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...NS by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charles Dickens GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens Chapter 1 M Y FATHER’S FAMILY name be... ...em out in this state of existence. Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea. My first most v... ...eding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond, was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing, wa... ...sently I looked over my shoulder, and saw him going on again to- wards the river, still hugging himself in both arms, and pick- ing his way with his s... ...ditional shovel-full to-day. Old Orlick he’s been a bustin’open a dwelling-ouse.” “Whose?” said I. “Not, I grant, you, but what his manners is given t... ...s given to blus- terous,” said Joe, apologetically; “still, a Englishman’s ouse is his Castle, and castles must not be busted ‘cept when done in war t...

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...ranquil and pretty on an evening in the summer time. A soft air stirred the leaves of the fresh green trees, and passed like a smooth shadow over the river, and like a smoother shadow over the yielding grass. The voice of the falling water, like the voices of the sea and the wind, were as an outer memory to a contemplative listener; but not particularly so to Mr. Riderhood...

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... leaves of the fresh green trees, and passed like a smooth shadow over the river, and like a smoother shadow over the yielding grass. The voice of the... ...t, he crossed back by his plank lock-bridge to the towing-path side of the river. If, in so doing, he took another glance at the bargeman, he 5 Charl... ... of impatience mounted into Bradley’s face, and he looked anxiously up the river. ‘It ain’ t Locks as you’ve been a reckoning up,’ said Riderhood, whe... ... to do?’ He dropped into a chair, and laughed. Immediately after- wards, a great spirt of blood burst from his nose. ‘How does that happen?’ asked Rid... ...out any, I shall be heartily glad. Y ou two have done me a service, a very great service, in doing what you did (my old lady knows what it was), and I... ...urse of time?’ ‘It is not,’ assented Alfred, with a glittering smile and a great deal of nose, ‘not impossible.’ ‘And perhaps, ma’am,’ pursued Mr Boff... ... should happen to have a drop of anything not quite so mild as tea in the ‘ouse, I think I’ d take the friendly liberty of ask- ing you for a specimen... ...ood a man as you, and bet- ter. Ask me to dinner. Give me the run of your ‘ouse. I was good enough for you and your old lady once, when I helped you o...

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...aracteristic paper, it is as carefully excluded as if it were--that other word which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But the Great Public and its Press know better, and ?Scientists? they are....

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...ord which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But the Great Public and its Press know better, and “Scientists” they are, 4 The F... ...is the case with “scientists” as a class all the world over. What there is great of them is an annoyance to their fellow scientists and a mystery to t... ...ot is evident. 6 The Food of the Gods There is no doubt about what is not great, no race of men have such obvious littlenesses. They live in a narrow... ...nto my stable roof and one chapter smashed a ‘ole in Missis Vicar’s green ‘ouse—I beg ‘er pardon— Conservarratory.” Skinner came in. “I’d like thometh... ...I II II He had his bad days. There was, for example, that trouble with the river. He made little boats out of whole newspapers, an art he learnt by wa... ...cidentally flooded Lady Wondershoot’s ice-house, and finally he dammed the river. He dammed it right across with a few vigorous doorfuls of earth—he m... ...e kitchen garden, and so by the green door into the lane and down into the riverbed again by Short’s ditch. Meanwhile, the Vicar, interrupted in conve... ...gain, as the darkness closed about them. “Why! that chap was as ‘igh as a ‘ouse.” “That’s them young Cossars,” said his brother, jerking his head allu... ...id, where is a seat?” “He wants a seat.” “Can’t the brasted fool sit on a ‘ouse or somethin’?” “What are ye for, ye swarming little people? What are y...

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...h had been really divided by years. In falling ill, I seemed to have crossed a dark lake and to have left all my experiences, mingled together by the great distance, on the healthy shore....

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...d a dark lake and to have left all my experiences, mingled together by the great distance, on the healthy shore. My housekeeping duties, though at fir... ...on the healthy shore. My housekeeping duties, though at first it caused me great anxiety to think that they were unperformed, were soon as far off as ... ...ly oppressed by cares and difficulties adapted to each station, but by the great perplexity of endlessly trying to reconcile them. I suppose that few ... ...pon them; not only is it a still night in gardens and in woods, and on the river where the water meadows are fresh and green, and the stream sparkles ... ...ves, in nooks of bridges, looking over; and in shadowed places down by the river’s level; and a dark, dark, shapeless object drifting with the tide, m... ...lost all idea where we were, except that we had crossed and re crossed the river, and still seemed to be traversing a low lying, waterside, dense neig... ...s in the direction of W alcot Square, Lambeth. I have there fore taken a ‘ouse in that locality, which, in the opinion of my friends, is a hollow bar... ...ll render me his assistance in the capacity of clerk and will live in the ‘ouse,” said Mr. Guppy. “My mother will likewise live in the ‘ouse when her ... ...erson which I had the honour to make at a former period. I beg to lay the ‘ouse in Walcot Square, the business, and myself before Miss Summerson for h...

