"Great Expectations"
by Charles Dickens

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     As she was still looking at the reflection of herself, I thought she was still talking to herself, and kept quiet.

     "Call Estella," she repeated, flashing a look at me. "You can do that. Call Estella. At the door."

     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. But she answered at last, and her light came along the dark passage like a star.

 

     Miss Havisham beckoned her to come close, and took up a jewel from the table, and tried its effect upon her fair young bosom and against her pretty brown hair. "Your own, one day, my dear, and you will use it well. Let me see you play cards with this boy."

     "With this boy? Why, he is a common laboring boy!"

     I thought I overheard Miss Havisham answer,--only it seemed so Unlikely,--"Well? You can break his heart."

     "What do you play, boy?" asked Estella of myself, with the greatest disdain.

 
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