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Again he took both my hands and put them to his lips, while , Pip," said he, after again drawing his sleeve

over his eyes and forehead, as the click came in his throat which I well

remembered,--and he was all the more horrible to me that he was so much

in earnest; "you can't do better nor keep quiet, dear boy You ain't

looked slowly forward to this as I have; you wosn't prepared for this as

I wos But didn't you never think it ht be me?"

"O no, no, no," I returned, "Never, never!"

"Well, you see it wos le-handed Never a soul in it but ers"

"Was there no one else?" I asked

"No," said he, with a glance of surprise: "who else should there be?

And, dear boy, how good looking you have growed! There's bright eyes

soht eyes sohts on?"

O Estella, Estella!

"They shall be yourn, dear boy, if entleman like you, so well set up as you, can't win 'eame; butyou,

dear boy Froot money

left me by ot