David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Chapter 8 Page 25

returned my mother, ‘but you insinuated. That’s what I told you just now. That’s the worst of you.

You WILL insinuate. I said, at the moment, that I understood you, and you see I did. When you talk of Mr. Murdstone’s good intentions, and pretend to slight them (for I don’t believe you really do, in your heart, Peggotty), you must be as well convinced as I am how good they are, and how they actuate him in everything. If he seems to have been at all stern with a certain person, Peggotty — you understand, and so I am sure does Davy, that I am not alluding to anybody present — it is solely because he is satisfied that it is for a certain person’s benefit.

He naturally loves a certain person, on my account; and acts solely for a certain person’s