Not so very uncommon, you'll tell me.

I reply, that depends on the original wildness of the beast, and the amount of taming.

It won't lower your opinion of Mr.Jaggers's powers.

Keep your eye on it." I told him I would do so, with all the interest and curiosity that his preparation awakened.

As I was taking my departure, he asked me if I would like to devote five minutes to seeing Mr.Jaggers "at it ?" For several reasons, and not least because I didn't clearly know what Mr.Jaggers would be found to be "at," I replied in the affirmative.
We dived into the City, and came up in a crowded police-court, where a blood-relation (in the murderous sense) of the deceased, with the fanciful taste in brooches, was standing at the bar, uncomfortably chewing something; while my guardian had a woman under examination or cross-examination,--I don't know which,--and was striking her, and the bench, and everybody present, with awe.