[Great Expectations by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookGreat Expectations ChapterXXVII
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It was you, Joe." "Which I fully believed it were, Pip," said Joe, slightly tossing his head, "though it signify little now, sir.
Well, Pip; this same identical, which his manners is given to blusterous, come to me at the Bargemen (wot a pipe and a pint of beer do give refreshment to the workingman, sir, and do not over stimilate), and his word were, 'Joseph, Miss Havisham she wish to speak to you.'" "Miss Havisham, Joe ?" "'She wish,' were Pumblechook's word, 'to speak to you.'" Joe sat and rolled his eyes at the ceiling. "Yes, Joe? Go on, please." "Next day, sir," said Joe, looking at me as if I were a long way off, "having cleaned myself, I go and I see Miss A." "Miss A., Joe? Miss Havisham ?" "Which I say, sir," replied Joe, with an air of legal formality, as if he were making his will, "Miss A., or otherways Havisham.
Her expression air then as follering: 'Mr.Gargery.
You air in correspondence with Mr. Pip ?' Having had a letter from you, I were able to say 'I am.' (When I married your sister, sir, I said 'I will;' and when I answered your friend, Pip, I said 'I am.') 'Would you tell him, then,' said she, 'that which Estella has come home and would be glad to see him.'" I felt my face fire up as I looked at Joe.
I hope one remote cause of its firing may have been my consciousness that if I had known his errand, I should have given him more encouragement. "Biddy," pursued Joe, "when I got home and asked her fur to write the message to you, a little hung back.
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