seem to know Tommy's name, and David begins to worry about his ...	[ "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...
1,705	766_chapters_61-62	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	David receives such a large volume of mail because of his writing that he decides to have Traddles manage his correspondence from London. In particular, David and Traddles discuss a letter that has arrived from Mr. Creakle, the former Salem House proprietor. He is now a magistrate who runs a model prison and the two yo...	[ "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...
1,706	766_chapters_63-64	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	David and Agnes have been married for ten years when one night an old man calls on them. It is Mr. Peggotty, who has now returned to England for a brief visit. He tells David how his little band of emigrants have prospered in Australia by raising livestock. Em'ly has had many chances to marry but she has refused them a...	[ "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...
1,611	766_chapter_i	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I am born An older David Copperfield narrates the story of his life. He begins by saying that only the writing that follows can tell who the hero of his story is. He tells of his simple birth, which occurred at the stroke of midnight on a Friday night. An old woman in the neighborhood has told him that the time of his ...	[ "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_ii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I Observe. David's earliest memories are of his mother's hair and his nurse, Clara Peggotty, who has very dark eyes. He remembers the kitchen and the backyard, with the roosters that frightened him and the churchyard behind the house, where his father is buried. Both David and his mother submit themselves to Peggotty's...	[ "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_iii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I have a Change Peggotty takes David to Yarmouth, where her family lives in a boat they have converted into a home. Peggotty's brother, Mr. Daniel Peggotty, adopted his nephew, Ham, and his niece, Little Em'ly, who are not siblings, when their fathers drowned. Mrs. Gummidge, the widowed wife of Mr. Peggotty's brother, ...	[ "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_iv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I fall into Disgrace Having returned home, David finds his house much changed. The change upsets him so much that he cries himself to sleep in his new room. His mother comes up to comfort him, but Mr. Murdstone finds them there and reprimands David's mother for not being firm with her son. Mr. Murdstone dismisses David...	[ "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_v	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I am sent away from Home David rides away with a carrier, Mr. Barkis, who travels between towns carrying people and packages in his cart. As David leaves, Peggotty bursts out of the bushes and gives him a little money, a note from his mother, and several cakes. David is nearly hysterical at being sent away. He shares t...	[ "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_vi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I enlarge my Circle of Acquaintance Mr. Creakle, the headmaster, returns to the school and summons David. The bald, reddish Mr. Creakle, who never raises his voice above a whisper, warns David that he will beat him for any misbehavior. David is terrified of Mr. Creakle. The headmaster's wife and daughter, however, are ...	[ "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_vii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	My "first half" at Salem House School begins, and Mr. Creakle warns the boys that he will punish them severely if they fail in their lessons. He beats David with a cane on the first day. David notices that Traddles gets beaten more than the other boys because he is fat. To cheer himself up, Traddles lays his head on hi...	[ "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_viii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	My Holidays. Especially one happy Afternoon. On the day that David arrives home for the holidays, Mr. and Miss Murdstone are away. David, his mother, and Peggotty have supper and pass an evening the way they used to do before his mother remarried. David's mother has a new child, and David loves the child dearly. The th...	[ "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_ix	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I have a memorable Birthday In the middle of the next term, David's mother dies. The school sends David home, and Mr. Omer, a funeral director and general services provider, picks him up at the coach. Mr. Omer takes David to his shop, where he meets Mr. Omer's daughter, Minnie, and her sweetheart, Mr. Joram. Mr. Joram ...	[ "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_x	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I become Neglected, and am provided for Mr. and Miss Murdstone take no interest in David after his mother's death. They make it clear that they want him around as little as possible. Miss Murdstone fires Peggotty, who goes home to her family. Peggotty proposes to take David with her for a visit. On the ride there, Mr. ...	[ "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_xi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I begin Life on my own Account, and don't like it I wonder what they thought of me. David's companions at Mr. Murdstone's business dismay David. They are coarse, uneducated boys whose fathers work in blue-collar professions. David meets Mr. Micawber, a poor but genteel man who speaks in tremendous phrases and makes a g...	[ "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_xii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Liking Life on my own Account no better, I form a great Resolution. Mr. Micawber is released from jail and his debts are resolved. The family decides to move to look for work. David decides he will not stay in London without the Micawbers and resolves to run away to his aunt Betsey. He borrows some money from Peggotty ...	