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...ark. He as sitting on the fence at the end of his garden and surveying the great Bun Hill gas- works with an eye that neither praised nor blamed. Abov... ...the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clear blue outline ag... ... then villas and villas, and then the gas-works and the water-works, and a great, ugly sea of workmen’s houses, and then drainage, and the water van- ... ...n wasting our blessed old time. Besides incurring expense with thet green-’ouse.” 5 5 5 5 5 It was while this mysterious talk with the soldier still s... ... minute wide prospect of weald and downland, at dim towns and harbours and rivers and rib- bon-like roads, at ships and ships, decks and foreshortened... ...ms, and the hills were deeply intersected by the gorges of several winding rivers interrupted at intervals by the banked-up ponds and weirs of electri... ...een relieved by tunnels under the sea, four colossal bridges over the east river, and a dozen mono-rail cables east and west, the upward growth went o... ...on too and all day and night there was people going, great cars as big as ‘ouses full of people.” The little boy regarded the rusty evidences acrosss ... ...they come from?” “All round ‘ere, Teddy, there was people living in those ‘ouses, and up the road more ‘ouses and more people. You’d ‘ardly believe me...

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...ow it is not attain bye by common capacities: and there be now many men of great wisdom, learning, and experience, which love and practice this Art, t... ... of Fish and Fishing, of which The Compleat Angler — Walton 3 you are so great a master, has been thought worthy the pens and practices of divers in... ...ns and practices of divers in other nations, that have been reputed men of great learning and wisdom. And amongst those of this nation, I remember Sir... ...’ breeding, but doubtless of their being in season; as may appear by three rivers in Monmouthshire, namely, Severn, Wye, and Usk, where Camden observe... ...uthshire, namely, Severn, Wye, and Usk, where Camden observes, that in the river Wye, Salmon are in The Compleat Angler — Walton 5 season from Septe... ... to April; and we are certain, that in Thames and Trent, and in most other rivers, they be in season the six hotter months. Now for the Art of catchin... ...re confluent and meeting together, namely, your Derwent, and especially of Ouse and Trent; and, as the Danow, having received into its channel the riv... ...is rais’d. Carlegion Chester vaunts her holy Dee; York many wonders of her Ouse can tell; The Peak, her Dove, whose banks so fertile be, And Kent will...

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... AND THE G RASSHOPPER .............................7 THE L ION AND THE M OUSE ....................................7 THE C HARCOAL B URNER AND TH... ... O XEN AND THE B UTCHERS .............................26 THE L ION, THE M OUSE, AND THE F OX ..................26 THE V AIN J ACKDAW ............... .........35 THE F IR TREE AND THE B RAMBLE .........................35 THE M OUSE, THE F ROG, AND THE H AWK ..............36 THE M AN B ITTEN BY ... ...E AND THE K ITE ...................................98 THE A SS AND H IS D RIVER ...................................99 THE T HRUSH AND THE F OWLER... ...r with his last breath, “I am rightly served for pitying a scoun drel.” The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful. 13 Aesop’s Fables THE F ... ...her friends are not worth much. THE M OUNTAIN IN L ABOR A MOUNTAIN was once greatly agitated. Loud groans and noises were heard, and crowds of people... ...ove. The Farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling with stones, and killed a great num ber. The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to... ... upon the evil disposed increase their means of injuring you. The Two Pots A RIVER carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and th... ...eight of this chain is enough to spoil the appetite.” 42 Aesop’s Fables The Rivers and the Sea THE RIVERS joined together to complain to the Sea, say...

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...ike manner the last of the old Spanish infantry origi- nally formed by the Great Captain, Gonzalo de Cordova, were all cut off, standing fast to a man... ...nd how much more should they not abound after the words have been spoken, ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his frien... ...an than this, that he lay down his life for his friend’, and after the one Great Deed has been wrought that has consecrated all other deeds of self-sa... ...wns, And hied them to the wall. ‘They held a council standing Before the River Gate: Short time was there, ye well may guess, For musing or debate.... ...‘Saw on Palatinus, The white porch of his home, And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the walls of Rome: ‘O Tiber! father Tiber! To whom th... ...ith shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the River Gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. ‘They gave him of the corn land, T... ...ships, rushing over the few planks that were the only way across the River Ouse. And here stood their defender, alone upon the bridge, keeping back th...

