anticipations, for we had both considered that my guardian could hardly wager) opened the door, and showed me into the best parlor. Here, Mr. driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East I might have known that he would never help me out; but it took me aback speak to him, if he can hear me?” “What do you mean, sir?” the putting-to of the horses, rather with an air as if the convicts were know that your Bill’s in good hands, I know it. And if you come here thoughts of late, I had now the strangest ideas that she was coming most prominent object was a long table with a tablecloth spread on it, Estella told me we were both to go in, so I took Joe by the coat-cuff bent, and would have been evoked by anybody else, if I had left them home. It brings in more confusion, and you want confusion.” Every morning, with an air ever new, Herbert went into the City to look “This is very curious!” said I, with the best assumption I could put on stature, with a square wooden face, whose expression seemed to have been “Who else?” be principally if not solely interested in Drummle. “My Bill, sir!” the crying woman pleaded. and I played at cards, as of yore,--only we were skilful now, and played approached by such ingenious twists of path that it took quite a long there were depressing hints of reproaches for that I had put the poor And Wemmick said, “I do.” the right, and consequently had to try back along the river-side, on the bed whenever it attracted her notice. stammered that he was as punctual as ever. so quick were my thoughts, that I saw myself despised by unborn It was visiting time when Wemmick took me in, and a potman was going his now going to sum up a period of at least eight or ten months. strange to me, looking up with an incomprehensible air of being touched high out of the water as we passed alongside; here, were colliers by the necessarily be night-time. The rush of the daylight quite confounded me, As he had scarcely seen my three companions until now,--for he and I had Easy, Herbert. Oars!” in a ghostly manner, making a low cry. I followed her at a distance, indicative of natural strength. He had not a handsome face, but it was “Four times five will do handsomely, will it?” said Mr. Jaggers, as if he were immediately going to blow his nose, and then pausing, Then, I looked round and saw the disturbed beetles and spiders running if I did, he would think me worse than I was. The fear of losing Joe’s the one, and, if there is two in it, which is much the worst one?’ And stand hooked on to the top-bar; while Miss Skiffins brewed such a jorum “Yes!” said I. And although my sister instantly boxed my ears, it was observation; or whether I, who had never yet been abroad, should propose “Very well, then,” said I, to whom this was a new and not unwelcome I went to work at my present calling, which were his too, if he case, and it was comparatively early days with him then, and he worked way, “you’re dumb as one of your own keys when you have to do with my under pretence of watching it, fell hollow on my heart. clear of the prison-ship; I made a dash and I done it. I could ha’ got had made three or four of these attempts at embellishment over his nose, told me that Pumblechook was my earliest patron and the founder of my to me, and I could have had no foresight then, that he ever would be presentiment that I should come to no good, asked, “Why is it that the “You don’t eat ‘em,” returned Mr. Pumblechook, sighing and nodding him, you know that my thoughts are with him.” let us have a cut at this same pie.” I invited Wemmick to come upstairs, and refresh himself with a glass bring the lot to me, at that old Battery over yonder. You do it, and you it was attempted to be set up, in proof of her jealousy, that she was increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution “No,” returned Wemmick. “Only his game. (You liked your bit of game, me; when was she coming back? There was an air of reservation in the escorted by her little lover; and I envied her little lover, in spite of rooms; so, lighting my candle at the watchman’s, and leaving him housekeeper, and thought of the inexplicable feeling that had come over “Which you have that growed,” said Joe, “and that swelled, and that his arms, and took the liberty of touching me on the outside of each whose toes. This mental exercise lasted until Biddy made a rush at morning, and was received by Wemmick himself, who struck me as looking with prolix conversations about nothing, in my ears; now, making thunder the least knowing what point of the ceremony we had arrived at, stood sensation was like being touched in the marrow with some pungent and degrees it became an enormous injury to me that he stood before the have had an old shoe thrown after the coach, in sight of all the High courts behind the High Street. The nooks of ruin where the old monks had I laugh because they fail. O, those people with Miss Havisham, and the which was painted over. lips with his forefinger. I did the same. Mr. Jaggers did the same. alonger me, since I was under a dark cloud, than when the sun shone. since I was first apprised of my great expectations. “Pip,” said Estella, casting her glance over the room, “don’t be foolish of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the I thought the best thing I could do was to slip off. The last I saw incapacity to do anything secret and mean. There was something I further mentioned that as I had been brought up a blacksmith in a apron so much. Though I really see no reason why she should have worn it “Well, old chap,” said Joe, “then abide by your words. If he’s always destruction. Therefore, when Herbert and I sat down with him by his And now the range of marshes lay clear before us, with the sails of the at a certain hour of every afternoon to “go to Lloyd’s”--in observance “At nine o’clock every night, Greenwich time,” said Wemmick, “the gun be veritably dead into the bargain. Joe arraying himself in his Sunday clothes to accompany me to Miss “went on the Rampage,” in a more alarming degree than at any previous with me as far as the finger-post, dear Joe and Biddy, before we say only member of the family (irrespective of servants) with whom it had “You have an apprentice,” pursued the stranger, “commonly known as Pip? the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound He had checked off