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Crowding up with these reflections came the reflection that I had seen

him with my childish eyes to be a desperately violent man; that I had

heard that other convict reiterate that he had tried toand fighting like a wild

beast Out of such reht of the fire a

half-forht not be safe to be shut up there with

hiht This dilated until it filled

the rooo in and look at my

dreadful burden

He had rolled a handkerchief round his head, and his face was set and

lowering in his sleep But he was asleep, and quietly too, though he had

a pistol lying on the pillow Assured of this, I softly removed the key

to the outside of his door, and turned it on hiain sat down

by the fire Gradually I slipped from the chair and lay on the floor

When I aithout having parted in my sleep with the perception of

my wretchedness, the clocks of the Eastward churches were striking five,

the candles asted out, the fire was dead, and the wind and rain

intensified the thick black darkness

THIS IS THE END OF THE SECOND STAGE OF PIP'S EXPECTATIONS