Chapter 54
The long row down the Thames; the police galley appears; Magwitch and Compeyson grapple in the water.
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From Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The climactic action sequence in which Pip and Herbert try to row Magwitch downriver to a steamer, only to be intercepted — Compeyson drowns and Magwitch is mortally injured.
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