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Tonight, I will be continuing the story Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

Chapter 10

The felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke,

but the best step I could take towards making

myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew. In pursuance of this luminous

conception, I mentioned to Biddy when I went to Mr. Wopsle's great aunts at night that I had a

particular reason for wishing to get on in life, and that I should

feel very much obliged to her, as she would impart all her learning to me. Biddy, who was the

most obliging of girls, immediately said she would, and indeed began to carry out her promise within

five minutes. The educational scheme, or course, established by

Mr. Wapsle's great aunt, may be resolved into the following synopsis. The people's ate apples

and put straws down one another's backs, while Mr. Wopsle's great aunt collected her energies,

and made an indiscriminate totter at them with a birch rod.

After receiving the charge with every mark of division,

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