the
incompatibility
between
his cold
presence
and my
feelings
towards
Estella.
It was not
that I
knew I
could
never bear
to speak
to him
about her,
that I
knew I
could
never bear
to hear
him creak
his boots
at her,
that I
knew I
could
never bear
to see him
wash his
hands of
her; it
was, that
my
admiration
should be
within a
foot or
two of
him, – it
was, that
my
feelings
should be
in the
same place
with him,
– that,
was the
