“Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Dinner over, we produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. For there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
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