Chapter 5, David Copperfield "I had now leisure to examine the purse. It was a stiff leather purse, with a snap, and had three bright shillings in it, which Peggotty had evidently polished up with whitening, for my greater delight." Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo "But its most precious contents were two half-crowns folded together in a bit of paper, on which was written, in my mother’s hand, ‘For Davy. With my love.’" Aww. Who doesn't love an early Victoria half-crown?