Chapter IX

Time: David’s birthday (in March)

Events:

David’s mother and brother die.

David returns home for the funeral.

Chapter X

Miss Murdstone fires Peggotty.

When Peggotty leaves Blunderstone Rookery, she takes David with her to Yarmouth for two weeks. Mr Barkis takes them there and wooes Peggotty.

Peggotty discusses her possible marriage to Barkis with David. It would have three advantages:

· She would be independent.

· She would live near David.

· She could visit him easily thanks to Mr Barkis’s horse and cart.

David renews his relationship with Little Em’ly, although they are a little less intimate.

Peggotty marries Barkis. Peggotty sets up a room for David in their house.

Peggotty discovers that her husband is “a little near”, in other words miserly.

David returns to Blunderstone Rookery where he is neglected.

Finally Mr Quinion, who runs Mr Murdstone’s counting house in London, gives David a job.

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