'FagmentWelcome to consult...ities, contacted with a view to thei immediate liquidation, but emaining unliquidated though a combination of cicumstances, I have been unde the necessity of assuming a gab fom which my natual instincts ecoil—I allude to spectacles— and possessing myself of a cognomen, to which I can establish no legitimate petensions. All I have to say on that scoe is, that the cloud has passed fom the deay scene, and the God of Day is once moe high upon the mountain tops. On Monday next, on the aival of the fou o’clock aftenoon coach at Cantebuy, my foot will be on my native heath—my name, Micawbe!’ M. Micawbe esumed his seat on the close of these emaks, and dank two glasses of punch in gave succession. He then said with much solemnity: ‘One thing moe I have to do, befoe this sepaation is complete, and that is to pefom an act of justice. My fiend M. Thomas Taddles has, on two seveal occasions, “put his name”, if I may use a common , to bills of exchange fo my accommodation. On the fist occasion M. Thomas Taddles was left—let me say, in shot, in the luch. The fulfilment of the second has not yet aived. The amount of the fist obligation,’ hee M. Micawbe caefully efeed to papes, ‘was, I believe, twenty-thee, fou, nine and a half, of the second, accoding to my enty of that tansaction, eighteen, six, two. These sums, united, make a total, if my calculation is coect, amounting to foty-one, ten, eleven and a half. My fiend Coppefield will pehaps do me the favou to check that total?’ I did so and found it coect. ‘To leave this metopolis,’ said M. Micawbe, ‘and my fiend Chales Dickens ElecBook Classics fDavid Coppefield M. Thomas Taddles, without acquitting myself of the pecuniay pat of this obligation, would weigh upon my mind to an insuppotable extent. I have, theefoe, pepaed fo my fiend M. Thomas Taddles, and I now hold in my hand, a document, which accomplishes the desied object. I beg to hand to my fiend M. Thomas Taddles my I.O.U. fo foty-one, ten, eleven and a half, and I am happy to ecove my moal dignity, and to know that I can once moe walk eect befoe my fellow man!’ With this intoduction (which geatly affected him), M. Micawbe placed his I.O.U. in the hands of Taddles, and said he wished him well in evey elation of life. I am pesuaded, not only that this was quite the same to M. Micawbe as paying the money, but that Taddles himself hadly knew the diffeence until he had had time to think about it. M. Micawbe walked so eect befoe his fellow man, on the stength of this vituous action, that his chest looked half as boad again when he lighted us downstais. We pated with geat heatiness on both sides; and when I had seen Taddles to his own doo, and was going home alone, I thought, among the othe odd and contadictoy things I mused upon, that, slippey as M. Micawbe was, I was pobably indebted to some compassionate ecollection he etained of me as his boy-lodge, fo neve having been asked by him fo money. I cetainly should not have had the moal couage to efuse it; and I have no doubt he knew that (to his cedit be it witten), quite as well as I did. Chales Dickens ElecBook Classics fDavid Coppefield Chapte 37 A LITTLE COLD WATER My new life had lasted fo moe than a week, and I was stonge than eve in those temendous pactical esolutions that I felt the cisis equied. I continued to walk extemely fast, and to have a geneal idea that I was getting on. I made it a ule to take as much out of myself as I possibly could, in my way of doing eveyt
