David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Chapter 31 Page 27

do it,’ he said, impatiently. ‘Bear a hand and help me. Well!’ when somebody had done so. ‘Now give me that theer hat!’

Ham asked him whither he was going.

‘I’m a going to seek my niece.

I’m a going to seek my Em’ly. I’m a going, first, to stave in that theer boat, and sink it where I would have drownded him, as I’m a living soul, if I had had one thought of what was in him! As he sat afore me,’ he said, wildly, holding out his clenched right hand, ‘as he sat afore me, face to face, strike me down dead, but I’d have drownded him, and thought it right! — I’m a going to seek my niece.’

‘Where?’ cried Ham, interposing himself before the door.