"He is a partaker of glory at present, Master Copperfield," said Uriah Heep "But we have much to be thankful for. How much have I to be thankful fo n living with Mr. Wickfield!"

As time runs on, David finds that Uriah is obtaining an unbounded influence over Mr. Wickfield, whom he deludes in every possible way, and whose business he designedly perplexes and complicates in order to get it wholly into his own hands; and, furthermore, that he looks with greedy eyes upon Mr. Wickfield's daughter Agnes, to whom David himself is warmly attached. He even goes so far as to boast of this, and to declare his intention of making her his wife.

I asked him, with a better appearance of composure than I could have thought possible a minute before, whether he had made his feelings known to Agnes.

"Oh, no, Master Copperfield!" he returned,-"oh, dear, no! Not to any one but you. You see I am only just emerging from my lowly station. I rest a good deal of hope on her observing how useful I am to her father (for I trust to be very useful to him indeed, Master Copperfield), and how I smooth the way for him, and keep him straight. She's so much attached to her father, Master Copperfield, (oh, what a lovely thing it is in a daughter!) that I think she may come, on his account, to be kind to me."

I fathomed the depth of the rascal's whole scheme, and understood why he laid it bare.

"If you'll have the goodness to keep my secret, Master Copperfield," he pursued, "and not, in general, to go against me, I shall take it as a particular favor. You would n't wish to make unpleasantness. I know what a friendly heart you 've got; but, having only known me on my 'umble footing (on my 'umblest, I should say; for I am very 'umble still), you might, unbeknown, go against me, rather, with my Agnes. I call her mine, you see, Master Copperfield. There's a song that says, 'I 'd crowns resign to call her mine!' I hope to do it, one of these days."

Uriah goes on weaving his meshes around Agnes and her father until he has them completely in his power. But his rascality is at last unravelled and exposed by Mr. Micawber; and Mr. Wickfield not only recovers all the property of which he has been defrauded, but is absolved from all suspicion of any criminal act or intent. Uriah pursues his calling in another part of the country, but is finally arrested for fraud, forgery, and conspiracy, and is sentenced to solitary imprisonment. (Ch. xv-xvii, xix, xxv, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxix, xlii, xlix, lii, liv, lxi.)

Hopkins, Captain.. A prisorer for debt, in the King's Bench Prison, at the time that Mr. Micawber is also confined there. Unler this name is described a certain Captain Porter, who was a fellow-prisoner with Mr. John Dickens in the Marshalsea Prison about the year 1822 (Ch. xi.)

Janet. Miss Betsey Trotwood's handmaid.

xxxix, xliii, lx.)

(Ch. xiii-xv, xxiii

Jip (a contraction of GYPSY). Dora's pet dog. (Ch. xxvi, xxxiii, xxxvi-xxxviii, xli-xliv, xlviii, lii, liii.)

Joram, Mr. The partner and son-in-law of Mr. Omer the under taker. (Ch. ix, xxi, xxiii, xxx, li, lvi.)

Joram, Mrs. See OMER, MISS MINNIE.

Jorkins, Mr. A proctor, partner of Mr. Spenlow. (Ch. xxiii, xxix, xxxv, xxxviii, xxxix.)

He was a mild man of a heavy temperament, whose place in the business was to keep himself in the background, and be constantly exhibited, by name, as the most obdurate and ruthless of men. If a clerk wanted his salary raised, Mr. Jorkins would n't listen to such a proposition; if a client were slow to settle his bill of costs, Mr. Jorkins was resolved to have it paid: and, however painful these things might be (and always were) to the feelings of Mr. Spenlow, Mr. Jorkins would have his bond. The heart and hand of the good angel Spenlow would have been always open, but for the restraining demon Jorkins. As I have grown older, I think I have had experience of some other houses doing business on the principle of Spenlow and Jorkins.

Larkins, Miss. A tall, dark, black-eyed, fine figure of a woman, of about thirty, with whom David Copperfield falls desperately in love when about seventeen. His passion for her is beyond all bounds; but she crushes his hopes by marrying a hop-grower. (Ch. xviii.)

