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1"No," returned Wemmick. "Only his game. (You liked your bit of game, didn't you?) No; deuce a bit of a lady in the case,
2Mr. Pip, except one,--and she wasn't of this slender lady-like sort, and you wouldn't have caught her looking after this
3urn, unless there was something to drink in it." Wemmick's attention being thus directed to his brooch, he put down the
4cast, and polished the brooch with his pocket-handkerchief. "Did that other creature come to the same end?" I asked. "He
5has the same look." "You're right," said Wemmick; "it's the genuine look. Much as if one nostril was caught up with a
6horse-hair and a little fish-hook. Yes, he came to the same end; quite the natural end here, I assure you. He forged
7wills, this blade did, if he didn't also put the supposed testators to sleep too. You were a gentlemanly Cove, though"
8(Mr. Wemmick was again apostrophising), "and you said you could write Greek. Yah, Bounceable! What a liar you were! I
9never met such a liar as you!" Before putting his late friend on his shelf again, Wemmick touched the largest of his
10mourning rings and said, "Sent out to buy it for me, only the day before." While he was putting up the other cast and
11coming down from the chair, the thought crossed my mind that all his personal jewelry was derived from like sources. As
12he had shown no diffidence on the subject, I ventured on the liberty of asking him the question, when he stood before
13me, dusting his hands. "O yes," he returned, "these are all gifts of that kind. One brings another, you see; that's the
14way of it. I always take 'em. They're curiosities. And they're property. They may not be worth much, but, after all,
15they're property and portable. It don't signify to you with your brilliant lookout, but as to myself, my guiding-star
16always is, 'Get hold of portable property'." When I had rendered homage to this light, he went on to say, in a friendly
17manner:-- "If at any odd time when you have nothing better to do, you wouldn't mind coming over to see me at Walworth, I
18could offer you a bed, and I should consider it an honour. I have not much to show you; but such two or three
19curiosities as I have got you might like to look over; and I am fond of a bit of garden and a summer-house." I said I
20should be delighted to accept his hospitality. "Thankee," said he; "then we'll consider that it's to come off, when
21convenient to you. Have you dined with Mr. Jaggers yet?" "Not yet." "Well," said Wemmick, "he'll give you wine, and good
22wine. I'll give you punch, and not bad punch. And now I'll tell you something. When you go to dine with Mr. Jaggers,
23look at his housekeeper." "Shall I see something very uncommon?" "Well," said Wemmick, "you'll see a wild beast tamed.
24Not so very uncommon, you'll tell me. I reply, that depends on the original wildness of the beast, and the amount of
25taming. It won't lower your opinion of Mr. Jaggers's powers. Keep your eye on it." I told him I would do so, with all
26the interest and curiosity that his preparation awakened. As I was taking my departure, he asked me if I would like to
27devote five minutes to seeing Mr. Jaggers "at it?" For several reasons, and not least because I didn't clearly know what
28Mr. Jaggers would be found to be "at," I replied in the affirmative. We dived into the City, and came up in a crowded
29police-court, where a blood-relation (in the murderous sense) of the deceased, with the fanciful taste in brooches, was
30standing at the bar, uncomfortably chewing something; while my guardian had a woman under examination or
31cross-examination,--I don't know which,--and was striking her, and the bench, and everybody present, with awe. If
32anybody, of whatsoever degree, said a word that he didn't approve of, he instantly required to have it "taken down." If
33anybody wouldn't make an admission, he said, "I'll have it out of you!" and if anybody made an admission, he said, "Now
34I have got you!" The magistrates shivered under a single bite of his finger. Thieves and thief-takers hung in dread
35rapture on his words, and shrank when a hair of his eyebrows turned in their direction. Which side he was on I couldn't
36make out, for he seemed to me to be grinding the whole place in a mill; I only know that when I stole out on tiptoe, he
37was not on the side of the bench; for, he was making the legs of the old gentleman who presided, quite convulsive under
38the table, by his denunciations of his conduct as the representative of British law and justice in that chair that day.
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