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"If I give you the money for this purpose, will you keep my secret as

you have kept your own?"

"Quite as faithfully"

"And your mind will be more at rest?"

"Much more at rest"

"Are you very unhappy now?"

She asked this question, still without looking at me, but in an unwonted

tone of sympathy I could not reply at the moment, for my voice failed

me She put her left arm across the head of her stick, and softly laid

her forehead on it

"I am far from happy, Miss Havisham; but I have other causes of disquiet

than any you know of They are the secrets I have mentioned"

After a little while, she raised her head, and looked at the fire Again

"It is noble in you to tell me that you have other causes of

unhappiness, Is it true?"

"Too true"

"Can I only serve you, Pip, by serving your friend? Regarding that as