But he said nothing respecting it, and motioned me with a nod into my guardian's room.

It was November, and my guardian was standing before his fire leaning his back against the chimney-piece, with his hands under his coattails.
"Well, Pip," said he, "I must call you Mr.Pip to-day.

Congratulations, Mr.Pip." We shook hands,--he was always a remarkably short shaker,--and I thanked him.
"Take a chair, Mr.Pip," said my guardian.
As I sat down, and he preserved his attitude and bent his brows at his boots, I felt at a disadvantage, which reminded me of that old time when I had been put upon a tombstone.

The two ghastly casts on the shelf were not far from him, and their expression was as if they were making a stupid apoplectic attempt to attend to the conversation.
"Now my young friend," my guardian began, as if I were a witness in the box, "I am going to have a word or two with you." "If you please, sir." "What do you suppose," said Mr.Jaggers, bending forward to look at the ground, and then throwing his head back to look at the ceiling,--"what do you suppose you are living at the rate of ?" "At the rate of, sir ?" "At," repeated Mr.Jaggers, still looking at the ceiling, "the--rate--of ?" And then looked all round the room, and paused with his pocket-handkerchief in his hand, half-way to his nose.
I had looked into my affairs so often, that I had thoroughly destroyed any slight notion I might ever have had of their bearings.

Reluctantly, I confessed myself quite unable to answer the question.