[Great Expectations by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookGreat Expectations CHAPTER XIX 27/38
"He is in Court at present.
Am I addressing Mr.Pip ?" I signified that he was addressing Mr.Pip. "Mr.Jaggers left word, would you wait in his room.
He couldn't say how long he might be, having a case on.
But it stands to reason, his time being valuable, that he won't be longer than he can help." With those words, the clerk opened a door, and ushered me into an inner chamber at the back.
Here, we found a gentleman with one eye, in a velveteen suit and knee-breeches, who wiped his nose with his sleeve on being interrupted in the perusal of the newspaper. "Go and wait outside, Mike," said the clerk. I began to say that I hoped I was not interrupting, when the clerk shoved this gentleman out with as little ceremony as I ever saw used, and tossing his fur cap out after him, left me alone. Mr.Jaggers's room was lighted by a skylight only, and was a most dismal place; the skylight, eccentrically pitched like a broken head, and the distorted adjoining houses looking as if they had twisted themselves to peep down at me through it.
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