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head foremost into a party of soldiers with their muskets: one of whom held out a pair of handcuffs to me, saying, ‘Here you are, look sharp, come on!’ 0 Great Expectations
Chapter 5 T he apparition of a file of soldiers ringing down the buttends of their loaded muskets on our door-step, caused the dinner-party to rise from table in confusion, and caused Mrs. Joe re-entering the kitchen empty-handed, to stop short and stare, in her wondering lament of ‘Gracious goodness gracious me, what’s gone - with the - pie!’ The sergeant and I were in the kitchen when Mrs. Joe stood staring; at which crisis I partially recovered the use of my senses. It was the sergeant who had spoken to me, and he was now looking round at the company, with his handcuffs invitingly extended towards them in his right hand, and his left on my shoulder. ‘Excuse me, ladies and gentleman,’ said the sergeant, ‘but as I have mentioned at the door to this smart young shaver’ (which he hadn’t), ‘I am on a chase in the name of the king, and I want the blacksmith.’ ‘And pray what might you want with him?’ retorted my sister, quick to resent his being wanted at all. ‘Missis,’ returned the gallant sergeant, ‘speaking for myself, I should reply, the honour and pleasure of his fine wife’s acquaintance; speaking for the king, I answer, a little job done.’ This was received as rather neat in the sergeant; insomuch that Mr Pumblechook cried audibly, ‘Good again!’ Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 1
Chapter 9 W hen I reached home, my
pence make three and fourpence,’
‘Goodness, uncle! And yet you hav
thing.’ ‘Should you, Pip?’ sa
upon his ‘ed, can’t sit and wri
Chapter 10 T he felicitous idea occ
solved to try it, and that very eve
‘Rum,’ repeated the stranger.
expounded the ties between me and J
unusual circumstance to tell her ab
Chapter 11 A t the appointed time I
was Camilla, very much reminded me
‘Yes; I think you are very pretty
‘There, there, there!’ with the
with her stick; ‘that, where thos
thinking of you in the night - The
speaker. This change had a great in
on this day!’ She stood looking a
he led, as if I had been under a sp
was always knocked down; but, he wo
Chapter 12 M y mind grew very uneas
tion of pushing Miss Havisham in th
could my character fail to be influ
away. There was a most irritating e
Chapter 13 I t was a trial to my fe
‘Which I meantersay, Pip,’ Joe
‘This is wery liberal on your par
‘Well!’ cried my sister, with a
was pushed over by Pumblechook, exa
lent spirits on the road home, and
my hold, I only felt that I was dus
Chapter 15 A s I was getting too bi
ing them that had been much in my h
can’t help yourself—‘ ‘My d
I reminded Joe of my half-holiday.
women I have ever seen, that passio
own, to come back. Miss Sarah Pocke
een running to seed, leaf after lea
den at Camberwell. Orlick, with his
Chapter 16 W ith my head full of Ge
us when we picked him up at the tur
the substitution of Tea for Joe, an
Orlick, without a doubt! She had lo
dy, however. Her shoes came up at t
miserable little shop and the miser
carrying on, I was half inclined to
punishment for belonging to such an
don’t mind my speaking so openly
efore him, to obscure that demonstr
‘Well!’ said the stranger to Mr
terfuge.) ‘Well? Have you found i
when he had surveyed me at his leis
the present possessor of that prope
you at once, I am paid for my servi
chair. He sat astride of the chair
ered his valedictory remarks. They
vally partickler, Pip;’ and then
‘If you had waited another moment
Chapter 19 M orning made a consider
‘You may be sure, dear Joe,’ I
ecalled to me that evening in the l
‘Mr. Trabb,’ said I, ‘it’s
sibly remunerate him for his pains.
ound from the Boar, that I hope you
apprentice, and, in effect, how he
I began packing that same afternoon
‘No, Miss Havisham.’ ‘And Mr.
in taking it fell asleep. Biddy was
Chapter 20 T he journey from our to
who wiped his nose with his sleeve
While I looked about me here, an ex
it was a toss-up. Have you paid Wem
fer him hany termth. Mithter Jagger
which was painted over. ‘Tell him
Chapter 21 C asting my eyes on Mr.
