wished and not for the first time that i had had some other guardian of minor abilities mr and i parted at the office in little great expectations tain where for mr s notice were lingering about as usual and i returned to my watch in the street of the coach office with some three hours on hand i consumed the whole time in thinking how strange it was that i should be by all this taint of prison and crime that in my childhood out on our lonely on a winter evening i should have first encountered it that it should have reappeared on two occasions starting out like a stain that was faded but not gone that it should in this new way fortune and advancement while my mind was thus engaged i thought of the beautiful young proud and refined coming towards me and i thought with absolute of the contrast between the jail and her i wished that had not met me or that i had not yielded to him and gone with him so that of all days in the year on this day i might not have had in my breath and on my clothes i beat the prison dust off my feet as i sauntered to and fro and i shook it out of my dress and i its air from my lungs so did i feel remembering who was coming that the coach came quickly after all and i was not yet free from the consciousness of mr s when i saw her face at the coach window and her hand waving to me what was the nameless shadow which again in that one instant had passed great expectations chapter in her travelling dress seemed more delicately beautiful than she had ever seemed jet even in my eyes her manner was more winning than she had cared to let it be to me before and i thought i saw miss s influence in the change we stood in the inn yard while she pointed out her luggage to me and when it was all collected i remembered � having forgotten everything but herself in the mean while � that i knew nothing of her destination lam going to she told me our lesson is that there are two one in and one in and that mine is the the distance is ten miles i am to have a carriage and you are to take me this is my purse and you are to pay my charges out of it oh you must take the purse we have no choice you and i but to obey our instructions we are not free to follow our own devices you and i � as she looked at me in giving me the purse i hoped there was an inner meaning in her words she said them but not with displeasure a carriage will have to be sent for will you rest here a little yes i am to rest here a little and i am to drink some tea and you are to take care of me the while vol ii great expectations she drew her arm through mine as if it must be done and i requested a waiter who had been staring at the coach like a man who had never seen such a thing in his life to show us a private sitting room upon that he pulled out a as if it were a magic clue without which he couldn t find the way up stairs and led us to the black hole of the establishment fitted up with a mirror quite a superfluous article considering the hole s proportions an and somebody s on my to this retreat he took us into another room with a dinner table for thirty and in the grate a leaf of a copy book under a of coal dust having looked at this extinct and shaken his head he took my order which proving to be merely some tea for the lady sent him out of the room in a very low state of mind i was and i am sensible that the air of this chamber in its strong combination of stable with soup stock might have led one to infer that the department was not doing well and that the proprietor was boiling down the horses for the refreshment department yet the room was all in all to me being in it i thought that with her i could have been happy there for life i was not at all happy there at the time observe and i knew it well where are you going to at i asked lam going to live said she at a great expense with a lady there who has the power � or says she has � of taking me about and introducing me and showing people to me and showing me to people i suppose you will be glad of variety and admiration great expectations yes i suppose so she answered so carelessly that i said you speak of yourself as if you were some one else where did you learn how i speak of others come come said smiling delightfully you must not expect me to go to school to you i must talk in my own way how do you with mr pocket u i live quite pleasantly there at least it appeared to me that i was losing a chance at least repeated as pleasantly as i could anywhere away from you u you silly boy said quite how can you talk such nonsense your friend mr i believe is superior to the rest of his family very superior indeed he is nobody s enemy u don t add but his own interposed for i hate that class of man but he really is disinterested and above small jealousy and spite i have heard i am sure i have every reason to 