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"O Miss Havisham," said I, "I can do it now There have been sore

mistakes; and iveness and direction far too much, to be bitter with you"

She turned her face to me for the first time since she had averted it,

and, to my amazement, I may even add to my terror, dropped on her knees

at my feet; with her folded hands raised toand fresh and whole, they must often have

been raised to heaven from her mother's side

To see her with her white hair and her worn face kneeling at h all ot

my arms about her to help her up; but she only pressed that hand ofher head over it and wept I

had never seen her shed a tear before, and, in the hope that the

reliefShe was not

kneeling now, but was down upon the ground

"O!" she cried, despairingly "What have I done! What have I done!"

"If you mean, Miss Havisham, what have you done to injure me, let me

answer Very little I should have loved her under any circumstances Is

she married?"

"Yes"