Great Expectations

Abel Magwitch: Now look here - do you know what a file is? Pip: Yes, sir. Abel Magwitch: Do you know what wittles is? Pip: Yes, sir. Food, sir. Abel Magwitch: Then get me a file and wittles or I'll have your heart and liver out. Pip: If you'd let me keep upright, sir, perhaps I shouldn't be sick and I could attend more. Abel Magwitch: You bring that file and wittles to me here tomorrow morning. Pip: Yes, sir. Abel Magwitch: And never say a word of having seen such a person as me. Pip: No, sir. Abel Magwitch: If you do, your heart and liver'll be tore out and roasted and ate. There's a young man hid with me, and in comparison with him I'm an angel! That young man has a secret way of getting at a boy and his liver. A boy may lock his door and be warm in bed, but that young man'll softly creep his way to him and tear him open! Say Heaven strike you dead if you don't! Pip: Heaven strike me dead if I don't! Abel Magwitch: Now you know what you promised, young man. Get off home. Pip: Good ni

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Mrs. Joe Gargery: There you go! Answer the boy one question and he'll ask you a dozen. Hulks are prison ships, right across the marshes. Pip: I wonder who's put in prison ships, and why they're put in there. Mrs. Joe Gargery: People are put there because they murder and because they forge and rob and do all sorts of bad things. And they always start by asking too many questions.

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Abel Magwitch: I wish to say something respectin' this escape. It may prevent some persons laying under suspicion alonger me. Sergeant: What is it? Abel Magwitch: I took some food from the blacksmith near the village over yonder. It was a dram of liquor and a pie. Sergeant: You happened to have missed such an article as a pie, blacksmith? Joe Gargery: Well, my wife did the very moment you came in. Abel Magwitch: Oh, so you're the blacksmith, are you? Then I'm sorry to say, I... I've eat your pie. Joe Gargery: Oh, you're welcome to it, as far as ever it were mine. We don't know what you've done, but we wouldn't have you starve to death for it, poor miserable fellow-creature, would us, Pip?

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Estella: He calls the knaves jacks, this boy! And what coarse hands he has! You stupid, clumsy labouring boy! Miss Havisham: She says many hard things of you, but you say nothing of her. What do you think of her? Pip: I don't like to say. Miss Havisham: Tell me... in my ear. Pip: I think she is very proud. Miss Havisham: Anything else? Pip: I think she is very pretty. Miss Havisham: Anything else? Pip: I think she is very insulting. Miss Havisham: Anything else? Pip: I think I should like to go home now. Miss Havisham: And never see her again, though she is so pretty? Pip: I'm not sure that I wouldn't like to see her again, but I think I'd like to go home now.

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Pip: Do you remember the first time I came here? The time you made me cry? Estella: Did I? I don't remember. Pip: Not remember you made me cry? Estella: You meant nothing to me. Why should I remember? … You must know, Pip, I have no heart. Perhaps that's why I have no memory. Pip: No-one looking at you could believe that. Estella: Oh, I have a heart to be stabbed at, or shot at, but there's no sympathy there, no softness, no sentiment. If we're to be thrown much together you had better believe that at once. Pip: I can't believe it, Estella. Estella: Very well. It's said at any rate. But remember how I've been brought up and don't expect too much of me.

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Miss Havisham: Is she beautiful, graceful, well-grown? Do you admire her, Pip? Pip: Everyone must who sees her. Miss Havisham: She is going to London soon and you shall meet her there. Pip: I shall be the happiest man in London, Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham: Love her. If she favours you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces, love her. I adopted her to be loved.

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