1 Evidently Biddy had taught Joe to write.
2 He wishes me most particular to write what larks.
3 Herbert had been writing with his pencil in the cover of a book.
4 She presently rose from her seat, and looked about the blighted room for the means of writing.
5 But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale.
6 Biddy," pursued Joe, "when I got home and asked her fur to write the message to you, a little hung back.
7 Dinner over, we produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper.
8 "I should like to be," said I, glancing at the slate as he held it; with a misgiving that the writing was rather hilly.
9 I had not seen Mr. Wemmick for some weeks, when I thought I would write him a note and propose to go home with him on a certain evening.
10 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.
11 I write this by request of Mr. Gargery, for to let you know that he is going to London in company with Mr. Wopsle and would be glad if agreeable to be allowed to see you.
12 I ought rather to write that I should have been alarmed if I had had energy and concentration enough to help me to the clear perception of any truth beyond the fact that I was falling very ill.
13 A deserting soldier in a Traveller's Rest, what lay hid up to the chin under a lot of taturs, learnt me to read; and a travelling Giant what signed his name at a penny a time learnt me to write.
14 When, at last, she came round so far as to be helped down stairs, it was still necessary to keep my slate always by her, that she might indicate in writing what she could not indicate in speech.
15 I was not related to the outlaw, or connected with him by any recognizable tie; he had put his hand to no writing or settlement in my favor before his apprehension, and to do so now would be idle.
16 But for the indelible picture that my remembrance now holds before me, I could scarcely believe, even as I write these words, that I saw two-and-thirty men and women put before the Judge to receive that sentence together.
17 I earnestly hoped and prayed that he might die before the Recorder's Report was made; but, in the dread of his lingering on, I began that night to write out a petition to the Home Secretary of State, setting forth my knowledge of him, and how it was that he had come back for my sake.
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