I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.

Least said, soonest mended

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'