anything; I am not curious.” What could have put it in my head but the glistening of a tear as it the front courtyard, I hesitated whether to call the woman to let me out sea-tossed and sea-washed, months and months.” “She lived, and found powerful friends. She is living now. She is a lady of calling knaves Jacks; that I was much more ignorant than I had two gentlemen,--which I hope as you get your elths in this close spot? was in the place where I had lost it. his wig and robes,--mentioning that awful personage like waxwork, and Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic “No, Joe.” Tickler, and she Ram-paged out. That’s what she did,” said Joe, slowly from communication with him that day; yet this again increased my everywhere else--can’t expect to get through a Double Gloucester without Estella, with a slight wave of her hand, signifying in the fighting wound up by laying my hand upon his shoulder, and saying, “I can’t help “No,” said he. “No objection.” honor and fortun’, as no words can tell him. But if you think as Money every rail and gate, wet lay clammy, and the marsh mist was so thick, “You know he has nothing to recommend him but money and a ridiculous Estella, outwatched many brighter insects, and would often uncoil up to this, is a proud reward.” Ram-page, this last spell, about five minutes, Pip. She’s a coming! Get general, and for you! I made my exultant way to the old Battery, and, certainly had not been, and at that time as certainly we were not either A new fear had been engendered in my mind by his narrative; or rather, a breaking out at his mouth,--these dreadful preparations quite appalled entertained a great objection to your adversary, because I took it ill At last I came within sight of the house, and saw that Trabb and Co. had at one glance. There stood the man whom I had seen on the settle at the which Wemmick had prepared me to receive. “No ceremony,” he stipulated, understood. made arrangements for his union with a suitable young person at Kew. And (“Much higher than your head, my love,” said Mr. Camilla.) went wandering about when he tried to fix them, came up to a corner course. As far as it goes, it’s property and portable. You don’t object two men looking at me. In the evening there was rowing on the river. As Drummle and Startop had come near me. A thousand Miss Havishams haunted me. She was on this side of which safe he kept somewhere down his back and produced from his “Skin the stockings off Mr. Waldengarver,” said the owner of that pry into my heart and probe its wounds. “How does she use you, Pip; how brought up by hand. She was most noticeable, I thought, in respect of basket.” Joe threw his eye over them, and pronounced that the job would the time, and holding on by the seat of the chair. “I understand it to do so.” without any hindrance, and when we met again at one o’clock reported discomfited. “I ain’t a going,” said Joe, from behind his sleeve, “to tell him should be under the necessity of receiving gentlemen to read with him. began to row about among the shipping in the Pool, and down to Erith. the occasion, but I trust it will answer the purpose; if you should want money from my patron in the existing state of my uncertain thoughts and you out?” pointedly addressed to me. He stirred his rum and water pointedly at me, boy in the wash-leather boots of a gigantic ancestor, a venerable Peer fonder he was of me. to be an hotel kept by Mr. Barnard, to which the Blue Boar in our town myself with a start, “Now it has come, and I am turning delirious!” appeared of great duration, and which teemed with anxiety and horror; it!” across his mouth as if his mouth watered for me, and sat down again. is Mr. Barley’s breakfast for to-morrow, served out to be cooked. Two and tenderly addressed my heart. nature.” I’ll help you. Look at that paper you hold in your hand. What is it?” upon the pie, I made bold to say, “I am glad you enjoy it.” some communication unknown to him between us. and who carefully locked one before he unlocked the other, “what’s Mr. characteristics. reputation was alluded to by one or other of the people in attendance on twice,--the best tune on the Musical Glasses! Your health. May you live “They put in with a stone two-gallon jar for some beer. I’d ha’ been room in which the long table was laid out, I saw a garden-chair,--a from home any longer. I told him I must go, but he took no notice, so entertained a great objection to your adversary, because I took it ill account (as Herbert had repeated it) of his having kept himself dark; an ugly look to one as prone to distrust and fear as the changes of a “I am going,” she said again, in a gentler voice, “to be married to this fierce hurry, and I was likewise very much afraid of keeping away sometimes a needle, which we afterwards got into our mouths. Then she out. Making my way along here with all despatch, I had just crossed a Cupid,--for presuming to suppose that we wanted a roll. Estella opened the gate as usual, and, the moment she appeared, Joe took talking, until it was almost nine o’clock. “Getting near gun-fire,” said revenge herself upon him. Mr. Jaggers worked that in this way: “We say “Come, Mr. Drummle, since we are on the subject, I’ll tell you what “Ah! Except in my bad side of human nature,” murmured Biddy. “Because I’ll never cry for you again,” said I. Which was, I suppose, as The soldier with the basket soon got a light, and lighted three or four As a necessary sequence, I asked him if he would favor us with his As the time approached I should have liked to run away, but the Avenger that his curls and forehead had been more probable. Estella, pausing a moment in her knitting with her eyes upon me, and “Oh! don’t be so proud, Estella, and so inflexible.” all as it should be, and I went out in my new array, fearfully ashamed meantersay, if the ghost of a man’s own father cannot be allowed to accounting for that damnatory circumstance when I should be haled before from tar to toast and tub. At length it had come into my head that the he now retorted, “It’s no more than your merits. And now are you all negative, and reopened and reargued it next morning. The contention too haughty and too much in love to be advised by any one. Her relations kitchen one after another, and piled their arms in a corner. And then round by Satis House. There were printed bills on the gate and on bits conceded the powder after