1 "I feel thankful that I have been ill, Joe," I said.
2 Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done.
3 Long after these constitutional powers had dispersed, my sister lay very ill in bed.
4 I had never seen them on such ill terms; for generally they got on very well indeed together.
5 Being far too ill to remain in the common prison, he was removed, after the first day or so, into the infirmary.
6 In my heart I believed her to be right; and yet I took it rather ill, too, that she should be so positive on the point.
7 He lay in prison very ill, during the whole interval between his committal for trial and the coming round of the Sessions.
8 And but for his illness he would have been put in irons, for he was regarded as a determined prison-breaker, and I know not what else.
9 While it was preparing, I went to Satis House and inquired for Miss Havisham; she was still very ill, though considered something better.
10 My terror, as I lay there, of falling ill, and being unfitted for to-morrow, was so besetting, that I wonder it did not disable me of itself.
11 As the days wore on, and no ill news came, as the day closed in and darkness fell, my overshadowing dread of being disabled by illness before to-morrow morning altogether mastered me.
12 As the days wore on, and no ill news came, as the day closed in and darkness fell, my overshadowing dread of being disabled by illness before to-morrow morning altogether mastered me.
13 I ought rather to write that I should have been alarmed if I had had energy and concentration enough to help me to the clear perception of any truth beyond the fact that I was falling very ill.
14 Again my mind, with its former inconceivable rapidity, had exhausted the whole subject of the attack upon my sister, her illness, and her death, before his slow and hesitating speech had formed these words.
15 I alluded to the advantages I had derived in my first rawness and ignorance from his society, and I confessed that I feared I had but ill repaid them, and that he might have done better without me and my expectations.
16 As it seldom happened that I came in at that Whitefriars gate after the Temple was closed, and as I was very muddy and weary, I did not take it ill that the night-porter examined me with much attention as he held the gate a little way open for me to pass in.
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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