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1  "He is not," returned the clerk.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
2  "Go and wait outside, Mike," said the clerk.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
3  I then found that Wemmick was the clerk in the next room.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
4  The Church not being "thrown open," he was, as I have said, our clerk.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
5  The clerk and clergyman then appearing, we were ranged in order at those fatal rails.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
6  With those words, the clerk opened a door, and ushered me into an inner chamber at the back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
7  Within a month, I had quitted England, and within two months I was clerk to Clarriker and Co.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII
8  "Here's Mike," said the clerk, getting down from his stool, and approaching Mr. Jaggers confidentially.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
9  I called to mind that the clerk had the same air of knowing something to everybody else's disadvantage, as his master had.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
10  Without further interruption, we reached the front office, where we found the clerk and the man in velveteen with the fur cap.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
11  When I told the clerk that I would take a turn in the air while I waited, he advised me to go round the corner and I should come into Smithfield.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
12  It fell out as Wemmick had told me it would, that I had an early opportunity of comparing my guardian's establishment with that of his cashier and clerk.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
13  Another clerk was rung down from up stairs to take his place while he was out, and I accompanied him into the street, after shaking hands with my guardian.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
14  I began to say that I hoped I was not interrupting, when the clerk shoved this gentleman out with as little ceremony as I ever saw used, and tossing his fur cap out after him, left me alone.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
15  Finding such clerk on Wemmick's post that morning, I knew what was going on; but I was not sorry to have Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick together, as Wemmick would then hear for himself that I said nothing to compromise him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
16  Here, the daylight reappeared, and I found myself in a small paved courtyard, the opposite side of which was formed by a detached dwelling-house, that looked as if it had once belonged to the manager or head clerk of the extinct brewery.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
17  Stepping in for a moment at the open gate, and looking around me with the uncomfortable air of a stranger who had no business there, I saw the auctioneer's clerk walking on the casks and telling them off for the information of a catalogue-compiler, pen in hand, who made a temporary desk of the wheeled chair I had so often pushed along to the tune of Old Clem.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII
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