[ "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_xiii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Sequel of my Resolution David sells some of the clothes he is wearing in order to buy food. The shopkeepers who buy the clothes take advantage of him, and travelers abuse him on the road. David arrives at the home of his aunt, Miss Betsey Trotwood, who initially tries to send him away. When he tells her that he is ...	[ "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_xiv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	My Aunt makes up her Mind about me The next morning, Miss Betsey reveals to David that she has written Mr. Murdstone to tell him where David is. She has invited Mr. Murdstone there to discuss David's fate. Miss Betsey sends David up to check on Mr. Dick's progress on his Memorial, an autobiography he is trying to write...	[ "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_xv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I make another Beginning Miss Betsey proposes that David, whom she has nicknamed "Trot," be sent to school at Canterbury. They go to Canterbury and visit Mr. Wickfield, a lawyer and a friend of Miss Betsey's. At Mr. Wickfield's, they meet Uriah Heep, an unattractive young redhead dressed entirely in black and skeleton-...	[ "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_xvi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I am a New Boy in more senses than one At school the next day, David meets the headmaster, Doctor Strong, and his young wife, Annie. Mr. Wickfield and Doctor Strong discuss arrangements Mr. Wickfield is trying to make for Annie's cousin, Jack Maldon. Mr. Wickfield wants to know whether there is any particular reason th...	[ "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_xvii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Somebody turns up Peggotty writes to David and tells him that the furniture at his old house has been sold, the Murdstones have moved, and the house is for sale. David tells Miss Betsey of all the news in Peggotty's letters when she visits him at school, as she does frequently. Mr. Dick visits even more frequently and ...	[ "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_xviii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A Retrospect In retrospect, the adult David recounts several years in Doctor Strong's school and his two love interests during his time there--a young girl named Miss Shepherd and an older woman named Miss Larkins. David also recalls a fistfight he had with a young arrogant butcher. Eventually, to his surprise, David r...	[ "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_xix	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I look about me, and make a Discovery David sets off on a monthlong journey to Yarmouth, to the home of Peggotty and her family, to decide what profession to pursue. He takes his leave of Agnes and Mr. Wickfield, and Doctor Strong throws a going-away party in David's honor. At the party, Annie's mother reveals that Jac...	[ "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_xx	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Steerforth's Home. Steerforth persuades David to stay a few days with him at his mother's house before going to Yarmouth. Steerforth nicknames David "Daisy," and the two of them spend the day sightseeing before going to Steerforth's home. There, David meets Mrs. Steerforth, Steerforth's widowed mother, and Rosa Dartle,...	[ "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_xxi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Little Em'ly. If anyone had told me, then, that all this was a brilliant game, played for the excitement of the moment. in the thoughtless love of superiority. I wonder in what manner of receiving it my indignation would have found a vent. At Steerforth's, David meets Littimer, Steerforth's servant, who frightens David...	[ "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_xxii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Some old Scenes, and Some new People While in Yarmouth, David visits his old home and feels both pleasure and sorrow at seeing the old places. When he returns late from one such visit, he finds Steerforth alone and in a bad mood, angry that he has not had a father all these years and that he is unable to guide himself ...	[ "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_xxiii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I corroborate Mr. Dick, and choose a Profession David determines not to tell Steerforth about Little Em'ly's outburst the night before because he loves Little Em'ly and believes that she did not mean to reveal to him so much about herself. David also tells Steerforth, as they are on their way home by coach, about a let...	[ "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_xxiv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	My first Dissipation Although David is thrilled with his new accommodations, he gets lonely at night, and Steerforth is away at Oxford with his friends. David goes to Steerforth's home and visits Mrs. Steerforth and Miss Dartle, who talk glowingly about Steerforth all day. Finally, Steerforth returns. He and David plan...	[ "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_xxv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Good and bad Angels Agnes sends for David, and he goes to visit her where she is staying in London. She warns him that Steerforth is his "bad Angel," that he should avoid Steerforth and be cautious of Steerforth's influence. David disagrees, but the idea rankles him and disturbs his image of Steerforth. Agnes also deli...	[ "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_xxvi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I fall into Captivity Mr. Spenlow, David's supervisor at the Doctors' Commons, invites David to his home for the weekend. There, David meets Dora, Mr. Spenlow's daughter, and falls in love with her. David also runs into Miss Murdstone, whom Mr. Spenlow has retained as a companion for his daughter ever since her mother ...	[ "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_xxvii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Tommy Traddles David decides to visit Tommy Traddles, who, he discovers when he arrives, lives in the same building as the Micawbers. Traddles is studying for the bar. His apartment and furniture are extremely shabby, and he is struggling to earn enough money to marry his true love, who has sworn to wait for him to sav...	