The Kitchen Maid

The Kitchen Maid
The Lady of Shalott
the night watch by rembrandt
the Night Watch
'Gentlemen, I have shown you my heart. I am sure you will respect it. What we have said tonight is never to be said more. Wickfield, give me an old friend's arm upstairs!' ¡¡¡¡Mr. Wickfield hastened to him. Without interchanging a word they went slowly out of the room together, Uriah looking after them. ¡¡¡¡'Well, Master Copperfield!' said Uriah, meekly turning to me. 'The thing hasn't took quite the turn that might have been expected, for the old Scholar - what an excellent man! - is as blind as a brickbat; but this family's out of the cart, I think!' ¡¡¡¡I needed but the sound of his voice to be so madly enraged as I never was before, and never have been since. ¡¡¡¡'You villain,' said I, 'what do you mean by entrapping me into your schemes? How dare you appeal to me just now, you false rascal, as if we had been in discussion together?' ¡¡¡¡As we stood, front to front, I saw so plainly, in the stealthy exultation of his face, what I already so plainly knew;
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I mean that he forced his confidence upon me, expressly to make me miserable, and had set a deliberate trap for me in this very matter; that I couldn't bear it. The whole of his lank cheek was invitingly before me, and I struck it with my open hand with that force that my fingers tingled as if I had burnt them.