A note on the text: The story has grown by a few graphs this year. It has more than doubled in length over the past 11 years. There once was a mixture of book text and performance script. Over time Dickens' live script was edited out, but I suspect there may still be a bit of left. Hope you enjoy!

My aunt, with her own watch in her hand, did the like. When the time was expired, Traddles gave her his arm; and we all went out together to the old house, without saying one word on the way.
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With which, to my infinite surprise, he included us all in a comprehensive bow, and disappeared; his manner being extremely distant, and his face extremely pale.
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and then to receive the present company, inquiring for Miss Wickfield, at the office of Wickfield and Heep, whose Stipendiary I am.’
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is still your fellow-man, though crushed out of his original form by individual errors, and the accumulative force of a combination of circumstances?’
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‘Perhaps, under such circumstances, madam and gentlemen,’ said Mr. Micawber, ‘you will do me the favour to submit yourselves, for the moment, to the direction of one who, however unworthy to be regarded in any other light but as a Waif and Stray upon the shore of human nature,

and had shared to some extent in its festivities; and had remembered those he cared for at a distance, and had known that they delighted to remember him. 

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‘It is undoubtedly the fact, Copperfield,’ said Traddles, to whom I looked in surprise. ‘Mr. Micawber has consulted me in reference to what he has in contemplation; and I have advised him to the best of my judgement.’
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‘Madam,’ returned Mr. Micawber, ‘I trust you will shortly witness an eruption. Mr. Traddles, I have your permission, I believe, to mention here that we have been in communication together?’

‘Dick,’ said my aunt, ‘attention!’
Mr. Dick recovered himself, with a blush.
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Mr. Dixon was so well pleased with his new name, and appeared to think it so obliging in Mr. Micawber to confer it upon him, that he shook hands with him again, and laughed rather childishly.

‘Not for the world, my good sir!’ cried Mr. Micawber, stopping him on his way to the bell; ‘appetite and myself, Mr. Dixon, have long been strangers.’

and I could not meditate enough upon the lesson that I read in Mrs. Gummidge, and the new experience she unfolded to me.
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and he having fallen asleep in perfect exhaustion, she broke into a half-suppressed fit of sobbing and crying, and taking me to the door, said, ‘Ever bless you, Mas’r Davy, be a friend to him, poor dear!’
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