[ "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_xxviii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Micawber's Gauntlet "Ride over all obstacles, and win the race. Mr. and Mrs. Micawber and Traddles come to dinner at David's apartment. Mrs. Crupp agrees, after a good deal of argument, to cook dinner for them. The dinner is terribly undercooked, but Mrs. Micawber directs them all in re-cooking the meat. They enjoy...	[ "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_xxix	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I visit Steerforth at his Home, again At Steerforth's home, David spends the day with Miss Dartle and Mrs. Steerforth. Miss Dartle asks David why he has been keeping Steerforth away from his mother. David assures her that he has not been with Steerforth in the past several weeks. Miss Dartle seems very disturbed at thi...	[ "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_xxx	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A Loss When David arrives at Yarmouth, he visits Mr. Omer, who tells him that Little Em'ly has not seemed herself recently. Mr. Omer also says that Martha, a friend of Little Em'ly's, has been missing since David was last in Yarmouth. David goes to Peggotty's house, where Mr. Peggotty and Little Em'ly are sitting in th...	[ "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_xxxi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A greater Loss After Mr. Barkis's death, David stays in Yarmouth to help Peggotty arrange her affairs. He discovers that Mr. Barkis has left Peggotty a sizable inheritance and has also left money for Mr. Peggotty. The adult David breaks his narration to say that he wishes he did not have to go on with his story. He con...	[ "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_xxxii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Beginning of a long Journey The next morning, Mr. Peggotty again vows to find Little Em'ly. He announces that he and David will begin their search in London the next day. Mrs. Gummidge comforts Mr. Peggotty, who asks her to stay behind and wait for Little Em'ly's return. When David returns to the inn, Miss Mowcher ...	[ "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_xxxiii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Blissful David thinks of Dora constantly while walking in her neighborhood but does not dare approach her house. He takes Peggotty, who has come with him to London, to the Doctors' Commons to settle her affairs. While they wait, Mr. Murdstone arrives at the Doctors' Commons to get his new marriage license. Peggotty yel...	[ "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_xxxiv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	My Aunt astonishes me Traddles visits David and tells him more about his fiancee, who is the fourth of ten children of a curate in Devonshire and who cares for her mother and her sisters. Traddles tells David that Mr. Micawber has come into severe financial difficulties and has been forced to move and change his name t...	[ "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_xxxv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Depression David becomes depressed at the idea that he is now poor. Although he realizes this emotion is selfish, he cannot escape it because he worries that Dora will be deprived of things she wants. David tells Miss Betsey that he loves Dora, but Miss Betsey chastises him for pursuing a pointless romance. David tries...	[ "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_xxxvi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Enthusiasm On his way to visit Doctor Strong, David concludes that his new financial difficulties will allow him to prove that he loves Dora. He determines that he will work through every difficulty to be with her and will raise himself and his aunt out of their present distress. Doctor Strong agrees that David should ...	[ "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_xxxvii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A little Cold Water David tells Dora about his financial woes the next time he sees her at Miss Mills's house. Dora becomes hysterical at the idea that she might have to live in poverty and refuses to listen to David's argument that she should learn how to manage a house. David calms Dora, but she becomes hysterical ev...	[ "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_xxxviii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A Dissolution of Partnership. Mr. Spenlow calls David away from the office one morning and announces that he has uncovered David's affair with Dora. Mr. Spenlow forbids David to continue seeing his daughter and threatens to disinherit her and send her abroad if David does not comply. David answers that he loves Dora an...	[ "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_xxxix	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Wickfield and Heep To distract himself from his troubles with Dora, David goes to check on Miss Betsey's cottage, which proves to be in excellent condition. He then goes to Canterbury to visit Agnes and Mr. Wickfield. At Mr. Wickfield's, David finds that Uriah Heep and his mother have taken control. Mr. Micawber has be...	[ "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_xl	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Wanderer Late one night, David runs into Mr. Peggotty, who says that he has been looking for Little Em'ly on the continent. Mr. Peggotty has come close to finding her a few times and has received a letter from her. In all, Little Em'ly has sent three letters containing money to the Peggottys. Mrs. Gummidge has repl...	[ "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_xli	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dora's Aunts. Dora's aunts answer David's letter and tell him he is welcome to visit in order to discuss his courtship of Dora. Thrilled, David goes to see the aunts, bringing Traddles along to assist him in convincing them. On the way, David asks Traddles to comb his hair. Traddles says that no amount of combing will ...	[ "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_xlii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mischief My meaning simply is that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well. I have always been thoroughly in earnest. Mr. Wickfield and Agnes visit the Strongs. Agnes and Dora get along well. Dora is a bit amazed that David loves her considering he has been so close to Agnes for s...	