Dickens on the cares of childhood

Here is how Charles Dickens conveys the whole compass of a child's concerns. In the scene, young David Copperfield is playing with Em'ly, the orphaned niece who lives with Copperfield's housemaid:

"As to any sense of inequality, or youthfulness, or other difficulty in our way, little Em'ly and I had no such trouble, because we had no future. We made no more provision for growing older, than we did for growing younger." (Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 3, "I Have a Change")