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<v Speaker 1>Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, chapter fifty one. What purpose

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<v Speaker 1>I had in view when I was hot on tracing

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<v Speaker 1>out improving Estella's parentage, I cannot say. It will presently

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<v Speaker 1>be seen that the question was not before me in

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<v Speaker 1>a distinct shape until it was put before me by

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<v Speaker 1>a wiser head than my own. But when Herbert and

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<v Speaker 1>I had held our momentous conversation, I was seized with

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<v Speaker 1>a feverish conviction that I ought to hunt the matter down,

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<v Speaker 1>that I ought not to let it rest, but that

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<v Speaker 1>I ought to see mister Jaggers and come at the

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<v Speaker 1>bare truth. I really do not know whether I felt

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<v Speaker 1>that I did this for Estella's sake, or whether I

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<v Speaker 1>was glad to transfer to the man in whose preservation

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<v Speaker 1>I was so much concerned some rays of the romantic

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<v Speaker 1>interest that had so long surrounded me. Perhaps the latter

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<v Speaker 1>possibility may be the nearer to the truth. Anyway, I

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<v Speaker 1>could scarcely be withheld from going out to Gerard Street

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<v Speaker 1>that night Herbert's representations that if I did, I should

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<v Speaker 1>probably be laid up and stricken useless, when our fugitive

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<v Speaker 1>safety would depend upon me alone. Restrained by impatience, on

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<v Speaker 1>the understanding again and again reiterated that come what would

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<v Speaker 1>I was to go to mister Jaggers tomorrow? I at

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<v Speaker 1>length submitted to keep quiet and to have my hurts

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<v Speaker 1>looked after, and to stay at home. Early next morning

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<v Speaker 1>we went out together, and at the corner of Guiltspur

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<v Speaker 1>Street by Smithfield, I left Herbert to go his way

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<v Speaker 1>into the city and took my way to Little Britain.

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<v Speaker 1>There were periodical occasions when mister Jaggers and Wemmick went

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<v Speaker 1>over the office accounts and checked off the vouchers and

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<v Speaker 1>put all things straight. On these occasions, Wemmick took his

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<v Speaker 1>books and papers into mister Jaggers's room, and one of

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<v Speaker 1>the upstairs clerks came down into the outer office, finding

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<v Speaker 1>such clerk on Wemmick's post. That morning, I knew what

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<v Speaker 1>was going on, but I was not sorry to have

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<v Speaker 1>mister Jaggers and Wemmick together, as Wemmick would then hear

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<v Speaker 1>for himself that I said nothing to compromise him. My appearance,

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<v Speaker 1>with my arm bandaged in my coat loose over my

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<v Speaker 1>shoulders favored my object. Although I had sent mister Jaggers

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<v Speaker 1>a brief account of the accident as soon as I

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<v Speaker 1>had arrived in town. Yet I had to give him

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<v Speaker 1>all the details now, and the specialty of the occasion

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<v Speaker 1>caused our talk to be less dry and hard, and

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<v Speaker 1>less strictly regulated by the rules of evidence than it

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<v Speaker 1>had been before. When I described the disaster, Mister Jaggers

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<v Speaker 1>stood according to his wont before the fire. Wemmick leaned

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<v Speaker 1>back in his chair, staring at me with his hands

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<v Speaker 1>in the pockets of his trousers and his pen put

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<v Speaker 1>horizontally into the post. The two brutal casts, always inseparable

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<v Speaker 1>in my mind from the official proceedings, seemed to be

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<v Speaker 1>congestively considering whether they didn't smell fire At the present moment.

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<v Speaker 1>My narrative finished and their questions exhausted, I then produced

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<v Speaker 1>Miss Havisham's authority to receive the nine hundred pounds for Herbert.

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<v Speaker 1>Mister Jaggers's eyes retired a little deeper into his head

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<v Speaker 1>when I handed him the tablets, but he presently handed

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<v Speaker 1>them over to Wemmick with instructions to draw the check

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<v Speaker 1>for his signature. While that was in course of being done,

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<v Speaker 1>I looked on at Wemmick as he wrote, and mister Jaggers,

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<v Speaker 1>poising and swaying himself on his well polished boots, looked

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<v Speaker 1>on at me. I am sorry, Pip, said he, as

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<v Speaker 1>I put the check in my pocket when he had

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<v Speaker 1>signed it, that we do nothing for you. Miss Havisham

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<v Speaker 1>was good enough to ask me. I returned whether she

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<v Speaker 1>could do nothing for me? And I told her no.

