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Accordingly I was called out of school next forenoon , and found Mr. Micawber in the parlour ; who had called to say that the dinner would take place as proposed . When I asked him if the remittance had come , he pressed my hand and departed . As I was looking out of window that same evening , it surprised me , and made me rather uneasy , to see Mr. Micawber and Uriah Heep walk past , arm in arm : Uriah humbly sensible of the honour that was done him , and Mr. Micawber taking a bland delight in extending his patronage to Uriah . But I was still more surprised , when I went to the little hotel next day at the appointed dinner-hour , which was four o'clock , to find , from what Mr. Micawber said , that he had gone home with Uriah , and had drunk brandy-and-water at Mrs. Heep 's . ` And I 'll tell you what , my dear Copperfield , ' said Mr. Micawber , ` your friend Heep is a young fellow who might be attorney-general . If I had known that young man , at the period when my difficulties came to a crisis , all I can say is , that I believe my creditors would have been a great deal better managed than they were . ' I hardly understood how this could have been , seeing that Mr. Micawber had paid them nothing at all as it was ; but I did not like to ask .