THE PERSONAL HISTORY, ADVENTURES, EXPERIENCE, AND OBSERVATION OF DAVID COPPERFIELD THE YOUNGER. OF BLUNDERSTONE ROOKERY. (WHICH HE NEVER MEANT TO BE PUBLISHED ON ANY ACCOUNT.) CHAPTER X. I become neglected, and am provided for CHAPTER XI.、 I begin life on my account, and don't like it CHAPTER XII. Liking life on my own account no better, I form CHAPTER XIII. The sequel of my resolution CHAPTER XIV. My aunt makes up her mind about me CHAPTER XVI. I am a new boy in more senses than one THE PERSONAL HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE OF DAVID COPPERFIELD THE YOUNGER. CHAPTER I. 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 twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously. In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women 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, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night. David Copperfield. I, 1 |