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She was even more dreadfully fond of Estella than she had been when

I last saw theether; I repeat the word advisedly, for there was

soy of her looks and e upon her words, hung upon her

gestures, and sat ers while she looked at

her, as though she were devouring the beautiful creature she had reared

Frolance that seemed to

pry into my heart and probe its wounds "How does she use you, Pip; how

does she use you?" she asked erness,

even in Estella's hearing But, e sat by her flickering fire

at night, she was h her arm and clutched in her own hand, she extorted fro back to what Estella had told her in her regular

letters, the names and conditions of the men whom she had fascinated;

and as Miss Havisham dwelt upon this roll, with the intensity of a mind

mortally hurt and diseased, she sat with her other hand on her crutch

stick, and her chin on that, and her wan bright eyes glaring at h it radation that it awakened,--I saw in this that

Estella was set to wreak Miss Havishaiven to ratified it for a terned toher

out to attract and torment and do mischief, Miss Havisham sent her with

the malicious assurance that she was beyond the reach of all admirers,