[Great Expectations by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookGreat Expectations ChapterLIII
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One keeps a secret better than two. O you enemy, you enemy!" His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble.
As I watched him in silence, he put his hand into the corner at his side, and took up a gun with a brass-bound stock. "Do you know this ?" said he, making as if he would take aim at me.
"Do you know where you saw it afore? Speak, wolf!" "Yes," I answered. "You cost me that place.
You did.
Speak!" "What else could I do ?" "You did that, and that would be enough, without more.
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