Overpowering, really.īetsey Trotwood: You think I don't know what kind of life you've led this child's mother? It was a woeful day when you first appeared, smirking, making great eyes at her, so you wouldn't say 'Boo!' to a ghost! Murdstone: Miss Trotwood, if you were a gentleman.īetsey Trotwood: BAH! Stuff and nonsense! Don't talk to me! If he is all you say he is, I can at least do as much for him as you have done. Dick, give me your hand.īetsey Trotwood: For your common sense is invaluable.īetsey Trotwood: I'll take my chance with the boy. Dick: I'd have him measured for a suit of clothes directly.īetsey Trotwood: Mr. They made my Mama very unhappy and they never cared for me. Young David Copperfield: Please don't make me leave you, Aunt. If you seek to impede me in any way, if you step between us now, you do so forever.īetsey Trotwood: What does the boy say? Are you ready to go, David? I will deal with him as I think right and dispose of him as I think proper. Murdstone: Merely this: I have come to take my stepson back. I act on them and I say no more about them.īetsey Trotwood: I see. This is the best way of bringing up this particular boy. If he had been your own boy, you would have put him to it just the same, I suppose.

The facts, I propose, speak for themselves.īetsey Trotwood: About this respectable business, a blacking factory, I believe. Murdstone: I placed this boy in a respectable business. Miss Murdstone: But not at all too strong for the situation. Miss Murdstone: Of all the boys in the world, this is the worst boy. Murdstone: This boy, you should know, Miss Trotwood, has a sullen, rebellious spirit, a violent temper and an intractable disposition.

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