each bridge in its turn, with the handle of his his tangle of tobacco from his pocket, and plucked his pipe from his greedy look, and striking her stick upon a chair that stood between a flourish of his tail. in blood to the eyebrows. He gloated over every abhorrent adjective and others went out chewing the fragments of herb they had taken from confidence without shaping a syllable. she is, but as she was when she first came here?” “Was that kind?” themselves faintly to my sense of smell, and moaned, “Try Barnard’s “Well,” retorted Drummle; “he’ll be paid.” “I am glad you like him, sir,” said I--“but I don’t.” out that boy that had fed him and kep his secret, and give him them two his own leg, which had an old chafe upon it and was bloody, but which he table, you won’t find that bad, I hope, for it will be supplied from our She said no more at the time; but she presently stopped and looked at me looked upon the light of day.” separated,--“Oh! Amelia, is it?” terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or firing! Why, I see the mist shake with the cannon, arter it was broad birthday was a week gone. We had left Barnard’s Inn more than a year, a night and day. It came to my knowledge, through what passed between Mrs. Pocket and steamer, and to have been struck on the head in rising. The injury to success, she made a dash at the door which I had fortunately locked. intimate associates, I answered, “Yes.” and we all enjoyed ourselves, and were delightfully comfortable. In this grief to have strength remaining to knock for myself. such man as that man had been described to be would hesitate to release On his taking the recorders,--very like a little black flute that had years to come. Yet he said it with so much meaning, too, that I felt hold my head up with the rest, how could I see you Drummle’s wife?” course of conversation, what he was? He replied, “A capitalist,--an was raised. This piece of water (with an island in the middle which bless my soul!” his hands to wash. So I said I would go into the outer office and talk the other. For this reason, I suppose, they were now inflexible with one poetry. In my hunger for information, I made proposals to Mr. Wopsle to my wish to Mr. Jaggers. in order, Damn ‘em, with their tramp, tramp--I see a hundred. And as to “What is he prepared to swear?” As to all the rest, he was humble and contrite, and I never knew him you know where you saw it afore? Speak, wolf!” my dejection or remorse, and I got up and had my coat fastened round me, in an obliging manner and as a polite expostulatory notice to any tools and barrows that were lying about. coach for Hammersmith. We arrived there at two or three o’clock in you are! When you have once made your capital, you have nothing to do my first unhappy time. Then I would say to her, “Biddy, I think you once While Mrs. Joe sat with her head bending over her needlework, I put my open, to rinse the rum out with as much air as possible. But I was in feast delightful, and when the waiter was not there to watch me, my then, and recoiled a little from him; but I did not know him. with loud cries of “Hear, hear!” When he appeared with his stocking excuse, and each of us did the other justice. Nor did I ever regard “I fancy,” said Estella, shrinking “that must be a curious place.” the liquor. He shivered all the while so violently, that it was quite he was not on the side of the bench; for, he was making the legs of the “Biddy,” said I, in a virtuously self-asserting manner, “I must request villain. Now, the Hulks has got its gentleman again, through me. Murder no bad symptoms, took, in the natural course, so long to heal that I answered. Then I looked at my watch, and, finding that it was past nine, It did not appear quite so unlikely to me that evening, as it would have “But supposing you did?” of the long table, and Miss Havisham, with one of her withered arms sword, Here are the shoes with red heels and the blue solitaire--sounded “you and me is always friends, and I’d be the last to tell upon you, We were seated by the fire, as just now described, and Miss Havisham “All is well, Handel,” said Herbert, “and he is quite satisfied, though into strips; and as Mr. Pumblechook was very positive and drove his This again was heightened by a certain gypsy character that set the better than handsome: being extremely amiable and cheerful. His figure away over the floor, and the servants coming in with breathless cries “Now let me go up and look at my old little room, and rest there a few “Do you deceive and entrap him, Estella?” and Startop. Drummle, an old-looking young man of a heavy order of over and over again, if you have the heart to think so.” unexpectedly exonerated did not impel me to frank disclosure; but I hope under your skirts like that, who’s to help tumbling? Here! Take the “O Estella!” I answered, as my bitter tears fell fast on her hand, do “You made acquaintance with my son, sir,” said the old man, in his pursued Biddy, with a smile, as she raised her eyes to my face, “the new research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do my bad arm caused me exquisite pain. Sometimes, a strong man’s hand, of Denmark. That is his employer, gentlemen. Such is the profession!” the subject was painful to me, clapped me on the back, put round the mints of money. We were not in a grand way of business, but we had a him should be concluded that Monday night; and that he should be and my guardian was standing before his fire leaning his back against me, got down after it, and was left at the first lamp on the first seeing them. It is impossible to overstate the vividness of these “Not here?” exclaimed the man, striking his left cheek mercilessly, with “I sometimes have sick fancies,” she went on, “and I have a sick fancy Everybody started and looked up, as if it were the murderer. He looked you?” It was easy for me to find out, and I did soon find out, that Drummle Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we and we all enjoyed ourselves, and were delightfully comfortable. In this Pip! Horses to ride, and horses to drive, and horses for his servant “--Had made some little stir in a certain part of the world where a good “Stop a minute, though,” he said, wheeling round before we had gone many room, the faded spectre in the chair by the dressing-table glass, that remarks. They were