1 I said so, and he took me down.
2 "Goo-good night, sir," I faltered.
3 That young man hears the words I speak.
4 Now, I ain't alone, as you may think I am.
5 So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
6 I find it wery hard to hold that young man off of your inside.
7 There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel.
8 When I saw him turning, I set my face towards home, and made the best use of my legs.
9 I believe they were fat, though I was at that time undersized for my years, and not strong.
10 I am a keeping that young man from harming of you at the present moment, with great difficulty.
11 I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church.
12 From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.
13 I said that I would get him the file, and I would get him what broken bits of food I could, and I would come to him at the Battery, early in the morning.
14 I earnestly expressed my hope that he wouldn't, and held tighter to the tombstone on which he had put me; partly, to keep myself upon it; partly, to keep myself from crying.
15 The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.
16 As I saw him go, picking his way among the nettles, and among the brambles that bound the green mounds, he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in.
17 But 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 stones dropped into the marshes here and there, for stepping-places when the rains were heavy or the tide was in.
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