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... my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me an ... ... an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the in- scription, “ Also Georgiana Wife of ... ...he low leaden line beyond, was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing, was the sea; and that the small bundle of ... ...ds, he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon h... ... said she, “I didn’t bring you up 14 Great Expectations by hand to badger people’s lives out. It would be blame to me, and not praise, if I had. Peop... ...nce that time, which is far enough away now, I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. No matter how... ...’s Gate, and we were in among the tiers of shipping. Here, were the Leith, Aberdeen, and Glasgow steam- ers, loading and unloading goods, and looking ...