Memorable Quotes from Martita Hunt
7 quotesJudgment and Silence Among Friends
Estella
He calls the knaves jacks, this boy! And what coarse hands he has! You stupid, clumsy labouring boy!
Miss Havisham
She says many hard things of you, but you say nothing of her. What do you think of her?
Pip
I don't like to say.
Miss Havisham
Tell me... in my ear.
Pip
I think she is very proud.
Miss Havisham
Anything else?
Pip
I think she is very pretty.
Miss Havisham
Anything else?
Pip
I think she is very insulting.
Miss Havisham
Anything else?
Pip
I think I should like to go home now.
Miss Havisham
And never see her again, though she is so pretty?
Pip
I'm not sure that I wouldn't like to see her again, but I think I'd like to go home now.
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Confrontation of Fear and Purpose
Baroness Meinster
Who is it that is not afraid?
Dr. J. Van Helsing
Only God has no fear.
Baroness Meinster
Why have you come here?
Dr. J. Van Helsing
To find your son.
Baroness Meinster
Then you know who I am?
Dr. J. Van Helsing
I know who you were.
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Pip's Reflection on His Arrival at Satis House
Pip
When you first caused me to be brought here, Miss Havisham, I suppose I came here as any other chance boy might have, as a kind of servant, to gratify a want or a whim, and to be paid for it.
Miss Havisham
Aye, Pip, you did.
Pip
And that Mr Jaggers was...
Miss Havisham
Mr Jaggers had nothing to do with it. His being my lawyer and the lawyer of your patron was a coincidence. He holds the same relation towards numbers of people.
Pip
But when I fell into the mistake I have so long remained in, at least you led me on.
Miss Havisham
Yes. I let you go on.
Pip
Was that kind?
Miss Havisham
Who am I, for heaven's sake, that I should be kind! Well, well, well! What else?
Pip
Estella, I should have said this sooner but for my long mistake, which led me to believe that Miss Havisham meant us for one another. When I felt I couldn't tell you of my feelings while you were not free to choose for yourself. But now I have to go away and I must say it before I go. I love you, Estella. I've loved you ever since I first saw you in this house.
Estella
Pip, I've tried to warn you not to love me, but you thought I didn't mean it.
Pip
Isn't it true that Bentley Drummle is in town here and pursuing you?
Estella
Quite true.
Pip
That you encourage him, and ride out with him, and that he dines with you this very day.
Estella
Quite true.
Pip
How can you fling yourself at such a man?
Estella
Should I rather fling myself at you, Pip, who would sense at once that I bring nothing to you?
Pip
But you cannot love him, Estella!
Estella
What have I always told you? Do you still think in spite of it that I don't mean what I say?
Pip
Estella, … you … you would never marry him?
Estella
Why not tell you the truth? I am going to be married to him. … Come, Pip. Don't be afraid of my being a blessing to him. I shall not be that. Here is my hand. Let us part on this. You'll get me out of your thoughts in a week.
[long silence — he turns, she walks over to him]
Miss Havisham
What have I done? What have I done?
Pip
If you mean what have you done to me, Miss Havisham, let me answer. Estella has been part of my existence ever since I first came here, the rough, common boy whose heart she wounded even then. She has been the embodiment of every graceful fancy my mind has ever known. To the last hour of my life she cannot choose but to remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But you may dismiss me from your mind and conscience, but Estella is a different case. And if you can ever undo any scrap of what you've done amiss, in keeping part of her right nature away from her, it will be better to do that than to bemoan the past through a hundred years.
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Anticipating a Meeting with Beauty
Miss Havisham
Is she beautiful, graceful, well-grown? Do you admire her, Pip?
Pip
Everyone must who sees her.
Miss Havisham
She is going to London soon and you shall meet her there.
Pip
I shall be the happiest man in London, Miss Havisham.
Miss Havisham
Love her. If she favours you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces, love her. I adopted her to be loved.
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Miss Havisham's Invitation to Intimacy
Miss Havisham
Come close. Look at me. You're not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?
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A Mother's Cruel Choice Revealed
Marianne Danielle
Then that poor prisoner, in the tower. He is your son?
Baroness Meinster
He was my son. Now he is only... a beast of the night.
Marianne Danielle
You locked him away? Your own son? Because he is... unholy? Oh, this I cannot understand. How can you be so cruel?
[gasps]
Baroness Meinster
You are judging me, child. Sleep before you pass sentence.
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Conflict Between Loyalty and Betrayal
King Henry II
Becket is my enemy. But in the human balance, traitor that he is and naked as his mother made him, he's worth a hundred of you, madam, with your crown and your jewels and your august uncle, the Emperor, into the bargain. I'm forced to fight him now and crush him, but at least he gave me with open hands everything that is at all good in me. And you have never given me anything but your carping mediocrity and your everlasting obsession with your puny little person and what you thought was due to it. That is why I forbid you to smile while Becket is being destroyed.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
I gave you my youth. Gave you your children.
King Henry II
I don't LIKE my children! And as for your youth, that withered flower, pressed between the pages of a hymn book since you were twelve years old with its watery blood and stale insipid scent, you can bid farewell to that without a tear. Your body was a empty desert, madam, that duty forced me to wander in alone. But you have never been a wife to me! And Becket was my friend. Red-blooded, generous and full of strength. Oh, my Thomas.
[briefly grieves]
Empress Matilda
And I. I have given you nothing, I suppose.
King Henry II
Life. Yes. Thank you. But after that, I never saw you except in a passageway on your way to a ball in your crown and ermine mantle ten minutes before official ceremonies, when you were forced to tolerate my presence. NO! No one on this Earth has ever loved me! Except Becket.
Empress Matilda
Call him back, then. Absolve him if he loves you. Give him back his power. But do something.
King Henry II
I am. I'm learning to be alone.
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