David Copperfield Chapter 2 - I Observe

In which we wander through the misty chambers of earliest memory, observing with a child’s bright wonder the gentle figure of a young mother, the homely steadfastness of Peggotty, and the small domestic world that seems at once secure and strangely tremulous. And as new uncertainties steal into that once-quiet household, we sense the first subtle shiftings of fortune that even a watchful child can feel.