1 Mr. Wopsle shut his eyes, and opened them again; performing both ceremonies very slowly.
2 It was between twelve and one o'clock when I reached the Temple, and the gates were shut.
3 We shut our outer door on these solemn occasions, in order that we might not be interrupted.
4 He was to remain shut up in the chambers while I was gone, and was on no account to open the door.
5 When I ran home from the churchyard, the forge was shut up, and Joe was sitting alone in the kitchen.
6 She was immediately deposed, however, by Herbert, who silently led me into the parlor and shut the door.
7 His head was all on one side, and one of his eyes was half shut up, as if he were taking aim at something with an invisible gun.
8 The voice returned, "Quite right," and the window was shut again, and a young lady came across the court-yard, with keys in her hand.
9 As the door was not yet shut, I thought I would leave Herbert there for a moment, and run up stairs again to say a word to my guardian.
10 Then I put the fastenings as I had found them, opened the door at which I had entered when I ran home last night, shut it, and ran for the misty marshes.
11 I shut the book and nodded slightly to Herbert, and put the book by; but we neither of us said anything, and both looked at Provis as he stood smoking by the fire.
12 It is not much to the purpose whether a gate in that garden wall which I had scrambled up to peep over on the last occasion was, on that last occasion, open or shut.
13 Out of such remembrances I brought into the light of the fire a half-formed terror that it might not be safe to be shut up there with him in the dead of the wild solitary night.
14 Presently another click came, and another little door tumbled open with "Miss Skiffins" on it; then Miss Skiffins shut up and John tumbled open; then Miss Skiffins and John both tumbled open together, and finally shut up together.
15 So he went round the room and shook the curtains out, put the chairs in their places, tidied the books and so forth that were lying about, looked into the hall, peeped into the letter-box, shut the door, and came back to his chair by the fire: where he sat down, nursing his left leg in both arms.
16 Though he called me Mr. Pip, and began rather to make up to me, he still could not get rid of a certain air of bullying suspicion; and even now he occasionally shut his eyes and threw his finger at me while he spoke, as much as to express that he knew all kinds of things to my disparagement, if he only chose to mention them.
17 But that, in shutting out the light of day, she had shut out infinitely more; that, in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker, I knew equally well.
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