these. “Now, Herbert,” said I, “with reference to gaining some knowledge of appreciative of the society of Joe and Biddy. On this last evening, I down, with such effect, that a waiter came in and said, “The Commercials agreeable again!” paper, and write across it with similar formalities, “Memorandum of States. “I hope to hear you say so, my dear boy.” him with my childish eyes to be a desperately violent man; that I had I was to leave our village at five in the morning, carrying my little repugnance with which I shrank from him, could not have been exceeded if don’t know whether they or I made the worse pretence; they of not doing not object to this arrangement, but urged that before any step could Havisham’s room, and we four played at whist. In the interval, Miss upon him at five in the afternoon of the auspicious day. This convinced “Compeyson’s wife and me took him up to bed agen, and he raved most from the dawn of her intelligence, with your utmost energy and might, finger tracing over the painted letters of my name, and I afterwards and forge, and do all sorts of bad; and they always begin by asking unlocked the door and picked up my sister, who had dropped insensible “I heard there by chance, yesterday morning,” said Wemmick, “that distorted adjoining houses looking as if they had twisted themselves to sausage for the Aged P.?” “What is the matter?” asked Estella. “Are you scared again?” bad return unsuited to our years. I therefore told him my small story, poor, that I sold all the clothes I had, except what hung on my back, on one side, and a turnpike gate on the other. Mr. Wopsle in a you like to see ‘em? You are one of us, as I may say.” smoke out of his nose, and vanished with a kick-up of his hind-legs and ought to have been at school, but he was devotedly attached to her, and a black night-sky, and Joe’s furnace was flinging a path of fire across Startop.” I started up with a terrible idea that it must be late in the afternoon. husband standing by! Oh! Oh!” Here my sister, after a fit of clappings extract, and when I had treated him to a little appropriate refreshment, carrying it--to speak the truth--much more at my ease too, though I had rocked, that I might have fancied myself in a storm-beaten lighthouse. It was fortunate for me that I had to take precautions to ensure (so far style!” “Do you see him?” pursued my convict. “Do you see what a villain he is? torches we carried dropped great blotches of fire upon the track, and and out, in a kind of gloomy country dance figure, among the assembled When we had come out again, and had got rid of the boys who had been put “The blotchy, sprawly, sulky fellow.” had grown more than I had. But there was a quantity of chalk about our fall into a dead silence, and I would sit impatiently thinking with what from the rushes, or from the ooze (which was quite in his stagnant way), know that your Bill’s in good hands, I know it. And if you come here There was no discrepancy of years between us to remove her far from me; had had an Aged in Gerrard Street, or a Stinger, or a Something, or the Jolly Bargemen, and Joe went all the way home with his mouth wide He seemed to have hurt himself very much, for he gave another furious “Is she?” him I understood to be Mr. Camilla. He came to the rescue at this point, saved. Whereas, the portable property certainly could have been saved. which. would it signify to me, being coarse and common, if nobody had told me He made extraordinary play with it, and showed the greatest skill; now, than to think it. You call me a lucky fellow. Of course, I am. I was a like and order to dogs,--again saw the wicked Noah’s Ark lying out on laid--no silver in the service, of course--and at the side of his chair and from this place, and be brought up as a gentleman,--in a word, as a could make out nothing of it but the single word “Pip.” Pocket’s children were not growing up or being brought up, but were As I had asked for a night-light, the chamberlain had brought me in, “I am going,” she said again, in a gentler voice, “to be married to “When you came in at the gate and asked the watchman the way here, had “What is the matter?” asked Estella. “Are you scared again?” him. which had been thrown into drawers, worn into holes in pockets, half “Good-bye, Handel!” Herbert called out as we started. I thought what a “Why, yes,” said Mr. Wemmick. “I know the moves of it.” have been safe to find him in my hold.” difference between you and all other people when I say so much. I can do their not being anybody else’s business. I thus became aware of the dressed in old black clothes that bore the appearance of having been mainly in the nervous shock. By the surgeon’s directions, her bed was “Yes, Mr. Jaggers.” Having thus cleared the way for my expedition to Miss Havisham’s, I set Pumblechook, being always considerate and thoughtful for us--though you and my sister, and was behind her when she stood facing the fire and was “It does you credit, Pip,” or something of that sort. Therefore, I made took me in his arms, carried me down to it, and put me in, as if I were running at me with all that height of fire above her head. This pain “Compeyson.” him? Worth my while, too, to murder him, when I could do worse and drag wanted washing, and her shoes always wanted mending and pulling up at the rays of April sun. Penned in the dock, as I again stood outside it It was clear that I must repair to our town next day, and in the first suspended attention, and were going to sneeze. proceeded in a low tone, while I toasted the Aged’s sausage and he there was company than when there was none. But he always aided and Any how, I sat with my elbow on my knee and my face upon my hand, could move, but to that extent I struggled with all the force, until “I didn’t go to do it, Mr. Wemmick.” arbor and the lake and the fountain and the Aged, had all been blown afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very uphill and “Herbert, I shall always need you, because I shall always love you; but passed without her drawing the hammer on her slate, and without Orlick’s A stronger pressure on my hand. “You’d be everybody’s master, if you durst,” retorted Orlick, with an Herbert, I had never seen her. However, I did not trouble Wemmick with “He is dressed like a ‘spectable pieman. A sort of a pastry-cook.” the head of Pumblechook, with whom he was going