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...o small to take in cargo for delivery, and he could not be a lighterman or river-carrier; there was no clue to what he looked for, but he looked for s... ... movement of his head. She watched his face as earnestly as he watched the river. But, in the inten- sity of her look there was a touch of dread or ho... ...her look there was a touch of dread or horror. Allied to the bottom of the river rather than the surface, by reason of the slime and ooze with which i... ...used of robbing a man. Accused of rob- bing a live man!’ said Gaffer, with great indignation. ‘And what if I had been accused of robbing a dead man, G... ...lly compatible with their having a bran-new baby, and if they had set up a great-grandfather, he would have come home in matting from the Pantechnicon... ...?’—’You wouldn’t if you knew what it’s made of.’ 12 Our Mutual Friend The great looking-glass above the sideboard, reflects the table and the company... ...o Miss Abbey Potterson which keeps the Six Jolly Fellowships—there is the ‘ouse, it won’t run away,—there lives the lady, she ain’t likely to be struc... ...here, Lawyer Lightwood, at them red cur- tains. It’s the Fellowships, the ‘ouse as I told you wouldn’t run away. And has it run away?’ Not showing him... ... should happen to have a drop of anything not quite so mild as tea in the ‘ouse, I think I’ d take the friendly liberty of ask- ing you for a specimen...

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...eef or tongue or ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hot... ...ent is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of public entertainmen... ...nd yet—proceeding now, to introduce myself positively— I am both a town traveller and a country traveller, and am always on the road. Figuratively spe... ...nly was not heavy then, for one Refractory had already done her day’s task—it was barely two o’clock—and was sitting be- hind it, with a head exactly ... ...t. ‘I’m sure I’d be thankful,’ protested the Chief, looking sideways at the Uncommercial, ‘if I could be got into a place, or got abroad. I’m sick and... ...on the whole, I should say, it was considered rather a distinction to have a complication of disorders, and to be in a worse way than the rest. From s... ...erers, all the rigging in the docks was shrill in the wind, and every little steamer coming and going across the Mersey was sharp in its blow- ing off... ...him on any terms: ‘for,’ added the waiter (unmis- takably coughing at Mrs. Grazinglands, the pride of her di- vision of the county), ‘when indiwiduals... ...h a smart bang of the door, and gave the word, ‘Go on!’ Immediately, all that W . and S.W . division of London be- gan to slide away at a pace so live...

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...on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side o... ...hich seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject ot great floods. It takes a lot of water, and running strong, to sweep the o... ... It takes a lot of water, and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear. At every station there were groups of people, some Chapter ... ...lovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow boy hats, great baggy dirty white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy ... ...ex istence, and it certainly shows marks of it. Fifty years ago a series of great fires took place, which made ter rible havoc on five separate occa... ...eep rift where there is a chasm. Here and there are silver threads where the rivers wind in deep gorges through the forests. But I am not in heart t... ...a later period, this beneficial evil, one of the men remarked, “That `ere `ouse, guv’nor, is the rummiest I ever was in. Blyme! But it ain’t been to... ...n Pincher’s Alley, as ‘ow he an’ his mate ‘ad ‘ad a rare dusty job in a old ‘ouse at Purfleet. There ain’t a many such jobs as this ‘ere, an’ I’m thin... ... white church, or somethink of the kind, not long built. It was a dusty old ‘ouse, too, though nothin’ to the dustiness of the ‘ouse we tooked the blo...

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...o small to take in cargo for delivery, and he could not be a lighterman or river-carrier; there was no clue to what he looked for, but he looked for s... ... movement of his head. She watched his face as earnestly as he watched the river. But, in the inten- sity of her look there was a touch of dread or ho... ...her look there was a touch of dread or horror. Allied to the bottom of the river rather than the surface, by reason of the slime and ooze with which i... ...used of robbing a man. Accused of rob- bing a live man!’ said Gaffer, with great indignation. ‘And what if I had been accused of robbing a dead man, G... ...lly compatible with their having a bran-new baby, and if they had set up a great-grandfather, he would have come home in matting from the Pantechnicon... ...uldn’t if you knew what it’s made of.’ 12 Our Mutual Friend – V ol. 1 The great looking-glass above the sideboard, reflects the table and the company... ...o Miss Abbey Potterson which keeps the Six Jolly Fellowships—there is the ‘ouse, it won’t run away,—there lives the lady, she ain’t likely to be struc... ...here, Lawyer Lightwood, at them red cur- tains. It’s the Fellowships, the ‘ouse as I told you wouldn’t run away. And has it run away?’ Not showing him...

