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How it had at length become plain to Mr Pancks that he had reat fortune, and that his

discovery had but to be ripened to legal fulness and perfection How

he had, thereupon, sworn his landlord, Mr Rugg, to secrecy in a sole partnership

How they had e to whom he was devoted And how, until the present hour, when

authorities hty in the Bank and learned in the law declared their

successful labours ended, they had confided in no other hu had broken down, sir,' concluded Pancks, 'at the

very last, say the day before the other day when I showed you our papers

in the Prison yard, or say that very day, nobody but ourselves would

have been cruelly disappointed, or a penny the worse'

Clenna hands with hihout the narrative, was reminded by this to say, in an amazement

which even the preparation he had had for the main disclosure smoothed

down, 'My dear Mr Pancks, this reat sum of money'

'Pretty well, sir,' said the triuh we

did it as cheap as it could be done And the outlay was a difficulty,

let me tell you' 'A difficulty!' repeated Clennam 'But the difficulties you have so