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Great Expectations

ChapterVIII
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Even with those aids, I might not have come to myself as soon as I did, but that I saw Estella approaching with the keys, to let me out.

She would have some fair reason for looking down upon me, I thought, if she saw me frightened; and she would have no fair reason.
She gave me a triumphant glance in passing me, as if she rejoiced 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.
"Why don't you cry ?" "Because I don't want to." "You do," said she.

"You have been crying till you are half blind, and you are near crying again now." She laughed contemptuously, pushed me out, and locked the gate upon me.
I went straight to Mr.Pumblechook's, and was immensely relieved to find him not at home.

So, leaving word with the shopman on what day I was wanted at Miss Havisham's again, I set off on the four-mile walk to our forge; pondering, as I went along, on all I had seen, and deeply revolving that I was a common laboring-boy; that my hands were coarse; that my boots were thick; that I had fallen into a despicable habit of calling knaves Jacks; that I was much more ignorant than I had considered myself last night, and generally that I was in a low-lived bad way..


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