Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Chapter 28 Page 13

growled the other. “I'd have spent 'em on a Man, in wittles and drink. He must have been a green one. Mean to say he knowed nothing of you?”

“Not a ha'porth. Different gangs and different ships. He was tried again for prison breaking, and got made a Lifer.”

“And was that — Honor! — the only time you worked out, in this part of the country?”

“The only time.”

“What might have been your opinion of the place?”

“A most beastly place.

Mudbank, mist, swamp, and work; work, swamp, mist, and mudbank.”

They both execrated the place in very