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Chapter Eight

(where Pip meets Miss Havisham and Estella)
  

I entered, therefore, and found myself in a pretty large room, well lighted with wax candles.   No glimpse of daylight was to be seen in it.   It was a dressing-room, as I supposed from the furniture, though much of it was of forms and uses then quite unknown to me.   But prominent in it was a draped table with a gilded looking-glass, and that I made out at first sight to be a fine lady's dressing-table.

Whether I should have made out this object so soon, if there had been no fine lady sitting at it, I cannot say.   In an arm-chair, with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand, sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see.
  

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