1 I said so, and he took me down.
2 "Once more," said the man, staring at me.
3 You bring the lot to me, at that old Battery over yonder.
4 You bring me, to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles.
5 There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel.
6 The man, after looking at me for a moment, turned me upside down, and emptied my pockets.
7 He gave me a most tremendous dip and roll, so that the church jumped over its own weathercock.
8 After each question he tilted me over a little more, so as to give me a greater sense of helplessness and danger.
9 The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair.
10 When he came to the low church wall, he got over it, like a man whose legs were numbed and stiff, and then turned round to look for me.
11 My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening.
12 It gave me a terrible turn when I thought so; and as I saw the cattle lifting their heads to gaze after him, I wondered whether they thought so too.
13 You do it, and you never dare to say a word or dare to make a sign concerning your having seen such a person as me, or any person sumever, and you shall be let to live.
14 I earnestly expressed my hope that he wouldn't, and held tighter to the tombstone on which he had put me; partly, to keep myself upon it; partly, to keep myself from crying.
15 After darkly looking at his leg and me several times, he came closer to my tombstone, took me by both arms, and tilted me back as far as he could hold me; so that his eyes looked most powerfully down into mine, and mine looked most helplessly up into his.
16 A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared, and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin.
17 Having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand.
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