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"It is not easy for even you" said Estella, "to knohat satisfaction

it gives me to see those people thwarted, or what an enjoyable sense of

the ridiculous I have when they are e house from a mere baby I was You had not

your little wits sharpened by their intriguing against you, suppressed

and defenceless, under the mask of sy I had You did not gradually open your round

childish eyes wider and wider to the discovery of that impostor of a

woman who calculates her stores of peace of ht I did"

It was no laughingthese

remembrances from any shallow place I would not have been the cause of

that look of hers for all s I can tell you," said Estella "First, notwithstanding the

proverb that constant dropping ear away a stone, you may set

your mind at rest that these people never will--never would, in hundred

years--ireat

or s so

busy and so ave it to me playfully,--for her darker mood had been but

Momentary,--I held it and put it to my lips "You ridiculous boy," said