Question

In this excerpt from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, which sentence expresses the idea that the poor should be submissive to others?
Now confess, Master Copperfield, that you haven't liked me quite as I have liked you.

Father and me was both brought up at a foundation school for boys; and mother, she was likewise brought up at a public, sort of charitable, establishment.

We was to be umble to this person, and umble to that; and to pull off our caps here, and to make bows there; and always to know our place, and abase ourselves before our betters

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family.

Answer 1

We was to be umble to this person, and umble to that; and to pull off our caps here, and to make bows there; and always to know our place, and abase ourselves before our betters.

Answer 2

We was to be umble to this person, and umble to that; and to pull off our caps here, and to make bows there; and always to know our place, and abase ourselves before our betters