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They drove out one sunny afternoon and remained to tea. Horace wore an apologetic air, as though he felt guilty of having jilted Elizabeth, and Estella's manner was of the same quality, with a dash of triumph. On her way upstairs to remove her wraps, Estella explained in an ecstatic whisper that they were really and truly engaged, and didn't Beth think she had the loveliest diamond ring ever?
And you have seen her still more recently." "Yes?" said Mr. Jaggers. "Perhaps I know more of Estella's history than even you do," said I. "I know her father too." A certain stop that Mr. Jaggers came to in his manner he was too self-possessed to change his manner, but he could not help its being brought to an indefinably attentive stop assured me that he did not know who her father was.
"Touch me." "I do touch you, my dear boy." "You are not afraid that I am in any fever, or that my head is much disordered by the accident of last night?" "N-no, my dear boy," said Herbert, after taking time to examine me. "You are rather excited, but you are quite yourself." "I know I am quite myself. And the man we have in hiding down the river, is Estella's Father."
In England, he rejoined Hamilton and his Spanish bride, to secure whose happiness he had perilled his own life; and he always preserved Estella's diamond star as a memorial of his adventures in Valencia. Soon after his arrival he received a letter from Donna Florinda, announcing her marriage to Cesareo, whose jealousy had been so signally excited by Landon's shadow on the window curtain.
John Coulson, and Annie, with her more perfect knowledge of Estella's ways, whispered tactfully: "He wants to call out your names, Mrs. McTavish; he's doing it for everybody." Mrs. McTavish stared. "And what for would he be shouting out my name?" she demanded. "If Sarah Raymond doesn't know my name by this time she never will.
"How does she use you, Pip; how does she use you?" she asked me again, with her witch-like eagerness, even in Estella's hearing.
She hung upon Estella's beauty, hung upon her words, hung upon her gestures, and sat mumbling her own trembling fingers while she looked at her, as though she were devouring the beautiful creature she had reared. From Estella she looked at me, with a searching glance that seemed to pry into my heart and probe its wounds.
'And if I accord you these two men, my friend, said the General, from whose face Estella's eyes had never moved, 'will you undertake that Mr. Conyngham comes to no harm? 'I will arrange it, replied Concepcion, with an easy shrug of the shoulders. 'I will arrange it, never fear.
But, I said to Herbert that, before I could go abroad, I must see both Estella and Miss Havisham. This was when we were left alone on the night of the day when Provis told us his story. I resolved to go out to Richmond next day, and I went. On my presenting myself at Mrs. Brandley's, Estella's maid was called to tell that Estella had gone into the country. Where? To Satis House, as usual.
Also, when we played at cards Miss Havisham would look on, with a miserly relish of Estella's moods, whatever they were.
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