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"It's bad about here," I told him.

" "You mean stole," said the sergeant.

" "I don't expect it to do me any good.

If she wounds you, love her.

" "What does that mean, Joe? The gates and dykes and banks came bursting at me through the mist, as if they cried as plainly as could be, "A boy with Somebody-else's pork pie! Always holding tight by the leg of the table with my hands and feet, I saw the miserable creature finger his glass playfully, take it up, smile, throw his head back, and drink the brandy off.

"Do you see what a villain he is? I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Great Expectations, more perhaps than any other Dickens novel, is characterised by a pervasive recording of place.

God bless the poor little child,' I said to your sister, 'there's room for him at the forge! But I was softened by the softened aspect of the man, and felt a touch of reproach.

She won the game, and I dealt.