"Great Expectations"
by Charles Dickens

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     "Here is the man," said Joe.

     The strange gentleman beckoned him out of his place, and Joe went.

     "You have an apprentice," pursued the stranger, "commonly known as Pip? Is he here?"

     "I am here!" I cried.

 

     The stranger did not recognize me, but I recognized him as the gentleman I had met on the stairs, on the occasion of my second visit to Miss Havisham. I had known him the moment I saw him looking over the settle, and now that I stood confronting him with his hand upon my shoulder, I checked off again in detail his large head, his dark complexion, his deep-set eyes, his bushy black eyebrows, his large watch-chain, his strong black dots of beard and whisker, and even the smell of scented soap on his great hand.

 
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