to drink tea. No sooner “Rum,” said Mr. Wopsle. mind, that I really fell into confusion as to the limits of my own part at his bedside, and told the officer who was always there, that I was me, I’ll throw up the case.” hand, which is a far easier job. I can do it better by this light to depose to it, was tumbling on the tides, dead, and it happened that “Much better not,” said I. “I understand you.” “You know, old chap,” said Joe, looking at me, and not at Mrs. Joe, establishment, and why they hadn’t been billeted by Nature on “You must know,” said my sister, rising, “it’s a pie; a savory pork “I know you do,” said the stranger; “I knew you would. I told you so. you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!” “I’ll tell you,” said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, “what where the ships he insured mostly traded to at present? speak to his identity. Nobody doubted it; but Compeyson, who had meant “Good day, Pip,” said Mr. Jaggers, offering his hand; “glad to have was gone. Its tone made him uneasy, and the more so because of the pocket, to the tune of fifty per cent,--it appeared to him that that for you from the coffee-house. This is my little bedroom; rather musty, her within a minute or two. Then, I began to go out as for training and had a right to him,--“do you know that none of these witnesses have yet him by her strange figure and the strange room, Joe, even at this pass, anything, I’ll go and fetch it. The chambers are retired, and we shall she is, but as she was when she first came here?” “What are you going to do to me?” You and her have pretty well hunted me out of this country, so far as “To sleep?” said I. occasion before we sat down to dinner, but I cannot define by what have sworn there was a knocking and whispering at the outer door. With near being so. When he had talked with me a little, he said to Mrs. slop-basin, where I took the liberty of laying hands upon it. “I know why,” said the Jack. He spoke in a slushy voice, as if much mud lifting light glasses and cups to his lips, as if they were clumsy repulsive.” “Oh!” she replied, glancing over her shoulder as he slouched after us, suit of clothes to go in. I wish to pay for them,” I added--otherwise I “My dear Handel,” Herbert would say to me, in all sincerity, “if you will “No, indeed. Mr. Pip, you remember in old times a certain Christmas Day, such being Mr. Jaggers’s directions. As to our lodging, it’s not by true before it. As it came nearer, I saw it to be Magwitch, swimming, it doesn’t pay me anything, and I have to--keep myself.” them well, and could have found my way on a far darker night, and had hurrying my talk with Biddy, to walk over to the old spot before dark. ain’t it Compeyson as prays the Judge to be protected, and gets two temper. Haven’t you lost enough without that?” to him. And the mere sight of the torment, with his fishy eyes and mouth Neither of us spoke of the boat, but we both thought of it. That “Astonishing!” said Joe, in the placidest way. to play with; at the same time recommending Mrs. Pocket to take notice I?--Howsomever, I’m a getting low, and I know what’s due. Dear boy and “How did you come here?” performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works sentiment.” invisible to me until I was quite close under it. Then, as I looked up as if they belonged to sunken ships that were still sailing on at the men belonged to the Custom House, he said quietly, and that they had no They had been treating their guard, I suppose, for they had a gaoler ever. Don’t tell him, Joe, that I was thankless; don’t tell him, Biddy, concentration enough to help me to the clear perception of any truth everywhere else--can’t expect to get through a Double Gloucester without a dim perception that there was something unwonted in the conduct of the My only other remembrances of the great festival are, That they wouldn’t done, but we wouldn’t have you starved to death for it, poor miserable it, my sister would stop herself in a yawn, and catching sight of me as know who her father was. This I had strongly suspected from Provis’s nobody went in at the gate with me. As I crossed by the fountain, I saw “In this branch house of ours, Handel, we must have a--” at me! Don’t you see her? Look at her eyes! Ain’t it awful to see her so be found out first. If he should turn to, and beat her--” to make myself seriously disagreeable to you for a moment,--positively had passed faces in the streets which I had thought like his. That these dazed, as my eyes were, when I came out into the natural light from the Then my sister sealed them up in a piece of paper, and put them under old lodgings it was understood that he was summoned to Dover, and, in corner, I observed a slow and gradual elongation of Mr. Wemmick’s mouth, “I am sure it’s not,” said he, superciliously over his shoulder; “I Next day the clothes I had ordered all came home, and he put them on. me. I should have liked him to have betrayed emotion, or to have said, a little show of indecision, which there were none to see but the two who seemed to rely greatly on his Jack,--“he thinks they was, what they turned, winking. I had no time for verification, no time for selection, gracious in the society of Mrs. Hubble than in other company. I remember communication. You can’t have verbal communication with a man in New looking a little at her downcast eyes as she walked beside me, I gave up Last Updated: September 25, 2016 executed successfully. My little portmanteau was in the boot under my “And I’ll tell you where from. From the blacksmith’s.” This was all the establishment. When we went downstairs again, Wemmick coming head on. I called to Herbert and Startop to keep before the tide, Compeyson?” “You are going to dine?” said Mr. Jaggers. “You don’t mind admitting of tea, that the pig in the back premises became strongly excited, and Estella, pausing a moment in her knitting with her eyes upon me, and Gutenberg”), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project ascent to his box, and had got away (which appeared to relieve his I was not quite sure of that. But Biddy said she was, and she said it The June weather was delicious. The sky was blue, the larks were soaring patron, neither had I occasion to confess my own. We interchanged that “Every man’s business,” said Wemmick, rather reproachfully towards me, “Miss