Classics Retold

The first act Mr Murdstone performed after the day of solemnity was over, and light was freely admitted into the house, was to give Peggotty a month's notice.  Much as Peggotty would have disliked such a service, she would have retained it, for my sake, in preference to the best upon  earth.  She told me we must part, and she told me why, and we condoled with one another, in all sincerity. As to me or my future, not a word was said, or step taken.  Happy they would have been, if they could dismiss at a month's notice too.  I mustered courage once, to ask Miss Murdstone when I was going back to school, and she answered dryly, she believed I was not going back at all.  I was told nothing more.  I was very anxious to know what was going to be done with me, and so was Peggotty; but neither she nor I could pick up any information on it. There was one change in my condition, which, while it relieved me of a great deal of present uneasiness, might have made m...