The convict tells Pip to get a file and wittles from Joes workshop as to break through his chains and leg irons: “You bring me, to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles. You bring the lot to me, at that old Battery over yonder. You do it, and you never dare to say a word or dare to make a sign concerning your having seen such a person as me, or any person sumever, and you shall be let to live.”
Pips description of his upbringing with his sister and joe: “knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me”
The “Tickler”: “Tickler was a wax-ended piece of cane, worn smooth by collision with my tickled frame.”
Pip asks what Magwitch was brought up to be? (warmint = vermin): “A warmint, dear boy.”
He answered quite seriously, and used the word as if it denoted some profession.”
Wemmick telling Pip not to invest his money into Herbert’s business: “Choose your bridge, Mr. Pip,” returned Wemmick,
Buddy questioning Pips reasons to go after Estella: “Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over?”

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