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...ir freshness and overwhelming earnestness! This unique introduction to its great leader, led immedi- ately to the employment of Mr. Douglass as an age... ...ity of a teacher and a thinker; his opinions on the broader aspects of the great American question were earnestly and incessantly sought, from various... ... Nightingale to Scutari, has devoted her time, her untiring energies, to a great extent her means, and her high literary abilities, to the advancement... ...OF BIRTH—CHARACTER OF THE DIS- TRICT—TUCKAHOE—ORIGIN OF THE NAME— CHOPTANK RIVER—TIME OF BIRTH—GENEA- LOGICAL TREES—MODE OF COUNTING TIME— NAMES OF GR... ...la- tion of the place would have quitted it long ago, but for the Choptank river, which runs through it, from which they take abundance of shad and he... ...t- able, from mud or from dust, the coast is clear; he can plunge into the river or the pond, without the ceremony of undress- ing, or the fear of wet... ... the G ife in the G ife in the Gr r r r reat H eat H eat H eat H eat House ouse ouse ouse ouse COMFORTS AND LUXURIES—ELABORATE EXPEN- DITURE—HOUSE SER...

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...ecurring wonder of the littleness of the scientific man in the face of the greatness of his science found such an amazing exemplifica- tion. Much conc... ...d rubber substitutes,” to the Society of Arts—he had become man- ager to a great plastic-substance manufactory—and at that time, it is now known, he w... ...nothing to the discussions of that body, preferring no doubt to mature his great concep- tion without external assistance. And within two years of tha... ...y with the description. In one picture the machine swings down towards the river, and the tower of Fulham church appears below it through a gap in the... ...at ‘ome with ‘er father and mother, quite the lady, in a very nice little ‘ouse with a garden—and remark- able respectable people they was. Rich you m... ...ble people they was. Rich you might call ‘em a’most. They owned their own ‘ouse—got it out of the Build- ing Society, and cheap because the chap who h... ...t anybody in the garden or about like. Jane was ‘elping ‘er mother do the ‘ouse. I was excited—I tell you. I tried the lock and then gave a whack at t... ...gs; they turn ‘em out as beavers build dams, and with no more sense of the rivers they’re going to divert and the lands they’re going to flood! “ As w...

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...Excerpt: ?HOLE!? said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis: ??Ole!? He paused, and then broke out with one of his private and peculiar idioms. ?Oh! Beastly Silly Wheeze of a Hole!?...

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...ar azaar I I I I I “HOLE!” said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis: “‘Ole!” He paused, and then broke out with one ... ...tiful children in the foreground. She was tell- ing them, one felt, of the great prospect of life that opened before them, of the spectacle of the wor... ...who have patience and unblemished hearts…. She was reminding them of their great heritage as English children, rulers of more than one-fifth of mankin... ... great barns and ancient trees, its pools and ponds and shining threads of rivers; its flower-starred hedgerows, its orchards and woodland patches, it... ...f Virginia, like an England grown very big and slovenly, the woods and big river sweeps of Penn- sylvania, the trim New England landscape, a little bl... ...fore and it seemed simple and wonder- ful. When they turned they found the river too narrow for tacking and the tide running out like a sluice. They b... ...tful panic. “Mother’s no good at managing—not a bit. Annie don’t care for ‘ouse work and Minnie’s got no ‘ed for it. What they’ll do without me I can’...

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...rl, “did you give your love to the Earl of Huntingdon, whose lands touch the Ouse and the T rent, or to Robert Fitz Ooth, the son of his mother?” “Nei... ...und along the banks of the stream, “the reason why lake trout is better than river trout, and shyer withal?” “I was not aware of the fact,” said Sir R... ...their horses in the care of lady Matilda’s groom, with whom the friar was in great favour, were ushered into a stately apartment, where they found the... ... but in that of a subsequent extenuation. True, he has done the lady Matilda great wrong—” “How, great wrong?” said the baron. “What do you mean by gr... ... away mine into the bar gain if he had had my daughter? What do you mean by great wrong?” “T rue,” said the friar, “great right, I meant.” “Right!” e... ...of rapid motion against the wind. Her black eyes sparkled like sunbeams on a river: a clear, deep, liquid radi ance, the reflection of ethereal fire,... ...o,” said the baron, “the lonely swan does not die on the pool. If there be a river at hand, she flies to the river, and finds her a mate; and so shall... ... band of followers, and beat up all the country far and wide around both the Ouse and the T rent; but fortune did not seem disposed to second his dili...

