"Great Expectations"
by Charles Dickens

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     "Once habituated to his distrustful manner," said I, "I have done very well."

     "Are you intimate?"

     "I have dined with him at his private house."

     "I fancy," said Estella, shrinking "that must be a curious place."

     "It is a curious place."

 

     I should have been chary of discussing my guardian too freely even with her; but I should have gone on with the subject so far as to describe the dinner in Gerrard Street, if we had not then come into a sudden glare of gas. It seemed, while it lasted, to be all alight and alive with that inexplicable feeling I had had before; and when we were out of it, I was as much dazed for a few moments as if I had been in lightning.

 
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