David Copperfield
Chapter 60: Agnes
by Charles Dickens
David divulges his true feelings to Agnes.
David divulges his true feelings to Agnes.
How can I then return in happy plight
All realize that if Sara had revealed her entire name, she would have been found much sooner.
Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
The little Love-god lying once asleep
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
If thy soul check thee that I come so near
Those hours that with gentle work did frame
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
How can my muse want subject to invent
The house lands on top of the Wicked Witch of the East. Dorothy is welcomed by the Witch of the North and the Munchkins. Dorothy asks for help to get back to Kansas. The good Witch of the North tells her to go to the Emerald City to talk to the Wizard of Oz who can help her. She is warned that the way is pleasant, but also dark and terrible.
The life, theories, and discoveries of mathematician Leonhard Euler.
My tongue-tied muse in manners holds her still
The reader is introduced to Reverend Bute. The subject of death is taken lightly.
William considers his work as a tradesman, and is confronted by Mr. Hunsden.
I grant thou wert not married to my muse
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
From fairest creatures we desire increase
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
I cannot live with you
Your riches taught me poverty.
Jane befriends Diana and Mary, who admire her drawings and give her books to read. St. John, on the other hand, remains distant and cold, although he is never unkind. After a month, Diana and Mary must return to their posts as governesses. St. John has found a position for Jane, running a charity school for girls in the town of Morton. Jane accepts, but St. John presumes that she will soon leave the school out of restlessness, perhaps because he himself is quite restless. His sisters suspect he will soon leave England for a missionary post overseas. St. John tells his sisters that their Uncle John has died and left them nothing, because all his money went to another, unknown, relative. Jane learns that it was Uncle John who led Mr. Rivers into his disastrous business deal.
Catherine tries to investigate the late Mrs. Tilney’s room and later questions her sons, an action for which she is severaly scolded.
The wind begun to rock the grass