Great Expectations

I give Pirrip as my fathers family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister, Mrs. Joe...

The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the...

Hah. said Mrs. Joe, restoring Tickler to his station. Churchyard, indeed. You may well say...

Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy; but when, in the case of a boy, that...

There was a door in the kitchen, communicating with the forge; I unlocked and unbolted that door,...

Well, said he, I believe you. Youd be but a fierce young hound indeed, if at your time of life you...

We were to have a superb dinner, consisting of a leg of pickled pork and greens, and a pair of...

Among this good company I should have felt myself, even if I hadnt robbed the pantry, in a false...

O Heavens, it had come at last. He would find it was weak, he would say it was weak, and I was...

The apparition of a file of soldiers ringing down the but ends of their loaded muskets on our door...

As I watched them while they all stood clustering about the forge, enjoying themselves so much, I...

Water was splashing, and mud was flying, and oaths were being sworn, and blows were being struck,...

The two were kept apart, and each walked surrounded by a separate guard. I had hold of Joes hand...

At the time when I stood in the churchyard reading the family tombstones, I had just enough...

Well, Pip, said Joe, taking up the poker, and settling himself to his usual occupation when he was...

Stay a bit. I know what youre a going to say, Pip; stay a bit. I dont deny that your sister comes...

And couldnt she ask Uncle Pumblechook if he knew of a boy to go and play there. Isnt it just barely...

She said it so finally, and in such an undiscussible way, that Mr. Pumblechook, though in a...

It was when I stood before her, avoiding her eyes, that I took note of the surrounding objects in...

I took the opportunity of being alone in the courtyard to look at my coarse hands and my common...

She laughed contemptuously, pushed me out, and locked the gate upon me. I went straight to Mr....

Thats true, Mum, said Mr. Pumblechook, with a grave nod. Thats the state of the case, for that much...

Im sorry there werent a flag, Pip. Whether that might be or mightnt be, is a thing as cant be...

He was a secret looking man whom I had never seen before. His head was all on one side, and one of...

I thanked him, staring at him far beyond the bounds of good manners, and holding tight to Joe. He...

I divined that my coming had stopped conversation in the room, and that its other occupants were...

I crossed the staircase landing, and entered the room she indicated. From that room, too, the...

Oh, yes, yes. cried Camilla, whose fermenting feelings appeared to rise from her legs to her bosom....

At length, not coming out of her distraught state by degrees, but in an instant, Miss Havisham...

My heart failed me when I saw him squaring at me with every demonstration of mechanical nicety, and...

On the broad landing between Miss Havishams own room and that other room in which the long table...

She said no more at the time; but she presently stopped and looked at me again; and presently...

It was quite in vain for me to endeavour to make him sensible that he ought to speak to Miss...

The Justices were sitting in the Town Hall near at hand, and we at once went over to have me bound...

For, though it includes what I proceed to add, all the merit of what I proceed to add was Joes. It...

But Joe had got the idea of a present in his head and must harp upon it. Or even, said he, if you...

What did you say. cried my sister, beginning to scream. What did you say. What did that fellow...

In effect, we had not walked many yards further, when the well remembered boom came towards us,...

It was horrible to think that I had provided the weapon, however undesignedly, but I could hardly...

So unchanging was the dull old house, the yellow light in the darkened room, the faded spectre in...

Instead of that, said I, plucking up more grass and chewing a blade or two, see how I am going on....

When we came near the churchyard, we had to cross an embankment, and get over a stile near a sluice...

What. You wont answer the question, yes or no. Now, Ill try you again. Throwing his finger at him...

Finding that he could not see us very well from where he sat, he got up, and threw one leg over the...

No, my young friend, he interrupted, shaking his head and frowning and smiling both at once, no,...

I thanked him and ran home again, and there I found that Joe had already locked the front door and...

Biddy said no more. Handsomely forgiving her, I soon exchanged an affectionate good night with her...

Somehow, I was not best pleased with Joes being so mightily secure of me. I should have liked him...

But, morning once more brightened my view, and I extended my clemency to Biddy, and we dropped the...

