"Great Expectations"
by Charles Dickens

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     "And Joe, how smart you are!"

     "Yes, dear old Pip, old chap."

     I looked at both of them, from one to the other, and then--

     "It's my wedding-day!" cried Biddy, in a burst of happiness, "and I am married to Joe!"

 

     They had taken me into the kitchen, and I had laid my head down on the old deal table. Biddy held one of my hands to her lips, and Joe's restoring touch was on my shoulder. "Which he warn't strong enough, my dear, fur to be surprised," said Joe. And Biddy said, "I ought to have thought of it, dear Joe, but I was too happy." They were both so overjoyed to see me, so proud to see me, so touched by my coming to them, so delighted that I should have come by accident to make their day complete!

 
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