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"Do you wantsuddenly with a fixed and

serious, if not angry, look, "to deceive and entrap you?"

"Do you deceive and entrap him, Estella?"

"Yes, and many others,--all of them but you Here is Mrs Brandley I'll

say no iven the one chapter to the theme that so filled ain, I pass on unhindered,

to the event that had ier yet; the event that had

begun to be prepared for, before I knew that the world held Estella,

and in the days when her baby intelligence was receiving its first

distortions fro hands

In the Eastern story, the heavy slab that was to fall on the bed of

state in the flush of conquest was slorought out of the quarry, the

tunnel for the rope to hold it in its place was slowly carried through

the leagues of rock, the slab was slowly raised and fitted in the roof,

the rope was rove to it and slowly taken through themade ready with much labor, and the hour

coht, and the sharpened

axe that was to sever the rope fro was put into his

hand, and he struck with it, and the rope parted and rushed away, and

the ceiling fell So, in my case; all the work, near and afar, that

tended to the end, had been accomplished; and in an instant the bloas

struck, and the roof of hold dropped upon me