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Great Expectations

hankerings after money and gentility that had disturbed
my boyhood - from all those ill-regulated aspirations that
had first made me ashamed of home and Joe - from all
those visions that had raised her face in the glowing fire,

struck it out of the iron on the anvil, extracted it from the
darkness of night to look in at the wooden window of the
forge and flit away. In a word, it was impossible for me to
separate her, in the past or in the present, from the
innermost life of my life.
It was settled that I should stay there all the rest of the
day, and return to the hotel at night, and to London to-
morrow. When we had conversed for a while, Miss
Havisham sent us two out to walk in the neglected garden:
on our coming in by-and-by, she said, I should wheel her
about a little as in times of yore.
So, Estella and I went out into the garden by the gate
through which I had strayed to my encounter with the
pale young gentleman, now Herbert; I, trembling in spirit
and worshipping the very hem of her dress; she, quite
composed and most decidedly not worshipping the hem of
mine. As we drew near to the place of encounter, she
stopped and said:

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