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me, something like a religious cross of the Ghost in Hamlet with Richard the Third -- and ended with the very properaspiration that we might be truly grateful. Upon which my sister fixed me with her eye, and said, in a low reproachfulvoice, 'Do you hear that? Be grateful.''Especially,' said Mr Pumblechook, 'be grateful, boy, to them which brought you up by hand.'Mrs Hubble shook her head, and contemplating me with a mournful presentiment that I should come to no good, asked,'Why is it that the young are never grateful? ' This moral mystery seemed too much for the company until Mr Hubbletersely solved it by saying, 'Naterally wicious.' Everybody then murmured 'True!' and looked at me in a particularlyunpleasant and personal manner.Joe's station and influence were something feebler (if possible) when there was company, than when there was none.But he always aided and comforted me when he could, in some way of his own, and he always did so at dinner-time bygiving me gravy, if there were any. There being plenty of graW to-day, Joe spooned into my plate, at this point, abouthalf a pint.A little later on in the dinner, Mr Wopsle reviewed the sermon with some severity, and intimated--in the usualhypothetical case of the Church being 'thrown open' -- what kind of sermon he would have given them. Afterfavouring them with some heads of that discourse, he remarked that he considered the subject of the day's homily,ill-chosen; which was the less excusable, he added, when there were so many subjects 'going about.''True again,' said Uncle Pumblechook. 'You've hit it, sir! Plenty of subjects going about, for them that know how to putsalt upon their tails. That's what's wanted. A man needn't go far to find a subject, if he's ready with his salt-box.' MrPumblechook added, after a short interval of reflection, 'Look at Pork alone. There's a subject! If you want a subject,look at Pork!''True, sir. Many a moral for the young,' returned Mr Wopsle; and I knew he was going to lug me in, before he said it;'might be deduced from that text.'('You listen to this,' said my sister to me, in a severe parenthesis.)Joe gave me some more gravy.'Swine,' pursued Mr Wopsle, in his deepest voice, and pointing his fork at my blushes, as if he were mentioning mychristian name; 'Swine were the companions of the prodigal. The gluttony of Swine is put before us, as an example tothe young.' (I thought this pretty well in him who had been praising up the pork for being so plump and juicy.) 'What is
detestable in a pig, is more detestable in a boy.''Or girl,' suggested Mr Hubble.'Of course, or girl, Mr Hubble,' assented Mr Wopsle, rather irritably, 'but there is no girl present.''Besides,' said Mr Pumblechook, turning sharp on me, 'think what you've got to be grateful for. If you'd been born aSqueaker --''He was,if ever a child was,' said my sister, most emphatically.Joe gave me some more gravy.'Well, but I mean a four-footed Squeaker,' said Mr Pumble- chook. 'If you had been born such, would you have beenhere now? Not you --''Unless in that form,' said Mr Wopsle, nodding towards the dish.'But I don't mean in that form, sir,' returned Mr Pumblechook, who had an objection to being interrupted; 'I mean,enjoying himself with his elders and betters, and improving himself with their conversation, and rolling in the lap ofluxury. Would he have been doing that? No, he wouldn't. And what would have been your destination? ' turn ing on meagain. 'You would have been dis- posed of for so many shillings according to the market price of the article, andDunstable the butcher would have come up to you as you lay in your straw, and he would have whipped you under hisleft arm, and with his right he would have tucked up his frock to get a penknife from out of his waistcoat-pocket, andhe would have shed your blood and had your life. No bringing up by hand then. Not a bit of it!'Joe offered me more gravy, which I was afraid to take.'He was a world of trouble to you, ma'am,' said Mrs Hubble, commiserating my sister.'Trouble?' echoed my sister; 'trouble?' And then entered on a fearful catalogue of all the illnesses I had been guilty of,and all the acts of sleeplessness I had committed, and all the high places I had tumbled from, and all the low places Ihad tumbled into, and all the injuries I had done myself, and all the times she had wished me in my grave, and I hadcontumaciously refused to go there.I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless
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Page 11 and 12: 'Oh-h!' said I, looking at Joe. 'Hu
Page 13 and 14: One black ox, with a white cravat o
Page 15 and 16: 'Did you speak?''I said I was glad
Page 17 and 18: Chapter 4I FULLY expected to find a
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Page 24 and 25: THE apparition of a file of soldier
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Page 37 and 38: I saw that, and said so.''Consequen
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Page 41 and 42: She? I looked at Joe, making the mo
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Page 47 and 48: Estella.'As she was still looking a
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Page 55 and 56: 'Swords!' repeated my sister. 'Wher
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Page 61 and 62: 'That's it,' said Joe.The stranger,
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had once been handsome, but every d
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to the rescue at this point, and sa
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'I don't suffer it to be spoken of.
