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One thing more, I had to do, before yielding myself to the shock of these emotions. It was, to conceal1 what had occurred, from those who were going away; and to dismiss them on their voyage in happy ignorance. In this, no time was to be lost.
I took Mr. Micawber aside that same night, and confided2 to him the task of standing3 between Mr. Peggotty and intelligence of the late catastrophe4. He zealously5 undertook to do so, and to intercept6 any newspaper through which it might, without such precautions, reach him.
'If it penetrates7 to him, sir,' said Mr. Micawber, striking himself on the breast, 'it shall first pass through this body!'
Mr. Micawber, I must observe, in his adaptation of himself to a new state of society, had acquired a bold buccaneering air, not absolutely lawless, but defensive8 and prompt. One might have supposed him a child of the wilderness9, long accustomed to live out of the confines of civilization, and about to return to his native wilds.
He had provided himself, among other things, with a complete suit of oilskin, and a straw hat with a very low crown, pitched or caulked10 on the outside. In this rough clothing, with a common mariner's telescope under his arm, and a shrewd trick of casting up his eye at the sky as looking out for dirty weather, he was far more nautical11, after his manner, than Mr. Peggotty. His whole family, if I may so express it, were cleared for action. I found Mrs. Micawber in the closest and most uncompromising of

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eldest
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heyday
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beverage
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entreat
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pensively
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naval
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attains
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eminence
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eyebrows
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embarkation
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eminently
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