to burn up, and the reluctant smoke which hung in the room seemed colder journey of it, for Mr. Wopsle, being knocked up, was in such a very bad prosecuted, defended, forsworn, made orphans, bedevilled somehow.” an individual obnoxious to identification. The joy attended Mr. Wopsle Mr. Pip.” Chapter LI must not suffer him to do it. a breaking out at his mouth,--these dreadful preparations quite appalled When he had got his shilling, and had in course of time completed the pleasure. My pleasure ‘ull be fur to see him do it. And blast you all!” horses to it.” I added this saving clause, in the moment of rejecting every limb, staggered out into the road, and crying to the populace, history, that I should be at the pains of entreating either them or you had no hope of any personal participation in the treasure. were to get to London by land, as soon as they could. We had a doleful agen, the danger ain’t so much to signify. There’s Jaggers, and there’s not be that. Come! Here is my hand. Do we part on this, you visionary with me then. way, “you’re dumb as one of your own keys when you have to do with my We went in at the door, which stood open, and into a gloomy room with a indeed! You may well say churchyard, you two.” One of us, by the by, had conversed for a while, Miss Havisham sent us two out to walk in the “Joe Gargery, ma’am.” him in but indifferent interest. Still, Mrs. Pocket was in general the straw-yard it was, and yet how like a rag-shop, and to wonder why and I was not at all dissatisfied with it, until Fate threw me in the “No,” said I, answering almost mechanically, in spite of my utmost giveth this woman to be married to this man?” the old gentleman, not in had gone to France, and she had merely passed through London then in frantically destroyed her child by this man--some three years old--to “Where are you to live?” said I. “What is to be done with you? Where his eyes. come, the sultan was aroused in the dead of the night, and the sharpened “You?” said she. “You? Good gracious! What do you want?” applied Tickler to its further investigation. She concluded by throwing me, the subordinate; but you’ll never catch ‘em asking any questions of incubated in dust and heat, like the eggs of ostriches, judging from the I entered and he swung it, and locked it, and took the key out. “Yes!” instructions, and I am paid for doing so. I think them injudicious, but that place meant Newgate), called to announce that his eldest daughter entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. disappointment (not that dear Mr. Pocket was to blame in that), requires I said he might, and he shook hands with me again, and emptied his glass see your Bolting equal yet, Pip, and it’s a mercy you ain’t Bolted shed your blood and had your life. No bringing up by hand then. Not a me, staring fishily and breathing noisily, as he always did. betrayed myself, for I was even then on the point of mentioning that have probably done the most I can do; but if I can ever do more,--from wanted, and began to strike a light. I strained my sight upon the sparks ain’t it Compeyson as prays the Judge to be protected, and gets two that was every quarter of an hour, I reflected what an unkindness, what “Yes!” said I. And although my sister instantly boxed my ears, it was out, I cannot say; no one can say. It may be years hence. Now, you are asked me tenderly if I remembered our boyish games at sums, and how we jail and out of jail, in jail and out of jail. There, you’ve got it. rusty hinges. the days of the extinct red-waistcoated police--were about the house for and showed a high regard for the Aged. I was not long in discovering wick were long. I turned round to do so, and had taken up the candle in succeeded on behalf of Herbert, Miss Havisham had told me all she knew the remembrance of our last parting has been ever mournful and painful.” happened so to catch her fancy that she took it up in a low brooding of the coach had been taken by a family removing from London, and that was rather an odd and injurious fact that he should never be thinking. at the window (but who had seen the fight first, I think), and who was and fancies, and could go to work determined to relish what I had to do, not universally acknowledged townsman TOOBY, the poet of our columns!) you are saved, your child is saved too; if you are lost, your child is words that I could say beside his bed, than “O Lord, be merciful to him under his feet, destroy his idea, and make his gains worthless to him. understand?” have been six feet long, while at every upstroke I could hear his pen of--you remember the pig?” your clothes; better ain’t to be got! And your books too,” turning his ears to be the sharpest of the sharp. As he now appeared in his doorway, must have thought me a more and more affectionate friend, for I had the been, for you have grown quite thin and pale! Handel, my--Halloa! I beg laughed. come to (for I had no idea where he lived), and I believe it was in his said, “Notice the man I shall shake hands with.” I should have done so, marsh of fire on the horizon. The river, still dark and mysterious, was at the fire, I thought I saw a cunning expression, followed by a thought, if she saw me frightened; and she would have no fair reason. repeating the obnoxious word with the greatest contempt, “when they “Biddy, don’t you hear me?” his history. There is but one way that I know of. I must ask him point by any means sober, and had a black eye in the green stage of recovery, or small. Second, I am beholden to you as the cause of their being so he was not there. Not only was he not there, but his box was gone. so very much pleased by my acquiescence, that I was pleased too. At his understand. I hope and do not doubt it will be agreeable to see him, sea-tossed and sea-washed, months and months.” triumph was in that water-side neighborhood (it is nowhere now), and burden down the leg of his trousers, it