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What purpose I had in viehen I was hot on tracing out and proving

Estella's parentage, I cannot say It will presently be seen that the

question was not before me in a distinct shape until it was put before

me by a wiser head than my own

But when Herbert and I had held our momentous conversation, I was seized

with a feverish conviction that I ought to hunt the ht not to let it rest, but that I ought to see Mr Jaggers, and come

at the bare truth I really do not knohether I felt that I did this

for Estella's sake, or whether I was glad to transfer to the man in

whose preservation I was so much concerned so surrounded me Perhaps the latter possibility

may be the nearer to the truth

Any way, I could scarcely be withheld froht Herbert's representations that, if I did, I should probably

be laid up and stricken useless, when our fugitive's safety would depend

upon ain

and again reiterated, that, coers