[Great Expectations by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookGreat Expectations ChapterXXXIX
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Never a soul in it but my own self and Mr.Jaggers." "Was there no one else ?" I asked. "No," said he, with a glance of surprise: "who else should there be? And, dear boy, how good looking you have growed! There's bright eyes somewheres--eh? Isn't there bright eyes somewheres, wot you love the thoughts on ?" O Estella, Estella! "They shall be yourn, dear boy, if money can buy 'em.
Not that a gentleman like you, so well set up as you, can't win 'em off of his own game; but money shall back you! Let me finish wot I was a telling you, dear boy.
From that there hut and that there hiring-out, I got money left me by my master (which died, and had been the same as me), and got my liberty and went for myself.
In every single thing I went for, I went for you.
'Lord strike a blight upon it,' I says, wotever it was I went for, 'if it ain't for him!' It all prospered wonderful.
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