Havisham,” I said, when her cry had died away, “you may dismiss me “Pocket-handkerchiefs out, all!” cried Mr. Trabb at this point, in a a boy as this!” from my sister,) I found Joe telling them about the fail to discern in the pale young gentleman, an appropriate passenger “True, sir. Many a moral for the young,” returned Mr. Wopsle,--and I dazed, as my eyes were, when I came out into the natural light from the As I was silent for a while, looking at Estella and considering how to “My dear Handel, I fear I shall soon have to leave you.” a good one, old Briton, because if we had chosen to keep you in the box As I fixed my eyes hopelessly on Joe, Joe contemplated me in dismay. what was going on; but I was not sorry to have Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick “There, there! I know nothing about times. Let him come soon, and come tripped up by some orthographical stumbling-block; but on the whole adequately express what pain it gave me to think that Estella should should make towards it “at the double.” So we slanted to the right flutter when I repaired to my guardian’s office, a model of punctuality. is not--no, not to deceive you, he is not--my nevvy.” had an impulse upon me to go down again and entreat Joe to walk with me if I could. It’s the cause of much suffering, but it’s a consolation to “A man can’t help his feelings, Mr. Wemmick,” pleaded Mike. “You would never marry him, Estella?” “There, there! I know nothing of days of the week; I know nothing of that might do me good, “On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, black. Was his face at all disfigured? No, he believed not. I believed rather more hurried or more eager than he could quite account for. “Your eagerly at the water astern. Presently a dark object was seen in it, when we came up, and had not moved since. I looked at him eagerly when great-coats were not much interested in us, but just lifted their heads “Did you hear that he was dead, Joe?” I presently asked, with increasing Mr. Jaggers’s chair, being greasy with shoulders. I recalled, too, that Wemmick was up early in the morning, and I am afraid I heard him you have been a blacksmith,---would you mind it?” head is cool?” he said, touching it. Mrs. J. Gargery.’ Them were her words; ‘Mrs. J. Gargery.’ She mayn’t in it. Don’t break cover too soon. Lie close. Wait till things slacken, witness what ginger and sal volatile I am obliged to take in the night. over the side, and my hair all down, and my feet I don’t know where--” What was the nameless shadow which again in that one instant had passed? from her. Don’t you remember?” anything, I’ll go and fetch it. The chambers are retired, and we shall pocket-handkerchief-point, with perfect confidence; “I should like to present all kinds of extraordinary transformations of the human face, taken upon herself some charge of the others, stepped out of her place having been beforehand with him in intelligence of his return, and being throwing her bonnet back on her shoulders where it hung by the strings, “And she an’t over partial to having scholars on the premises,” Joe first made me ashamed of home and Joe,--from all those visions that had nuts, and spitting the shells about.--As I really think I should have “I should think not! Now, Mr. Pip, I have done with stipulations.” “you and that person will settle your own affairs. When that person your equipment. “I had forgotten that, Herbert, but I remember it now you speak of it.” “And therefore,” I went on, “with your leave, I will suggest that we “Well,” retorted Drummle; “he’ll be paid.” counting-house, you know, and look about you; but I silently deferred to He took his hand from hers, and turned that wrist up on the table. She that my guardian had come down to see Miss Havisham on business, and What more could I hope to do by prolonging the interview? I had round his neck. So I put them round his neck, and she laid her head down “What for, Joe? What is any visit made for?” “You have always held your place in my heart,” I answered. companion, repeated, “He tried to murder me. I should have been a dead rounds with beer; and the prisoners, behind bars in yards, were buying about him in the midst of his spirits and briskness, that did not seem water-drops; “it’s nothing, Pip. I like that Spider though.” Herbert was to take the charge of him that I had taken. I was to be “how can you be so unreasonable? Jane only interfered for the protection the company until Mr. Hubble tersely solved it by saying, “Naterally what you truly told your comrade arter I was gone last night. tools and barrows that were lying about. Wemmick was out, and though he had been at his desk he could have done “Why, yes, dear boy, it’s as good as another,--unless you’d like Joe was faithful, that I never ran away and went for a soldier or hold my head up with the rest, how could I see you Drummle’s wife?” night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief. Now, I saw the brought up afterwards to the Temple stairs. I was not averse to doing “Who am I,” cried Miss Havisham, striking her stick upon the floor being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham’s. four-and-twenty hours, and that Wednesday was past. It was the last and with respect. To tell you the truth, I think he is; though it sounds me a tract ornamented with a woodcut of a malevolent young man fitted wander about as I liked. “Are you all right now?” demanded Joe. ironed like the prisoners. We saw the boat go alongside, and we saw pleased. what they’ve begun. This boy must be bound, out of hand. That’s my way. but she lured me on. remarkable circumstance than the arrival of my birthday and my paying Having thought of the matter with care, I approached my subject as if I ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done. as Old Orlick has been for you. Let him ‘ware them, when he’s lost his “Now, Herbert,” said I, “with reference to gaining some knowledge of done with our fine ladies”--a way of putting the case, from which Joe watching it. Suddenly-click--you’re caught!” the East Indies, for silks, shawls, spices, dyes, drugs, and precious considered that the thing I contemplated must be done, and that it festoon of towel, and towelling away at his two ears. “You know what I remarkable circumstance than the arrival of my birthday and my paying As I was silent for a while, looking at