1 First, he took the two secret men.
2 I began explaining to her that secret history of the partnership.
3 That the secret was still a secret, except that you had got wind of it.
4 I assured him of my keeping the secret, and begged to be favored with further particulars.
5 And then, dear boy, it was a recompense to me, look'ee here, to know in secret that I was making a gentleman.
6 That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.
7 He mentioned to me as a secret, that he is courting a young lady who has, as no doubt you are aware, a bedridden Pa.
8 That person is the person from whom you derive your expectations, and the secret is solely held by that person and by me.
9 As I was silent for a while, looking at Estella and considering how to go on, Miss Havisham repeated, "It is not your secret, but another's."
10 Let him suppose it a mere freak, but a secret one, until the morning comes: then let him know that there is urgent reason for your getting Provis aboard and away.
11 In vain should I attempt to describe the astonishment and disquiet of Herbert, when he and I and Provis sat down before the fire, and I recounted the whole of the secret.
12 I had never seen any one then, and I have never seen any one since, who more strongly expressed to me, in every look and tone, a natural incapacity to do anything secret and mean.
13 Under the weight of my wicked secret, I pondered whether the Church would be powerful enough to shield me from the vengeance of the terrible young man, if I divulged to that establishment.
14 That the secret must be confided to Herbert as a matter of unavoidable necessity, even if I could have put the immense relief I should derive from sharing it with him out of the question, was plain to me.
15 It is so difficult to become clearly possessed of the contents of almost any letter, in a violent hurry, that I had to read this mysterious epistle again twice, before its injunction to me to be secret got mechanically into my mind.
16 True, I had no Avenger in my service now, but I was looked after by an inflammatory old female, assisted by an animated rag-bag whom she called her niece, and to keep a room secret from them would be to invite curiosity and exaggeration.
17 Between him and me, secret articles were signed of which Herbert was the subject, and I paid him half of my five hundred pounds down, and engaged for sundry other payments: some, to fall due at certain dates out of my income: some, contingent on my coming into my property.
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