1 My answer was, that I had heard of the name.
2 We always used that name for marshes, in our country.
3 My name," he said, "is Jaggers, and I am a lawyer in London.
4 I informed him in exchange that my Christian name was Philip.
5 Now, Joe kept a journeyman at weekly wages whose name was Orlick.
6 At the mention of each name, she had struck the table with her stick in a new place.
7 This lady's name was Mrs. Coiler, and I had the honor of taking her down to dinner on the day of my installation.
8 He then knocked at the doors of two other similar rooms, and introduced me to their occupants, by name Drummle and Startop.
9 You are to understand, first, that it is the request of the person from whom I take my instructions that you always bear the name of Pip.
10 It was a song that imitated the measure of beating upon iron, and was a mere lyrical excuse for the introduction of Old Clem's respected name.
11 My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
12 As I cried, I kicked the wall, and took a hard twist at my hair; so bitter were my feelings, and so sharp was the smart without a name, that needed counteraction.
13 He attached no definite meaning to the word that I am aware of, but used it, like his own pretended Christian name, to affront mankind, and convey an idea of something savagely damaging.
14 To stand in the dark in a mysterious passage of an unknown house, bawling Estella to a scornful young lady neither visible nor responsive, and feeling it a dreadful liberty so to roar out her name, was almost as bad as playing to order.
15 He presently stood at the door immediately beneath me, smoking his pipe, and Biddy stood there too, quietly talking to him, and I knew that they talked of me, for I heard my name mentioned in an endearing tone by both of them more than once.
16 Mr. Pocket, Junior's, idea of Shortly was not mine, for I had nearly maddened myself with looking out for half an hour, and had written my name with my finger several times in the dirt of every pane in the window, before I heard footsteps on the stairs.
17 It came to my knowledge, through what passed between Mrs. Pocket and Drummle while I was attentive to my knife and fork, spoon, glasses, and other instruments of self-destruction, that Drummle, whose Christian name was Bentley, was actually the next heir but one to a baronetcy.
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