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Updated: May 2, 2025
"What is your real name?" I asked him in a whisper. "Magwitch," he answered, in the same tone; "chrisen'd Abel." "What were you brought up to be?" "A warmint, dear boy." He answered quite seriously, and used the word as if it denoted some profession. "When you came into the Temple last night " said I, pausing to wonder whether that could really have been last night, which seemed so long ago.
"I know'd my name to be Magwitch, chrisen'd Abel. How did I know it? Much as I know'd the birds' names in the hedges to be chaffinch, sparrer, thrush. I might have thought it was all lies together, only as the birds' names come out true, I supposed mine did.
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. He'd no more heart than a iron file, he was as cold as death, and he had the head of the Devil afore mentioned. "There was another in with Compeyson, as was called Arthur, not as being so chrisen'd, but as a surname.
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