Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Chapter 50 Page 6

said Herbert, “ — there's a bandage off most charmingly, and now comes the cool one, — makes you shrink at first, my poor dear fellow, don't it?

but it will be comfortable presently, — it seems that the woman was a young woman, and a jealous woman, and a revengeful woman; revengeful, Handel, to the last degree.”

“To what last degree?”

“Murder. — Does it strike too cold on that sensitive place?”

“I don't feel it. How did she murder? Whom did she murder?”

“Why, the deed may not have merited quite so terrible a name,” said Herbert, “but, she was tried for it, and Mr. Jaggers defended her, and the