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Mr Pocket said he was glad to see me, and he hoped I was not sorry to

see him "For, I really a personage" He was a young-looking ray hair, and his manner seemed quite

natural I use the word natural, in the sense of its being unaffected;

there was soh it would have

been downright ludicrous but for his own perception that it was very

near being so

When he had talked with me a little, he said to Mrs

Pocket, with a rather anxious contraction of his eyebrohich were

black and handsome, "Belinda, I hope you have welcomed Mr Pip?" And she

looked up from her book, and said, "Yes" She then smiled upon me in an

absent state of e-flower

water? As the question had no bearing, near or reone

or subsequent transaction, I consider it to have been thrown out, like

her previous approaches, in general conversational condescension

I found out within a few hours, and hter of a certain quite accidental deceased

Knight, who had invented for himself a conviction that his deceased

father would have been made a Baronet but for so out of entirely personal n's, the Prime Minister's, the Lord

Chancellor's, the Archbishop of Canterbury's, anybody's,--and had

tacked hiht of this quite

supposititious fact I believe he had been knighted hirarossed on vellu of the first stone of