![]() “Only Brooks of Sheffield,” said Mr Murdstone. I looked up, quickly being curious to know. “Quinion,” said Mr Murdstone, “take care, if you please. Copperfield’s incumbrance?” cried the gentleman. ![]() “And who’s this shaver?” said one of the gentlemen, taking hold of me. Murdstone does this by means of a spontaneously concocted code name (yes, Brooks) and, what’s more, the whole thing is narrated by David himself! So we watch through the eyes of the person who understands almost nothing of what’s going on – yet we understand only too well. In one scene, Mr Murdstone, who has designs on David’s widowed mother, is talking to two of his cronies about David – with David present but wholly unsuspecting. But that didn’t stop him from throwing his young hero in the way of cruel and unscrupulous villains. ![]() ![]() Dickens had a soft spot for the child David Copperfield, who was, in many ways, himself. ![]()
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