1 I half expected to see him drop down before my face and die of deadly cold.
2 I fully expected to find a Constable in the kitchen, waiting to take me up.
3 A dread possessed me that when I least expected it, the file would reappear.
4 I resented it, because it seemed to imply that he expected me to respond to it.
5 You are expected on board," said the sergeant to my convict; "they know you are coming.
6 The last man I should have expected to see in that place of porter at Miss Havisham's door.
7 I was not expected, for she left me locked in the yard, while she went to ask if I were to be admitted.
8 I confess that I expected to see my sister denounce him, and that I was disappointed by the different result.
9 Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.
10 I was not expected till to-morrow; but I had my keys, and, if Herbert were gone to bed, could get to bed myself without disturbing him.
11 I dropped my face into my hands, but was able to control myself better than I could have expected, considering what agony it gave me to hear her say those words.
12 I should be an inconvenience at Joe's; I was not expected, and my bed would not be ready; I should be too far from Miss Havisham's, and she was exacting and mightn't like it.
13 But they twinkled out one by one, without throwing any light on the questions why on earth I was going to play at Miss Havisham's, and what on earth I was expected to play at.
14 It appeared to me that I could do no better than secure him some quiet lodging hard by, of which he might take possession when Herbert returned: whom I expected in two or three days.
15 "You don't eat 'em," returned Mr. Pumblechook, sighing and nodding his head several times, as if he might have expected that, and as if abstinence from watercresses were consistent with my downfall.'
16 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.
17 When he had at last done and had appointed to send the articles to Mr. Pumblechook's on the Thursday evening, he said, with his hand upon the parlor lock, "I know, sir, that London gentlemen cannot be expected to patronize local work, as a rule; but if you would give me a turn now and then in the quality of a townsman, I should greatly esteem it."
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