Faith Moore

Here's what he says.

I got to know what humbleness did and I took to it.

i ate humble pie with an appetite i stopped at the humble point of my learning and says i hold hard when you offered to teach me latin i knew better people like to be above you says father keep yourself down i am very humble to the present moment master copperfield but i've got a little power

Okay, so he's saying that his humbleness is a strategy.

If he never looks like he's trying to rise above his station, he can rise above his station without anyone noticing until he's already at the top.

So there's a way in which Uriah is turning out to be potentially the main villain of this whole story, because as Elizabeth says, Uriah is currently a threat to a lot of the people that David cares about.

Not all, at least not at the moment, but lots.

Mr. McCauber,

Seems to be very much under Uriah's sway at the moment.

David feels that Mr. McCobber is more reserved than usual and that his allegiance to Uriah is probably the reason for that.

Here's what he says.

I clearly perceived that there was something interposed between him and me since he had come into his new functions, which prevented our getting at each other as we used to do and quite altered the character of our intercourse.

And Mr. Macawber implies that Uriah has been giving him money when he needs it as a kind of advance on his salary, so that Mr. Macawber is staying out of debt, except for the debts that he now owes to Uriah, which doesn't bode well because if Mr. Macawber is in debt to Uriah, then Uriah can control or manipulate him or otherwise harm him, right?

He can hold those debts over him.

So David's friend, Mr. McCauber, could potentially become Uriah's victim in some way.

Uriah is clearly a bad influence on Mr. Wickfield.

He's obviously using Mr. Wickfield's alcoholism to keep him drunk and confused and stuff so that he can take over the business himself.

Mr. McCauber says that Mr. Wickfield is obsolete, right?

That's the word he uses.

So Uriah has obviously taken over the whole firm and Mr. Wickfield has been kind of pushed to