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Although I was not in the habit of counting Drummle as one of oing to ask the whole gang,"--I hardly felt coive you good Don't look

forward to variety, but you'll have excellence And there'sa nother ru in his house," proceeded Wemmick, after a moment's pause, as if

the remark followed on the housekeeper understood; "he never lets a door

orbe fastened at night"

"Is he never robbed?"

"That's it!" returned Weives it out publicly, "I

want to see the man who'll rob me" Lord bless you, I have heard hiular cracksmen in our

front office, "You knohere I live; now, no bolt is ever drawn there;

why don't you do a stroke of business with me? Come; can't I teh to try it on, for love or

money"

"They dread him so much?" said I

"Dread him," said Wemmick "I believe you they dread him Not but what

he's artful, even in his defiance of them No silver, sir Britannia

metal, every spoon"

"So they wouldn't have much," I observed, "even if they--"