[ "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_xliii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Another Retrospect David and Dora are married among all their friends in a beautiful ceremony	[ "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_xliv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Our Housekeeping Dora turns out to be a terrible housekeeper. The couple employs a number of servants, but each of them cheats David and Dora in one way or another. Nonetheless, David is happy because Dora is happy. David writes for a newspaper and several magazines. Dora is completely devoted to him and sits up at nig...	[ "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_xlv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Dick fulfills my Aunt's Prediction "There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. Mr. Dick comes to David one night while he is working in his study and asks whether David thinks he is simple-minded. David says that he does in fact think so, and Mr. Dick is pleased. He asks David wha...	[ "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_xlvi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Intelligence As David passes by the Steerforths' house one evening, a servant summons him inside to speak to Miss Dartle. She is cruel to David. Miss Dartle summons Littimer, who informs David that Steerforth, having grown tired of Little Em'ly, has her in a villa in Naples. Littimer proposed to her, but she became fur...	[ "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_xlvii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Martha Mr. Peggotty and David follow Martha to the river, where they speak to her. She becomes hysterical but gladly agrees to help them find Little Em'ly. On his way home, David sees the door to his aunt's house open. He goes in to speak to her and sees the man whom Mr. Dick has said has been bothering Miss Betsey sta...	[ "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_xlviii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Domestic Dora's housekeeping habits do not improve. For a while, David tries to form Dora's mind into something to which he can offer his more intimate and intelligent thoughts. But Dora will not be reformed, and David eventually gives up. He is not exactly happy in his marriage to her, for he feels that somehow they a...	[ "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_xlix	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I am involved in Mystery David receives a strange letter from Mr. Micawber, and Traddles receives a similar letter from Mrs. Micawber. The letters swear the men to secrecy, report that things in Micawber house are going poorly, and beg to see Traddles and David if they can spare the time. Traddles and David consult and...	[ "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_l	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Peggotty's Dream comes true Martha comes for David one night and encourages him to follow her. She has already tried to retrieve Mr. Peggotty, but he is not at home, so she has left him a note telling him where to find her. Martha and David rush through the city to the place where Little Em'ly is staying. They find...	[ "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_li	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Beginning of a longer Journey Mr. Peggotty comes to David and Miss Betsey and relates the story Little Em'ly has told him. Little Em'ly escaped from Littimer onto the beach, where, in a delirium, she was rescued by a young woman whose husband was at sea. The woman nursed Little Em'ly back to health. Little Em'ly we...	[ "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_lii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I assist at an Explosion Traddles, David, Miss Betsey, Agnes, and Mr. Micawber all confront Uriah Heep at his home. Mr. Micawber has prepared a list of the frauds that Uriah has committed and has collected much of the evidence necessary to prove that Uriah has committed those frauds. The moment he realizes he is caught...	[ "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_liii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Another Retrospect Dora becomes very ill and is confined to her bed. David misses her company terribly. Agnes comes to visit. As Dora realizes that she is dying, she confides to David that she was too young to be married when she was. David wonders whether it would have been better if they had loved each other as child...	[ "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_liv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Micawber's Transactions Mr. Micawber, who thinks the move to Australia may be exactly what his family needs, wants to be sure that he arranges the finances between him and Miss Betsey professionally. Mrs. Micawber is very concerned that Mr. Micawber should repair her relationship with her family before they leave. ...	[ "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_lv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Tempest David goes to Yarmouth to deliver a letter from Little Em'ly to Ham so that they may know of each other before Little Em'ly goes to Australia. As David travels, a terrific storm blows into Yarmouth, and the sea and wind rage. A ship from Spain is wrecked off the coast, and David and others go to the beach to wa...	[ "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_lvi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The New Wound, and the Old David goes to Mrs. Steerforth and informs her that her son is dead. She is an invalid now and is lying in Steerforth's room. Miss Dartle is present when David relays the news. She lashes out at Mrs. Steerforth, challenging her right to mourn her son, whom she made the monster he was, when she...	[ "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_lvii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Emigrants The travelers bound for Australia meet with those staying behind. They drink and discuss Mr. Micawber's prospects for success in Australia. David does not tell Mr. Peggotty or Little Em'ly of the tragedy in Yarmouth but instead says that all is well. As they are departing, David asks Mr. Peggotty what sho...	