‘Why, you’re a regular cross-ex
London fashion, but said yes. ‘I
ut Barnard’s is musty. This is yo
had sent for me on a trial visit, a
He had not a handsome face, but it
the waiter was not there to watch m
influenced the father’s anger. No
which she afterwards stopped all th
I had grand ideas of the wealth and
with just the same air as he had ta
I deceive myself on a point where m
self. ‘Gracious me, Flopson!’ s
ing out of entirely personal motive
defence, for, before I had been the
much, but in his limited way (he st
instrument were not likely to agree
thus became aware of the mutual rel
house?’ said Mrs. Pocket. ‘Besi
justice. Nor, did I ever regard him
Wemmick was at his desk, lunching -
inkstand, to get this blot upon you
off, when convenient to you. Have y
Chapter 25 B entley Drummle, who wa
tracted expensive habits, and began
to try it on, for love or money.’
‘ - At the back, there’s a pig,
seen the Aged. Never heard of him.
at half-past eight precisely we sta
had done all that, and had gone all
the housekeeper, with the first dis
a pitch little short of ferocity ab
much to drink, and I know we talked
smith on the same side of the way;
Chapter 27 ‘ MY DEAR MR PIP, ‘I
certain things for breakfast that h
pled playbill of a small metropolit
that it should tumble off again soo
emonstrance against this tone. ‘W
known, and understood among friends
Blue Boar’s posting-yard; it was
their coarse mangy ungainly outer s
But I must have lost it longer than
you!’ like and order to dogs - ag
Chapter 29 B etimes in the morning
me a few steps towards the house.
‘Are they any wiser?’ said Sara
ences which had so wrought upon me,
strongly felt. It would have rankle
‘Then you don’t? Very well. It
‘Hear me, Pip! I adopted her to b
asked me how often I had seen Miss
with her hair - which assuredly had
Chapter 30 A fter well considering
him, his teeth loudly chattered in
As confidence was out of the questi
I stopped for a moment to consider
since we have been talking with our
Because it is decidedly the case wi
eputation and that I should be pres
een out a long time and walked an i
nocent and indispensable action did
Meanwhile, Mr. Waldengarver, in a f
- the role (if I may use a French e
‘Halloa, Mr. Pip,’ said he; ‘
and attending to anxious whisperers
should have asked the favour of you
- and so he has ‘em, soul and bod
Chapter 33 I n her furred travellin
‘Yes, I suppose so.’ She answer
expectations in a heap. ‘Two thin
to my visit for any consideration.
Estella, with a sigh, as if she wer
Chapter 34 A s I had grown accustom
his own, and doing a great deal of
his principal, I think. He never di
paying the money. In point of merit
allusion to its heavy black seal an
mediate days in the curious state o
nately stuffing himself, and making
like a shadow and never continueth
tient, and teach myself while I tea
‘Yes, Mr. Pip.’ ‘Not to menti
Chapter 36 H erbert and I went on f
oughly destroyed any slight notion
Jaggers stopped me. ‘I am not pai
eyes again, I found that he had bee
‘Then is it your opinion,’ I in
Chapter 37 D eeming Sunday the best
of the chimney, and the ghostly tum
ed at the possibility of my having
Sunday night; and I rather suspecte
sent the path of virtue, I am justi
Chapter 38 I f that staid old house
when we sat apart at a darkening wi
hurt and diseased, she sat with her
heat of the other, that was almost
‘Who taught me to be hard?’ ret
tatters of old banners that I have
‘Of Richmond, gentlemen,’ said
on; now with encouragement, now wit
mle with any idea of making me - me
Chapter 19 I was three-and-twenty y
was curiously flawed by the wind; a
neither on us is to blame for that.