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<v Speaker 1>Everybody should know he his own business, said mister Jaggers.

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<v Speaker 1>And I saw Wemmick's lips form the words portable property.

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<v Speaker 1>I should not have told her no if I had

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<v Speaker 1>been you, said mister Jaggers. But every man ought to

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<v Speaker 1>know his own business. Best. Every man's business, said Wemmick.

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<v Speaker 1>Rather reproachfully towards me. Is portable property. As I thought,

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<v Speaker 1>the time was now come for pursuing the theme I

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<v Speaker 1>had at heart, I said, turning on mister Jaggers. I

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<v Speaker 1>did ask something of miss Havisham, however, Sir, I asked

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<v Speaker 1>her to give me some information relative to her adopted daughter,

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<v Speaker 1>and she gave me all she possessed, did she said

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<v Speaker 1>mister Jaggers, bending forward to look at his boots and

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<v Speaker 1>then straightening himself. Ah, I don't think I should have

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<v Speaker 1>done so if I had been Miss Havisham, but she

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<v Speaker 1>ought to know her own business best. I know more

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<v Speaker 1>of the history of Miss Havisham's adopted child than Miss

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<v Speaker 1>Havisham herself does, Sir. I know her mother. Mister Jaggers

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<v Speaker 1>looked at me inquiringly and repeated, mother, I have seen

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<v Speaker 1>her mother within these three days, yes, said mister Jaggers.

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<v Speaker 1>And so have you, sir. And you have seen her

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<v Speaker 1>still more recently, yes, said mister Jaggers. Perhaps I know

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<v Speaker 1>more of Estella's history than even you do, said I.

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<v Speaker 1>I know her father too. A certain stop that mister

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<v Speaker 1>Jaggers came to in his manner. He was too self

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<v Speaker 1>possessed to change his manner, but he could not help

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<v Speaker 1>its being brought to an indefinably attentive stop, assured me

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<v Speaker 1>that he did not know who her father was. This

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<v Speaker 1>I had strongly suspected from Probus's account, as Herbert had

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<v Speaker 1>repeated it of his having kept himself dark, which I

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<v Speaker 1>pieced on to the fact that he himself was not

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<v Speaker 1>mister Jagger's client until some four years later, and when

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<v Speaker 1>he could have no reason for claiming his identity. But

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<v Speaker 1>I could not be sure of this unconsciousness on mister

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<v Speaker 1>Jaggers's part before, though I was quite sure of it now.

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<v Speaker 1>So you know the young lady's father, Pip, said mister Jaggers, Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>I replied, and his name is Provis from New South Wales.

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<v Speaker 1>Even mister Jaggers started when I said those words. It

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<v Speaker 1>was the slightest start that could escape a man, the

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<v Speaker 1>most carefully repressed, and the sooner checked. But he did start,

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<v Speaker 1>though he made it a part of the action of

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<v Speaker 1>taking out his pocket handkerchief. How Wemmick received the announcement,

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<v Speaker 1>I am unable to say, for I was afraid to

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<v Speaker 1>look at him just then, lest mister Jagger's sharpness should

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<v Speaker 1>detect that there had been some communication known to him

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<v Speaker 1>between us. And on what evidence, Pip asked mister Jaggers,

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<v Speaker 1>very coolly, as he paused with his handkerchief halfway to

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<v Speaker 1>his nose. Does Provis make this claim? He does not

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<v Speaker 1>make it, said I, and has never made it, and

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<v Speaker 1>has no knowledge or belief that his daughter is in existence.