[ "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_lviii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Absence David travels abroad and eventually settles in Switzerland. He mourns the deaths of Dora, Steerforth, and Ham and begins to feel the weight of his sorrows for the first time. David receives a letter from Agnes and reflects how much he loves her. He resolves not to make any decisions about love or marriage until...	[ "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_lix	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Return David returns to London, where he visits Traddles, who has recently married. Traddles is still poor, but he and his wife are very happy. At the inn, David encounters Mr. Chillip, his old family physician. Mr. Chillip says he is now living next door to Mr. and Miss Murdstone, who have destroyed Mr. Murdstone's se...	[ "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_lx	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Agnes David returns to Miss Betsey's, where Mr. Dick and Peggotty now live. David and his aunt talk through the night. He inquires whether Agnes has any lovers. Miss Betsey tells him that Agnes has many admirers but only one love--but she does not reveal the identity of Agnes's love. The next day, David goes to visit A...	[ "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_lxi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I am shown Two Interesting Penitents David receives a letter from Mr. Creakle, who has heard of David's fame. Now a magistrate, Mr. Creakle asks David to come to his prison to witness his new form of punishment, which he says is the perfect way to reform prisoners. At the prison, David and Traddles are told of two pris...	[ "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_lxii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A Light shines on my Way Agnes and David remain friends. One day, when he can bear it no longer, David demands to know whom she loves more than anyone else. She sobs, and David realizes he is her true love. They are engaged and married within two weeks	[ "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_lxiii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A Visitor One day, while David is at home with Agnes and their three children, Mr. Peggotty visits. He brings word that Mr. Micawber is now a magistrate and that Little Em'ly is doing well. Martha is married to a farmer, and Mrs. Gummidge is well. Mr. Peggotty stays for a month and then goes back to Australia. They nev...	[ "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_lxiv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A Last Retrospect David muses on the state of affairs at the time of his writing. He sees Miss Betsey, old but still upright, accompanied by Peggotty, who is also old but still bright and happy. Mr. Dick is still working on his autobiography. Mrs. Steerforth and Miss Dartle argue as usual. Doctor Strong continues to wo...	[ "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...
1,611	766_chapter_i	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I am born. The adult David Copperfield narrates the story of his life, beginning with his birth. The women of David's neighborhood believe, based on the time of his birth, that he is destined to be unlucky and that he would possess the gift of seeing ghosts and spirits. On the first prediction, he comments that the sto...	[ "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_ii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I observe. David describes some of his earliest memories. He remembers his pretty mother, and the kindly nurse, Clara Peggotty, who runs the household. One evening, David is reading to Peggotty from a book about crocodiles. He asks Peggotty if a person whose spouse dies can marry again. Peggotty says that they can if t...	[ "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_iii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I have a change. Peggotty and David travel by carrier's cart to Yarmouth, where they are met at an inn by Peggotty's nephew, Ham. Ham takes them to his family's home, which is a boat converted into a house. Inside there is a smell of fish. Peggotty's brother, Daniel Peggotty, who owns the house, deals in seafood, which...	[ "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_iv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I fall into disgrace. Clara finds David crying, and blames Peggotty for turning him against Mr. Murdstone. As Clara comforts David, Mr. Murdstone arrives and tells her to be firm with him. David sees that she is compliant to her new husband, seemingly because she is afraid of him. Mr. Murdstone dismisses Clara and Pegg...	[ "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_v	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I am sent away from home. A crying David is taken away by the carrier, Mr. Barkis, in his cart. As the cart leaves, Peggotty bursts out of a hedge and hugs David. She gives him some cakes and a purse containing money folded in a loving note from his mother, before running off. David gives Mr. Barkis one of his cakes. O...	[ "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_vi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I enlarge my circle of acquaintance. Mr. Creakle, the headmaster, returns to the school after his vacation. He is an ugly, angry-looking man with thick veins on his forehead, who always speaks in a whisper. He summons David and threatens him with dire consequences if he misbehaves. Mr. Creakle's wife and daughter are w...	[ "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_vii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	My "first half" at Salem House. It is the beginning of the school term. Mr. Creakle warns the boys that if they fail to do well, he will beat them - an activity he seems to enjoy. Then he beats David. Traddles is beaten more than anyone else, because he is fat. Traddles cheers himself up by drawing skeletons on his sla...	[ "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_viii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	My holidays. Especially one happy afternoon. The vacation arrives, and David sets out for home. Mr. Barkis, the carrier, asks David to tell Peggotty that he is still waiting for an answer to his message about his being willing. David reaches home, and is delighted to find his mother with a new baby boy. Clara and Peggo...	