Larkins, Mr. Her father; a gruff old gentleman with a double chin, and one of his eyes immovable in his head. (Ch. xviii.) Littimer. Confidential servant of Steerforth. (Ch. xxi-xxiii, xxviii, xxix, xxxi, xxxii, xlvi, lxi.) See STEERFORTH, JAMES.

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I believe there never existed in his station a more respectable-looking man, He was taciturn, soft-footed, very quiet in his manner, deferential, observant. always at hand when wanted, and never near when not wanted; but his grest claim to consideration was his respectability. He had not a pliant face; he had rather a stiff neck, rather a tight smooth head with short hair clinging to it at the sides, a soft way of speaking, with a peculiar habit of whispering the letter So distinctly, that he seemed to use it oftener than any other man: bit every peculiarity that he had he made respectable. He surrounded himself with an atmosphere of respectability, and walked secure in it. It would have been next to impossible to suspect him of any thing wrong, he was so thoroughly respectable. Nobody could have thought of putting him in a livery, he was so highly respectable. To have imposed any derogatory work upon him would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of a most respectable man. Maldon, Jack. Cousin to Mrs. Doctor Strong; an idle, needy libe tine with a handsome face, a rapid utterance, and a confident bold air. (Ch. xvi, xix, xxxvi, xli, xlv, lxiv.)

Markham. A gay and lively fellow of not more than twenty; friend of Steerforth's. (Ch. xxiv, xxv.)

Markleham, Mrs. Mother of Mrs. Doctor Strong. (Ch. xvi, xix, xxxvi, xlii, xlv, lxiv.)

Our boys used to call her the Old Soldier, on account of her generalship and the skill with which she marshalled great forces of relations against the doctor. She was a little, sharp-eyed woman, who used to wear, when she was dressed, one unchangeable cap, ornamented with some artificial flowers, and two arti ficial butterflies supposed to be hovering about the flowers.

Mealy Potatoes.

(So called on account of his pale complexion.) A boy employed at Murdstone and Grinby's wine-store, with David Copperfield and others, to examine bottles, wash them out, label and cork them, and the like. (Ch. xi.)

Mell, Mr. Charles. An under master at Salem House, Mr. Creakle's school. He is a gaunt, sallow young man, with hollow cheeks, and dry and rusty hair. Mr. Creakle discharges him because it is ascertained that his mother lives on charity in an alms-house. He emigrates to Australia, and finally becomes Doctor Mell of Colonial Salem-House Grammar-School. (Ch. v-vii, lxiii.)

Mell, Mrs. His mother. (Ch. v, vii.)

Micawber, Master Wilkins. Son of Mr. Wilkins Micawber. He has a remarkable head voice, and becomes a chorister-boy in the cathedral at Canterbury. At a later date, he acquires a high reputation as an amateur singer. (Ch. xi, xii, xvii, xxvii, xxxvi, xlii, xlix, lii, liv, lvii, lxiv.)

Micawber, Miss Emma. Daughter of Mr. Wilkins Micawber; afterwards Mrs. Ridger Begs of Port Middlebay, Australia. (Ch. xi, xii, xvii, xxvii, xxxvi, xlii, xlix, lii, liv, lvii, lxiv.) Micawber, Mr. Wilkins. A gentleman - remarkable for his reckless improvidence, his pecuniary involvements, his alternate elevation and depression of spirits, his love of letter-writing and speech-making, his grandiloquent rhetoric, his shabby devices for eking out a genteel living, and his constantly "waiting for something to turn up"-with whom David Copperfield lodges while drudging in the warehouse of Murdstone and Grinby. In this character Mr. Dickens has represented some of the experiences and foibles of his own father, who was for several years in very embarrassed circumstances, and for a time a prisoner for debt in the Marshalsea. But two facts should be borne in mind: first, that Mr. Dickens thus described his father to a friend (set