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his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. But, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in Tellson's Bank were principally occupied with the...more

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During the whole time consumed in the slow growth of this family tree, the house of Smallweed, always early to go out and late to marry, has strengthe...more

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...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

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She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.

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It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with to...more

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I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

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Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the reviv...more

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In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injust...more

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It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

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I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham’s. ‘Why of course he is not ...more

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I assumed my first undivided responsibility.