1 Miss Havisham, you must know, was a spoilt child.
2 No, she was not an only child; she had a half-brother.
3 "He was, if ever a child was," said my sister, most emphatically.
4 He told me that he would look about him for such an orphan child.
5 "It's not the question, my dear child, who paid for them," returned Camilla.
6 I know more of the history of Miss Havisham's adopted child than Miss Havisham herself does, sir.
7 You say they are marks of finger-nails, and you set up the hypothesis that she destroyed her child.
8 This acquitted young woman and Provis had a little child; a little child of whom Provis was exceedingly fond.
9 For anything we know, she may have destroyed her child, and the child in clinging to her may have scratched her hands.
10 Millers, who was the other nurse, retired into the house, and by degrees the child's wailing was hushed and stopped, as if it were a young ventriloquist with something in its mouth.
11 When I offered to your sister to keep company, and to be asked in church at such times as she was willing and ready to come to the forge, I said to her, 'And bring the poor little child.'
12 That she had done a grievous thing in taking an impressionable child to mould into the form that her wild resentment, spurned affection, and wounded pride found vengeance in, I knew full well.
13 It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.
14 'Consequence, my mother and me we ran away from my father several times; and then my mother she'd go out to work, and she'd say, "Joe," she'd say, "now, please God, you shall have some schooling, child," and she'd put me to school.
15 Put the case that a woman, under such circumstances as you have mentioned, held her child concealed, and was obliged to communicate the fact to her legal adviser, on his representing to her that he must know, with an eye to the latitude of his defence, how the fact stood about that child.
16 She watched his countenance as if she were particularly wishful to be assured that he took kindly to his reception, she showed every possible desire to conciliate him, and there was an air of humble propitiation in all she did, such as I have seen pervade the bearing of a child towards a hard master.
17 Now, whether," pursued Herbert, "he had used the child's mother ill, or whether he had used the child's mother well, Provis doesn't say; but she had shared some four or five years of the wretched life he described to us at this fireside, and he seems to have felt pity for her, and forbearance towards her.
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