David Copperfield Chapter 18 - A Retrospect

In which we traverse the tender follies and ardent passions of youth, mingling schoolroom rivalries with the flutterings of first love and societal engagements. And in the course of these promenades, friendships are forged and broken, and the hero comes into his own, amid the gnashing teeth of youthful antagonists and the strange ceremonies of adulthood’s approach.