and took up a gun with a brass bound stock do you know this said he making as if he would take aim at me do you know where you saw it afore speak wolf yes i answered you cost me that place you did speak what else could i do you did that and that would be enough without more how dared you to come me and a young woman i liked when did i when didn t you it was you as always old a bad name to her you gave it to yourself you gained it for yourself i could have done you no harm if you bad done yourself none you re a liar and you ll take any pains and spend any money to drive me out of this country will you said he repeating my words to in the last interview i had with her now i ll tell you a piece of information it was never so well worth your while to get me out of this country as it is tonight ah if it was all your money twenty times told to the last brass as he shook his heavy hand at me with his mouth like a tiger s i felt that it was true great expectations what are you going to do to me i m a going said he bringing bis fist down upon the table with a heavy blow and rising as the blow fell to give it greater force i m a going to have your life he leaned forward staring at me slowly his hand and drew it across his month as if his mouth watered for me and sat down again ton was always in old s way since ever you was a child you goes out of his way this present night hell have no more on you you re dead i felt that i had come to the brink of my grave for a moment i looked wildly round my trap for any chance of escape but there was none more than that said he folding his arms on the table again i won t have a rag of you i won t have a bone of you left on earth i ll put your body in the � i d carry two such to it on my shoulders � and let people suppose what they may of you they shall never know nothing my mind with inconceivable rapidity followed out all the consequences of such a death s father would believe i bad deserted him would be taken would die me even would doubt me when he compared the letter i had left for him with the fact that i had called at miss s gate for only a moment joe and would never know how sorry i had been that night none would ever know what i had suffered how true i had meant to be what an agony i had passed through the death close before me was terrible but far more terrible than death j x of being after death and so quick were � saw myself despised by generations � s great expectations and their children � while the wretch s words were yet on his lips now wolf said he u afore i kill you like any other beast � which is i mean to do and i have tied you up for � i ll have a good look at jou and a good at you oh you enemy it had passed through my thoughts to cry out for help again though few could know better than i the solitary nature of the spot and the of aid but as he sat over me i was supported by a scornful of him that sealed my lips above all things i resolved that i would not entreat him and that i would die making some last poor resistance to him softened as my thoughts of all the rest of men were in that dire extremity humbly pardon as i did of heaven melted at heart as i was by the thought that i had taken no farewell and never never now could take farewell of those who were dear to me or could explain myself to them or ask for their compassion on my miserable errors still if i could have killed him even in dying i would have done it he had been drinking and his eyes were red and around his neck was a tin bottle as i had often seen his meat and drink about him in other days he brought the bottle to his lips and took a fiery drink from it and i the strong spirits that i saw into his face wolf said he folding his arms again old s a going to tell you it was you as did for your sister again my mind with its former inconceivable rapidity bad exhausted the whole subject of the attack upon great expectations my sister her illness and her death before his w and hesitating speech had formed these words it was you villain said l w i tell a it was your doing � i tell you it was done through you he retorted catching up the gun and making a blow with the stock at the vacant air between us i come upon her from behind as i come upon you to night i it her i left her for dead and if there had been a lime as nigh her as there is now nigh you she shouldn t have come to life again but it warn t old as did it it was you you was favored and he was and beat old and beat eh now you pays for it you done it now you pays for it he drank again and became more ferocious i saw by his of the bottle that there was no great 