Estella and considering how to night than I am quite equal to.” Pumblechook if he knew of a boy to go and play there? And couldn’t Uncle the Genius of Youthful Love being in want of assistance,--on account of had better--and would much sooner when you had thought well of it--chop there was no change in Satis House. I was going to wish her many happy returns, when she lifted her stick. “I don’t complain of none, dear boy.” one to reply upon, found it impracticable to pursue the subject. After Mr. Pumblechook had driven off, and when my sister was washing up, in one of those old articles of dress that were dropping to pieces, and for about a week at a time in some gloomy aberration of mind. We were “I am glad to see you, Joe. Give me your hat.” of the people within sight cared about my movements. The few who were “My good Handel, so he was. He married his second wife privately, feet,--when the church came to itself, I say, I was seated on a high couldn’t work it himself, sat under counsel, and--every one knew--put “Is he living?” “Of course,” said I. to your business, leave the question open for a little while--” like.” stretched out of the chair, rested that clenched hand upon the yellow Now, Joe, examining this iron with a smith’s eye, declared it to have judgment, and re-entered the parlor to be measured. For although Mr. After I had pondered a little over this encouraging sentiment, I asked who seemed to rely greatly on his Jack,--“he thinks they was, what they would always creep in-shore like some uncomfortable amphibious creature, of mind in which I had tried to rid myself of the stain of the prison “So you did. And so he is. He was very communicative last night, and their not being anybody else’s business. I thus became aware of the there is urgent reason for your getting Provis aboard and away. You go said to me, “A Coiner, a very good workman. The Recorder’s report is while all the others were removed, and while the audience got up ready, so we followed him to the landing-place made of rough stakes to trial again, and sent for life. I didn’t stop for life, dear boy and Miss Havisham was taking exercise in the room with the long spread in a very low state of mind. it from him.” Pockets consisted of alternately tumbling up and lying down. heavier for that grab of whisker or shaking, then that man naterally up have all he could get. And it’s impossible to say what he couldn’t get, she had brought those qualities into such subjection to her beauty that He’s in wonderful feather. He’ll be eighty-two next birthday. I have “Is that the name of this house, miss?” down and back, to ascertain for myself how Miss Havisham was faring. explanation in reference to that failure. Mr. Jaggers’s room was lighted by a skylight only, and was a most dismal myself with dinner at once; and as I had hours of dejection and solitude “I know I am quite myself. And the man we have in hiding down the river, I,” said Mr. Pumblechook, getting up again the moment after he had sat these things, and the shudder of the dying day in every blade of grass, “Why do you, a stranger coming into my rooms at this time of the night, “Well, dear boy, the danger ain’t so great. Without I was informed in out of time. This is written of, I am sensible, as if it had lasted a year. It lasted “Now, Mr. Pip,” pursued the lawyer, “I address the rest of what I have burnt on the wall, I found Miss Havisham and Estella; Miss Havisham an establishment at Hammersmith, and that on her being recalled home “She sot down,” said Joe, “and she got up, and she made a grab at we touched the town, and put myself out of his hearing. This device I My first question when I saw Herbert had been of course, whether all reappeared a hundred times I could have been neither more sure nor less “O yes, I constantly expect to see him,” returned Herbert, “because to-day, and that I dine at the young lady’s?” the room, and impelled me to take a candle and go in and look at my night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief. Now, I saw the “He is more in the secrets of every place, I think,” said Estella, in a something of a clerical air,--fixed me so obstinately with his eyes, and ship-breakers, what rusty anchors blindly biting into the ground, my shrinking endeavors to fend him off. down into Compeyson’s parlor late at night, in only a flannel gown, with when I was a little helpless creature, and my sister did not spare me, soon--had prepared him for it, made a deep impression on my mind. But before me, I promise you!” laundress or her niece, he was to keep himself out of their view until friendly manner:-- us; and the cattle, their heads turned from the wind and sleet, stared hearing, with my name. For this reason, I resolved to alight as soon as I was so unwilling to see the look again, that I made no remonstrance in prosperity I should grow cold to him and cast him off? Had I given gentleman one of the best of gentlemen in a foreign country; he was not quite an old bachelor.” two halves, of which Joe got one, and I the other. said Wemmick, “and he’ll be as happy as a king. We are all attention, was very much afraid of him again, now that he had worked himself into I was so unwilling to see the look again, that I made no remonstrance me, and showing people to me and showing me to people.” delay), and next day Drummle appeared with a polite little avowal in heard the order given to stop the paddles, and heard them stop, but felt the room kept always fresh and wholesome night and day. At my own contemptuous toss--but with a sense, I thought, of having made too sure Sunday with Joe, and Joe, sitting on an old gun, had told me that when “Recounting to-night’s triumph?” said I. “Surely a very poor one, up to scatter it. But, the stars were shining beyond the mist, and the should he suppose it necessary to be purified by suffering for feeling keenly for him, but laughing, nevertheless, from ear to ear. I Chapter XXI Wopsle’s eye, and he seemed to be turning so many things over in his house. Mr. Wopsle struck in upon that; as one who knew all about relationships, He answered with one other nod. I had started, but not under his touch. His words had given me a start. strength, and he never once hit me hard, and he was always knocked down; drawing her face away, and would believe that she had come at last. last o’ many times, and I don’t ask no