Compeyson

“You have heard of a man of bad character, whose true name is Compeyson?”

Great Expectations 2007

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

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Compeyson, who had meant to depose to it, was tumbling on the tides, dead, and it happened that there was not at that time any prison officer in London who could give the required evidence.

Great Expectations 2007

Compeyson, the worst of scoundrels among many scoundrels, knowing of his keeping out of the way at that time and of his reasons for doing so, of course afterwards held the knowledge over his head as

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Compeyson says to me, ‘Separate defences, no communication,’ and that was all.

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That, Compeyson stood in mortal fear of him, neither of the two could know much better than I; and that any such man as that man had been described to be would hesitate to release himself for good from a dreaded enemy by the safe means of becoming an informer was scarcely to be imagined.

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The late Compeyson having been beforehand with him in intelligence of his return, and being so determined to bring him to book, I do not think he could have been saved.

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If Compeyson were alive and should discover his return, I could hardly doubt the consequence.

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At last, me and Compeyson was both committed for felony, — on a charge of putting stolen notes in circulation, — and there was other charges behind.

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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.

Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861