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1  On the whole, I resolved to leave the Avenger behind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
2  I felt that the pale young gentleman's blood was on my head, and that the Law would avenge it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
3  Having settled that I must go to the Blue Boar, my mind was much disturbed by indecision whether or not to take the Avenger.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
4  As the time approached I should have liked to run away, but the Avenger pursuant to orders was in the hall, and presently I heard Joe on the staircase.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
5  Having despatched The Avenger to the coffee-house for an addition to the dinner, I felt that I must open my breast that very evening to my friend and chum.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
6  As confidence was out of the question with The Avenger in the hall, which could merely be regarded in the light of an antechamber to the keyhole, I sent him to the Play.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
7  For the fugitive out on the marshes with the ironed leg, the mysterious young man, the file, the food, and the dreadful pledge I was under to commit a larceny on those sheltering premises, rose before me in the avenging coals.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
8  True, I had no Avenger in my service now, but I was looked after by an inflammatory old female, assisted by an animated rag-bag whom she called her niece, and to keep a room secret from them would be to invite curiosity and exaggeration.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
9  I detested the chambers beyond expression at that period of repentance, and could not endure the sight of the Avenger's livery; which had a more expensive and a less remunerative appearance then than at any other time in the four-and-twenty hours.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
10  But Herbert's was a very different case, and it often caused me a twinge to think that I had done him evil service in crowding his sparely furnished chambers with incongruous upholstery work, and placing the Canary-breasted Avenger at his disposal.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV