O Agnes, O my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so
may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss,
still find thee near me, pointing upward! (added
by Helen)
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. (added
by TTRACY)
What an idle time! What an insubstantial, happy, foolish time! Of all the times of mine that Time has in his grip, there is none that in one retrospect I can smile at half so much, and think of half so
tenderly.
No. I lay in my basket, and my mother lay in her bed; but Betsey Trotwood Copperfield was for ever in the land of dreams and shadows, the tremendous region whence I had so lately travelled; and the light upon the window of our room shone out upon the earthly bourne of all such travellers, and the mound above the ashes and the dust that once was he, without whom I had never
been.