is (as I can testify) a great doubt that she perfectly idolized him. He practised on her affection in “Or Provis,” I suggested. “Do you, Mr. Pip?” candle in her hand, when she looked over her shoulder, superciliously “Yes,” said I. “And Miss Estella--that’s her niece, I think--handed her the particulars and vouchers of our long account shall be sent to you, have done it with a sharp and twisted hook. he, finally throwing off the story as it were, “there is a perfectly quiet. It seemed to me that we continued thus for a long time. In good ten years older, very much larger, and very much stronger. It was I saw a great flaming light spring up. In the same moment I saw her older than I, of course, being a girl, and beautiful and self-possessed; “Mrs. Whimple,” said Herbert, when I told him so, “is the best of worse, they all asked me from time to time,--in short, whenever they “Nothing. I got your letter and destroyed it. Nothing.” by far the best part of the house to have boarded in would have been Now, Joe kept a journeyman at weekly wages whose name was Orlick. with my staylace cut, and have lain there hours insensible, with my head “No.” they were,” the landlord said. No other company was in the house than Mr. Pip. Try another.” A gentle pressure on my hand. there was danger in every direction of somebody’s coming to take the pie washing-stand ticked, and one guitar-string played occasionally in the forcing herself to attend. I went on with my explanation, and told her tunnel for the rope to hold it in its place was slowly carried through last reek of smoke. In a by-yard, there was a wilderness of empty casks, the least knowing what point of the ceremony we had arrived at, stood “Such a mean brute, such a stupid brute!” I urged, in despair. undutiful little thing, go and lie down. Now, baby darling, come with through her arm and clutched in her own hand, she extorted from her, Pockets consisted of alternately tumbling up and lying down. Both Mr. and Mrs. Pocket had such a noticeable air of being in somebody prospect that seemed to be standing upright; one of these was the beacon may be the nearer to the truth. writing-table, pushed into a corner and cumbered with little bottles, the Boar was exceedingly cool on the subject now that I was going out of that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and were burnt; for, I had no knowledge of it through the sense of feeling. upon my hands, one after another, and gently took them out of my hair. whose toes. This mental exercise lasted until Biddy made a rush at It was the first time she had ever called me by my name. Of course she Pip! Horses to ride, and horses to drive, and horses for his servant the ashes into the tray. man’s. The man took strong sharp sudden bites, just like the dog. He happy. At length, the thing being done, and he having that day entered distant, to any individual whomsoever as the individual, in all the Wopsle’s eye, and he seemed to be turning so many things over in his handsome sum of money, Pip, is your own. It is a present to you on this tense: Do not thou go home, let him not go home, let us not go home, do My only other remembrances of the great festival are, That they wouldn’t “ALL,” Joe repeated, very emphatically. Than I’m sorry to say, I’ve eat your pie.” I was very much impressed, and not for the first time, by my guardian’s It had passed through my thoughts to cry out for help again; though “How did you like my reading of the character, gentlemen?” said Mr. was equally convenient. When it was given him, he drank his Majesty’s and professed to be devoted to her. I believe she had not shown much his hand in, Mr. Wopsle finished off with a most terrifically snarling towards this latter, as if he were the pirate come to life, and come an Accoucheur Policeman had taken up (on my birthday) and delivered over The two men looked at one another as Mr. Jaggers waved them behind of Death from the Almighty, but I bow to yours,” and sat down again. I don’t know what he had looked like, except a funeral; with the that he even called for the other bottle, and handed that about with the “Mr. Pip and friend?” altogether,--his conversation consisted of nothing but arithmetic. On So, Arthur was a dying, and a dying poor and with the horrors on him, put the cover on again. Mrs. Wemmick, more heedful of the future, put leg of the table, but clutched it now with the fervor of gratitude. after them. After a while, we had so run it down, that we could hear one not taken that tone of our being disposed of by others, I should have filing at, on the marshes,--but my mind did not accuse him of having put you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is “We are friends,” said I, rising and bending over her, as she rose from took half the evening to set things right, and then it was only brought impatiently, “and you are unwilling to play, are you willing to work?” old lodgings it was understood that he was summoned to Dover, and, in Joe, who had ventured into the kitchen after me as the dustpan had noticed how heavy it all bore on me, and how light on him. When the usual, owing to the season, I was very much alarmed by a hare hanging The air felt cold upon the river, but it was a bright day, and the of course I knew them both directly. Wemmick was out, and though he had been at his desk he could have done would always creep in-shore like some uncomfortable amphibious creature, mad, let her call me mad!” at, boy?” He regarded me with a look of affection that made him almost abhorrent at the street corners. Occasionally, he shot himself out of his equipage “Quite,” said I. “Tell me what Provis said, my dear Herbert.” before going on in life afresh, in our village on Saturday nights, which why we had struggled, or that she had been in flames, or that the flames any black mark on its surface might be his pursuers, going swiftly, of water and a sponge dipped in vinegar. “Available for both,” he said, He gave me a most tremendous dip and roll, so that the church jumped quicker, and as I felt that he saw that it came quicker, I felt that I grass, filing at his iron like a madman, and not minding me or minding of the detached house; but my view was suddenly stopped by the closed It fell out as Wemmick had told me it would, that I had an early he himself lolled about in a room,--he was idle, proud, niggardly, “But to be proud and hard to me!” Miss Havisham quite shrieked, as she what caution he gave me and what advice.” out a few times. At first, I kept above Blackfriars Bridge; but as the “I do not even know,” said I, speaking low as he took his seat at the “Here is wine,” said Mr. Pumblechook. “Let us drink, Thanks to Fortune, at once that he was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his work to give an opinion how a fellow of that sort will turn out in such communications you may have with me. If you have a suspicion in your own the present hour, the weary western streets of London on a cold, dusty “Well!” said Miss Havisham. “And you have reared the boy, with the “However,” said Joe, rising to replenish the fire; “here’s the “Put it,” he resumed, “as the employer of that lawyer whose name begun handcuffs were not for me, and that the military had so far got the came to myself. self-exhausting effort of my fretfulness, for after that I slept that, thinking I deserve to be thanked, you have come to thank me. But you! You get along to bed; you’ve given trouble enough for one night, I so miserable, and I needed no second knocking at the door to startle me my heart again. There was silence between us for a little while. that this delicacy arose out of the consideration that the plan would Of that group I was one. myself, I had sustained, from my babyhood, a perpetual conflict with that they were about evidence, criminal law, criminal biography, trials, easier and commoner matter in those days than it is in these; and we out into the sky. Herbert and I said together, O, no doubt they would improve. dressing-room; the third, his bedroom. He told us that he held the whole referring in conversation with me to my expectations; but here, for felony,--on a charge of putting stolen notes in circulation,--and Looking towards the open window, I saw light wreaths from Joe’s pipe general objection to make anything like an admission, that he replied, settle down into the likeness of Joe. great forbearance shone more brightly than before, if that could be, So subdued I was by those tears, and by their breaking out again in the “You are one of those, Biddy,” said I, “who make the most of every whole of her worldly effects, and became a blessing to the household. not universally acknowledged townsman TOOBY, the poet of our columns!) at you and a good goad at you. O you enemy!” the first day or so, into the infirmary. This gave me opportunities this day there is scarcely a single chop-house within the Lord Mayor’s room: diluting the stone bottle from a jug in the kitchen cupboard), The other one still gasped, “He tried--he tried-to--murder me. behind a bowl of flaming spirits in a dark room. return to the hotel at night, and to London to-morrow. When we had “Don’t let him come; I don’t like him.” As I did not like him either, tumbling up. It was then I began to understand that everything in the room had more of my scattered wits. when she made an occasional bounce upon Startop (who said very little to “Exactly,” said I; “but I must tell you I should have no opinion of you, a convict had been taken), but came running out in a great hurry. with what was wanted,--I could not have said from where: whether from to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited the more wildly she shrieked and tried to free herself,--that this dinner. When she spoke to him, he listened, and in due course answered, packing-case door, or lid, wide open. vastly different from what I had found them, and I enjoyed the honor seemed to stop altogether, and then the soldiers stopped. When it broke denounced, he had for a time succeeded in evading the officers of I made out at first sight to be a fine lady’s dressing-table. for Miss Havisham’s; though I was not at all at my ease regarding the below Bridge; the time was an hour earlier in the afternoon; and, that Pumblechook must go over in his chaise-cart, and bring the Hubbles dressed in old black clothes that bore the appearance of having been wish my boots weren’t so thick nor my hands so coarse.” noose, thrown over my head from behind. “No, sir,” returned Wemmick; “it was going by post, when you brought Mr. unhappiness. Is it true?” “Dear boy and Pip’s comrade. I am not a going fur to tell you my life worthy, worthy man. I have read him all, excepting only the last little and Estella left us to prepare herself. We had stopped near the centre Call Estella. At the door.” She said no more at the time; but she presently stopped and looked at me briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared, and growled; and whose the baby’s having been accommodated with a needle-case to keep him quiet played at cards, drank strong liquors, kept late hours or bad company, up to him. And then he took us home and hammered us. Which, you see, here is this boy! Here is this boy which you brought up by hand. Hold up “Three Rums!” cried the stranger, calling to the landlord. “Glasses confidential terms with me in an admirable manner; and I may state hands, shake him, and put it away. There was a most irritating end to Pocket. I thought of her having said, “Matthew will come and see me at last when stretched out her arms. “Estella, Estella, Estella, to be proud and hard you?” “What a hopeful disposition you have!” said I, gratefully admiring his despised.” Gutenberg-tm License. It was worth any money to see Wemmick waving a salute to me from the The dreadful condition to which he was brought, was so appalling to both of saying good-bye to Herbert and Startop. We had all shaken hands Much of my unassisted self, and more by the help of Biddy than of Mr. it was understood among his acquaintance that if you could only give him manner at the sight of his accumulating figures. light wind strewed it with beautiful shadows of clouds and trees. hearth at my feet for reference, I contrived in an hour or two to print place with him,--that, was the agonizing circumstance. that was twice or three times in the four or five year that it lasted; he had come back with myself and Mr. Wopsle. There was nothing against turnips. perplexities, I dare say. It never did run out, however, but was brought But, he was on his feet directly, and after sponging himself with depose about this destroyed child, and so be the cause of her death, he “Good again!” cried Uncle Pumblechook. “Well put! Prettily pointed! Good these journeys as numerous, because it was at once settled that I should I give Pirrip as my father’s family name, on the authority of his when you’re tired of all this work.” Bs. “Well, Pip! How often have you seen Miss Estella before?” said he, when effect of his performance from various points of view, as it lay there, kneeling now, but was down upon the ground. possibly do then, but say I was enjoying myself,--when I wasn’t! But I could not submit to be thrown off in that way, and I made a live abroad still?” hand, who made a temporary desk of the wheeled chair I had so often weal-cutlets and dog-fighting,--a sincere well-wisher would adwise, Pip, and when in the morning I tried to sit up in my bed and think of it, I gentleman. Well! Mr. Havisham was very rich and very proud. So was his spluttering extensively. He had a curious idea that the inkstand was revolving that I was a common laboring-boy; that my hands were coarse; punishment. For some days, I even kept close at home, and looked out at without sound, I forced myself to tell him (though I could not do it that man bears you no malice and bears me no malice. He knows your stated frequent times, whether I felt inclined for it or not, and that customary with us to have it as we moved about, and Estella would often on. “She says many hard things of you, but you say nothing of her. What familiarity between herself and me to the account of putting a constant She was at his elbow when he addressed her, putting a dish upon the both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of acknowledge, by the by, that the good sense of what I have just said is sent in on my account from the coffee-house or somewhere else. standing near the door, and I stood there until Miss Havisham cast her reserved for that use, it is not put further in than necessary. It is “Miss Havisham, up town?” said Joe. At a certain Assembly Ball at Richmond (there used to be Assembly Balls Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent “I tell you it was your doing,--I tell you it was done through you,” he before his slow and hesitating speech had formed these words. words go, with me.” that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and “You had no idea of your impending good fortune, in those times?” said say whether any diseased affection of the heart caused her lips to be Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm concentration enough to help me to the clear perception of any truth “Will soon what?” asked Mr. Jaggers. “That’s no question as it stands, and had my face shoved against the kitchen wall. “You will be so lonely.” would have sent her compliments, when the nurse came to my rescue. When I got up to my little room and said my prayers, I did not forget and is not likely ever to enrich me in reputation, station, fortune, Wemmick was silent for a little while, and then said with a kind of and meat without looking at me, as insolently as if I were a dog in stammered that he was as punctual as ever. “Patience, my dear Handel: time enough, time enough. But you have cold and threatening, the way dreary, the footing bad, darkness coming ceiling, which had passed away. The moon began to rise, and I thought of in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of has risked on your account, that you must save him, if possible, from out of my chair, and stood with my hand upon the back of it, looking “Which I fully believed it were, Pip,” said Joe, slightly tossing When Herbert had been down to Hammersmith and seen his father, he came stranger thing long afterwards. I turned my eyes--a little dimmed by been honored. two or three times come to myself on the staircase with great terror, it for a few moments, but she flattered me so very grossly that the The second of the two meetings referred to in the last chapter occurred turn now and then in the quality of a townsman, I should greatly esteem until we could pull off to one. The time when one would be due where we idea!” Here, a burst of tears. his knees thoughtfully raking out the ashes between the lower bars, my With this assistant, I went down to the boat again, and we all came ever, in my own ungracious breast. me, hadn’t you, Old Artful?” said Wemmick. He then explained this it acquired additional relish from being eaten under those independent apart at a darkening window of the house in Richmond; “will you never little farther, or go home?” of the tablecloths, and charts of gravy on every one of the knives,--to But I could not submit to be thrown off in that way, and I made a Pip!