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<v Speaker 1>Chapter fifty one of Great Expectations. This is a LibriVox recording.

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<v Speaker 1>recording is by Mark Smith of Simpsonville, South Carolina. Great

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>improving Astella's parentage? I cannot say. It will presently be

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

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>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 my 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 Jagger's 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 shoulders,

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>arrived in town, yet I had to give him all

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>been before. When I described the disaster, mister Jaggers stood

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

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

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>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>done 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 his own business, said mister Jaggers. And

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>said mister Jaggers. But every man ought to know his

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

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<v Speaker 1>towards me is portable property. As I thought, the time

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<v Speaker 1>was now come for pursuing the theme I had at heart,

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<v Speaker 1>I said, turning on mister Jaggers, I did ask something

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<v Speaker 1>of Miss Havisham. However, Sir, I asked her to give

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

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<v Speaker 1>gave me all she possessed. Did she said mister Jaggers,

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<v Speaker 1>bending forward to look at his boots and then straightening himself. Ah,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think I should have done so if I

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<v Speaker 1>had been Miss Havisham, but she ought to know her

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<v Speaker 1>own business best. I know more of the history of

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<v Speaker 1>Miss Havisham's adopted child than Miss Havisham herself does, Sir.

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<v Speaker 1>I know her mother. Mister Jaggers looked at me inquiringly

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<v Speaker 1>and repeated, mother, I have seen her mother within these

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<v Speaker 1>three days, yes, said mister Jaggers. And so have you, sir.

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<v Speaker 1>And you have seen her still more recently, yes, said

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<v Speaker 1>mister Jaggers. Perhaps I know more of Estella's history than

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<v Speaker 1>even you do, said I I know her father too.

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<v Speaker 1>A certain stop that mister Jaggers came to in his manner.

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<v Speaker 1>He was too self possessed to change his manner, but

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<v Speaker 1>he could not help its being brought to an indefinably

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<v Speaker 1>attentive stop, assured me that he did not know who

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<v Speaker 1>her father was. This I had strongly suspected from Provis's account,

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<v Speaker 1>as Herbert had repeated it, of his having kept himself dark,

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<v Speaker 1>which I pieced on to the fact that he himself

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<v Speaker 1>was not mister Jagger's client until some four years later,

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>it now. So you know the young lady's father, Pip said,

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<v Speaker 1>mister Jaggers, Yes, I replied, and his name is Provis

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<v Speaker 1>from New South Wales. Even mister Jaggers started when I

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<v Speaker 1>said those words. It was the slightest start they could

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<v Speaker 1>escape a man, the most carefully repressed and the sooner checked.

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<v Speaker 1>But he did start, though he made it a part

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<v Speaker 1>of the action of taking out his pocket handkerchief. How

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<v Speaker 1>Wemmick received the announcement, I am unable to say, for

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<v Speaker 1>I was afraid to look at him just then, lest

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<v Speaker 1>mister Jagger's sharpness should detect that there have been some

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<v Speaker 1>communication unknown to him between us. And on what evidence?

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<v Speaker 1>Pip asked mister Jaggers very coolly, as he paused with

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<v Speaker 1>his handkerchief halfway to his nose does provis make this claim.

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<v Speaker 1>He does not make it, said I, and has never

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<v Speaker 1>made it, and has no knowledge or belief that his

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<v Speaker 1>daughter is in existence. For once the powerful pocket handkerchief failed,

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<v Speaker 1>my reply was so unexpected that mister Jaggers put the

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<v Speaker 1>handkerchief back into his pocket without completing the usual performance,

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<v Speaker 1>folded his arms, and looked with stern attention at me,

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<v Speaker 1>though with then immovable face. Then I told him all

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

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<v Speaker 1>reservation that I left him to infer that I knew

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<v Speaker 1>from Miss Havisham what I in fact knew from Wemmick.

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<v Speaker 1>I was very careful, indeed as to that. Nor did

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<v Speaker 1>I look towards Wemmick until I had finished all I

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<v Speaker 1>had to tell, and had been for some time silently

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<v Speaker 1>meeting mister Jaggers's look. When I did at last turned

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<v Speaker 1>my eyes in Wemmick's direction, I found that he had

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<v Speaker 1>unposted his pen and was intent upon the table before him. Ha,

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<v Speaker 1>said mister Jaggers at last, as he moved towards the

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<v Speaker 1>papers on the table. What item was it? You were at,

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<v Speaker 1>Wemmick when mister Pip came in, but I could not

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<v Speaker 1>submit to be thrown often that way, and I made

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<v Speaker 1>a passionate, almost an indignant, appeal to him to be

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<v Speaker 1>more frank and manly with me. I reminded him of

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<v Speaker 1>the fall hopes into which I had lapsed, the length

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

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<v Speaker 1>and 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 circumstance is considered. He ought to be more

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<v Speaker 1>open 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, and 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 then 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>how 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

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<v Speaker 1>concealed and was obliged to communicate the fact to her

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<v Speaker 1>legal adviser. On his representing to her that he must

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

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>and bring up. I follow you, sir. Put the case

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

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

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>that 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

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

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<v Speaker 1>divert suspicion. I have tracked you through it all, and

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<v Speaker 1>I tell it you all part with a child unless

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

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<v Speaker 1>And then it shall be produced. Give the child into

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<v Speaker 1>my hands, and I will do my best to bring

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>was cleared. I understand you perfectly, but that I make

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

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<v Speaker 1>no admissions. Put the case, Pip that passion and the

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

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<v Speaker 1>and that when she was set at liberty, she was

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<v Speaker 1>scared out of the ways of the world and went

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<v Speaker 1>to him to be sheltered. Put the case that he

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<v Speaker 1>took her in and that he kept down the old, wild,

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<v Speaker 1>violent nature whenever he saw an inkling of its breaking

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

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<v Speaker 1>Do you comprehend the imaginary case quite put the case

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>were dwelling within so many miles furlongs 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 mothers, 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 passed the chopper on to Wennick

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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 resuming his

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

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<v Speaker 1>mister Pipp came in Standing by for a little while

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>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 shop lifting. As he imparted this melancholy circumstance

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<v Speaker 1>to Whimmick, mister Jaggers, standing magisterially before the fire and

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<v Speaker 1>taking no share in the proceedings, Mike's eye happened to

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>said Wemmick, How dare you? You're not in a fit

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<v Speaker 1>state to come here? If you can't come here without

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>He's what, demanded Wemmick, quite savagely, say that again. Now

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<v Speaker 1>look here, my man, said mister Jaggers, advancing a step

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<v Speaker 1>and pointing to the door. Get out of this office.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll have no feelings here. Get out. It's Sergey right,

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<v Speaker 1>said Wemmick. Get out. So the unfortunate Mike very humbly

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

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<v Speaker 1>established their good understanding and went to work again, with

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<v Speaker 1>an air of refreshment upon them, as if they had

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<v Speaker 1>just had lunch. End of chapter