[Illustration: "WY, IT'S MEAN .... THAT'S WHERE IT IS. IT'S MEAN!"--Chap. lvi.] [Illustration: "JOE HAD BEEN DECEIVED, SIR, TAKEN IN, HOODWINKED, BLINDFOLDED, BUT WAS BROAD AWAKE AGAIN, AND STARING"--Chap. lviii.] [Illustration: "YES, MRS. PIPCHIN, IT IS," REPLIES COOK, ADVANCING. "AND WHAT THEN PRAY!"--Chap. lix.] [Illustration: "OH, MY GOD, FORGIVE ME, FOR I NEED IT VERY MUCH!"--Chap. lix.] [Illustration: "NO, NO!" CRIED FLORENCE, SHRINKING BACK AS SHE ROSE UP, AND PUTTING OUT HER HANDS TO KEEP HER OFF. "MAMMA!"--Chap. lxi.] [Illustration: CAPTAIN CUTTLE GIVES THEM THE LOVELY PEG--Chap. lxii.] [Illustration: "DEAR GRANDPAPA, WHY DO YOU CRY WHEN YOU KISS ME?"--Chap. lxii.] THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD [Illustration] SIXTY-ONE ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED BARNARD [Illustration: PEGGOTTY SEEMED TO SWELL AND GROW IMMENSELY LARGE. I PROPPED MY EYELIDS OPEN WITH MY TWO FOREFINGERS AND LOOKED PERSEVERINGLY AT HER, AS SHE SAT AT WORK--Chap. ii.] [Illustration: "DEAD, MR. PEGGOTTY!" I HINTED, AFTER A RESPECTFUL PAUSE. "DROWNDEAD," SAID MR. PEGGOTTY--Chap. iii.] [Illustration: "THAT'S NOT IT!" SAID I, "THAT SHIP-LOOKING THING!" "THAT'S IT, MAS'R DAVY," RETURNED HAM--Chap. iii.] [Illustration: AND WHEN WE CAME AT LAST TO THE FIVE THOUSAND CHEESES (CANES HE MADE IT THAT DAY, I REMEMBER), MY MOTHER BURST OUT CRYING--Chap. iv.] [Illustration: I SAW TO MY AMAZEMENT, PEGGOTTY BURST FROM A HEDGE AND CLIMB INTO THE CART--Chap. v.] [Illustration: "HE KNOWS ME, AND I KNOW HIM. DO YOU KNOW ME! HEY!" SAID MR. CREAKLE, PINCHING MY EAR WITH FEROCIOUS PLAYFULNESS--Chap. vi.] [Illustration: "LET HIM DENY IT," SAID STEERFORTH--Chap. vii.] [Illustration: "DON'T GO, STEERFORTH, IF YOU PLEASE. THESE ARE TWO YARMOUTH BOATMEN--VERY KIND, GOOD PEOPLE--WHO ARE RELATIONS OF MY NURSE, AND HAVE COME FROM GRAVESEND TO SEE ME"--Chap. vii.] [Illustration: "FATHER!" SAID MINNIE PLAYFULLY. "WHAT A PORPOISE YOU DO GROW!"--Chap. ix.] [Illustration: I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIKE IT--Chap. xi.] [Illustration: I AM PRESENTED TO MRS. MICAWBER--Chap. xi.] [Illustration: THE YOUNG MAN STILL REPLIED: "COME TO THE POLLIS!" AND WAS DRAGGING ME AGAINST THE DONKEY IN A VIOLENT MANNER, AS IF THERE WERE ANY AFFINITY BETWEEN THAT ANIMAL AND A MAGISTRATE--Chap. xii.] [Illustration: "OH, MY LUNGS AND LIVER, WILL YOU GO FOR THREEPENCE!"--Chap. xiii.] [Illustration: MR. MICAWBER, IMPRESSING THE NAMES OF THE STREETS AND THE SHAPES OF CORNER HOUSES UPON ME AS WE WENT ALONG, THAT I MIGHT FIND MY WAY BACK EASILY IN THE MORNING--Chap. xi.] [Illustration: THE BATTLE ON THE GREEN--Chap. xiv.] [Illustration: SHE ALWAYS ROUSED HIM WITH A QUESTION OR CARESS--Chap. xv.] [Illustration: "OH, THANK YOU, MASTER COPPERFIELD," SAID URIAH HEEP, "FOR THAT REMARK! IT IS SO TRUE! 'UMBLE AS I AM, I KNOW IT IS SO TRUE! OH, THANK YOU, MASTER COPPERFIELD!"--Chap. xvi.] [Illustration: THE DOCTOR'S WALK--Chap. xvii.]