In this coffer, his riches hid themselves with such a tenacious modesty, that the smallest instalments could only be tempted out by artifice; so that Peggotty had to prepare a long and elaborate scheme, a very Gunpowder Plot, for every Saturday's expenses.
All this time I was so conscious of the waste of any promise I had given, and of my being utterly neglected, that I should have been perfectly miserable, I have no doubt, but for the old books.

They were my only comfort; and I was as true to them as they were to me, and read them over and over I don't know how many times more.
I now approach a period of my life, which I can never lose the remembrance of, while I remember anything: and the recollection of which has often, without my invocation, come before me like a ghost, and haunted happier times.
I had been out, one day, loitering somewhere, in the listless, meditative manner that my way of life engendered, when, turning the corner of a lane near our house, I came upon Mr.Murdstone walking with a gentleman.

I was confused, and was going by them, when the gentleman cried: 'What! Brooks!' 'No, sir, David Copperfield,' I said.
'Don't tell me.

You are Brooks,' said the gentleman.

'You are Brooks of Sheffield.