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"Ah! But he would haveme short, "and they

know it He'd have their lives, and the lives of scores of 'eet And it's iave his uardian's greatness, when Wemmick

remarked:-"As to the absence of plate, that's only his natural depth, you know

A river's its natural depth, and he's his natural depth Look at his

watch-chain That's real enough"

"It's very massive," said I

"Massive?" repeated Weold

repeater, and worth a hundred pound if it's worth a penny Mr Pip,

there are about seven hundred thieves in this toho know all about

that watch; there's not athem, who

wouldn't identify the smallest link in that chain, and drop it as if it

was red hot, if inveigled into touching it"

At first with such discourse, and afterwards with conversation of a uile the tiave me to understand that we had arrived in the district of

Walworth