oldenglish (16)in #convict • 5 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #6/236At other times, I thought, what if the young man who was with so much difficulty restrained from imbruing his hands in me, should yield to a constitutional impatience, or should…oldenglish (16)in #butter • 13 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #5/236At last, I desperately considered that the thing I contemplated must be done, and that it had best be done in the least improbable manner consistent with the circumstances. I…oldenglish (16)in #strayed • 17 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #4/236Get behind the door, old chap, and have the jack-towel betwixt you.”I took the advice. My sister, Mrs. Joe, throwing the door wide open, and finding an obstruction behind it…oldenglish (16)in #river • 22 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #3/236But presently I looked over my shoulder, and saw him going on again towards the river, still hugging himself in both arms, and picking his way with his sore feet among the great…oldenglish (16)in #gargery • 28 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #2/236“There, sir!” I timidly exclaimed.“ ‘Also Georgiana.’ That’s my mother.”“Oh!” said he, coming back. “And is that your father alonger your mother?”“Yes, sir,” said I ; “him too;…oldenglish (16)in #tombstones • 2 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #1/2361MY FATHER’S FAMILY NAME BEING PIRRIP, AND MY Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip…