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40. CHARLES DICKENS: DAVID COPPERFIELD: CHAPTER 40: THE WANDERER

We had a serious conversation in Buckingham Street that night, about the domestic occurences I have detailed in the last chapter.  My aunt was deeply interested in them, and walked up and down in the room with her arms folded, for more than two hours afterwards.  Whenever she was particularly discomposed, she always performed one of these pedestrian feats; and the amount of her discomposure might always be estimated by the duration of her walk.  On this occasion she was so much disturbed in mind as to find it necessary to open the bedroom door, and make a course for herself, comprising the full extend of the bedroom from wall to wall; while Mr Dick and I sat quietly by the fire, she kept passing in and out, along the measured track, at an unchanging pace, with the regularity of a clock-pendulum. When my aunt and I were left to ourselves by Mr Dick's going out to bed, I sat down to write my letter to the two old ladies.  By that time she was tired of walking, and sat ...