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1 He had been at his books when I had found myself staring at him, and I now saw that he was inky.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XI
2 On these occasions, Wemmick took his books and papers into Mr. Jaggers's room, and one of the up-stairs clerks came down into the outer office.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter LI
3 By this time, the rooms were vastly different from what I had found them, and I enjoyed the honor of occupying a few prominent pages in the books of a neighboring upholsterer.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXVII
4 There was a bookcase in the room; I saw from the backs of the books, that they were about evidence, criminal law, criminal biography, trials, acts of Parliament, and such things.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXVI
5 I soon contracted expensive habits, and began to spend an amount of money that within a few short months I should have thought almost fabulous; but through good and evil I stuck to my books.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXV
6 One day when I was busy with my books and Mr. Pocket, I received a note by the post, the mere outside of which threw me into a great flutter; for, though I had never seen the handwriting in which it was addressed, I divined whose hand it was.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXXII
7 So he went round the room and shook the curtains out, put the chairs in their places, tidied the books and so forth that were lying about, looked into the hall, peeped into the letter-box, shut the door, and came back to his chair by the fire: where he sat down, nursing his left leg in both arms.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXX