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Mrs. Pocket was sitting on a garden chair under a tree,
reading, with her legs upon another garden chair; and
Mrs. Pocket's two nurse-maids were looking about them
while the children played. "Mamma," said Herbert, "this
is young Mr. Pip." Upon which Mrs. Pocket received me
with an appearance of amiable dignity.
"Master Alick and Miss Jane," cried one of the nurses to
two of the children, "if you go a bouncing up against them
bushes you'll fall over into the river and be drownded,
and what'll your pa say then?"
At the same time this nurse picked up Mrs. Pocket's
handkerchief, and said, "If that don't make six times
you've dropped it, Mum!" Upon which Mrs. Pocket
laughed and said, "Thank you, Flopson," and settling
herself in one chair only, resumed her book. Her
countenance immediately assumed a knitted and intent
expression as if she had been reading for a week, but
before she could have read half a dozen lines, she fixed
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Great Expectations