It brushes the Newgate cobwebs away, and pleases the Aged.

You wouldn't mind being at once introduced to the Aged, would you?
It wouldn't put you out ?" I expressed the readiness I felt, and we went into the castle.

There we found, sitting by a fire, a very old man in a flannel coat: clean, cheerful, comfortable, and well cared for, but intensely deaf.
"Well aged parent," said Wemmick, shaking hands with him in a cordial and jocose way, "how am you ?" "All right, John; all right!" replied the old man.
"Here's Mr.Pip, aged parent," said Wemmick, "and I wish you could hear his name.

Nod away at him, Mr.Pip; that's what he likes.

Nod away at him, if you please, like winking!" "This is a fine place of my son's, sir," cried the old man, while I nodded as hard as I possibly could.