Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Chapter 39 Page 16

“I've done wonderfully well. There's others went out alonger me as has done well too, but no man has done nigh as well as me.

I'm famous for it.”

“I am glad to hear it.”

“I hope to hear you say so, my dear boy.”

Without stopping to try to understand those words or the tone in which they were spoken, I turned off to a point that had just come into my mind.

“Have you ever seen a messenger you once sent to me,” I inquired, “since he undertook that trust?”

“Never set eyes upon him. I warn't likely to it.”

“He came faithfully, and he brought me the two one-pound notes.