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half-puzzled way, as though the only thought he ever had was, that it

was rather an odd and injurious fact that he should never be thinking

Thisfor ave me to understand that the Devil lived in a black corner

of the forge, and that he knew the fiend very well: also that it was

necessary to make up the fire, once in seven years, with a live boy, and

that I ht consider myself fuel When I became Joe's 'prentice, Orlick

was perhaps confirmed in some suspicion that I should displace him;

howbeit, he liked , or did

anything, openly i hostility; I only noticed that he always beat

his sparks inOld Clee Orlick was at work and present, next day, when I re at the ot a piece of hot iron between the on his ha to favor only one of us If Young

Pip has a half-holiday, do as much for Old Orlick" I suppose he was

about five-and-twenty, but he usually spoke of himself as an ancient

person