“Oh! That’s your partiality!” laughed Traddles. “But, indeed, I am in a most enviable state. I work hard, and read law insatiably. I get up at five every morning, and don’t mind it at all. I hide the girls in the daytime, and make merry with them in the evening. And I assure you I am quite sorry that they are going home on Tuesday, which is the day before the first day of Michaelmas Term. But here,” said Traddles, breaking off in his confidence, and speaking aloud, “ are the girls! Mr. Copperfield, Miss Crewler⁠—Miss Sarah⁠—Miss Louisa⁠—Margaret and Lucy!”