"Great Expectations"
by Charles Dickens

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     "Is he here?" asked my guardian.

     "I left him," said Mike, "a setting on some doorsteps round the corner."

     "Take him past that window, and let me see him."

     The window indicated was the office window. We all three went to it, behind the wire blind, and presently saw the client go by in an accidental manner, with a murderous-looking tall individual, in a short suit of white linen and a paper cap. This guileless confectioner was not by any means sober, and had a black eye in the green stage of recovery, which was painted over.

 

     "Tell him to take his witness away directly," said my guardian to the clerk, in extreme disgust, "and ask him what he means by bringing such a fellow as that."

 
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