Skiffins

Skiffins; but at that moment Miss Skiffins neatly stopped him with the green glove, unwound his arm again as if it were an article of dress, and with the greatest deliberation laid it on the table before her.

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Skiffins — in the absence of the little servant who, it seemed, retired to the bosom of her family on Sunday afternoons — washed up the tea – things, in a trifling lady – like amateur manner that compromised none of us.

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Of course I knew better than to offer to see Miss Skiffins home, and under the circumstances I thought I had best go first; which I did, taking a cordial leave of the Aged, and having passed a pleasant evening.

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Miss Skiffins mixed, and I observed that she and Wemmick drank out of one glass.

Great Expectations 2007

After a little further conversation to the same effect, we returned into the Castle where we found Miss Skiffins preparing tea.

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Nothing disturbed the tranquillity of the Castle, but the occasional tumbling open of John and Miss Skiffins: which little doors were a prey to some spasmodic infirmity that made me sympathetically uncomfortable until I got used to it.

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Skiffins (that's her brother) is an accountant and agent.

Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861

After a little further conversation to the same effect, we returned into the Castle where we found Miss Skiffins preparing tea.

Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861

Nothing disturbed the tranquillity of the Castle, but the occasional tumbling open of John and Miss Skiffins: which little doors were a prey to some spasmodic infirmity that made me sympathetically uncomfortable until I got used to it.

Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861

Of course I knew better than to offer to see Miss Skiffins home, and under the circumstances I thought I had best go first: which I did, taking a cordial leave of the Aged, and having passed a pleasant evening.

Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861