Great Expectations Protagonist Crossword Novels & Stories

Kane walked to my side and said quietly, “Ma’am, it’s done.” I nodded and turned to pick up Xavier. “Xavier,” I whispered, “let’s go home.” James’s downfall was brutal. After being expelled, he became just another powerless man. His enemies, those he’d crushed and humiliated before, swarmed in like vultures. I never bothered to find out what happened to him afterward. To me, he was already dead. As for Hilary, she was thrown out of the estate with her child. Rumor had it she tried to return to her family, but they treated her like a curse and slammed the door in her face.

(George Bernard Shaw) And this is the lesson that grandpa Cruz finally learned.

My eyes narrrowed. “Fourteen down,” Grandma said, her voice wobbling. “‘Inheritance.’ Eleven letters.” My head snapped toward her. She looked back at me with wide innocent eyes and I kicked the bed frame again. Nate filled in INHERITANCE without noticing anything. Grandma watched him write with desperate tenderness, her eyes going from his hands to my stomach and back, over and over. I just stared at the crossword until the letters blurred. Then Nate dropped his pen. It rolled off the tray and under Grandma’s bed.