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<v Speaker 1>For once the powerful pocket handkerchief failed, my reply was

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<v Speaker 1>so unexpected that mister Jaggers put the handkerchief back into

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<v Speaker 1>his pocket. Without completing the usual performance, folded his arms

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<v Speaker 1>and looked with stern attention at me, though with then

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<v Speaker 1>immovable face. Then I told him all I knew and

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<v Speaker 1>how I knew it, with the one reservation that I

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<v Speaker 1>left him to infer that I knew from Miss Havisham

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<v Speaker 1>what I in fact knew from Wemmick. I was very careful,

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<v Speaker 1>indeed as to that, Nor did I look towards Wemmick

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<v Speaker 1>until I had finished all I had to tell, and

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<v Speaker 1>had been for some time silently meeting mister Jaggers's look.

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<v Speaker 1>When I did at last turned my eyes in Wemmick's direction,

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<v Speaker 1>I found that he had unposted his pen and was

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<v Speaker 1>intent upon the table before him. Ha, said mister Jaggers

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<v Speaker 1>at last, as he moved towards the papers on the table.

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<v Speaker 1>What item was it? You were at Wemmick when mister

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<v Speaker 1>Pip came in. But I could not submit to be

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<v Speaker 1>thrown off in that way, and I made a passionate,

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<v Speaker 1>almost an indignant, appeal to him to be more frank

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<v Speaker 1>and manly with me. I reminded him of the false

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<v Speaker 1>hopes into which I had lapsed the length of time

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<v Speaker 1>they had lasted and the discovery I had made, and

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<v Speaker 1>I hinted at the danger that weighed upon my spirits.

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<v Speaker 1>I represented myself as being surely worthy of some little

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<v Speaker 1>confidence from him in return for the confidence I had

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<v Speaker 1>just now imparted. I said that I did not blame him,

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<v Speaker 1>or suspect him, or mistrust him, but I wanted assurance

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<v Speaker 1>of the truth from him. And if he asked me

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<v Speaker 1>why I wanted it, and why I thought I had

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<v Speaker 1>any right to it, I would tell him little, as

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<v Speaker 1>he cared for such poor dreams, that I had loved

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<v Speaker 1>Distella dearly and long, and that although I had lost

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<v Speaker 1>her and must live a bereaved life, whatever concerned her

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<v Speaker 1>was still nearer and dearer to me than anything else

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<v Speaker 1>in the world. And seeing that mister Jaggers stood quite

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<v Speaker 1>still and silent, and apparently quite obdurate under this appeal,

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<v Speaker 1>I turned to Wemmick and said, Wemmick, I know you

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<v Speaker 1>to be a man with a gentle heart. I have

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<v Speaker 1>seen your pleasant home, and your old father, and all

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<v Speaker 1>the innocent, cheerful, playful ways with which you refresh your

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<v Speaker 1>business life. And I entreat you to say a word

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<v Speaker 1>for me to mister Jaggers. And to represent to him

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<v Speaker 1>that all circumstances considered, he ought to be more open

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<v Speaker 1>and with me. I have never seen two men look

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<v Speaker 1>more oddly at one another than mister Jaggers and Wemmick

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<v Speaker 1>did after this apostrophe. At first a misgiving crossed me

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<v Speaker 1>that Wemmick would be instantly dismissed from his employment. But

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<v Speaker 1>it melted as I saw mister Jaggers relax into something

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<v Speaker 1>like a smile, and Wemmick became bolder. What's all this,

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<v Speaker 1>said mister Jaggers, You with an old father on you,

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<v Speaker 1>with pleasant and playful ways, well, returned Wemmick. If I

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<v Speaker 1>don't bring him here, what does it matter, pip, said

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<v Speaker 1>mister Jaggers, laying his hand upon my arm and smiling openly.

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<v Speaker 1>This man must be the most cunning impostor in all London.

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<v Speaker 1>Not a bit of it, returned Wemmick, growing bolder and bolder.

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<v Speaker 1>I think you're another again. They exchanged their former odd looks,

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<v Speaker 1>each apparently still distrustful that the other was taking him in.

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<v Speaker 1>You with a pleasant home, said mister Jaggers. Since you

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<v Speaker 1>don't interfere with business, returned Wemmick. Let it be so.

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<v Speaker 1>Now I look at you, sir, I shouldn't wonder if

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<v Speaker 1>you might be planning and contriving to have a pleasant

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<v Speaker 1>home of your own one of these days when you're

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<v Speaker 1>tired of all this work. Mister Jaggers nodded his head

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<v Speaker 1>retrospectively two or three times and actually drew a sigh.

