Chapter 322

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‘I wonder,’ said Peggotty, who was sometimes seized with a fit of wondering on some most unexpected topic, ‘what’s become of Davy’s great-aunt?’ ‘Lor, Peggotty!’ observed my mother, rousing herself from a reverie, ‘what nonsense you talk!’ ‘Well, but I really do wonder, ma’am,’ said Peggotty. ‘What can have put such a person in your head?’ inquired my mother. ‘Is there nobody else in the world to come there?’ ‘I don’t know how it is,’ said Peggotty, ‘unless it’s on account of being stupid, but my head never can pick and choose its people. They come and they go, and they don’t come and they don’t go, just as they like. I wonder what’s become of her?’ ‘How absurd you are, Peggotty!’ returned my mother. ‘One would suppose you wanted a second visit from her.’ ‘Lord forbid!’ cried Peggotty

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