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1  I am sure I shall be very happy to show London to you.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
2  I thought that with her I could have been happy there for life.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIII
3  Biddy," I exclaimed, impatiently, "I am not at all happy as I am.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
4  I was going to wish her many happy returns, when she lifted her stick.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
5  I too had fallen into the old ways, only happy and thankful that he let me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
6  I am far from happy, Miss Havisham; but I have other causes of disquiet than any you know of.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
7  Joe's eyes were red when I next found him beside me; but I was holding his hand, and we both felt happy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
8  Only tip him a nod every now and then when he looks off his paper," said Wemmick, "and he'll be as happy as a king.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
9  Once, it had seemed to me that when I should at last roll up my shirt-sleeves and go into the forge, Joe's 'prentice, I should be distinguished and happy.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV
10  I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
11  And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIII
12  Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
13  Day by day as his hopes grew stronger and his face brighter, he must have thought me a more and more affectionate friend, for I had the greatest difficulty in restraining my tears of triumph when I saw him so happy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
14  By degrees I learnt, and chiefly from Herbert, that Mr. Pocket had been educated at Harrow and at Cambridge, where he had distinguished himself; but that when he had had the happiness of marrying Mrs. Pocket very early in life, he had impaired his prospects and taken up the calling of a Grinder.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
15  It appeared to me that he must be a very happy man indeed, to have so many little drawers in his shop; and I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
16  Clara and I have talked about it again and again," Herbert pursued, "and the dear little thing begged me only this evening, with tears in her eyes, to say to you that, if you will live with us when we come together, she will do her best to make you happy, and to convince her husband's friend that he is her friend too.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
17  And now, because my mind was not confused enough before, I complicated its confusion fifty thousand-fold, by having states and seasons when I was clear that Biddy was immeasurably better than Estella, and that the plain honest working life to which I was born had nothing in it to be ashamed of, but offered me sufficient means of self-respect and happiness.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
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