After this memorable event, I went to the hatters, and the bootmakers, and the hosiers, and felt...

We drank all the wine, and Mr. Pumblechook pledged himself over and over again to keep Joseph up to...

Sarah Pocket conducted me down, as if I were a ghost who must be seen out. She could not get over...

We Britons had at that time particularly settled that it was treasonable to doubt our having and...

I dropped into the office to ask if Mr. Jaggers had come in yet, and I found he had not, and I...

The window indicated was the office window. We all three went to it, behind the wire blind, and...

Mr. Pocket, Juniors, idea of Shortly was not mine, for I had nearly maddened myself with looking...

Herbert Pocket had a frank and easy way with him that was very taking. I had never seen any one...

Why I was trying to pack mine into my tumbler, I am wholly unable to say. I only know that I found...

I shall not rest satisfied with merely employing my capital in insuring ships. I shall buy up some...

I found, now I had leisure to count them, that there were no fewer than six little Pockets present,...

By degrees I learnt, and chiefly from Herbert, that Mr. Pocket had been educated at Harrow and at...

We all looked awkwardly at the tablecloth while this was going on. A pause succeeded, during which...

When these points were settled, and so far carried out as that I had begun to work in earnest, it...

O yes, he returned, these are all gifts of that kind. One brings another, you see; thats the way of...

I had not seen Mr. Wemmick for some weeks, when I thought I would write him a note and propose to...

At the back, theres a pig, and there are fowls and rabbits; then, I knock together my own little...

There was a neat little girl in attendance, who looked after the Aged in the day. When she had laid...

She set the dish on, touched my guardian quietly on the arm with a finger to notify that dinner was...

Ill tell you, however, said I, whether you want to know or not. We said that as you put it in your...

However, I came into town on the Monday night to be ready for Joe, and I got up early in the...

Were it yesterday afternoon. said Joe, after coughing behind his hand, as if he had had time to...

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one...

At length, it was voted that there was no help for the angry gentleman, and that he must either go...

I entertain a conviction, based upon large experience, that if in the days of my prosperity I had...

She was in her chair near the old table, in the old dress, with her two hands crossed on her stick,...

I am serious, said Estella, not so much with a frown for her brow was smooth as with a darkening of...

Ill tell you, said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, what real love is. It is blind...

Of the manner and extent to which he took our trumps into custody, and came out with mean little...

But unless I had taken the life of Trabbs boy on that occasion, I really do not even now see what I...

I should think it was a strong point, said Herbert, and I should think you would be puzzled to...

On the first floor, said Herbert. Which was not at all what I meant, for I had intended my question...

I dont know what he had looked like, except a funeral; with the addition of a large Danish sun or...

I am to come to London the day after to morrow by the midday coach. I believe it was settled you...

All right, said Wemmick, they shall be taken care of. Good afternoon, Colonel. Good bye. They shook...

I am going to live, said she, at a great expense, with a lady there, who has the power or says she...

I rang for the tea, and the waiter, reappearing with his magic clue, brought in by degrees some...

Mr. Pocket was out lecturing; for, he was a most delightful lecturer on domestic economy, and his...

Every morning, with an air ever new, Herbert went into the City to look about him. I often paid him...

We shut our outer door on these solemn occasions, in order that we might not be interrupted. I had...

Which I meantersay, Pip, Joe whispered me, as we were being what Mr. Trabb called formed in the...

They are very slight, poor thing. She had been in one of her bad states though they had got better...

I had taken care to have it well understood in Little Britain when my birthday was. On the day...

Mr. Jaggers shook his head, not in negativing the question, but in altogether negativing the notion...

Mr. Pip, he replied, with gravity, Walworth is one place, and this office is another. Much as the...

I was modestly wondering whether my utmost ingenuity would have enabled me to say anything that...

The Ageds reading reminded me of the classes at Mr. Wopsles great aunts, with the pleasanter...

I saw her often at Richmond, I heard of her often in town, and I used often to take her and the...

O, look at her, look at her. cried Miss Havisham, bitterly; Look at her so hard and thankless, on...

It was with a depressed heart that I walked in the starlight for an hour and more, about the...

