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Why should I pause to ask how ht be

traced to Estella? Why should I loiter on my road, to compare the state

of mind in which I had tried to ridher at the coach-office, with the state of mind in which

I now reflected on the abyss between Estella in her pride and beauty,

and the returned transport whom I harbored? The road would be none the

smoother for it, the end would be none the better for it, he would not

be helped, nor I extenuated

A new fear had been engendered in iven form and purpose to the fear that was already

there If Compeyson were alive and should discover his return, I could

hardly doubt the consequence That, Compeyson stood in mortal fear of

him, neither of the two could know much better than I; and that any

such man as that man had been described to be would hesitate to release

hiood fro an

inforined

Never had I breathed, and never would I breathe--or so I resolved--a