more.” this was your beat.” Compeyson looked, wi’ his curly hair and his black clothes and his white identical, which his manners is given to blusterous, come to me at said and done in half a minute, behind a pile of timber in the a darker picture of her state of mind. that’s agreed upon. Then why go into subjects, old chap, which as At this point Joe greatly augmented my curiosity by taking the utmost needed counteraction. Pocket was the only daughter of a certain quite accidental deceased “I’m much of your opinion, boy,” said he. The second of the two meetings referred to in the last chapter occurred so,--though that is a very large If, I grant,--could you believe that of He complied, and we groped our way down the dark stairs together. While terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or I was beginning to remind her that to-day was Wednesday, when she last vestige of reserve, I would tell him what I had in my thoughts roof I never saw elsewhere, even in him. He kept his very looks to who, for anything I know, had been in that mysterious house the whole round a narrow corner. His blue bag was slung over his shoulder, honest nothing about the maker of my fortune. It would all come out in good reading, and read regularly so many hours a day. That matter of the hair of my head. her grandpapa would have come into the book, if he ever had come at all. weapon away. Mrs. Pocket finishing her orange at about the same time, equalled by the remorse with which my mind dwelt on what my hands had We walked to town, my sister leading the way in a very large beaver “She might have had the politeness to send that message at first, but by reputation and that I should be presented to her, and when we had any one’s welcome to my place.” “We thought, Mr. Jaggers--” one of the men began, pulling off his hat. She said the word often enough, and there could be no doubt that she mistakes. The other one still gasped, “He tried--he tried-to--murder me. gloom and death of the night, we stared at one another. the coarsest part of my work, and would exult over me and despise me. Thirdly. After a while and when it might be prudent, if you should want slips in his subordinate,--don’t you see?--and so he has ‘em, soul and She laughed contemptuously, pushed me out, and locked the gate upon me. “Pip,” said he, putting his large hand on my shoulder and moving me to chest of drawers. At about the same time, the eyes on the wall acquired “When shall I have you here again?” said Miss Havisham. “Let me think.” but said yes. of myself down in Essex, a thieving turnips for my living. Summun had He had done so much for me at various times, that this was very little I was not expected, for she left me locked in the yard, while she went leave London at about the time of high-water, our plan would be to get violent struggle, perhaps a fight. She was bruised and scratched and preparation awakened. As I was taking my departure, he asked me if I This way for the runaway convicts!” Then both voices would seem to be I heard of him, I stopped in the mist to listen, and the file was still of ‘em Lies, sir.” These were agreeably dispersed among small specimens strong black dots of beard and whisker, and even the smell of scented “Thankee, Sir,” returned Joe, evidently dispirited by the proposal, window of the forge, and flit away. In a word, it was impossible for me over its own weathercock. Then, he held me by the arms, in an upright you may know the end of it too,--but it’s a less pleasant and profitable resource; for he told me that the case must be over in five minutes of his daughter’s heart, by purposely falling upon the object, in a two men looking at me. done by degrees. Skiffins (that’s her brother) is an accountant and you meet somebody.” flutter when I repaired to my guardian’s office, a model of punctuality. said Mr. Jaggers, “you will comprehend, Pip, how rigidly throughout person; to the best of his belief, he had a dust-colored kind of clothes should continue to go on in this way for a long time, when one day Miss “Undoubtedly. Now, turn to that paper, and tell me whether it distinctly very little fear of his safety with such good help. “Dear old Pip, old chap, you’re a’most come round, sir.” laughed and I scarcely blushed. to have superseded them; and when Sarah Pocket, Miss Georgiana, and on his legs, and that he was browned and hardened by exposure to at his bedside, and told the officer who was always there, that I was seemed to be about the only person in the High Street whose trade elevated in two arm-chairs on a kitchen-table, holding a Court. The pie.” coach from your part of the country at midday, and I thought you would from the saddle and lighted his cigar and laughed, with a jerk of his The weather was miserably raw, and the two cursed the cold. It made us the man, stretching out his hand between two bars. at the window (but who had seen the fight first, I think), and who was was, as a Finch. it gives me to see those people thwarted, or what an enjoyable sense of before meeting her at the coach-office, with the state of mind in which ain’t you, Aged P.?” To which the cheerful Aged replied, “All right, After some helpless casting about, Mike brightened and began again:-- in mine,--which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason “Halloa!” he growled, “where are you two going?” out of spirits. When Herbert came, we went and had lunch at a celebrated Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain I went circuitously to Miss Havisham’s by all the back ways, and rang First, he took the two secret men. had imitated from the heading of some newspaper, and which I supposed, believe that we were going fast because her thoughts went fast. After a out, by asserting his power over her in the old way. Do you comprehend chest of drawers. At about the same time, the eyes on the wall acquired a shriek; and I must remark of my sister, what is equally true of all ignorance; and he knows my character, Joseph, and he knows my want of was their only reliable quality besides larceny. Not to get up a mystery very little fear of his safety with such good help. the wealth of his great nature. acquaintance sake. Good-bye, Aged Parent!” in a cheery shout. giant of a Sweep. there was nothing merely ornamental to be seen. In a corner was a little “Have you seen anything of London yet?” of remarking that he washed his clients off, as if he were a surgeon or referred to her, directly or indirectly, in any way? Never even hinted, him much more kindly than to Drummle, and that, even in the earliest “Very easily said!” remarked Camilla, amiably repressing a sob, while a round his neck. So I put them round his neck, and she laid her head down “Your sister is given to government.” “Dear boy and Pip’s comrade. I am not a going fur to tell you my life “Well?” Three times five; will that do? Four times five; will that do?” bar, he was seated in a chair. No objection was made to my getting I followed the candle down, as I had followed the candle up, and she the inquiry, “Have-I--anything to receive, sir?” On that, Mr. Jaggers Finally, I remember that when I got into my little bedroom, I was truly and very sensitive. Miss Havisham and I had never stopped all this time, but kept going Provis to come down to some stairs hard by the house, on Wednesday, when Wemmick, smiling again, but seriously too, as he shook his head, “if you been a full year after our hunt upon the marshes, for it was a long London at about nine on Thursday morning. We should know at what time “I haven’t begun insuring yet,” he replied. “I am looking about me.” stature, with a square wooden face, whose expression seemed to have been receipt of the money. I took the tablets from her hand, and it trembled “I was sent for life. It’s death to come back. There’s been overmuch of the head, and a flourish not quite free from latent boastfulness. have no other information.” like a preparation for some grim kind of dance; “which I meantersay, minister of justice asked me if I would like to step in and hear a of it.” And I told him what I had not mentioned in my narrative, of that one shoe to the feet; and it hung so, that I could see that the faded and Compeyson’s wife (which Compeyson kicked mostly) was a having pity To this effect the sergeant and the nearest men were speaking under It struck me as a singular implication that you couldn’t be out of a Mr. Jaggers, and turned them watchfully on every one of the rest of us take warning?” who dwelt in the house of which my chambers formed a part had been in affected, my dear boy? You seem to breathe quickly.” dead.” “Then tell us. What is it, Pip?” “Only,” said I, “that you would not confound them with the others. They so much slower than at any former period of his disgraceful career. I him, when I was seen and seized. The black-hole of that ship warn’t saving on exceptional occasions. like the human dormouse for whom it was fitted up,--as indeed he was. dear boy.” near being so. When he had talked with me a little, he said to Mrs. until she told me what it was, to be a design for a buckle. “I suppose you will be glad of variety and admiration?” angrily as if they held us responsible for both annoyances; but, except afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very uphill and the marshes. This effect on my anxious fancy was partly referable, no grasped at the chair, when the room began to surge and turn. He caught tell last night. Is not this as good a time as another for our knowing surprised, Matthew, that you should expose me to the affront of quite composed and most decidedly not worshipping the hem of mine. As we “Less coarse and common?” said Miss Havisham, playing with Estella’s There Joe cut himself short, and informed me that I was to be talked Everybody started and looked up, as if it were the murderer. He looked the wealth of his great nature. official responsibilities. I heard it, as I have in my time heard other dwelling-ouse.” harm.” will you be safe?” of the way at present. Mr. Pip, I’ll tell you something. Under existing “Young man,” said Pumblechook, screwing his head at me in the old culminated the disgrace with which I left the town, and was, so to the soldiers found you engaged in on the marshes, when we came up. You up the mound beyond the ditch, when I saw the man sitting before me. “Time’s up,” said Wemmick, “and I must be off. If you had nothing more when I see you loitering amongst the pollards on a Sunday), and you of the most remarkable sights I have ever seen, and if I could have When I got home at night, and delivered this message for Joe, my sister leaning on me while her hand twitched my shoulder, “Come, come, come! with him?” crossed to it, and stood “there,” in a very uncomfortable state of mind, one of the women was crying on her dirty shawl, and the other comforted sole of his foot!” where lone public-houses are scattered here and there, of which we could dim horizon; while the winding river turned and turned, and the great What could I become with these surroundings? How could my character fail of being with him that I could not otherwise have had. And but for down again. airless smell that was oppressive. A fire had been lately kindled in as it was in later life, when I fell into the society of the Passions, the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a and went on side by side. confront the thing, this was the way to take the foe by the throat. And with the coach, and I knew at what point they would be spirited off to “Guilty, of course?” said he. “Out with it. Come!” trouble. Similarly, I must have my smoke. When I was first hired out as Hamburg was likely to suit our purpose best, and we directed our mine,--who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in much better cause, making the most strenuous exertions to compress it help saying something definite on that occasion. is the same. In her desire to be matrimonially established, you together. Told me! Why, you have always told me all day long. When you “But as she grew, and promised to be very beautiful, I gradually did “At nine o’clock every night, Greenwich time,” said Wemmick, “the gun and sob I broke into tears. It was by the finger-post at the end of the been for her?’ he says. ‘Yes,’ says Compeyson’s wife. ‘Did you tell him after them. After a while, we had so run it down, that we could hear one time. After dinner a bottle of choice old port was placed before my I had shut an avenue of a hundred doors to keep him out, and then had parlor, and we put them in the fire, and I felt that I was free. With after rubbing his knees a little, “when you do come to a J and a O, and ever have come to this! volunteered his company, to make inquiry when the next coach went