[Great Expectations by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookGreat Expectations ChapterXXII
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"Don't you know ?" "No," said I. "Dear me! It's quite a story, and shall be saved till dinner-time.
And now let me take the liberty of asking you a question.
How did you come there, that day ?" I told him, and he was attentive until I had finished, and then burst out laughing again, and asked me if I was sore afterwards? I didn't ask him if he was, for my conviction on that point was perfectly established. "Mr.Jaggers is your guardian, I understand ?" he went on. "Yes." "You know he is Miss Havisham's man of business and solicitor, and has her confidence when nobody else has ?" This was bringing me (I felt) towards dangerous ground.
I answered with a constraint I made no attempt to disguise, that I had seen Mr.Jaggers in Miss Havisham's house on the very day of our combat, but never at any other time, and that I believed he had no recollection of having ever seen me there. "He was so obliging as to suggest my father for your tutor, and he called on my father to propose it.
Of course he knew about my father from his connection with Miss Havisham.
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