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I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR.
The first act of business Miss Murdstone performed when the day of the solemnity was over, and light was freely admitted into the house, was to give Peggotty a month's warning.

Much as Peggotty would have disliked such a service, I believe she would have retained it, for my sake, in preference to the best upon earth.

She told me we must part, and told me why; and we condoled with one another, in all sincerity.
As to me or my future, not a word was said, or a step taken.

Happy they would have been, I dare say, if they could have dismissed me at a month's warning too.