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More composure came toon the grass at the old Battery There was no change

whatever in Joe Exactly what he had been in my eyes then, he was in ht

When we got back again, and he lifted me out, and carried ht of that eventful

Christmas Day when he had carried me over the e of fortune, nor did I kno much of

my late history he was acquainted with I was so doubtful of myself now,

and put so much trust in hiht to refer to it when he did not

"Have you heard, Joe," I asked hi, upon further

consideration, as he smoked his pipe at the ho my patron was?"

"I heerd," returned Joe, "as it were not Miss Havisham, old chap"

"Did you hear who it was, Joe?"

"Well! I heerd as it were a person what sent the person what giv' you

the bank-notes at the Jolly Barge!" said Joe, in the placidest way

"Did you hear that he was dead, Joe?" I presently asked, with increasing

diffidence

"Which? Him as sent the bank-notes, Pip?"

"Yes"

"I think," said Joe, afterrather

evasively at the -seat, "as I did hear tell that hoere

soeneral way in that direction"

"Did you hear anything of his circumstances, Joe?"

"Not partickler, Pip"