1 I released the leg of the table, and ran for my life.
2 At the mention of each name, she had struck the table with her stick in a new place.
3 All this time Mrs. Joe and Joe were briskly clearing the table for the pie and pudding.
4 I still held on to the leg of the table, but clutched it now with the fervor of gratitude.
5 I moved the table, like a Medium of the present day, by the vigor of my unseen hold upon it.
6 Matthew will come and see me at last," said Miss Havisham, sternly, "when I am laid on that table.
7 This," said she, pointing to the long table with her stick, "is where I will be laid when I am dead.
8 Some bright jewels sparkled on her neck and on her hands, and some other jewels lay sparkling on the table.
9 She threw the cards down on the table when she had won them all, as if she despised them for having been won of me.
10 But prominent in it was a draped table with a gilded looking-glass, and that I made out at first sight to be a fine lady's dressing-table.
11 I clutched the leg of the table again immediately, and pressed it to my bosom as if it had been the companion of my youth and friend of my soul.
12 In an arm-chair, with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand, sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see.
13 Miss Havisham beckoned her to come close, and took up a jewel from the table, and tried its effect upon her fair young bosom and against her pretty brown hair.
14 The most prominent object was a long table with a tablecloth spread on it, as if a feast had been in preparation when the house and the clocks all stopped together.
15 With some vague misgiving that she might get upon the table then and there and die at once, the complete realization of the ghastly waxwork at the Fair, I shrank under her touch.
16 Always holding tight by the leg of the table with my hands and feet, I saw the miserable creature finger his glass playfully, take it up, smile, throw his head back, and drink the brandy off.
17 That, if Joe knew it, I never afterwards could see him glance, however casually, at yesterday's meat or pudding when it came on to-day's table, without thinking that he was debating whether I had been in the pantry.
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