disadvantage. That disadvantage is not diminished, when that pressure necessitates the drawing of stipendiary emoluments, before those emoluments are strictly due and payable. All I can say is, that my friend Heep has responded to appeals to which I need not more particularly refer, in a manner calculated to redound equally to the honour of his head, and of his heart.”
“I should not have supposed him to be very free with his money either,” I observed.
“Pardon me!” said Mr. Micawber, with an air of constraint, “I speak of my friend Heep as I have experience.”
“I am glad your experience is so favourable,” I returned.
“You are very obliging, my dear Copperfield,” said Mr. Micawber; and hummed a tune.
“Do you see much of Mr. Wickfield?” I asked, to change the subject.
“Not much,” said Mr. Micawber, slightingly. “ Mr. Wickfield is, I dare say, a man of very excellent intentions; but he is—in short, he is obsolete.”
“I am afraid his partner seeks to make him so,” said I.