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Chapter 40

  • "A warmint, dear boy." He answered quite seriously, and used the word as if it denoted some profession.
  • he looked terribly like a hungry old dog
  • gave him a savage air that no dress could tame
  • there was Prisoner, Felon, Bondsman, plain as plain could be
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Chapter 42

  • "When we was put in the dock, I noticed first of all what a gentleman Compeyson looked,  [ ] and what a common sort of a wretch I looked."
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Chapter 44

  • both saw an alteration in me
  • "It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit"
  • "You address nothing in my breast, you touch nothing there."
  • You are part of my existence, part of myself.
  • the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then
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Chapter 49

  • There was an air of utter loneliness upon her, that would have moved me to pity
  • I too had come to be a part of the wrecked fortunes of that house
  • "my life has been a blind and thankless one; and I want forgiveness and direction far too much, to be bitter with you."
  • she had done a grievous thing in taking an impressionable child to mould into the form that her wild resentment, spurned affection, and wounded pride found vengeance in
  • "I meant to save her from misery like my own."
  • "I stole her heart away, and put ice in its place."
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Chapter 51

  • I have seen your pleasant home, and your old father, and all the innocent, cheerful playful ways with which you refresh your business life.
  • "Put the case that he lived in an atmosphere of evil, and that all he saw of children was their being generated in great numbers for certain destruction"
  • "Put the case that he often saw children solemnly tried at a criminal bar, where they were held up to be seen"
  • "Put the case, Pip, that here was one pretty little child out of the heap who could be saved"
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Chapter 53

  • far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death
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Chapter 54

  • "Faithful dear boy, well done. Thankye, thankye!"
  • he hoped to live to see his gentleman one of the best of gentlemen in a foreign country
  • The dismal wind was muttering round the house, the tide was flapping at the shore, and I had a feeling that we were caged and threatened.
  • when I took my place by Magwitch's side, I felt that that was my place henceforth while he lived.
  • my repugnance to him had all melted away; and in the hunted, wounded, shackled creature who held my hand in his, I only saw a man who had meant to be my benefactor, and who had felt affectionately, gratefully, and generously, towards me with great constancy through a series of years.
  • I only saw in him a much better man than I had been to Joe.
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Chapter 55

  • "This is altogether a Walworth sentiment, please." "I understand. Not to be mentioned in Little Britain," said I.
  • "Mr. Jaggers may as well not know of it. He might think my brain was softening, or something of the kind."
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Chapter 56

  • he pondered over the question whether he might have been a better man under better circumstances
  • I could scarcely believe, even as I write these words, that I saw two-and-thirty men and women put before the Judge to receive that sentence together.
  • Among the wretched creatures before him whom he must single out for special address was one who almost from his infancy had been an offender against the laws
  • the audience got up (putting their dresses right, as they might at church or elsewhere), and pointed down at this criminal or at that, and most of all at him and me.
  • "God bless you! You've never deserted me, dear boy."
  • "O Lord, be merciful to him a sinner!"
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Chapter 57

  • "O Joe, you break my heart! Look angry at me, Joe. Strike me, Joe. Tell me of my ingratitude. Don't be so good to me!"
  • For the tenderness of Joe was so beautifully proportioned to my need, that I was like a child in his hands.
  • What remained for me now, but to follow him to the dear old forge, and there to have out my disclosure to him, and my penitent remonstrance with him, and there to relieve my mind and heart of that reserved
  • I would go to Biddy, that I would show her how humbled and repentant I came back
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Chapter 58

  • But I had as sound a sleep in that lodging as in the most superior accommodation the Boar could have given me
  • This reminded me of the wonderful difference between the servile manner in which he had offered his hand in my new prosperity, saying, "May I?" and the ostentatious clemency with which he had just now exhibited the same fat five fingers.
  • with a sense of increasing relief as I drew nearer to them, and a sense of leaving arrogance and untruthfulness further and further behind.
  • "And, dear Joe, you have the best wife in the whole world, and she will make you as happy as even you deserve to be, you dear, good, noble Joe!"
  • "receive my humble thanks for all you have done for me, and all I have so ill repaid!"
  • I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.
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Chapter 59

  • I had heard of her as leading a most unhappy life, and as being separated from her husband, who had used her with great cruelty
  • the stars were shining beyond the mist
  • what I had never seen before, was the saddened, softened light of the once proud eyes; what I had never felt before was the friendly touch of the once insensible hand.
  • suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.
  • I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
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