He had replaced his neckerchief loo
‘How?’ ‘Ah!’ He emptied his
could not have been exceeded if he
was I went for, ‘if it ain’t fo
epugnance; it could have been no wo
dilated until it filled the room, a
As the man made no answer when I as
and daylight, I dozed again; now, w
finger that made me turn hot and si
‘There’s something worth spendi
‘You take it smoothly now,’ sai
or three in the afternoon. He was t
‘Quite, sir.’ ‘I communicated
very grain of the man. The influenc
ed my face, appealing in dumb show
Chapter 41 I n vain should I attemp
as still and lifeless as the stairc
ignorant determined man, who has lo
‘And you have, and are bound to h
Chapter 42 ‘ Dear boy and Pip’s
acquainted wi’ a man whose skull
lodging, in case he should ever get
wi’ - Stop though! I ain’t brou
etwixt us? And when we’re sentenc
Chapter 43 W hy should I pause to a
only one night, and, on my return,
ly, that if my own shoulder had urg
‘Wai-ter!,’ said Drummle, by wa
Chapter 44 I n the room where the d
‘But when I fell into the mistake
settling her hands upon her stick,
‘It is in my nature,’ she retur
on this, you visionary boy - or man
my name. ‘I was not quite sure, s
the night, we stared at one another
o’clock. The little servant happe
‘I wouldn’t go into that,’ sa
him my opinion that it was not safe
mended that even if you came back l
Chapter 46 E ight o’clock had str
ways at it.’ ‘At rum?’ said I
up together, and taken hot, and it
fire, I asked him first of all whet
when the time comes you may be cert
in a week, and he never brought me
hope that was rent and given to the
and who wouldn’t hear of anybody
had ascended to the clouds in a lar
on their faces, when there was an o
Chapter 48 T he second of the two m
Wemmick?’ Mr. Jaggers asked, soon
‘was rather painful to me.’ The
ably unscrewed.’ I felt that this
case. You may be sure,’ said Wemm
Chapter 49 P utting Miss Havisham
‘You said, speaking for your frie
there, and she took from her pocket
influences; that, her mind, broodin
long; you know what time the clocks
withdrawing my head to go quietly a
edly of what had happened, though w
was much harder to strive against t
a name,’ said Herbert, ‘but, sh
‘I think in my seventh year.’
into the City, and took my way to L
Mr. Jaggers looked at me inquiringl
more frank and manly with me. I rem
of his defence, how the fact stood
I think it would hardly serve her,
Chapter 52 F rom Little Britain, I
‘No doubt.’ ‘Where?’ It had
would be too close upon the time of
no height at all.’ ‘Does he eve
Chapter 53 I t was a dark night, th
just within the shelter of the door
‘Why have you lured me here?’
ever know what I had suffered, how
made a picture of the street with h
Old Orlick’s a match for you and
‘but ain’t he just pale though!
Among the loungers under the Boar
more upon my mind than a fear or a
Chapter 54 I t was one of those Mar
in those days than it is in these;
est of gentlemen in a foreign count
care to lose none of it, and our st
the idea that we were followed. As
‘I knows what I thinks,’ observ
mine, that he and Startop had had a
up, much as Provis was, and seemed
The look-out was kept, long after a
tion; but, it was dreadful to think
Chapter 55 H e was taken to the Pol
prised than he thought. ‘We shall
week. ‘And Clara?’ said I. ‘T
erate allowance, he said, with noth
That discreet damsel was attired as
shook hands with him, and wished hi
an impression, from his manner or f
That miserable man would seem for a
this association. The daily visits
A gentle pressure on my hand. ‘Yo
ing the lamp, possessed by the idea
still settled down into Joe. I open
with pleasure to see the pride with
‘Miss Sarah,’ said Joe, ‘she
into the country, where the rich su
sary? There’s subjects enough as
mine. Ah! Had I given Joe no reason
good hand, and said, in what I thou
Chapter 58 T he tidings of my high
salt on. In happier times,’ addre
say to Joseph. Here is Squires of t
larks were soaring high over the gr
had never breathed this last baffle
then ceased to tremble under old Bi
‘No, no,’ said Biddy, gently.
Those attractions in it, I had seen
e. I have been bent and broken, but