David Copperfield (Excerpt)
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Chapter one I am born Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life or whether that station will be held by anybody else. These pages must show to begin my life With the beginning of my life, I record that I was born as I have been informed and believe. On a Friday at 12 o'clock at night, it was remarked that the clock began to strike and I began to cry simultaneously in consideration of the day, an hour of my birth. It was declared by the nurse and buy some sage woman in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before. There was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits both these gifts inevitably attaching as they believed tto all unlucky infants of either gender born towards the small hours on a Friday night. On the second branch of the question, I will only remark that unless I ran through that part of my inheritance while I was still a baby, I have not come into it yet, but I do not at all complain of having been kept out of this property on if anybody else should be in the present enjoyment of it, he is heartily welcome to keep it.