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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“Mr. Pumblechook made out, after carefully surveying the premises, that he had first got upon the roof of the forge, and had then got upon the roof of the house, and had then let himself down the kitchen chimney by a rope made of his bedding cut into strips; and as Mr. Pumblechook was very positive and drove his own chaise-cart—over Everybody—it was agreed that it must be so.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“So new to him,” she muttered, “so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us! Call Estella.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don’t look to me to put it together again.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
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