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I had told We us her wrists, that day of the dinner

party

"Well, sir!" Wemmick went on; "it happened--happened, don't you

see?--that this woman was so very artfully dressed frohter than she really was; in

particular, her sleeves are always remembered to have been so skilfully

contrived that her arms had quite a delicate look She had only a bruise

or two about her,--nothing for a tramp,--but the backs of her hands

were lacerated, and the question was, Was it with finger-nails? Now, Mr

Jaggers showed that she had struggled through a great lot of brah as her face; but which she could not have got

through and kept her hands out of; and bits of those brambles were

actually found in her skin and put in evidence, as well as the fact that

the brambles in question were found on exah, and to have little shreds of her dress and little spots of

blood upon them here and there But the boldest point he made was this: