It was too much for Mrs. Joe, who immediately rose. “I tell you what, young fellow,” said she, “I didn’t bring you up by hand to badger people’s lives out. It would be blame to me and not praise, if I had. People are put in the Hulks
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“Now, Biddy,” said I, “I am very sorry to see this in you. I did not expect to see this in you. You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. You are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can’t help showing it.” “If you have the heart to think so,” returned Biddy, “say so. Say so over and over again, if you have the heart to think so.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has Great Expectations.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“When I said that I only came to see how Miss Havisham was, Sarah evidently deliberated whether or no she should send me about my business.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“a spectacle of imbecility only to be equalled by himself.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“and my first decided experience of the stupendous power of money was, that it had morally laid upon his back Trabb’s boy.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
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