David Copperfield

I have been afraid of myself.’ ‘You are afraid of nothing else, I think,’ said I. ‘Perhaps not, and yet may have enough to be afraid of too,’

On both occasions Fred had felt confident that he should meet the bill himself, having ample funds at disposal in his own hopefulness. You will hardly demand that his confidence should have a basis in external facts; such confidence, we know, is something less coarse and materialistic: it is a comfortable disposition leading us to expect that the w