great expectations
... as if she enjoyed that my hands were so coarse and my boots were so thick, and she opened the gate, and stood holding it. I was passing out without looking at her, when she touched me with a taunting hand. – 80 8. And then I told Joe that I felt very miserable and that I hadn’t been able to explain myself to Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook who were so rude to me, and that there had been a beautiful young lady at Miss Havisham’s who was dreadfully proud, and that she had said I was common, and that I knew I was common, and that I wished I was not common, and that the lies had come of it somehow, though I didn’t know how. –87 9. That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. – 89 10. The felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke, that the best step I could take towards making myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew. In pursuance of this luminous conception, I mentioned to Biddy when I went to Mr. Wopsle’s great aunt’s at night, that I had a particular reason for wishing to get on in life, and that I should feel very much obliged to her if she would impart all her learning to me. –90 11. It appeared to me that it would rake time to become uncommon under these circumstances: nevertheless, I resolved to try it. – 91 12. If only Estella had come to be a spectator of our proceedings, I should have felt sufficiently discontented; but, as she brought with her the three ladies and the gentleman whom I had seen below, I didn’t know what to do. In my politeness, I would have stopped; but Miss Havisham twitched my shoulder, and we posted on-with a shamefaced consciousness on my part that they would think it was all my doing. –106 13. Estella was always about, and always let me in and out, but never told me I might kiss her again. Sometimes, she would coldly tolerate me; sometimes, she would condescend to me; sometimes she would be quite familiar with me; sometimes, she would tell me energetically that she hated me. – 119 14. ‘My dream was out; my wild fancy was surpassed by sober reality; Miss Havisham was going to my fortune on a grand scale.’- 174 15. ‘I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella’s reproach.’ –138 16. ‘Therefore, I made no remark on Joe’s first head: merely saying as to his second, that he tidings had indeed come suddenly, but that I had always wanted to be a gentleman, and had often speculated on what I would do, if I were one.’ –186 17. I sat down in the cliental chair placed over against Mr. Jaggers’ chair, and became fascinated by the dismal atmosphere of the place. –205 18. For a reason that I had, I felt as if my eyes would start out of my head. I acknowledged his attention incoherently, and began to think this was a dream. – 218 19. ‘These were the surroundings among which I settled down, and applied myself to my education. I soon contracted expensive habits, and began to spend an amount of money that within a few short months I should have thought almost fabulous; but through good and ev...