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1My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my2My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I,3It was a rimy morning, and very damp. I had seen the damp lying on the4I fully expected to find a Constable in the kitchen, waiting to take me5The apparition of a file of soldiers ringing down the but-ends of their6My state of mind regarding the pilfering from which I had been so7At the time when I stood in the churchyard reading the family8Mr. Pumblechook’s premises in the High Street of the market town, were9When I reached home, my sister was very curious to know all about Miss10The felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke,11At the appointed time I returned to Miss Havisham’s, and my hesitating12My mind grew very uneasy on the subject of the pale young gentleman.13It was a trial to my feelings, on the next day but one, to see Joe14It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. There may be15As I was getting too big for Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt’s room, my16With my head full of George Barnwell, I was at first disposed to17I now fell into a regular routine of apprenticeship life, which was18It was in the fourth year of my apprenticeship to Joe, and it was a19Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospect of Life,20The journey from our town to the metropolis was a journey of about five21Casting my eyes on Mr. Wemmick as we went along, to see what he was22The pale young gentleman and I stood contemplating one another in23Mr. Pocket said he was glad to see me, and he hoped I was not sorry to24After two or three days, when I had established myself in my room and25Bentley Drummle, who was so sulky a fellow that he even took up a book26It fell out as Wemmick had told me it would, that I had an early27“MY DEAR MR PIP:—28It was clear that I must repair to our town next day, and in the first29Betimes in the morning I was up and out. It was too early yet to go to30After well considering the matter while I was dressing at the Blue Boar31On our arrival in Denmark, we found the king and queen of that country32One day when I was busy with my books and Mr. Pocket, I received a note33In her furred travelling-dress, Estella seemed more delicately34As I had grown accustomed to my expectations, I had insensibly begun to35It was the first time that a grave had opened in my road of life, and36Herbert and I went on from bad to worse, in the way of increasing our37Deeming Sunday the best day for taking Mr. Wemmick’s Walworth38If that staid old house near the Green at Richmond should ever come to39I was three-and-twenty years of age. Not another word had I heard to40It was fortunate for me that I had to take precautions to ensure (so41In vain should I attempt to describe the astonishment and disquiet of42“Dear boy and Pip’s comrade. I am not a-going fur to tell you my life43Why should I pause to ask how much of my shrinking from Provis might be44In the room where the dressing-table stood, and where the wax-candles45Turning from the Temple gate as soon as I had read the warning, I made46Eight o’clock had struck before I got into the air, that was scented,47Some weeks passed without bringing any change. We waited for Wemmick,48The second of the two meetings referred to in the last chapter occurred49Putting Miss Havisham’s note in my pocket, that it might serve as my50My hands had been dressed twice or thrice in the night, and again in51What purpose I had in view when I was hot on tracing out and proving52From Little Britain I went, with my check in my pocket, to Miss53It was a dark night, though the full moon rose as I left the enclosed54It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind55He was taken to the Police Court next day, and would have been56He lay in prison very ill, during the whole interval between his57Now that I was left wholly to myself, I gave notice of my intention to58The tidings of my high fortunes having had a heavy fall had got down to59For eleven years, I had not seen Joe nor Biddy with my bodily

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