David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Chapter 21 Page 52

He says to me, a-shaking of my hand, “I will!” he says.

And he was — honourable and manful — for two year going on, and we was just the same at home here as afore.’

Mr. Peggotty’s face, which had varied in its expression with the various stages of his narrative, now resumed all its former triumphant delight, as he laid a hand upon my knee and a hand upon Steerforth’s (previously wetting them both, for the greater emphasis of the action), and divided the following speech between us:

‘All of a sudden, one evening — as it might be tonight — comes little Em’ly from her work, and him with her!

There ain’t so much in that, you’ll