Now, if I could have believed that she favoured Drummle with any idea of making me me wretched, I...

I stood with my lamp held out over the stair rail, and he came slowly within its light. It was a...

He had replaced his neckerchief loosely, and had stood, keenly observant of me, biting a long end...

I could not have spoken one word, though it had been to save my life. I stood, with a hand on the...

My first care was to close the shutters, so that no light might be seen from without, and then to...

This course I decided on while I was yet groping about in the darkness for the means of getting a...

He ate in a ravenous way that was very disagreeable, and all his actions were uncouth, noisy, and...

Well, he returned, there aint many. Nor yet I dont intend to advertise myself in the newspapers by...

I communicated to Magwitch in New South Wales when he first wrote to me from New South Wales the...

This is written of, I am sensible, as if it had lasted a year. It lasted about five days. Expecting...

The chair that Provis had occupied still remaining where it had stood, for he had a barrack way...

And you have, and are bound to have, that tenderness for the life he has risked on your account,...

Tramping, begging, thieving, working sometimes when I could, though that warnt as often as you may...

Compeyson took it easy as a good riddance for both sides. Him and me was soon busy, and first he...

Why should I pause to ask how much of my shrinking from Provis might be traced to Estella. Why...

No, said he, not particularly. I am going out for a ride in the saddle. I mean to explore those...

I have found out who my patron is. It is not a fortunate discovery, and is not likely ever to...

I should have said this sooner, but for my long mistake. It induced me to hope that Miss Havisham...

Out of my thoughts. You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I...

I had left directions that I was to be called at seven; for it was plain that I must see Wemmick...

And him I found. Without mentioning any names or going into any details, I gave him to understand...

Eight oclock had struck before I got into the air, that was scented, not disagreeably, by the chips...

There was something so natural and winning in Claras resigned way of looking at these stores in...

Herbert, who had been looking at the fire and pondering, here said that something had come into his...

My worldly affairs began to wear a gloomy appearance, and I was pressed for money by more than one...

My former chill crept over me again, but I was resolved not to speak yet, for it was quite...

At the office in Little Britain there was the usual letter writing, hand washing, candle snuffing,...

Mr. Jaggers had seen me with Estella, and was not likely to have missed the sentiments I had been...

The best light of the day was gone when I passed along the quiet echoing courts behind the High...

She turned her face to me for the first time since she had averted it, and, to my amazement, I may...

Twilight was closing in when I went downstairs into the natural air. I called to the woman who had...

I found, on questioning the servants, that Estella was in Paris, and I got a promise from the...

So you did. And so he is. He was very communicative last night, and told me more of his life. You...

There were periodical occasions when Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick went over the office accounts, and...

Since it dont interfere with business, returned Wemmick, let it be so. Now, I look at you, sir, I...

But they were both happily relieved by the opportune appearance of Mike, the client with the fur...

On opening the outer door of our chambers with my key, I found a letter in the box, directed to me;...

There was a melancholy wind, and the marshes were very dismal. A stranger would have found them...

The man was in no hurry, and struck again with the flint and steel. As the sparks fell thick and...

He drank again, and became more ferocious. I saw by his tilting of the bottle that there was no...

Of a sudden, he stopped, took the cork out of his bottle, and tossed it away. Light as it was, I...

They kept me very quiet all day, and kept my arm constantly dressed, and gave me cooling drinks....

Again among the tiers of shipping, in and out, avoiding rusty chain cables frayed hempen hawsers...

We pushed off again, and made what way we could. It was much harder work now, but Herbert and...

My first impulse was to call up Herbert, and show him the two men going away. But reflecting,...

What with the cries aboard the steamer, and the furious blowing off of her steam, and her driving...

No. I had thought about that, while we had been there side by side. No. Apart from any inclinations...

I thanked her heartily, and I thanked him heartily, but said I could not yet make sure of joining...

Punctual to my appointment, I rang at the Castle gate on the Monday morning, and was received by...

He lay in prison very ill, during the whole interval between his committal for trial and the coming...

I earnestly hoped and prayed that he might die before the Recorders Report was made; but, in the...