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"How could I do otherwise!"

"Ah! But answer the question," said Mr Jaggers

"Undoubtedly"

"You consider it, undoubtedly, a handsome sum of money Now, that

handsome sum of money, Pip, is your own It is a present to you on this

day, in earnest of your expectations And at the rate of that handsoher rate, you are to live until the

donor of the whole appears That is to say, you will now take your money

affairs entirely into your own hands, and you will draw from Wemmick

one hundred and twenty-five pounds per quarter, until you are in

coer with the ent I executeso I think the any opinion on their ratitude to reat

liberality hich I was treated, when Mr Jaggers stopped me "I am

not paid, Pip," said he, coolly, "to carry your words to any one;" and

then gathered up his coat-tails, as he had gathered up the subject, and

stood frowning at his boots as if he suspected theainst

him