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1  There were three ladies in the room and one gentleman.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
2  I entered, therefore, and found myself in a pretty large room, well lighted with wax candles.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
3  So, I nodded, and then he nodded again, and made room on the settle beside him that I might sit down there.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
4  I divined that my coming had stopped conversation in the room, and that its other occupants were looking at me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
5  Like the clock in Miss Havisham's room, and like Miss Havisham's watch, it had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
6  We went in at the door, which stood open, and into a gloomy room with a low ceiling, on the ground-floor at the back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
7  It was then I began to understand that everything in the room had stopped, like the watch and the clock, a long time ago.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
8  The rush of the daylight quite confounded me, and made me feel as if I had been in the candlelight of the strange room many hours.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
9  There was not much time to consider the subject, for we were soon in Miss Havisham's room, where she and everything else were just as I had left them.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
10  On the present festive occasion he emerged from his room, when the blithe bells were going, the picture of misery, in a full suit of Sunday penitentials.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
11  I could see nothing of the room except the shining of the fire in the window-glass, but I stiffened in all my joints with the consciousness that I was under close inspection.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
12  For a moment, with the fear of my sister's working me before my eyes, I had a desperate idea of starting round the room in the assumed character of Mr. Pumblechook's chaise-cart.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
13  The terrors that had assailed me whenever Mrs. Joe had gone near the pantry, or out of the room, were only to be equalled by the remorse with which my mind dwelt on what my hands had done.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
14  She rented a small cottage, and Mr. Wopsle had the room up stairs, where we students used to overhear him reading aloud in a most dignified and terrific manner, and occasionally bumping on the ceiling.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
15  It was when I stood before her, avoiding her eyes, that I took note of the surrounding objects in detail, and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
16  When I got up to my little room and said my prayers, I did not forget Joe's recommendation, and yet my young mind was in that disturbed and unthankful state, that I thought long after I laid me down, how common Estella would consider Joe, a mere blacksmith; how thick his boots, and how coarse his hands.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
17  It being Saturday night, I found the landlord looking rather grimly at these records; but as my business was with Joe and not with him, I merely wished him good evening, and passed into the common room at the end of the passage, where there was a bright large kitchen fire, and where Joe was smoking his pipe in company with Mr. Wopsle and a stranger.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
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