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Great Expectations

ChapterXXVI
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The last wrist was much disfigured,--deeply scarred and scarred across and across.

When she held her hands out she took her eyes from Mr.Jaggers, and turned them watchfully on every one of the rest of us in succession.
"There's power here," said Mr.Jaggers, coolly tracing out the sinews with his forefinger.

"Very few men have the power of wrist that this woman has.

It's remarkable what mere force of grip there is in these hands.

I have had occasion to notice many hands; but I never saw stronger in that respect, man's or woman's, than these." While he said these words in a leisurely, critical style, she continued to look at every one of us in regular succession as we sat.


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