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"Until you spoke to her the other day, and until I saw in you a

looking-glass that showed me what I once felt myself, I did not knohat I had done What have I done! What have I done!" And so again,

twenty, fifty times over, What had she done!

"Miss Havisham," I said, when her cry had died away, "you may dismiss me

from your mind and conscience But Estella is a different case, and if

you can ever undo any scrap of what you have done aht nature away from her, it will be better to do that

than to beh a hundred years"

"Yes, yes, I know it But, Pip--my dear!" There was an earnest womanly

compassion for me in her new affection "My dear! Believe this: when she

first came to me, I meant to save her from misery like my own At first,

I meant no rew, and proradually did

worse, and with s,

and with this figure ofto back and

point my lessons, I stole her heart away, and put ice in its place"