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1  So Herbert and Clara say, but I don't think I shall, Biddy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIX
2  Wait a moment, and you'll hear Clara lift him up to take some.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
3  Clara returned soon afterwards, and Herbert accompanied me up stairs to see our charge.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
4  I have never seen him, for he has always kept his room overhead, since I have known Clara.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
5  Mrs. Whimple," said Herbert, when I told him so, "is the best of housewives, and I really do not know what my Clara would do without her motherly help.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
6  So, when we went into the parlor where Mrs. Whimple and Clara were seated at work, I said nothing of my own interest in Mr. Campbell, but kept it to myself.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
7  Look here," said Herbert, showing me the basket, with a compassionate and tender smile, after we had talked a little; "here's poor Clara's supper, served out every night.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
8  Herbert had sometimes said to me that he found it pleasant to stand at one of our windows after dark, when the tide was running down, and to think that it was flowing, with everything it bore, towards Clara.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
9  For the beam across the parlor ceiling at Mill Pond Bank had then ceased to tremble under old Bill Barley's growls and was at peace, and Herbert had gone away to marry Clara, and I was left in sole charge of the Eastern Branch until he brought her back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII
10  Miserably I went to bed after all, and miserably thought of Estella, and miserably dreamed that my expectations were all cancelled, and that I had to give my hand in marriage to Herbert's Clara, or play Hamlet to Miss Havisham's Ghost, before twenty thousand people, without knowing twenty words of it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
11  Clara and I have talked about it again and again," Herbert pursued, "and the dear little thing begged me only this evening, with tears in her eyes, to say to you that, if you will live with us when we come together, she will do her best to make you happy, and to convince her husband's friend that he is her friend too.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
12  Herbert had told me on former occasions, and now reminded me, that he first knew Miss Clara Barley when she was completing her education at an establishment at Hammersmith, and that on her being recalled home to nurse her father, he and she had confided their affection to the motherly Mrs. Whimple, by whom it had been fostered and regulated with equal kindness and discretion, ever since.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI