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==In the novel== [[David Copperfield (character)|David]] first meets the 15-year-old Heep when he comes to live with Mr. Wickfield and his daughter [[Agnes Wickfield|Agnes]]. Uriah is a law clerk working for Mr. Wickfield. He realises that his widowed employer has developed a severe [[alcoholism|drinking problem]] and turns it to his advantage. Uriah encourages Wickfield's drinking, tricks him into thinking he has committed financial wrongdoing while drunk, and [[blackmail]]s him into making Uriah a partner in his law office. He admits to David (whom he hates) that he intends to manipulate Agnes into marrying him. Uriah miscalculates when he hires [[Wilkins Micawber|Mr. Micawber]] as a clerk, assuming Micawber will never risk his own financial security by exposing Uriah's transgressions. Yet Micawber is honest, and he, David, and Tommy Traddles confront Uriah with proof of his frauds. They let Uriah go free only after he has (reluctantly) agreed to resign his position and return the money that he has stolen. Later in the novel, David encounters Uriah for the last time. In prison for bank fraud and awaiting [[Penal transportation|transportation]], Uriah acts like a repentant model prisoner. However, in conversation with David, he reveals himself to remain full of malice.
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