Indeed, there was a frankness in his face, an honesty, and an undisguised show of his pride in her, and his love for her, which were, to me, the best of good looks.

He couldn't finish the name. The final letter swelled in his throat, to the size of the whole alphabet.

Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!

Yet the room was all in all to me, Estella being in it.

I was glad to be tenderly remembered, to be gently pitied, not to be quite forgotten.

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away.

Let me persuade you then--oh, do let me persuade you," said the child, "to think no more of gains or losses, and to try no fortune but the fortune we pursue together.

Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.