PostsCommentsPayoutsoldenglish (16)in #ditch • yesterday[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #8/236It wasn’t for myself I took it!” Upon which, he put down his head, blew a cloud of smoke out of his nose, and vanished with a kick-up of his hind legs and a flourish of his…oldenglish (16)in #terror • 15 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Great Expectations #7/236I was in mortal terror of the young man who wanted my heart and liver; I was in mortal terror of my interlocutor with the ironed leg; I was in mortal terror of myself, from whom…oldenglish (16)in #convict • 25 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 • last month[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 • last month[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 • last month[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 • 2 months 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…