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1 An elderly woman, whom I had seen before as one of the servants who lived in the supplementary house across the back courtyard, opened the gate.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XLIX
2 I found, on questioning the servants, that Estella was in Paris, and I got a promise from the surgeon that he would write to her by the next post.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XLIX
3 Then, I looked round and saw the disturbed beetles and spiders running away over the floor, and the servants coming in with breathless cries at the door.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XLIX
4 Mr. Pocket was out lecturing; for, he was a most delightful lecturer on domestic economy, and his treatises on the management of children and servants were considered the very best text-books on those themes.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXXIII
5 Both Mr. and Mrs. Pocket had such a noticeable air of being in somebody else's hands, that I wondered who really was in possession of the house and let them live there, until I found this unknown power to be the servants.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXIII
6 Mrs. Joe made occasional trips with Uncle Pumblechook on market-days, to assist him in buying such household stuffs and goods as required a woman's judgment; Uncle Pumblechook being a bachelor and reposing no confidences in his domestic servant.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter VII
7 The little servant happening to be entering the fortress with two hot rolls, I passed through the postern and crossed the drawbridge in her company, and so came without announcement into the presence of Wemmick as he was making tea for himself and the Aged.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XLV
8 It was a smooth way of going on, perhaps, in respect of saving trouble; but it had the appearance of being expensive, for the servants felt it a duty they owed to themselves to be nice in their eating and drinking, and to keep a deal of company down stairs.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXIII