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"I follow you, sir"

"Put the case, Pip, that here was one pretty little child out of the

heap who could be saved; whom the father believed dead, and dared al adviser had this

power: "I knohat you did, and how you did it You cas to divert suspicion I have tracked you through

it all, and I tell it you all Part with the child, unless it should

be necessary to produce it to clear you, and then it shall be produced

Give the child intoyou off If

you are saved, your child is saved too; if you are lost, your child is

still saved" Put the case that this was done, and that the woman was

cleared"

"I understand you perfectly"

"But that I make no admissions?"

"That you make no admissions" And Wemmick repeated, "No admissions"

"Put the case, Pip, that passion and the terror of death had a little

shaken the woman's intellects, and that when she was set at liberty,

she was scared out of the ways of the world, and went to him to be

sheltered Put the case that he took her in, and that he kept down the

old, wild, violent nature whenever he saw an inkling of its breaking

out, by asserting his power over her in the old way Do you coinary case?"