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<v Speaker 1>Pip said he we won't talk about poor dreams, and

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<v Speaker 1>you know more about such things than I, having much

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<v Speaker 1>pressure experience of that kind. But now about this other matter,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll put a case to you. Mind, I admit nothing.

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<v Speaker 1>He waited for me to declare that. I quite understood that.

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<v Speaker 1>He expressly said that he admitted nothing. Now, Pip said,

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<v Speaker 1>mister Jaggers, put this case. Put the case that a woman,

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<v Speaker 1>under such circumstances as you have mentioned, held her child concealed,

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<v Speaker 1>with an eye to the latitude of his defense, how

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<v Speaker 1>the fact stood about that child. Put the case that,

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<v Speaker 1>at the same time he held a trust to find

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<v Speaker 1>a child for an eccentric, rich lady to adopt and

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<v Speaker 1>bring up. I follow you, sir, put the case that

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<v Speaker 1>he lived in an atmosphere of evil, and that all

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<v Speaker 1>he saw of children was their being generated in great

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<v Speaker 1>numbers for certain destruction. Put the case that he often

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<v Speaker 1>saw children solemnly tried at a criminal bar, where they

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<v Speaker 1>were held up to be seen. Put the case that

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<v Speaker 1>he habitually knew of their being imprisoned, whipped, transported, neglected, cast,

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<v Speaker 1>doubt qualified in all ways for the hangman, and growing

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<v Speaker 1>up to be hanged. Put the case that pretty nigh

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<v Speaker 1>all the children he saw in his daily business life

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<v Speaker 1>he had reason to look upon as so much spawn

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<v Speaker 1>his net, to be prosecuted, defended, forsworn, made orphans be

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<v Speaker 1>deviled somehow, I follow you, sir. Put the case, Pip,

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<v Speaker 1>that here was one pretty little child out of the

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<v Speaker 1>heap who could be saved, whom the father believed dead

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<v Speaker 1>and dared make no stir about as to whom over

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<v Speaker 1>the mother the legal adviser had this power. I know

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<v Speaker 1>what you did and how you did it. You came so,

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<v Speaker 1>and so you did such and such things to divert suspicion.

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<v Speaker 1>I have tracked you through it all, and I tell

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<v Speaker 1>it you all part with the child unless it should

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<v Speaker 1>be necessary to produce it to clear you, and then

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<v Speaker 1>it shall be produced. Give the child into my hands,

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<v Speaker 1>and I will do my best to bring you off.

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<v Speaker 1>If you are saved, your child is saved too. If

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<v Speaker 1>you are lost, your child is still saved. Put the

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<v Speaker 1>case that this was done, and that the woman was cleared.

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<v Speaker 1>I understand you perfectly, but that I make no admissions,

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<v Speaker 1>that you make no admissions, and Wemmick repeated no admissions.

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<v Speaker 1>Put the case, Pip, that passion and the terror of

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<v Speaker 1>death had a little shaken the woman's intellects, and that

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<v Speaker 1>when she was set at liberty, she was scared out

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<v Speaker 1>of the ways of the world and went to him

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<v Speaker 1>to be sheltered. Put the case that he took her in,

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<v Speaker 1>and that he kept down the old, wild, violent nature

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<v Speaker 1>whenever he saw an inkling of its breaking out by

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<v Speaker 1>asserting his power over her in the old way. Do

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<v Speaker 1>you comprehend the imaginary case quite? Put the case that

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<v Speaker 1>the child grew up and was married for money, That

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<v Speaker 1>the mother was still living, that the father was still living,

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<v Speaker 1>That the mother and father, unknown to one another, were

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<v Speaker 1>dwelling within so many miles. Furlong's yards if you like

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<v Speaker 1>of one another that the secret was still a secret

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<v Speaker 1>except that you had got wind of it. Put that

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<v Speaker 1>last case yourself very carefully. I do. I ask Wemmick

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<v Speaker 1>to put it to himself very carefully, And Wemmick said,

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<v Speaker 1>I do. For whose sake would you reveal the secret?

