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Great Expectations

ChapterXLVIII
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She tells me that she wants to see you on a little matter of business you mentioned to her.

You'll go down ?" "Yes," said I, casting my eyes over the note, which was exactly in those terms.
"When do you think of going down ?" "I have an impending engagement," said I, glancing at Wemmick, who was putting fish into the post-office, "that renders me rather uncertain of my time.

At once, I think." "If Mr.Pip has the intention of going at once," said Wemmick to Mr.
Jaggers, "he needn't write an answer, you know." Receiving this as an intimation that it was best not to delay, I settled that I would go to-morrow, and said so.

Wemmick drank a glass of wine, and looked with a grimly satisfied air at Mr.Jaggers, but not at me.
"So, Pip! Our friend the Spider," said Mr.Jaggers, "has played his cards.

He has won the pool." It was as much as I could do to assent.
"Hah! He is a promising fellow--in his way--but he may not have it all his own way.


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