David Copperfield . roposal, in default of being able to suggestanything else. Do you care for taters ? said the waiter, with an insinuatingsmile, and his head on one side. Young gentlemen generally hasbeen over-dosed with taters. I commanded him in my deepest voice, to order a veal cutlet andpotatoes, and all things fitting; and to inquire at the bar if therewere any letters for Trotwood Copperfield, Esquire—which I knewthere were not, and couldnt be, but thought it manly to appear toexpect. He soon came back to say that there were none (at which I wasmuch surprised), and began to lay the clo
David Copperfield . roposal, in default of being able to suggestanything else. Do you care for taters ? said the waiter, with an insinuatingsmile, and his head on one side. Young gentlemen generally hasbeen over-dosed with taters. I commanded him in my deepest voice, to order a veal cutlet andpotatoes, and all things fitting; and to inquire at the bar if therewere any letters for Trotwood Copperfield, Esquire—which I knewthere were not, and couldnt be, but thought it manly to appear toexpect. He soon came back to say that there were none (at which I wasmuch surprised), and began to lay the cloth for my dinner in a boxby the fire. While he was so engaged he asked me what I w^ouldtake with it; and on my replying Half a pint of sherry, thoughtit a favourable opportunity, I am afraid, to extract that measure ofwine from the stale leavings at the bottoms of several small decan-ters. I am of this opinion, because, while I was reading the news-paper, I observed him behind a low wooden partition, which was his. My first Fall in Life. \. .^>0^\^ vc« DAVID COrrERFIELD. 331 private apartment, very busy pouring out of a number of thosevessels into one, like a chemist and druggist making up a the wine came, too, I thought it flat; and it certainly hadmore English crumbs in it, than were to be expected in a foreignwine in anything like a pure state; but I was bashful enough todrink it, and say nothing. Being, then, in a pleasant frame of mind (from which I infer thatpoisoning is not always disagreeable in some stages of the process),I resolved to go to the play. It was Covent Garden Theatre that Ichose ; and there, from the back of a centre box, I saw Juhus Caesarand the new Pantomime. To ha\e all those noble Romans alivebefore me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead ofbeing the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a mostnovel and dehghtful effect. But the mingled reality and mysteryof the whole show, the influence upon me of the
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