Great Expectations
Extract from Chapter 49 – Miss Havisham
Miss Havisham was not in her own room, but was in the
larger room across the landing. Looking in at the door, after
knocking in vain, I saw her sitting on the hearth in a
ragged chair, close before,...
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Great Expectations
Extract from Chapter 49 – Miss Havisham
Miss Havisham was not in her own room, but was in the
larger room across the landing. Looking in at the door, after
knocking in vain, I saw her sitting on the hearth in a
ragged chair, close before, and lost in the contemplation of,
the ashy fire.
Doing as I had often done, I went in, and stood, touching
the old chimney-piece, where she could see me when she
raised her eyes. There was an air of utter loneliness upon
her, that would have moved me to pity though she had
wilfully done me a deeper injury than I could charge her
with. As I stood compassionating her and thinking how in
the progress of time I too had come to be a part of the
wrecked fortunes of that house, her eyes rested on me.
She stared, and said in a low voice, `Is it real?'
`It is I, Pip. Mr Jaggers gave me your note yesterday, and I
have lost no time.'
`Thank you. Thank you.'
As I brought another of the ragged chairs to the hearth and
sat down, I remarked a new
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