Great Expectations Innocence Quotes Page 4

There was something so natural and winning in Clara's resigned way of looking at these stores in detail, as Herbert pointed them out, – and something so confiding, loving, and innocent, in her modest manner of yielding herself to Herbert's embracing arm – and something so gentle in her, so much needing protection on Mill Pond Bank, by Chinks's Basin, and the Old Green Copper Rope-Walk, with Old Barley growling in the beam – that I would not have undone the engagement between her and Herbert, for all the money in the pocket-book I had never opened. (3.46.20)