I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

I don't want to know anything. I am not curious!

He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.

The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him.

He knew more of my intended career than I knew myself. I should be well enough educated for my destiny if I could "hold my own" with average young man in prosperous circumstances.

Stella says the name for the house where she and Ms. Havisham live is Stasis, Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three to dub the domicile Enough House. In a healthy soul, this might mean contentment. Or, in seeing what we have as Enough, this can mean we are not open to vulnerability, generosity, or dependence on those who might threaten our Stasis.