1 He touched me gently on the forehead, and went out.
2 Then, he gently let it sink upon his breast again, with his own hands lying on it.
3 But they returned with a gentle tone upon them that softened even the edge of Tickler.
4 But Wemmick was equally untiring and gentle in his vigilance, and the Aged read on, quite unconscious of his many rescues.
5 She put her hand, which was a comfortable hand though roughened by work, upon my hands, one after another, and gently took them out of my hair.
6 I have often thought him since, like the steam-hammer that can crush a man or pat an egg-shell, in his combination of strength with gentleness.
7 And seeing that Mr. Jaggers stood quite still and silent, and apparently quite obdurate, under this appeal, I turned to Wemmick, and said, "Wemmick, I know you to be a man with a gentle heart."
8 When I had taken leave of the pretty, gentle, dark-eyed girl, and of the motherly woman who had not outlived her honest sympathy with a little affair of true love, I felt as if the Old Green Copper Ropewalk had grown quite a different place.