#(seriously how do ppl read her as an unsympathetic character? it's so inconsistent w everything else in the book)

[britneyshakespeare]

In the meantime, days and weeks slipped away. I was articled to Spenlow and Jorkins. I had ninety pounds a year (exclusive of my house rent and sundry collateral matters) from my aunt. My rooms were engaged for twelve months certain; and though I still found them dreary of an evening, and the evenings long, I would settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee—which I seem, on looking back, to have taken by the gallon at about this period of my existence. At about this time, too, I made three discoveries: first, that Mrs. Crupp was a martyr to a curious disorder called "the spazzums," which was generally accompanied with inflammation of the nose, and required to be constantly treated with peppermint; secondly, that something peculiar in the temperature of my pantry made the brandy bottles burst; thirdly, that I was alone in the world, and much given to record that circumstance in fragments of English versification.

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Chapter 26: I Fall Into Captivity