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1  Miss Skiffins's brother conducted the negotiation.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
2  Miss Skiffins mixed, and I observed that she and Wemmick drank out of one glass.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
3  Miss Skiffins was of a wooden appearance, and was, like her escort, in the post-office branch of the service.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
4  After a little further conversation to the same effect, we returned into the Castle where we found Miss Skiffins preparing tea.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
5  Instantly, Miss Skiffins stopped it with the neatness of a placid boxer, took off that girdle or cestus as before, and laid it on the table.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
6  After an interval of suspense on my part that was quite enthralling and almost painful, I saw his hand appear on the other side of Miss Skiffins.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
7  The Aged was so delighted to work the drawbridge, that I made no offer to assist him, but stood quiet until Wemmick had come across, and had presented me to Miss Skiffins; a lady by whom he was accompanied.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
8  Of course I knew better than to offer to see Miss Skiffins home, and under the circumstances I thought I had best go first; which I did, taking a cordial leave of the Aged, and having passed a pleasant evening.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
9  When it was quite dark, I left the Aged preparing the fire for toast; and I inferred from the number of teacups, as well as from his glances at the two little doors in the wall, that Miss Skiffins was expected.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV
10  Taking the table to represent the path of virtue, I am justified in stating that during the whole time of the Aged's reading, Wemmick's arm was straying from the path of virtue and being recalled to it by Miss Skiffins.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
11  Presently another click came, and another little door tumbled open with "Miss Skiffins" on it; then Miss Skiffins shut up and John tumbled open; then Miss Skiffins and John both tumbled open together, and finally shut up together.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
12  Nothing disturbed the tranquillity of the Castle, but the occasional tumbling open of John and Miss Skiffins: which little doors were a prey to some spasmodic infirmity that made me sympathetically uncomfortable until I got used to it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
13  Miss Skiffins's composure while she did this was one of the most remarkable sights I have ever seen, and if I could have thought the act consistent with abstraction of mind, I should have deemed that Miss Skiffins performed it mechanically.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
14  As Wemmick and Miss Skiffins sat side by side, and as I sat in a shadowy corner, I observed a slow and gradual elongation of Mr. Wemmick's mouth, powerfully suggestive of his slowly and gradually stealing his arm round Miss Skiffins's waist.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
15  In course of time I saw his hand appear on the other side of Miss Skiffins; but at that moment Miss Skiffins neatly stopped him with the green glove, unwound his arm again as if it were an article of dress, and with the greatest deliberation laid it on the table before her.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
16  The Aged prepared such a hay-stack of buttered toast, that I could scarcely see him over it as it simmered on an iron stand hooked on to the top-bar; while Miss Skiffins brewed such a jorum of tea, that the pig in the back premises became strongly excited, and repeatedly expressed his desire to participate in the entertainment.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
17  I inferred from the methodical nature of Miss Skiffins's arrangements that she made tea there every Sunday night; and I rather suspected that a classic brooch she wore, representing the profile of an undesirable female with a very straight nose and a very new moon, was a piece of portable property that had been given her by Wemmick.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
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