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Mr Jaggers had seen me with Estella, and was not likely to have missed

the sentiments I had been at no pains to conceal He nodded when I said

the subject was painful to ain, and went on with his dinner

Only twice more did the housekeeper reappear, and then her stay in the

rooers was sharp with her But her hands

were Estella's hands, and her eyes were Estella's eyes, and if she had

reappeared a hundred times I could have been neither more sure nor less

sure that , for Wemmick drew his wine, when it caht have drawn his salary

when that came round,--and with his eyes on his chief, sat in a state of

perpetual readiness for cross-examination As to the quantity of wine,

his post-office was as indifferent and ready as any other post-office

for its quantity of letters Fro

twin all the time, and only externally like the Weether Even ere groping

aers's stock of boots for our hats, I felt that the right