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At the appointed ti at the gate brought out Estella She locked it after adain preceded e

where her candle stood She took no notice of me until she had the

candle in her hand, when she looked over her shoulder, superciliously

saying, "You are to come this way to-day," and took e was a long one, and seemed to pervade the whole square

basement of the Manor House We traversed but one side of the square,

however, and at the end of it she stopped, and put her candle down and

opened a door Here, the daylight reappeared, and I found myself in

a small paved courtyard, the opposite side of which was for-house, that looked as if it had once belonged to the

er or head clerk of the extinct brewery There was a clock in the

outer wall of this house Like the clock in Miss Havisham's room, and

like Miss Havisham's watch, it had stopped at twenty minutes to nine

We went in at the door, which stood open, and into a glooround-floor at the back There was some company in