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<v Speaker 1>For the father's I think he would not be much

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<v Speaker 1>the better for the mother. For the mother's, I think

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<v Speaker 1>if she had done such a deed, she would be

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<v Speaker 1>safer where she was. For the daughters, I think it

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<v Speaker 1>would hardly serve her to establish her parentage for the

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<v Speaker 1>information of her husband, and to drag her back to

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<v Speaker 1>disgrace after an escape of twenty years pretty secure to

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<v Speaker 1>last for life. But add the case that you had

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<v Speaker 1>loved her, Pip, and had made her the subject of

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<v Speaker 1>those poor dreams, which have it one time or another,

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<v Speaker 1>been in the heads of more men than you think likely.

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<v Speaker 1>Then I tell you that you had better, and would

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<v Speaker 1>much sooner when you would thought well of it. Chop

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<v Speaker 1>off that bandage left hand of yours with your bandaged

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<v Speaker 1>right hand, and then pass the chopper on to Wemmick

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<v Speaker 1>here to cut that off too. I looked at Wemmick,

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<v Speaker 1>whose face was very grave. He gravely touched his lips

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<v Speaker 1>with his forefinger. I did the same. Mister Jaggers did

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<v Speaker 1>the same. Now, Wemmick, said the latter, then re zsuming

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<v Speaker 1>his usual manner. What item was it you were at?

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<v Speaker 1>When mister Pip came in. Standing by for a little

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<v Speaker 1>while they were at work, I observed that the odd

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<v Speaker 1>looks they had cast at one another were repeated several

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<v Speaker 1>times with this difference. Now that each of them seemed suspicious,

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<v Speaker 1>not to say conscious of having shown himself in a

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<v Speaker 1>weak and unprofessional light to the other. For this reason,

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<v Speaker 1>I suppose they were now inflexible with one another, mister

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<v Speaker 1>Jaggers being highly dictatorial, and Wemmick obstinately justifying himself whenever

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<v Speaker 1>there was the smallest point in abeyance for a moment.

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<v Speaker 1>I had never seen them on such ill terms, for

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<v Speaker 1>generally they got on very well, indeed together. But they

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<v Speaker 1>were both happily relieved by the opportune appearance of Mike,

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<v Speaker 1>the client with the fur cap and the habit of

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<v Speaker 1>wiping his nose on his sleeve, whom I had seen

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<v Speaker 1>on the very first day of my appearance. Within these walls.

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<v Speaker 1>This individual, who, either in his own person or in

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<v Speaker 1>that of some member of his family, seemed to be

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<v Speaker 1>always in trouble, which in that place meant Newgate called

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<v Speaker 1>to announce that his eldest daughter was taken up on

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<v Speaker 1>suspicion of shoplifting. As he imparted this melancholy circumstance to Wemmick,

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<v Speaker 1>mister Jaggers, standing magisterially before the fire and taking no

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<v Speaker 1>share in the proceedings, Mike's eye happened to twinkle with

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<v Speaker 1>a tear. What are you about, demanded Wemmick, with the

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<v Speaker 1>utmost indignation. What do you come sniveling here? For? I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't go to do it, mister Wemmick, You did, said Wemmick.

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<v Speaker 1>How dare you? You're not in a fit state to

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<v Speaker 1>come here? If you can't come here without spluttering like

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<v Speaker 1>a bad pen, what do you mean by it? A

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<v Speaker 1>man can't help these feelings, mister Wemmick, pleaded Mike. He's what,

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<v Speaker 1>demanded Wemmick, quite savagely. See that again. Now look here,

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<v Speaker 1>my man, said mister Jaggers, advancing a step and pointing

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<v Speaker 1>to the door. Get out of this office. I'll have

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<v Speaker 1>no feelings here. Get out. It's Sergey right, said Wemmick.

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<v Speaker 1>Get out. So the unfortunate Mike very humbly Withdrew and

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<v Speaker 1>mister Jaggers and Wemmick appeared to have re established their

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<v Speaker 1>good understanding and went to work again, with an air

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<v Speaker 1>of refreshment upon them, as if they had just had lunch.

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<v Speaker 1>End of chapter