David Copperfield

me’,- and that can never fail under this roof, that’s been our
shelter for so many, many year!’
He was quite passive now; and when I heard him crying,
the impulse that had been upon me to go down upon my
knees, and ask their pardon for the desolation I had caused,
and curse Steer- forth, yielded to a better feeling, My over-
charged heart found the same relief, and I cried too.