[ "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_ix	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I have a memorable birthday. During the next school term, David is summoned to Mr. Creakle's room, where Mrs. Creakle breaks the news to him that his mother has died and that the baby is likely to die too. He is sent home to attend her funeral and is collected by Mr. Omer, the funeral director. Mr. Omer takes David to ...	[ "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_x	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I become neglected, and am provided for. The Murdstones ignore David, and it is clear that they do not welcome his presence. David learns that he is not going back to school. Miss Murdstone fires Peggotty, who plans to stay with her family in Yarmouth until she decides on a longer-term plan. Peggotty invites David to c...	[ "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_xi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I begin life on my own account, and don't like it. The adult David reflects on his amazement that he, a sensitive child of considerable ability, was "so easily thrown away at such an age" by being sent out to work in a wine warehouse. David is employed in menial work handling wine bottles. His fellow employees are uned...	[ "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_xii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Liking life on my own account no better, I form a great resolution. Mr. Micawber is released from jail under the Insolvent Debtors Act, which forces him to surrender all his property. The family decides to move to Plymouth to look for work. Though Mrs. Micawber insists, "I never will desert Mr. Micawber," she reveals t...	[ "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_xiii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The sequel of my resolution. David sets out on foot for Dover, selling some of his clothes to buy food. The shopkeepers who buy his clothes take advantage of him, giving him far less money than the clothes are worth. He sleeps in the open, not wanting to spend what money he has on a room for the night. He is abused, th...	[ "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_xiv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	My aunt makes up her mind about me. Betsey tells David that she has written to Mr. Murdstone to tell him that David is at her house and to invite him to visit in order to discuss the boy's fate. David is terrified at the thought of being sent back there to live. Betsey sends David upstairs to find out from Mr. Dick how...	[ "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_xv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I make another beginning. David settles into his new life. He and Mr. Dick become friends and fly Mr. Dick's kite together. Betsey gives David a new name, Trotwood Copperfield, or "Trot" for short. She decides that David should go to school in Canterbury, a proposal that he welcomes. Betsey and David travel to the hous...	[ "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_xvi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I am a new boy in more senses than one. David goes to the school and meets the headmaster, Dr. Strong, and his young wife, Annie. Dr. Strong and Mr. Wickfield discuss their attempts to find some occupation for Annie's cousin, Jack Maldon. Mr. Wickfield asks whether Dr. Strong would prefer Jack to go abroad, but Dr. Str...	[ "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_xvii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Somebody turns up. David receives a letter from Peggotty telling him that the furniture at his mother's house has been sold, that the Murdstones have moved away, and that the house is to be let or sold. Mr. Dick asks David if he knows the identity of the man who hides near Betsey's house and frightens her by creeping u...	[ "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_xviii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A retrospect. David recalls his time at Dr. Strong's school. He falls in love with a girl called Miss Shepherd, who attends a nearby school, and thereafter with a thirty-year-old woman called Miss Larkins. He fights a young butcher who insults him, and is soundly beaten. He is consoled by Agnes, who has become like a s...	[ "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_xix	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	I look about me, and make a discovery. David graduates from Dr. Strong's school. Unsure as to what profession to pursue, he decides to visit Peggotty's family in Yarmouth in the hope that his thinking will become clearer there. When he is saying goodbye to Agnes, she asks him if he has noticed a change in her father. D...	[ "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_xx	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Steerforth's home. David accepts an invitation from Steerforth to stay for a day or two at his mother's home in Highgate, London, before going on to Yarmouth. David meets Mrs. Steerforth, a proud lady who dotes on her son and welcomes David on the grounds that he likes him, too. Rosa Dartle, Mrs. Steerforth's former co...	[ "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_xxi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Little Em'ly. The character of Steerforth's servant Littimer is introduced. In appearance, he is "a pattern of respectability" in manner, he is softly spoken and deferential. David invites Steerforth to accompany him to Yarmouth, to visit Mr. Peggotty and Ham, and to meet Little Em'ly and Peggotty. David calls in at Mr...	[ "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_xxii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Some old scenes, and some new people. Steerforth spends much of his time in Yarmouth apart from David, making himself popular among the local fishermen and going out sailing with Mr. Peggotty. David revisits his old home. He feels sad at what he has lost, but happy that he has such good friends as Peggotty, Steerforth,...	[ "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...

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