[Great Expectations by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookGreat Expectations ChapterII
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"I tell you what, young fellow," said she, "I didn't bring you up by hand to badger people's lives out.
It would be blame to me and not praise, if I had. People are put in the Hulks because they murder, and because they rob, and forge, and do all sorts of bad; and they always begin by asking questions.
Now, you get along to bed!" I was never allowed a candle to light me to bed, and, as I went up stairs in the dark, with my head tingling,--from Mrs.Joe's thimble having played the tambourine upon it, to accompany her last words,--I felt fearfully sensible of the great convenience that the hulks were handy for me.
I was clearly on my way there.
I had begun by asking questions, and I was going to rob Mrs.Joe. Since that time, which is far enough away now, I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror.
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