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"I should have said this sooner, but formistake It induced me

to hope that Miss Havishaht you

could not help yourself, as it were, I refrained fro her un,

Estella shook her head

"I know," said I, in answer to that action,--"I know I have no hope

that I shall ever call you norant what may becoo Still, I love

you I have loved you ever since I first saw you in this house"

Looking at ers busy, she shook her

head again

"It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise

on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture h all these

years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the

gravity of what she did But I think she did not I think that, in the

endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella"