My Confusion!

"This was all I heard that night before my sister clutched me, as a slumberous offence to the company's eyesight and assisted me to up to bed with such a strong hand that I seemed to have fifty boots on, and to be dangling them all against the edges of the stairs. My state of mind, as I have described it, began before I was up in the morning, and lasted long after the subject had died out, and had ceased to be mentioned saving on exceptional occasions." (73)

Some people might understand this but I don't understand what Dickens is trying to purvey. What is Pip talking about and why did his sister beat him for going with Joe to catch the convict?

Group Essay Collaboration

The body paragraphs are all complete but we are each going over our own again, making them flow more and making sure they prove the points talked about in the thesis. I'm not using any other concrete details and I know we won't have the same ones because we are all using different characters. All that I am changing now is making sentences more clear. Since Algernon is the character who starts out cynical towards marriage I chose two quotes where it shows his views on marriage. Then, my last concrete detail is when he admits he wants to be married to Cecily proving that marriage can change people.

I have a couple questions I need answered:

1) How should we tie in the next chunk to mine?

2) What could I say instead of cynical?

Thanks!