His constant height is of a piece with his immense abilities.

That Colonel durst no more take leave of him, than that turnkey durst ask him his intentions respecting a case.

Then, between his height and them, he slips in his subordinate,--don't you see ?--and so he has 'em, soul and body." I was very much impressed, and not for the first time, by my guardian's subtlety.

To confess the truth, I very heartily wished, and not for the first time, that I had had some other guardian of minor abilities.
Mr.Wemmick and I parted at the office in Little Britain, where suppliants for Mr.Jaggers's notice were lingering about as usual, and I returned to my watch in the street of the coach-office, with some three hours on hand.

I consumed the whole time in thinking how strange it was that I should be encompassed by all this taint of prison and crime; that, in my childhood out on our lonely marshes on a winter evening, I should have first encountered it; that, it should have reappeared on two occasions, starting out like a stain that was faded but not gone; that, it should in this new way pervade my fortune and advancement.