and because there was a patent invention of great price mouldering away in the pantry), he professed so much emotion, that I could joyfully have scalded him.

‘Oh, really, Master Copperfield, — I mean Mister Copperfield,’ said Uriah, ‘to see you waiting upon me is what I never could have expected!

But, one way and another, so many things happen to me which I never could have expected, I am sure, in my umble station, that it seems to rain blessings on my ed. You have heard something, I des-say, of a change in my expectations, Master Copperfield, — I should say, Mister Copperfield?’

As he sat on my sofa, with his long knees drawn up under his coffee-cup, his hat and gloves