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...ir tents, Oh, warder of two continents; Thou drawest all things, small and great, To thee, beside the Western Gate.” This is what Bret Harte has writt... ...thee, beside the Western Gate.” This is what Bret Harte has written of the great city of San Francisco, and for the past fortnight I have been won- de... ...Notes When the “City of Pekin” steamed through the Golden Gate, I saw with great joy that the block-house which guarded the mouth of the “finest harbo... ...ing en route to pick up a night’s catch of one of the salmon wheels on the river, and to de- liver it at a cannery down-stream. When the proprietor of... ... halted at a rude wooden warehouse built on piles in a lonely reach of the river, and sent in the fish. I followed them up a scale-strewn, fishy incli... ... the Clackamas and sought horse feed and lodging, ere we has- tened to the river that broke over a weir not a quarter of a mile away. Imagine a stream... ... an’ me, I don’t think it’s going on much longer. You’ll ‘ear them in the ‘ouse to-morrer talkin’ as if it was spreadin’ all over America. The Swedes,...

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...houses of their employers hard by; an- other for some “gents who used the ‘ouse,” as Mrs. Crump would say (Heaven bless her!) in her simple Cockniac d... ...e loud voice, which, if not always in tune, made up for that defect by its great energy and activity; and Morgiana was not content with singing the me... ...ely as it could possibly be filled; for he could not even sit in it in his greatcoat, so accurately was the seat adapted to him. His wife and daugh- t... ...are happily to be found at the end of every week. There was Mr. Balls, the great grocer of South Audley Street, a warm man, who, they say, had his twe... ...ect,— “‘Tink-a-tink, tink-a-tink, By the light of the star, On the blue river’s brink, I heard a guitar. “‘I heard a guitar, On the blue waters ... ... he were carried off by a cannon-ball. He served a lady hopposite Hapsley ‘Ouse so one day, and since then I’ve never let him out to a friend except o... ...ntended the accounts of the concern). “It’s this very night at Devonshire ‘Ouse, with four hostrich plumes, lappets, and trimmings. And now, Mr. Wools... ...ed from the hotel), she gave us to un- derstand that the great walk by the river was altogether infe- rior to the principal avenue of Molloyville Park...

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...t compound interest. 6 Bleak House – Vol. One Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, whe... ...ls deified among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pol lutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish height... ...f collier brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in... ...d in with crimson cloth and cur tains, addressed by a large advocate with great whiskers, a little voice, and an interminable brief, and outwardly di... ...ay. The adjacent low lying ground for half a mile in breadth is a stagnant river with melancholy trees for islands in it and a surface punctured all o... ...rry— and the natives—and the happy settlement, on the banks of the African rivers, of our superabundant home population. 38 Bleak House – Vol. One Mr... ...vinses.” “May I ask, sir, what is—” “Coavinses?” said the strange man. “A ‘ouse.” Richard and I looked at one another again. It was a most singular th... ...corner. Up there! That’s where I see him stritched out. This is the public ouse where I was took to.” “Go on to the next!” It is a longer walk to the ... ...ervant and as come to my crossin one night and asked to be showd this ‘ere ouse and the ouse wot him as you giv the writin to died at, and the berrin ...

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...st is all very amusing and delightful, but “it isn’t a Play,” so we’ had a great deal of talk about the short story, and found our- selves measured by... ...n’t, ma’am, he says it won’t be for want of trying. Mr. Maynard has took a great fancy to him.” “He is getting on, Jane,” said my wife. “Yes, ma’am,” ... ...ir heads, and he started violently back. In the shadow of the room stood a great shadowy figure-silent. They saw the face dimly in the half-light, wit... ...pened out, and a gap in the white surf of the reef marked where the little river ran out to the sea; the thicker and deeper green of the virgin forest... ...e ran his thumb-nail over the chart. “This curved and twisting line is the river—I could do with a drink now!—and this star is the place.” “You see th... ...f the reef to a clump of palm-trees. The star comes just where it cuts the river. We must mark the place as we go into the lagoon.” “It’s queer,” said... ...that, and she thought the whole blessed show was run for her. T urned the ‘ouse into a regular caravansery, always having her relations and girls from...