'“Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures," replied Estella, with a glance towards him, "hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?”'
Estella is also the light in the dark corridors of Satis House as she lights the way with a candle when Pip visits.
Young Estella, from p46
On his first visit to Satis House, Pip was met by Estella at the gate describing her as ‘the young lady, who was very pretty and seemed very proud.’.
‘Though she called me ‘boy’ so often, and with a carelessness that was far from complimentary, she was about of my own age. She seemed much older than I, of course, being a girl, and beautiful and self-possessed; and she was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen.’
‘Miss Havisham …. Took up a jewel from the table, and tried its effect upon her fair young bosom andagainst her pretty brown hair.’
When asked by Miss Havisham what he thought of Estella, he whispered in her ear:-
‘I think she is very proud …. very pretty …. very insulting.’
All above was at Pip’s first visit to the house.
On later visits ….
‘Sometimes, she would coldly tolerate me; sometimes, she would condescend to me; sometimes, she would be quite familiar with me; sometimes, she would tell me energetically that she hated me.’
During Joe’s visit to Satis House ‘her eyes laughed mischievously.’
Daydreaming when at the forge with Joe he would imagine he could see ‘Estella’s face in the fire, with her pretty hair fluttering in the wind and her eyes scorning me’
When abroad being educated to be a lady, described by Miss Havisham as ‘prettier than ever; admired by all who see her.’
Described by Herbert Pocket as ‘That girl’s hard and haughty and capricious to the last degree, and has been brought up by Miss Havisham to wreak revenge on all the male sex.’
Young Lady Estella, from p200
When Pip returned to Satis House as a young gentleman & saw Estella again
‘an elegant lady whom I had never seen.’
‘the eyes were Estella’s eyes. But she was so much changed, was so much more beautiful, so much more womanly, in all things winning admiration had made such wonderful advance,’
‘Proud and wilful as of old, she had brought those qualities into such subjection to her beauty that it was impossible and out of nature – or I thought so – to separate them from her beauty.’
‘air of completeness and superiority with which she walked at my side’
‘I am serious’, said Estella, not so much with a frown (for her brow was smooth)’
‘Her handsome dress had trailed upon the ground. She held it in one hand now’
‘the air of inaccessibility which her beauty and manner gave her’
‘with a cold, careless smile that always chilled me’
Older Estella, after her marriage has ended, from p411
‘The freshness of her beauty was indeed gone, but its indescribable majesty and its indescribable charms remained. Those attractions in it I had seen before; what I had never seen before, was the saddened, softened light of the once proud eyes; what I had never felt before, was the friendly touch of the once insensible hand.’
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