Дэвид Копперфильд

I Am a New Boy in More Senses than One

           

           SomeofthehigherscholarsboardedintheDoctor’shouse,andthroughthemIlearned,atsecondhand,someparticularsoftheDoctor’shistoryas,howhehadnotyetbeenmarriedtwelvemonthstothebeautifulyoungladyIhadseeninthestudy,whomhehadmarriedforlove;forshehadnotasixpence,andhadaworldofpoorrelations(soourfellowssaid)readytoswarmtheDoctoroutofhouseandhome.Also,howtheDoctor’scogitatingmannerwasattributabletohisbeingalwaysengagedinlookingoutforGreekroots;which,inmyinnocenceandignorance,IsupposedtobeabotanicalfurorontheDoctor’spart,especiallyashealwayslookedatthegroundwhenhewalkedabout,untilIunderstoodthattheywererootsofwords,withaviewtoanewDictionarywhichhehadincontemplation.Adams,ourhead-boy,whohadaturnformathematics,hadmadeacalculation,Iwasinformed,ofthetimethisDictionarywouldtakeincompleting,ontheDoctor’splan,andattheDoctor’srateofgoing.Heconsideredthatitmightbedoneinonethousandsixhundredandforty-nineyears,countingfromtheDoctor’slast,orsixty-second,birthday.

           ButtheDoctorhimselfwastheidolofthewholeschool:anditmusthavebeenabadlycomposedschoolifhehadbeenanythingelse,forhewasthekindestofmen;withasimplefaithinhimthatmighthavetouchedthestoneheartsoftheveryurnsuponthewall.

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