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'Laws of the game!' said he. Here,
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When the day came round for my retu
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up by hand. Hold up your head, boy,
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At breakfast time my sister declare
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he was there; and took up a little
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'What would present company say to
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My only other remembrances of the g
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As I was getting too big for Mr Wop
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you to the South! -- Keep in sunder
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'No w, master! Sure you're not a go
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no more account than the pale young
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with a change of wind from a certai
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he found her struck down on the flo
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that they had all more or less susp
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to be rather vain of my knowledge,
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on, I was half inclined to shed tea
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and being despised by Estella. I th
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And now, because my mind was not co
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'Come!' said the stranger, 'I'll he
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Amidst a wondering silence, we thre
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any objection to it, this is the ti
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It was understood that you wanted n
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At length I got out, 'Joe, have you
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one evening -- most likely on the e
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Somehow, I was not best pleased wit
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I again warmly repeated that it was
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attention diverted through the wind
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of wine as I had, I should have kno
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'I have come into such good fortune
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never have done to have had an old
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gentleman with one eye, in a velvet
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As to the result, it's a toss-up. I
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'Well, Mas'r Jaggers,' returned Mik
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CASTING my eyes on Mr Wemmick as we
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esides -- addressed themselves fain
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'Lord bless me, you're the prowling
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I told him, and he was attentive un
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'I should like it very much.''Then,
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I had been doing this, in an excess
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invited me to go there, told me no
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'I think I shall trade, also,' said
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On the Monday morning at a quarter
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We were waiting, I supposed, for Mr
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nature of things must marry a title
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'But dear Mrs Pocket,' said Mrs Coi
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me, and danced to and from the baby
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following manner. Mr Pocket, with t
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Chapter 23AFTER two or three days,
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knowing and contradictory toss of h
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'These?' said Wemmick, getting upon
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'Shall I see something very uncommo
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an indigestive single woman, who ca
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'They dread him so much?' said I.'D
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the little place besieged, it would
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moment was come for him to take the
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nails before he put his coat on.The
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Startop sat on the other. It was a
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'There's power here,' said Mr Jagge
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discussion aside with some small pl
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'P.S. He wishes me most particular
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eggs in it, wouldn't hear of partin
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presided of a morning.'Thankee, Sir
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wittles in the company and abode of
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so much fault in me if you think of
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and vile sight it is!'They had been
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The weather was miserably raw, and
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oat with its convict crew waiting f
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my sorrow, often and often, if not
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My eye had been caught by a gun wit
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'When I came in, Miss Havisham, I t
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you once, would be quite unfit comp
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'Then you don't? Very well. It is s
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When she came to that, and to a wil
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'It is Havisham.'This brought us to
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Ah me! I thought those were high an
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I had not got as much further down
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have had senses to perceive it. You
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'Mat a hopeful disposition you have
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there was a time once when my futhe
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celebrated provincial amateur of Ro
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and handed out at the door -- he wa
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the noble and the affluent.'Meanwhi
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having him home to supper? Herbert
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'you're a deep one, Mr Pip! Would y
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for us, Colonel.''Yes it was too st
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The turnkey laughed, and gave us go
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find the way up-stairs, and led us
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'No, no, you may be sure of that,'
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of which I was so ashamed.'What pla
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It was the first time she had ever
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nature into expenses that he could
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consorted with an ink-jar, a hat-pe
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So I would, Handel, only they are s
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sister with much tenderness. But I
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as I would in preference have carri
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'Biddy,' said I, 'I think you might
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'No; I have seen him there, since w
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a crust of bread. 'Biddy,' said I,
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slight notion I might ever have had
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After a pause, I hinted:'There was
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he had a letter or two to write, an
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you may depend upon it.''Mr Pip,' h
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made out this elegant and beautiful
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ill repaid them, and that he might
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that the pig in the back premises b
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mechanically.By-and-by, I noticed W
