David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Chapter 22 Page 5

out of their remembered shapes. The garden had run wild, and half the windows of the house were shut up.

It was occupied, but only by a poor lunatic gentleman, and the people who took care of him. He was always sitting at my little window, looking out into the churchyard; and I wondered whether his rambling thoughts ever went upon any of the fancies that used to occupy mine, on the rosy mornings when I peeped out of that same little window in my night-clothes, and saw the sheep quietly feeding in the light of the rising sun.

Our old neighbours, Mr. and Mrs. Grayper, were gone to South America, and the rain had made its way through the roof of their empty house, and stained the outer walls.

Mr. Chillip was married again to a tall, raw-boned, high-nosed