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1  Now, I return to this young fellow.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
2  To return to the man and make an end of him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
3  Wemmick sent him the particulars, I understand, by return of post.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
4  If Compeyson were alive and should discover his return, I could hardly doubt the consequence.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIII
5  As he was so communicative, I felt that reserve on my part would be a bad return unsuited to our years.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
6  When the day came round for my return to the scene of the deed of violence, my terrors reached their height.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
7  It was settled that I should stay there all the rest of the day, and return to the hotel at night, and to London to-morrow.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
8  I represented myself as being surely worthy of some little confidence from him, in return for the confidence I had just now imparted.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
9  When we had played some half-dozen games, a day was appointed for my return, and I was taken down into the yard to be fed in the former dog-like manner.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
10  I was to be absent only one night, and, on my return, the gratification of his impatience for my starting as a gentleman on a greater scale was to be begun.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIII
11  The late Compeyson having been beforehand with him in intelligence of his return, and being so determined to bring him to book, I do not think he could have been saved.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
12  Where I might go, what I might do, or when I might return, were questions utterly unknown to me; nor did I vex my mind with them, for it was wholly set on Provis's safety.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
13  On Wemmick's return from working these mechanical appliances, I expressed the great admiration with which I regarded them, and he said, "Well, you know, they're both pleasant and useful to the Aged."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
14  Looking back at him, I thought of the first night of his return, when our positions were reversed, and when I little supposed my heart could ever be as heavy and anxious at parting from him as it was now.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
15  I insensibly fall into a general mention of these journeys as numerous, because it was at once settled that I should return every alternate day at noon for these purposes, and because I am now going to sum up a period of at least eight or ten months.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
16  As I could do no service there, and as I had, nearer home, that pressing reason for anxiety and fear which even her wanderings could not drive out of my mind, I decided, in the course of the night that I would return by the early morning coach, walking on a mile or so, and being taken up clear of the town.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
17  When I at last took courage to return to the room, I found Estella sitting at Miss Havisham's knee, taking up some stitches in one of those old articles of dress that were dropping to pieces, and of which I have often been reminded since by the faded tatters of old banners that I have seen hanging up in cathedrals.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
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