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The lady with whom Estella was plac
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struggle in her bosom.'At any rate
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upon the ceiling and the wall, I sa
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'Why should I call you mad,' return
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eseeching Estella's attention to he
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Herbert.'I know that lady,' said He
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have caused me a different kind and
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eyes the wider.To overcome the diff
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was still progressing, and everythi
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saw, with a stupid kind of amazemen
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knowing what to do -- for, in my as
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'Have you ever seen a messenger you
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shuddered at, very near to mine.'Ye
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myself. In every single thing I wen
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My first care was to close the shut
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Chapter 39IT was fortunate for me t
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When I had got rid of him, which I
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'With me? No, dear boy.''But there
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and tossed it on the table.'There's
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traps since first he was fledged, a
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with his head on one side, and not
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'It came through Provis,' I replied
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ecorded his win- nings by sticking
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But don't you fret yourself on that
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'What am I fit for? I know only one
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'Handel,' said Herbert, stopping, '
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Chapter 41'DEAR boy and Pip's comra
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'''Yes, master, and I've never been
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''Yes, yes, all right.'' ''You're a
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information he could agen me, and w
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WHY should I pause to ask how much
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my table while he stood before the
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'Very good, sir.'Then, Drummle glan
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I saw him through the window, seizi
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towards numbers of people, and it m
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'Because,' said I, 'I began the ser
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'That you encourage him, and ride o
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common boy whose poor heart you wou
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Divinely Righteous manner.As I had
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I told him.'I'll go round to the ot
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suspect),' I said to Wemmick when h
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for their part, had naturally not b
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from the number of tea- cups, as we
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He seemed to have hurt himself very
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oar, with a prolonged shake at the
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should be carried into execution, a
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In short, I was always full of fear
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connexion with a little girl of nob
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'Saw you, Mr Pip!' he returned. 'Ye
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him! The more I think of him, the m
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'And are not engaged? ''I don't min
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'I didn't say so, Pip. I am putting
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post-office was as indifferent and
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een held by the throat at last and
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once had their refectories and gard
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'So!' said she, assenting with her
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poor heart was young and fresh and
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that I do know your story, and have
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illusion, though it was but momenta
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As I could do no service there, and
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I had started, but not under his to
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(much as he grieved for the child),
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alone restrained my impatience. On
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'Yes?' said Mr Jaggers.'Perhaps I k
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that Wemmick would be instantly dis
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'That you make no admissions.' And
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'A man can't help his feelings, Mr
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'No doubt.''Where?'It had seemed to
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pencil for Herbert, telling him tha
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I had never been struck at so keenl
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must have been there lately and mus
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'Do you know this?' said he, making
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could explain myself to them, or as
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Mill Pond Bank, and Chinks's Basin,
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me, I was lying looking at the ladd
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on the edge of the quarry, and went
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Herbert lay asleep in his bed, and
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for Rotterdam, of which we took goo
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ain't so easy concerning me here, d
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low level of the shore, in a purple
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'He thinks,' said the landlord: a w
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elonged to the Custom House, he sai
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with a white terror on it that I sh
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henceforth while he lived.For now,
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writing or settle- ment in my favou
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'Clara and I have talked about it a
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him out of it. But what I look at,
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engaged in substituting for her gre
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difficulty, which increased daily.
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to have become convinced of his err
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'Dear boy,' he said, as I sat down
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the windows; for, I was in debt, an
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these people, sooner or later to se
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largest, and the carpet had been ta
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'Whose?' said I.'Not, I grant, you,
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'I heerd,' returned Joe, 'as it wer
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now this to you a true friend, say.
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once, I know, that I did for a whil
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THE tidings of my high fortunes hav
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'Hah!' he went on, handing me the b
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out this writing, Joseph. Reward of
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'And Joe, how smart you are!''Yes,
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I sold all I had, and put aside as
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'My dear Biddy, I have forgotten no
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'Were you wondering, as you walked
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