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"I know that lady," said Herbert, across the table, when the toast had

been honored

"Do you?" said Drummle

"And so do I," I added, with a scarlet face

"Do you?" said Drulass or crockery--that the heavy

creature was capable of hly incensed by it

as if it had been barbed it, and I imard it as being like the honorable

Finch's impudence to co down to that Grove, as a neat Parlia a lady of who up, demanded what I meant by

that? Whereupon I made him the extreme reply that I believed he knehere I was to be found

Whether it was possible in a Christian country to get on without blood,

after this, was a question on which the Finches were divided The debate

upon it grew so lively, indeed, that at least sixthe discussion, that they believed they knehere

they were to be found However, it was decided at last (the Grove being

a Court of Honor) that if Mr Druht

a certificate fro that he had the honor of her

acquaintance, Mr Pip entle been betrayed into a warmth which" Next day was

appointed for the production (lest our honor should take cold from

delay), and next day Drummle appeared with a polite little avowal in

Estella's hand, that she had had the honor of dancing with hiret that I had been "betrayed

into a warmth which," and on the whole to repudiate, as untenable, the

idea that I was to be found anywhere Dru

at one another for an hour, while the Grove engaged in indiscriood feeling was declared to

have gone ahead at an a rate