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1  But if you could oblige me, I should take it as a kindness.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
2  I thanked her heartily, and I thanked him heartily, but said I could not yet make sure of joining him as he so kindly offered.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
3  In my hunger for information, I made proposals to Mr. Wopsle to bestow some intellectual crumbs upon me, with which he kindly complied.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
4  All the truth of my position came flashing on me; and its disappointments, dangers, disgraces, consequences of all kinds, rushed in in such a multitude that I was borne down by them and had to struggle for every breath I drew.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
5  I further mentioned that as I had been brought up a blacksmith in a country place, and knew very little of the ways of politeness, I would take it as a great kindness in him if he would give me a hint whenever he saw me at a loss or going wrong.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
6  She watched his countenance as if she were particularly wishful to be assured that he took kindly to his reception, she showed every possible desire to conciliate him, and there was an air of humble propitiation in all she did, such as I have seen pervade the bearing of a child towards a hard master.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
7  It was but natural that I should take to him much more kindly than to Drummle, and that, even in the earliest evenings of our boating, he and I should pull homeward abreast of one another, conversing from boat to boat, while Bentley Drummle came up in our wake alone, under the overhanging banks and among the rushes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
8  Though he called me Mr. Pip, and began rather to make up to me, he still could not get rid of a certain air of bullying suspicion; and even now he occasionally shut his eyes and threw his finger at me while he spoke, as much as to express that he knew all kinds of things to my disparagement, if he only chose to mention them.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
9  Herbert had told me on former occasions, and now reminded me, that he first knew Miss Clara Barley when she was completing her education at an establishment at Hammersmith, and that on her being recalled home to nurse her father, he and she had confided their affection to the motherly Mrs. Whimple, by whom it had been fostered and regulated with equal kindness and discretion, ever since.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI