David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Chapter 51 Page 7

his earnestness, he presented what he described to me, with greater distinctness than I can express. I can hardly believe, writing now long afterwards, but that I was actually present in these scenes; they are impressed upon me with such an astonishing air of fidelity.

‘As Em’ly’s eyes — which was heavy — see this woman better,’ Mr. Peggotty went on, ‘she know’d as she was one of them as she had often talked to on the beach.

Fur, though she had run (as I have said) ever so fur in the night, she had oftentimes wandered long ways, partly afoot, partly in boats and carriages, and know’d all that country, ‘long the coast, miles and miles. She hadn’t no children of her own, this woman, being a young wife; but she was