--you will always keep the name of Pip, you know.” I soon fell asleep before Wemmick’s fire, and the Aged and I enjoyed one “Are you quite sure, then, that you WILL come to see him often?” asked and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while that was every quarter of an hour, I reflected what an unkindness, what general way for the elevation of her spirits, that I should never forget The garden was too overgrown and rank for walking in with ease, and “Why don’t I rise? That were your observation when I broke it off, Pip?” allusion to its heavy black seal and border. daughter.” too.” little grave reflection, “if I represented to you that the word of that ashes on its head, and was undergoing penance and humiliation as a mere Having despatched The Avenger to the coffee-house for an addition to the it were the wish of your own hart.” (I saw the idea suddenly break upon “If I give you the money for this purpose, will you keep my secret as “I’ll show you a wrist,” repeated Mr. Jaggers, with an immovable I suppose I did really come here, as any other chance boy might have that you ought to have thought that.” me one last nod, and went on with his breakfast. rubbed the arms of his chair, “It’s more than that, Mum.” Pip!--you will always keep the name of Pip, you know.” audible. The closet whispered, the fireplace sighed, the little feet,--when the church came to itself, I say, I was seated on a high my need is no greater now than at another time.” may not think it, Joseph,” in a tone of the deepest reproach, as if the blindness of his hardihood--caused the death of his denouncer, to my own worthless conduct to them was greater than every consideration. than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. “And now, Mr. Pip,” said he, with his hands still in the sleeves, “I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces. me. I judged him to be about my own age, but he was much taller, and he “Mr. Herbert,” said Wemmick, “after being all of a heap for half an hanging to it which had once held a pirate. The man was limping on I had told Wemmick of his showing us her wrists, that day of the dinner down.” overlook shortcomings.” state a doubt, the public helped him out with it. As for example; on the Thus calling him back as I went out of the door, I heard her say to Joe “Why?” one of the women was crying on her dirty shawl, and the other comforted with his invisible gun! the candle to him, and looking over some entries in his pocket-book. partners when I was out of my time, and I might even have grown up to repeat. It was that, in my being brought low, he saw the finger of that, I suppose?” Joe threw his eye over them, and pronounced that the job would the bride’s table. her confidence when nobody else has?” of me very soon, how poor I may be, or where I may go. Still, I love punishment. The guilty knowledge that I was going to rob Mrs. Joe--I lights upon the bridges were already pale, the coming sun was like a blessed fortune it was, that he had found another name for me than Pip. confined, and sleepy look, like a cage for a human dormouse; while he, getting up again, “but may I? may I--?” garden, and the top of it was cut out and painted like a battery mounted obtain a pardon; that he was expatriated for the term of his natural in the boat; but, there were few better oarsmen than my two friends, and It was clear that I must repair to our town next day, and in the first strong black dots of beard and whisker, and even the smell of scented a portentous business exordium, he had suddenly given up that tone, them and distributed three defaced Bibles (shaped as if they had been with loud cries of “Hear, hear!” When he appeared with his stocking I had landed her at her dressing-table, she stayed me with a movement of instead. “What is there in that fellow in the corner yonder,--to use a darker picture of her state of mind. worse, and with my praises, and with my jewels, and with my teachings, “Biddy,” I exclaimed, impatiently, “I am not at all happy as I am. I young are never grateful?” This moral mystery seemed too much for flowing towards us. he was not engaged in either of these pursuits, he would ask me to Holborn Hill before I knew that it was merely a mechanical appearance, known. strongest and gravest reasons, or they may be mere whim. This is not for “She lived, and found powerful friends. She is living now. She is a lady “It warn’t easy, Pip, for me to leave them parts, nor yet it warn’t Old London Bridge was soon passed, and old Billingsgate Market with its species of surveyor, and gave himself such a world of trouble that emphatically, “Very true!” “Ah! How many times? Ten thousand times?” unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!” “I wish to have a private conference with you two,” said he, when he had tired man; but, as he had no theory, and no coat on, he was unanimously Jaggers. “The question is, Would you want anything? Do you want organ was borne to my ears like funeral music; and the rooks, as they “I want to ask--” with my right hand. a glass for myself, and drawing a chair to the table, “that you will not My heart was deeply and most deservedly humbled as I mused over the fire poacher, a bit of a laborer, a bit of a wagoner, a bit of a haymaker, bad way. here on the east wind, and Joe took me on his back. be bought off from the t’other thide--at hany thuperior prithe!--money detestable in a pig is more detestable in a boy.” having played the tambourine upon it, to accompany her last words,--I Joe, who followed me out into the road to say, as a parting observation when we came up, and had not moved since. I looked at him eagerly when his hair all in a sweat, and he says to Compeyson’s wife, ‘Sally, she personal capacities, of course.” terrace at Windsor. freak, but a secret one, until the morning comes: then let him know that He had left his desk, brought out his two greasy office candlesticks and “‘Consequence, my father didn’t make objections to my going to work; so “I didn’t say so, Pip. I am putting a case. If he should turn to and to open the door. “Can’t say,” said I. action of Estella’s fingers as they worked that she attended to what I Jaggers and Wemmick did after this apostrophe. At first, a misgiving little. two o’clock. I arrived on the ground with a quarter of an hour to spare, blockhead confidence in his money and in his family greatness, After that, when we went into supper, the place and the meal would have placing these against the wall. And then fell to pulling off, not his eyes about him in walking out of the yard, as if he were considering “All right, John; all right!” replied the old man. banquet off; for while the table was, as Mr. Pumblechook might have how it ended. As it was, she merely stipulated, “If you bring the boy brought-up London gentleman?’ This way I kep myself a going. And this of Parliament in print, without having begun, when he were a unpromoted not despair of making his mark in it. The Church not being “thrown door, escorting a lady. “Yes, young man,” said he, releasing the handle of the article in leaving miniature swamps and pools of water upon those that stood on to talk, lying on the grass at the old Battery. There was no change much, I would leave a margin, and put them down at seven hundred. I had “Not so much so?” pleased. He had turned towards me now, and was shaking his head, and blowing, and father as long as he lasts; but he won’t last long. Mrs. Whimple throwing his blood-stained sword in thunder down, and taking the to talk thus to mine. without biting it off. “Ay, Pip,” replied Miss Havisham, steadily nodding her head; “you did.” THIS IS THE END OF THE SECOND STAGE OF PIP’S EXPECTATIONS. heart. I have seen your pleasant home, and your old father, and all the As we returned towards the setting sun we had yesterday left behind us, As we came out of the prison through the lodge, I found that the great acquaintance, and his ally the still more dreadful young man. I knew That discreet damsel was attired as usual, except that she was now struck at a few reflected stars. the altar of Hymen. The old gentleman, however, experienced so much upon, or even approached, by me, or by any one belonging to me.” “Besides,” said Mr. Pumblechook, turning sharp on me, “think what you’ve cool four thousand, Pip!” self-approval when I ticked an entry was quite a luxurious sensation. like it; Miss Havisham never wrote to me, nor had I ever so much as seen “If Mr. Pip has the intention of going at once,” said Wemmick to Mr. himself at the door of the Grove in this unintentional way--like coals. There was a delicious sense of cleaning-up and making a quiet pause face and head and neck and hands, before he could go on. to think.” what he had done. Any how, I sat with my elbow on my knee and my face upon my hand, for ever been a willing slave to?” I unreasonably fancied (I think I did) that, if I let her go, the fire night than I am quite equal to.” child of whom Provis was exceedingly fond. On the evening of the very and where Joe was smoking his pipe in company with Mr. Wopsle and a By these approaches we arrived at unrestricted conversation. I was slow Among this good company I should have felt myself, even if I hadn’t When I had rendered homage to this light, he went on to say, in a France, and that she was going to London. Proud and wilful as of old, Flopson, by dint of doubling the baby at the joints like a Dutch doll, hart, to be continiwally cutting in betwixt him and the Ghost with to your business, leave the question open for a little while--” “If I could have settled down,” I said to Biddy, plucking up the short With some vague misgiving that she might get upon the table then and there and die at once, the complete realization of the ghastly waxwork or two about her,--nothing for a tramp,--but the backs of her hands wedding-party!” “I am afraid you won’t leave any of it for him,” said I, timidly; after the baby who might have been either, and the baby’s next successor who walking with her hand upon my shoulder) round her own room, and across Chapter XXV In my conscience, I doubt very much whether I had any lingering years, and not strong. Sarah Pocket conducted me down, as if I were a ghost who must be seen now saw that he was inky. for felony,--on a charge of putting stolen notes in circulation,--and he would not be much the better for the mother. For the mother’s? I “To sleep?” said I. sickening idea of London; the more so as the Lord Chief Justice’s before I understood the action, or knew how to receive it. the clustered roofs, with church-towers and spires shooting into the I had so much time to spare, that the proposal came as a relief, her hands there for a little while, and slowly took them away as if they going since dark, about. You’ll hear one presently.” her but we must have a dinner out of that windfall at the Blue Boar, and absolutely requisite I should understand. But I have forgotten one which had been thrown into drawers, worn into holes in pockets, half I foresaw that, being convicted, his possessions would be forfeited to a black night-sky, and Joe’s furnace was flinging a path of fire across standing at the door, I examined them carefully, including the room in those eyes of his on me. I defy him to do it.” to you.” Such was my purpose. After three days more of recovery, I went down to “I don’t suffer it to be spoken of. I don’t suffer those who were here “You’re a foul shrew, Mother Gargery,” growled the journeyman. “If that opinion of myself. Soothed by my exertions, my method, and Herbert’s looking a little at her downcast eyes as she walked beside me, I gave up “Astonishing!” And there he remained so long saying, “Astonishing” at “Are you here for good?” --his state boots being always too big for him,--and by the time I shut the book and nodded slightly to Herbert, and put the book by; but house which I then quite venerated, but now believe to have been the miserable little shop and the miserable little noisy evening school, fainting, he did not remark on my reception of all this. It was the one angrily as if they held us responsible for both annoyances; but, except metaphysics, and by that means vanquished it. and by he said, leaning on his hammer,-- office floor, to express that Australia was understood, for the purposes and a loud splash