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    1. An outward semblance of humanity is restored and the old biddy on the till loses interest now that Billy has rejoined the ranks of the normal


    2. I smiled, and said, “Of course,” having no idea what she meant, but trying to humor the old biddy


    3. The old biddy still had his pink slip, but he decided to deal with her later


    4. The old biddy almost broke her neck staring up at my window


    5. It was to one of these they went that night called Biddy Mulligan’s


    6. His wife Biddy whose family came from nearby was a veritable chatterbox, extracting all the news she could about Ellen’s family in England


    7. “You know Biddy Byrne, who lives up near the old graveyard,” Eddie said to Ellen


    8. It was quite difficult for a seven-foot tall old biddy with creaking knees to achieve


    9. Man gives lost old biddy a piggy- back across a raging river; lost old biddy turns out to be more than meets the eye; lost old biddy later saves man out of gratitude


    10. But there was a pleasant old biddy who worked behind the bar in the Officer’s Mess, who was quite handy with a needle, and she could usually manage to get the odd ear back onto a rabbit, or an arm on to a teddy bear

    11. I remember her aunt very well, Biddy Henshawe; she married a very wealthy man


    12. This mental exercise lasted until Biddy made a rush at them and distributed three defaced Bibles (shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump end of something), more illegibly printed at the best than any curiosities of literature I have since met with, speckled all over with ironmould, and having various specimens of the insect world smashed between their leaves


    13. This part of the Course was usually lightened by several single combats between Biddy and refractory students


    14. When the fights were over, Biddy gave out the number of a page, and then we all read aloud what we could,—or what we couldn't—in a frightful chorus; Biddy leading with a high, shrill, monotonous voice, and none of us having the least notion of, or reverence for, what we were reading about


    15. It appeared to me that it would take time to become uncommon, under these circumstances: nevertheless, I resolved to try it, and that very evening Biddy entered on our special agreement, by imparting some information from her little catalogue of Prices, under the head of moist sugar, and lending me, to copy at home, a large old English D which she had imitated from the heading of some newspaper, and which I supposed, until she told me what it was, to be a design for a buckle


    16. I reposed complete confidence in no one but Biddy; but I told poor Biddy everything


    17. Why it came natural to me to do so, and why Biddy had a deep concern in everything I told her, I did not know then, though I think I know now


    18. Wopsle's great-aunt conquered a confirmed habit of living into which she had fallen, and Biddy became a part of our establishment


    19. It may have been about a month after my sister's reappearance in the kitchen, when Biddy came to us with a small speckled box containing the whole of her worldly effects, and became a blessing to the household


    20. Above all, she was a blessing to Joe, for the dear old fellow was sadly cut up by the constant contemplation of the wreck of his wife, and had been accustomed, while attending on her of an evening, to turn to me every now and then and say, with his blue eyes moistened, "Such a fine figure of a woman as she once were, Pip!" Biddy instantly taking the cleverest charge of her as though she had studied her from infancy; Joe became able in some sort to appreciate the greater quiet of his life,

    21. When my sister found that Biddy was very quick to understand her, this mysterious sign reappeared on the slate


    22. Biddy looked thoughtfully at it, heard my explanation, looked thoughtfully at my sister, looked thoughtfully at Joe (who was always represented on the slate by his initial letter), and ran into the forge, followed by Joe and me


    23. "Why, of course!" cried Biddy, with an exultant face


    24. Imperceptibly I became conscious of a change in Biddy, however


    25. It came of my lifting up my own eyes from a task I was poring at—writing some passages from a book, to improve myself in two ways at once by a sort of stratagem—and seeing Biddy observant of what I was about


    26. I laid down my pen, and Biddy stopped in her needlework without laying it down


    27. But you never turn to at it, Biddy


    28. "I suppose I must catch it like a cough," said Biddy, quietly; and went on with


    29. Biddy looked at me for an instant, and went on with her sewing


    30. "No I am not," said Biddy, looking up and laughing

    31. I reflected that even in those untoward times there must have been latent in Biddy what was now developing, for, in my first uneasiness and discontent I had turned to her for help, as a matter of course


    32. Biddy sat quietly sewing, shedding no more tears, and while I looked at her and thought about it all, it occurred to me that perhaps I had not been sufficiently grateful to Biddy


    33. My sister was never left alone now; but Joe more than readily undertook the care of her on that Sunday afternoon, and Biddy and I went out together


    34. When we came to the river-side and sat down on the bank, with the water rippling at our feet, making it all more quiet than it would have been without that sound, I resolved that it was a good time and place for the admission of Biddy into my inner confidence


    35. "Was I absurd?" said Biddy, quietly raising her eyebrows; "I am sorry for that; I


    36. "That's a pity!" said Biddy, shaking her head with a sorrowful air


    37. Now, I too had so often thought it a pity, that, in the singular kind of quarrel with myself which I was always carrying on, I was half inclined to shed tears of vexation and distress when Biddy gave utterance to her sentiment and my own


    38. "Because, if it is to spite her," Biddy pursued, "I should think—but you know best—that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words


    39. "Ah!" said Biddy, quite in a whisper, as she looked away at the ships


    40. I said to Biddy we would walk a little farther, and we did so, and the summer afternoon toned down into the summer evening, and it was very beautiful

    41. I asked myself the question whether I did not surely know that if Estella were beside me at that moment instead of Biddy, she would make me miserable? I was obliged to admit that I did know it for a certainty, and I said to myself, "Pip, what a fool you are!"


    42. "Oh dear, not at all!" said Biddy


    43. "But you never will, you see," said Biddy


    44. Biddy was much against his going with us, and said to me in a whisper, "Don't let him come; I don't like him


    45. Curious to know whether Biddy suspected him of having had a hand in that murderous attack of which my sister had never been able to give any account, I asked her why she did not like him


    46. "No," said Biddy, glancing over her shoulder again, "he never told me so; but he


    47. "Nor I neither," said Biddy


    48. And now, because my mind was not confused enough before, I complicated its confusion fifty thousand-fold, by having states and seasons when I was clear that Biddy was immeasurably better than Estella, and that the plain honest working life to which I was born had nothing in it to be ashamed of, but offered me sufficient means of self-respect and happiness


    49. I had never heard of any tutor but Biddy and Mr


    50. At length I got out, "Joe, have you told Biddy?"














































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