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Great Expectations

ChapterI
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It is in wain for a boy to attempt to hide himself from that young man.

A boy may lock his door, may be warm in bed, may tuck himself up, may draw the clothes over his head, may think himself comfortable and safe, but that young man will softly creep and creep his way to him and tear him open.

I am a keeping that young man from harming of you at the present moment, with great difficulty.

I find it wery hard to hold that young man off of your inside.

Now, what do you say ?" I said that I would get him the file, and I would get him what broken bits of food I could, and I would come to him at the Battery, early in the morning.
"Say Lord strike you dead if you don't!" said the man.
I said so, and he took me down.
"Now," he pursued, "you remember what you've undertook, and you remember that young man, and you get home!" "Goo-good night, sir," I faltered.
"Much of that!" said he, glancing about him over the cold wet flat.


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