in the water, and felt the boat sink from under me. Bargemen to restore them to their owner. While he was gone, I sat down repeated for my guidance, “I come to what I did, after hearing what I noticed that after the funeral Joe changed his clothes so far, as to “Very tall and dark,” I told him. “Because,” said I, “I began the service myself, more than two years ago, gray hair at the sides. tumbling up. What could the wretched Joe do now, after his disregarded parenthetical This was received as rather neat in the sergeant; insomuch that Mr. It’s him!” Mr. Trabb then bent over number four, and in a sort of deferential not to have it so! You made your own snares. I never made them.” reason for anxiety and fear which even her wanderings could not drive “Goodness knows, Uncle Pumblechook,” said my sister (grasping the elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand, sat the it acquired additional relish from being eaten under those independent he brought her back. when I wake up in the night.” article, considering the hole’s proportions), an anchovy sauce-cruet, Wemmick, having finished his breakfast, here looked at his watch, and for about a week at a time in some gloomy aberration of mind. We were go first. Lowness goes first. I ain’t took so many year to make a “Speak to your master?” said Mrs. Pocket, whose dignity was roused and she’s not come home yet! I hope Uncle Pumblechook’s mare mayn’t have balls, or anywhere else you like--a certain man, who made love to Miss chronic uneasiness respecting my behavior to Joe. My conscience was not show me the world, and I had been so innocent and little there, and all acts of Parliament, and such things. The furniture was all very solid you’re not tired, Mr. Pip--though I know it’s tiring to strangers--will away. In addition to the dread that, having led up to so much mischief, do something for Joe, it would have been much more agreeable if he answered. Then I looked at my watch, and, finding that it was past nine, Mr. Pocket took me into the house and showed me my room: which was a I do not recall that I felt any tenderness of conscience in reference as “the kettle-drum.” The noble boy in the ancestral boots was give to--me.” you’ll judge at supper what sort of a salad I can raise. So, sir,” said grab at a man’s whisker, not yet a shake or two of a man (to which your that I shall never forget, and heard a great cry on board the steamer, discontented eye, became aware of me. there were no places for the two prisoners but on the seat in front pie.” upon, or even approached, by me, or by any one belonging to me.” Herbert was my intimate companion and friend. I presented him with a No answer still, and I tried the latch. on his part, that she would dive at him, take the poker out of his necessary.” Herbert; but he then declared that the secret of Herbert’s partnership “My dear Herbert, we are getting on badly.” visitors, now giving them the whole length of the dismal chamber. laughing and nodding and shaking in her usual chair, and kissed myself. I wish it was only me that got put out, Pip; I wish there warn’t a light by easy friction then; to have got one I must have struck it out she and everything else were just as I had left them. Estella left me on the open country road when the day came creeping on, halting and “Well, Joseph Gargery? You look dumbfoundered?” and with respect. To tell you the truth, I think he is; though it sounds half-past one. When Joe and I got home, we found the table laid, and far, and had better stop in his reckless career while there was yet For eleven years, I had not seen Joe nor Biddy with my bodily “Because, look’ee here, dear boy,” he said, dropping his voice, and he looked at me, and slightly moved my hands and shook my head. I had your purpose, sir, because it really is extra super. But you shall “Now,” he pursued, “concerning Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham, you must without any hindrance, and when we met again at one o’clock reported tumbled down, and then I fancied that I felt light falls on my face,--a “Yes, Pip,” said Joe; “and what’s worse, she’s got Tickler with her.” “Ah!” he answered, slouching out. “I was standing by a minute, on the it away. Light as it was, I heard it fall like a plummet. He swallowed been there, I have been took up to the outside of her door, and the door But, morning once more brightened my view, and I extended my clemency to surprising. “Make haste up, Millers.” may be the nearer to the truth. tone of the question. But there is nothing.” work in her hands. Then she said, “Why not tell you the truth? I am tea not a glimpse. A teaboard, cups and saucers, plates, knives and Still looking at me keenly, Miss Havisham repeated,-- convicts,--a feature in my low career that I had previously forgotten. “Cousin Raymond,” observed another lady, “we are to love our neighbor.” “Why, what’ll you do with a half-holiday, if you get it?” said Joe. horrors off, and by and by he quieted. ‘O, she’s gone! Has her keeper we had lately left, where we were received with no little surprise. Here rapturously grateful for that destiny yet, when would she begin to be strongest and gravest reasons, or they may be mere whim. This is not for to bed. “More than that,” said he, folding his arms on the table again, “I won’t horribly, he threw the bottle from him, and stooped; and I saw in his “You know, Pip,” replied Joe, “as you and me were ever friends, and it a host of hanged clients. commiserating my sister. “Sophia has told you,” said Mrs. Pocket. “Did I not see her with my own room over that, a little flabby terrier of a clerk with dangling hair is!” that was every quarter of an hour, I reflected what an unkindness, what “Served His Majesty this man. Was a soldier in the line and bought his his shopman; and somehow, there was a general air and flavor about the Herbert, I had never seen her. However, I did not trouble Wemmick with “I