Miss Havisham

Since I dismissed that village boy to go work in the forge with his master, everything has gone back to normal. I sit, and dream, and wonder, in my 'hell on earth.' I gave that boy twenty-five guineas when he left for his services, and it seemed that did not satisfy him. He stopped in the other day and when i told him he wouldn't get anything more out of me, he merely thanked me and told me of how life was going in the forge. He also wondered where Estella was, and there was a look in his eye that seemed quite anxious and apprehensive. He really wanted to see her, and I made some fun of it, making it seem she was too classy for him!

"Everything was unchanged, and Miss Havisham was alone. 'Well?' said she, fixing her eyes upon me. 'I hope you want nothing? You'll get nothing.' " (122)

" 'Ay!' she cried suddenly, turning herself and her chair towards me, 'You are lookin round for Estella? Hey?'
I had been looking round-in fact, for Estella-and I stammered that I hoped she was well.
'Abroad,' said Miss Havisham; 'educating for a lady; far out of reach; prettier than ever; admired by all who see her. Do you feel that you have lost her?'
There was such a malignant enjoyment in her utterance of the last words, and she broke into such a disagreeable laugh, that I was at a loss what to say." (122-123)