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` Have you been studying much law lately ? ' I asked , to change the subject . ` Oh , Master Copperfield , ' he said , with an air of self-denial , ` my reading is hardly to be called study . I have passed an hour or two in the evening , sometimes , with Mr. Tidd . ' ` Rather hard , I suppose ? ' said I. ` He is hard to me sometimes , ' returned Uriah . ` But I do n't know what he might be to a gifted person . '