"Great Expectations"
by Charles Dickens

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     Quite despairing of making my mind clear to Wemmick on this point, I forbore to try.

     "Time's up," said Wemmick, "and I must be off. If you had nothing more pressing to do than to keep here till dark, that's what I should advise. You look very much worried, and it would do you good to have a perfectly quiet day with the Aged,--he'll be up presently,--and a little bit of--you remember the pig?"

     "Of course," said I.

 

     "Well; and a little bit of him. That sausage you toasted was his, and he was in all respects a first-rater. Do try him, if it is only for old acquaintance sake. Good by, Aged Parent!" in a cheery shout.

     "All right, John; all right, my boy!" piped the old man from within.

 
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