... Peggotty resolves to follo her, find her, and bring her back. He meets, unsatisfactorily, proud Mrs Steerforth and the infuriated Rosa Dartle. Aunt Betsey arrives in London ith Mr Dick, and announces that she is ruined. David starts ork ith great determination, as a part- time secretary to Doctor Strong. At the same time he teaches himself shorthand. After many struggles, he becomes a parliamentary reporter. Mr Spenlo has learned of his daughters secret engagement, through her companion, Jane Murdstone, and tells David he forbids it. But he dies suddenly that night, and Dora moves to live ith her aunts. David is alloed to visit her there. Eventually his hopes are fulfilled and he and Dora are married.Previously, Uriah Heep appeared in London, seeming to have Mr ickfield in his poer, and still hoping, as he has told David, to marry Agnes. After Davids marriage, he returns, and, makes unpleasant suggestions concerning Doctor Strongs young ife Annie and her idle cousin Jack Maldon. Doctor Strong denies these, but a shado falls beteen him and Annie. ith the sensitive help of Mr Dick, the truth is revealed, and they are reconciled.From Steerforths servant, Littimer, David hears that Steerforth has abandoned Emily. He passes this nes on to Mr Peggotty, ho occasionally returns to London during his quest for his niece. Together, they find her unfortunate friend, Martha Endell, and ask her to help them. hen Emily returns to London, Martha finds her, and at last she and Mr Peggotty are happily re-united. They decide to emigrate to Australia, taking ith them Mrs Gummidge and, eventually, Martha as ell. For some time, Micaber, no orking as a clerk for Heep, behaves strangely. Then he calls David and his aunt to Canterbury, and, ith his usual great eloquence, accuses Heep of many frauds and crimes against Mr ickfield. ith the help of the reliable Traddles, Uriah Heep is crushed. Micaber is lent money to ease his financial difficulties he and his family accept the suggestion of emigrating. David has become a successful author, and gives up his job as a parliamentary reporter. His marriage to Dora, though happy, is marred because she is so completely impractical. Realising that it is selfish to try to form her mind, David is reconciled and loves her for herself, but still feels a sense of loss and incompleteness in their relationship. Dora loses a child and is afterards very ill. Her illness continues she eakens sloly, and dies.David decides to take his grief abroad. But first, he takes a message from Emily to Ham in Yarmouth. He arrives there during a great storm, and itnesses the droning of Steerforth in a reck just off the coast, and the death of Ham in attempting to rescue him. He breaks the nes to Mrs Steerforth and Rosa Dartle, but conceals it from Mr Peggotty and Emily. He says fareell to them, and to the Micabers, before they all depart for Australia. David anders sadly abroad. His reputation as a novelist gros. He is consoled by a letter from Agnes, and returns to Britain here he finds Traddles no practising as a layer and happily married at last to his Sophy. ith Traddles, he visits a prison and finds that to of the convicts are Heep and Littimer. David realises hat he had long been blind to that he has alays loved Agnes ickfield, and that she has alays been the light of his life. His undisciplined heart had led him astray. No he is sure that Agnes is involved ith someone else, and decides he must not interfere. At last this misunderstanding is cleared up. David and Agnes declare their mutual love, and are married. Agnes reveals that this as Doras dying ish.Ten years later, Mr Peggotty returns from Australia, ith nes of the emigrants, ho have all made a success of their ne lives. Micaber has even become a magistrate. David remains very happily married to Agnes. Aunt Betsey and Peggotty help to look after their children. ith Agnes, David Copperfield has est ... Download