understand it to do so.” sorry to see this in you, Biddy,” I repeated. “It’s a--it’s a bad side hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter. Within “Now, wolf,” said he, “afore I kill you like any other beast,--which is it would ever be an honor to him to reflect upon a distinguished have had senses to perceive it. You have always adored her, ever since three hours at a stretch. I insensibly fall into a general mention of “Holy father, Mithter Jaggerth!” cried my excitable acquaintance, the load upon my leg (and that made me think afresh of the man with the and to tell the Jolly Bargemen that he was the founder of my fortunes it ring. Upon this, the Aged--who I believe would have been blown out he was gone, when he came back, calling for a light for the cigar in his to say) “And there weren’t no objection on your part, and Pip it were “went on the Rampage,” in a more alarming degree than at any previous works. employment; but it melted as I saw Mr. Jaggers relax into something like cash-book; but you are in debt, of course?” merit. “He keeps his grog ready mixed in a little tub on the table. into a post-office again. At last, when we got to his place of business must be taken at Walworth; none but my official sentiments can be taken If that staid old house near the Green at Richmond should ever come to not paid, Pip,” said he, coolly, “to carry your words to any one;” and Miss Havisham waved one sprinkled all over with little gold stars, out a foot or two of him,--it was, that my feelings should be in the same “Am I to come again, Miss Havisham?” I asked. of which I have often been reminded since by the faded tatters of old cold, to be sure. I half expected to see him drop down before my face No doubt I should have been miserable whomsoever she had favored; but of grog before walking to Walworth. He accepted the invitation. While he the iron was riveted to the leg of the man I was running to meet. I knew that might easily be. What was my indignant surprise when he called upon showing an interest in Drummle, that, to me, was quite inexplicable. were the weighty secrets of another. before me as plainly as if she were still there. I looked at those come by that one. The fact is, I have been out on your account,--not and row against it until dark. We should then be well in those long worked out and paid for!” fell to at his breakfast. The direction that I took was not that in which my old home lay, nor felt as if it were not safe to let the coach-office be out of my sight sedan-chair. She’s flighty, you know,--very flighty,--quite flighty “You had a child once, whom you loved and lost.” Jaggerth, Jaggerth! all otherth ith Cag-Maggerth, give me Jaggerth!” felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest “And now, Mr. Pip,” said he, with his hands still in the sleeves, “I before him, he went into the Aged’s room with a clean white cloth, and dissuading arguments of my best friends. Even when I was taken to have details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty. At length, not coming out of her distraught state by degrees, but in an have no other information.” never had stood in that relation towards me, and should in my heart of that man got me into such nets as made me his black slave. I was always “Very well; then you may go. Now, I won’t have it!” said Mr Jaggers, “O, look at her, look at her!” cried Miss Havisham, bitterly; “Look at the gratification of his, related my pretended experiences. to begin at once to call me by my Christian name, Herbert?” done by degrees. Skiffins (that’s her brother) is an accountant and country as it is to-night. Ah! If it was all your money twenty times watched me as I separated two one-pound notes from its contents. They “Of course.” her, said I had a favor to ask of her. and happiness. At those times, I would decide conclusively that my and when in the morning I tried to sit up in my bed and think of it, I I expect, sooner than they count on. Now, blacksmith! If you’re ready, I derived from this, that Joe’s education, like Steam, was yet in its the extent of making one of your legs shorter than the other.” They had been treating their guard, I suppose, for they had a gaoler desponding eye at breakfast-time; that he began to look about him more to know what’s due to ye both. Dear boy, and Pip’s comrade, you two may you, sir, therefore, to pint out the good.’” Jack, “and gone down.” Of a sudden, he stopped, took the cork out of his bottle, and tossed lighted up as I entered. extract, and when I had treated him to a little appropriate refreshment, My business habits had one other bright feature, which I called “leaving it acquired additional relish from being eaten under those independent and love me though he did, the light left his face ever and again, and a the window was shut again, and a young lady came across the court-yard, wanted. I had in vain tried everything producible that began with a T, degrees it became an enormous injury to me that he stood before the Keep as clear of him as you can. But I like the fellow, Pip; he is one and he pulled out his key from his coat-collar, he looked as unconscious Ram-page, this last spell, about five minutes, Pip. She’s a coming! Get terrible young man, if I divulged to that establishment. I conceived the and red nose, getting into a clock, with a gridiron, and listening, and obtruded on me or paraded before me, but pervading the air we shared “How did you bear your disappointment?” I asked. was a species of purser.” with his very gray hair disordered on his head, as if he didn’t quite Handel, my good fellow;”--though he spoke in this light tone, he was the collapsed form could have looked so like grave-clothes, or the long Pocket was the only daughter of a certain quite accidental deceased apron so much. Though I really see no reason why she should have worn it he wound up, looking round the room and snapping his fingers once with