Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Cultivate in them, while there is yet time, the utmost graces of the fancies and affections, to adorn their lives, so much in need of ornament ; or, in the day of your triumph, when romance is utterly driven out of their souls, and they and a bare existence stand face to face, Reality will take a wolfish turn, and make an end of you.

I have seen you give him looks and smiles this very night, such as you never give to—me.""Do you want me then," said Estella, turning suddenly with a fixed and serious, if not angry look, "to deceive and entrap you?""Do you deceive and entrap him, Estella?""Yes, and many others—all of them but you.

The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.

In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.