1 The action of her fingers was like the action of knitting.
2 Several curious little circumstances transpired as the action proceeded.
3 And a certain action of her fingers, as she spoke, arrested my attention.
4 Quite an untaught genius, I made the discovery of the line of action for myself.
5 He ate in a ravenous way that was very disagreeable, and all his actions were uncouth, noisy, and greedy.
6 But I, misled by the action, and confused by the occasion, shook hands with him with every testimony of warm affection.
7 I could see in the action of Estella's fingers as they worked that she attended to what I said; but she did not look up.
8 Rather alarmed by this summary action, I was for a little delay, and even hinted that our friend himself might be difficult to deal with.
9 A childish association revived with wonderful force in the moment of the slight action, and I fancied that I saw Miss Havisham hanging to the beam.
10 With my heart beating like a heavy hammer of disordered action, I rose out of my chair, and stood with my hand upon the back of it, looking wildly at him.
11 When I said some reassuring words, she stretched out her tremulous right hand, as though she was going to touch me; but she recalled it again before I understood the action, or knew how to receive it.
12 It was the slightest start that could escape a man, the most carefully repressed and the sooner checked, but he did start, though he made it a part of the action of taking out his pocket-handkerchief.
13 Then, he took a live coal from the fire with the tongs, and lighted his pipe at it, and then turned round on the hearth-rug with his back to the fire, and went through his favorite action of holding out both his hands for mine.
14 Estella, pausing a moment in her knitting with her eyes upon me, and then going on, I fancied that I read in the action of her fingers, as plainly as if she had told me in the dumb alphabet, that she perceived I had discovered my real benefactor.
15 I thought how one link of association had helped that identification in the theatre, and how such a link, wanting before, had been riveted for me now, when I had passed by a chance swift from Estella's name to the fingers with their knitting action, and the attentive eyes.
16 A tremulous uncertainty of the action of all her limbs soon became a part of her regular state, and afterwards, at intervals of two or three months, she would often put her hands to her head, and would then remain for about a week at a time in some gloomy aberration of mind.
17 I was fully old enough now to be apprenticed to Joe; and when Joe sat with the poker on his knees thoughtfully raking out the ashes between the lower bars, my sister would so distinctly construe that innocent action into opposition on his part, that she would dive at him, take the poker out of his hands, shake him, and put it away.
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