I said it (people often do so, in such cases) like a rather reluctant concession to truth and justice;--as if I wanted to deny it! "I should think it was a strong point," said Herbert, "and I should think you would be puzzled to imagine a stronger; as to the rest, you must bide your guardian's time, and he must bide his client's time.
You'll be one-and-twenty before you know where you are, and then perhaps you'll get some further enlightenment.

At all events, you'll be nearer getting it, for it must come at last." "What a hopeful disposition you have!" said I, gratefully admiring his cheery ways.
"I ought to have," said Herbert, "for I have not much else.

I must acknowledge, by the by, that the good sense of what I have just said is not my own, but my father's.

The only remark I ever heard him make on your story, was the final one, "The thing is settled and done, or Mr.
Jaggers would not be in it." And now before I say anything more about my father, or my father's son, and repay confidence with confidence, I want to make myself seriously disagreeable to you for a moment,--positively repulsive." "You won't succeed," said I.
"O yes I shall!" said he.

"One, two, three, and now I am in for it.
Handel, my good fellow;"-- though he spoke in this light tone, he was very much in earnest,--"I have been thinking since we have been talking with our feet on this fender, that Estella surely cannot be a condition of your inheritance, if she was never referred to by your guardian.