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1  Compeyson spoke hardy, but he was always a coward.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
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2  Compeyson took it easy as a good riddance for both sides.
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3  Compeyson, he looks at me very noticing, and I look at him.
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4  'To judge from appearances, you're out of luck, says Compeyson to me.
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5  Compeyson's wife and me took him up to bed agen, and he raved most dreadful.
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6  By my boy, I was giv to understand as Compeyson was out on them marshes too.
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7  Compeyson says to me, 'Separate defences, no communication,' and that was all.
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8  The time wi Compeyson was a'most as hard a time as ever I had; that said, all's said.
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9  I went to Compeyson next night, same place, and Compeyson took me on to be his man and pardner.
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10  He set up fur a gentleman, this Compeyson, and he'd been to a public boarding-school and had learning.
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11  Compeyson's wife, being used to him, giv him some liquor to get the horrors off, and by and by he quieted.
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12  Compeyson laughed, looked at me again very noticing, giv me five shillings, and appointed me for next night.
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13  All sorts of traps as Compeyson could set with his head, and keep his own legs out of and get the profits from and let another man in for, was Compeyson's business.
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14  His right name was Compeyson; and that's the man, dear boy, what you see me a pounding in the ditch, according to what you truly told your comrade arter I was gone last night.
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15  Him and Compeyson had been in a bad thing with a rich lady some years afore, and they'd made a pot of money by it; but Compeyson betted and gamed, and he'd have run through the king's taxes.
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16  When we was put in the dock, I noticed first of all what a gentleman Compeyson looked, wi his curly hair and his black clothes and his white pocket-handkercher, and what a common sort of a wretch I looked.
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17  The second or third time as ever I see him, he come a tearing down into Compeyson's parlor late at night, in only a flannel gown, with his hair all in a sweat, and he says to Compeyson's wife, 'Sally, she really is upstairs alonger me, now, and I can't get rid of her.'
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