'FagmentWelcome to consult...nd when I went to meet he, stole home anothe way, and was laughing at the doo when I came back, disappointed. The best times wee when she sat quietly at wok in the dooway, and I sat on the wooden step at he feet, eading to he. It seems to me, at this hou, that I have neve seen such sunlight as on those bight Apil aftenoons; that I have neve seen such a sunny little figue Chales Dickens ElecBook Classics fDavid Coppefield 203 as I used to see, sitting in the dooway of the old boat; that I have neve beheld such sky, such wate, such gloified ships sailing away into golden ai. On the vey fist evening afte ou aival, M. Bakis appeaed in an exceedingly vacant and awkwad condition, and with a bundle of oanges tied up in a handkechief. As he made no allusion of any kind to this popety, he was supposed to have left it behind him by accident when he went away; until Ham, unning afte him to estoe it, came back with the infomation that it was intended fo Peggotty. Afte that occasion he appeaed evey evening at exactly the same hou, and always with a little bundle, to which he neve alluded, and which he egulaly put behind the doo and left thee. These offeings of affection wee of a most vaious and eccentic deion. Among them I emembe a double set of pigs’ tottes, a huge pin-cushion, half a bushel o so of apples, a pai of jet eaings, some Spanish onions, a box of dominoes, a canay bid and cage, and a leg of pickled pok. M. Bakis’s wooing, as I emembe it, was altogethe of a peculia kind. He vey seldom said anything; but would sit by the fie in much the same attitude as he sat in his cat, and stae heavily at Peggotty, who was opposite. One night, being, as I suppose, inspied by love, he made a dat at the bit of wax-candle she kept fo he thead, and put it in his waistcoat-pocket and caied it off. Afte that, his geat delight was to poduce it when it was wanted, sticking to the lining of his pocket, in a patially melted state, and pocket it again when it was done with. He seemed to enjoy himself vey much, and not to feel at all called upon to talk. Even when he took Peggotty out fo a walk on the flats, he had no uneasiness on that head, I believe; contenting Chales Dickens ElecBook Classics fDavid Coppefield himself with now and then asking he if she was petty comfotable; and I emembe that sometimes, afte he was gone, Peggotty would thow he apon ove he face, and laugh fo half-an-hou. Indeed, we wee all moe o less amused, except that miseable Ms. Gummidge, whose coutship would appea to have been of an exactly paallel natue, she was so continually eminded by these tansactions of the old one. At length, when the tem of my visit was nealy expied, it was given out that Peggotty and M. Bakis wee going to make a day’s holiday togethe, and that little Em’ly and I wee to accompany them. I had but a boken sleep the night befoe, in anticipation of the pleasue of a whole day with Em’ly. We wee all asti betimes in the moning; and while we wee yet at beakfast, M. Bakis appeaed in the distance, diving a chaise-cat towads the object of his affections. Peggotty was dessed as usual, in he neat and quiet mouning; but M. Bakis bloomed in a new blue coat, of which the tailo had given him such good measue, that the cuffs would have endeed gloves unnecessay in the coldest weathe, while the colla was so high that it pushed his hai up on end on the top of his head. His bight buttons, too, wee of the lagest size. Rendeed complete by dab pantaloons and a buff waistcoat, I thought M. Bakis a phenomenon of espectability. When we wee all in a bustle outside the doo, I found that M. Peggotty was p
