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"Only neither of us is," I re er;

"you're a deep one, Mr Pip! Would you like to have a look at Newgate?

Have you time to spare?"

I had so much time to spare, that the proposal ca its irreconcilability with my latent desire to keepthat I would make the inquiry whether

I had time to ith him, I went into the office, and ascertained

fro of his

temper, the earliest moment at which the coach could be expected,--which

I knew beforehand, quite as well as he I then rejoined Mr We to consult my watch, and to be surprised by the inforate in a few e

where so the prison

rules, into the interior of the jail At that tierated reaction consequent on

all public wrongdoing--and which is always its heaviest and longest

punished and fed better

than soldiers, (to say nothing of paupers,) and seldom set fire to their

prisons with the excusable object of i ti his

rounds with beer; and the prisoners, behind bars in yards, were buying

beer, and talking to friends; and a frowzy, ugly, disorderly, depressing

scene it was