Wemmick

"Wemmick," said I, "do you remember telling me before I first went to Mr. Jaggers's private house, to notice that housekeeper?"

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"Wemmick," said I, "do you remember telling me, before I first went to

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Wemmick stood with his watch in his hand until the moment was come for him to take the red – hot poker from the Aged, and repair to the battery.

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“Well aged parent,” said Wemmick, shaking hands with him in a cordial and jocose way, “how am you?”

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She might have been some two or three years younger than Wemmick, and I judged her to stand possessed of portable property.

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I asked, recoiling from the brute, as Wemmick spat upon his eyebrow and gave it a rub with his sleeve.

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I told him how Wemmick had heard, in Newgate prison (whether from officers or prisoners I could not say), that he was under some suspicion, and that my chambers had been watched; how Wemmick had recommended his keeping close for a time, and my keeping away from him; and what Wemmick had said about getting him abroad.

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“These?” said Wemmick, getting upon a chair, and blowing the dust off the horrible heads before bringing them down.

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We left him bestirring himself to feed the fowls, and we sat down to our punch in the arbor; where Wemmick told me, as he smoked a pipe, that it had taken him a good many years to bring the property up to its present pitch of perfection.

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“I am my own engineer, and my own carpenter, and my own plumber, and my own gardener, and my own Jack of all Trades,” said Wemmick, in acknowledging my compliments.

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