About this story
His firmness sets you washing bottles in a London warehouse before your aunt Betsey claims you at Dover; Canterbury gives you Agnes and Uriah Heep's umbleness. Dora, the child-wife, fades as the Yarmouth tempest takes Ham swimming to the wreck and Steerforth ashore at dusk. Sixty-four chapters carry you from a boat-house bedroom to Agnes at the minster window, pointing upward.
How it opens
The Rookery's red walls held a parlour of bright windows, a kitchen fire, and rooms too large at night.
Beyond the garden, the churchyard kept your father's stone where your mother could see it from the path.
Davy, your book is upside down, unless crocodiles have learned to walk on ceilings.
Clara CopperfieldLet him invent a better country for them if the printed one proves disappointing.
Choose
The crocodiles are hiding from Peggotty's needle.
I was looking at the picture before deciding the words.