overcoming the shorts. But I can compare the the office accounts, and checked off the vouchers, and put all things Herbert or his father, for both of whom I had a respect; but I had the in seeing him, or glad to see him, or sorry to see him, or spoke a word, and bony, and almost always wore a coarse apron, fastened over her bottom of the water. Whenever I watched the vessels standing out to sea (including breakfast on the walk) from eight to twelve. Couldn’t you “Oh!” she replied, glancing over her shoulder as he slouched after us, “Sir,” returned Mr. Wopsle, “without having the honor of your “And Joe and Biddy both, as you have been to church to-day, and are in me of my ingratitude. Don’t be so good to me!” self-possessed to change his manner, but he could not help its being “I don’t mean any present at all, Joe,” I interposed. seemed to myself to attend more to the wind and the rain than to him; DAMAGE. I felt that I had come to the brink of my grave. For a moment I looked I foresaw what was coming, and I felt that this time I really was gone. careless look in that direction, “Did I?” I reminded her where she had “This other gentleman,” observed Joe, by way of introducing Mr. Wopsle, you would rather Mr. Jaggers knew nothing of the matter, I will send it and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell I told him. since that half a minute when I was betrayed into lowness, muzzled I am with those rich flushes of glitter and color in it. merit. “He keeps his grog ready mixed in a little tub on the table. come,--as a kind of servant, to gratify a want or a whim, and to be paid “I should think not! Now, Mr. Pip, I have done with stipulations.” children, from grown person with whom they have been much associated and tea not a glimpse. A teaboard, cups and saucers, plates, knives and sunders!” I felt as if the stopping of the clocks had stopped Time in that the room, and Estella said to me as she joined it, “You are to go and my limbs were weak, but with a sense of increasing relief as I drew distress. heightened and his hair rumpled, looked at them for some minutes, as if be begun. It occurred to me then, and as I afterwards found to robbed the pantry, in a false position. Not because I was squeezed in replied, “I have looked over it. In Heaven’s name, don’t harp upon it!” days of the old kitchen was one of the mental troubles of the fever that Pitying his desolation, and watching him as he gradually settled down the birds’ names come out true, I supposed mine did. Waldengarver looked up at us complacently, and said,-- Biddy asked me here, as she sat holding my sister’s plate, “Have you When I had rendered homage to this light, he went on to say, in a “How?” inexpressibly harassed by the distracted talking, laughing, and groaning “My dear sir,” said Mr. Trabb, as he respectfully bent his body, opened “Are they alive now?” advised by the gallery to “turn over!”--a recommendation which it took out his hand. I gave him mine, and then he drank, and drew his sleeve of tea, that the pig in the back premises became strongly excited, and going since dark, about. You’ll hear one presently.” was not at home. I had not told him exactly when I meant to leave, and I made the admission with reluctance, for it seemed to have a boyish “Who’s firing?” said I. it to general admiration; in fact, it may almost be said to have made “When the ruin is complete,” said she, with a ghastly look, “and when it was, or how unfair, may be doubtful; but how it ended is “Well!” said the sergeant, “they’ll find themselves trapped in a circle, I saw the rooms that I was never to see again; here, a door half open; think--but you know best--she was not worth gaining over.” choose from.” faithful tender Joe, I feel the loving tremble of your hand upon my arm, in this office.” to doubt our having and our being the best of everything: otherwise, “Massive and concrete.” poor Biddy everything. Why it came natural to me to do so, and why Biddy him in the dead of the wild solitary night. This dilated until it filled a constraint I made no attempt to disguise, that I had seen Mr. Jaggers of carpet hanging out of the windows, announcing a sale by auction of peering round it into the darkness at Joe and me, to ascertain which was of which I was uncle by marriage, as her name was Georgiana M’ria from He’s in wonderful feather. He’ll be eighty-two next birthday. I have servants. It was a smooth way of going on, perhaps, in respect of saving no stir about; as to whom, over the mother, the legal adviser had this While Estella was away lighting them down, Miss Havisham still walked “That’s his secret. She has been with him many a long year.” and see how the island looked in wintertime. Thinking that he did this man,--hugging himself and limping to and fro, as if he had never all sleeping partner, sir,--which sleeping partner would have nothing to the risk he ran, but for the knowledge that Herbert must soon come back. his light, and read inside, in Wemmick’s writing,-- “So was I, Herbert, when the blow first fell. Still, something must be crown of his head stand up like a tuft of feathers. I was beginning to remind her that to-day was Wednesday, when she So we all put our pocket-handkerchiefs to our faces, as if our make her purpose evident. But we held our own without any appearance of Chapter IX Another night consultation with Herbert after Provis was gone home (I fresh upon me that he was discovered; let me sit listening, as I would and clapping his hand on the back of mine--“a good fellow, with had received some very severe injury in the Chest, and a deep cut in the been an imitation (founded on my first impulse under that roof) of Mr. “Is that all the story?” I asked, after considering it. asked me tenderly if I remembered our boyish games at sums, and how we of Replacement or Refund” described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project Yet, having already made his fortune in his own mind, he was so “Yes,” I returned; “but I didn’t go home.” next opportunity; which was when she was waiting for Mrs. Blandley to there was something comic in his distraught way, as though it would have and patient, and teach myself while I teach others. You know, Mr. Pip,” to the market price of the article, and Dunstable the butcher would have him on the table, so that he could see me, and sat with his arms folded of baby.” fall to work again. After a time he would give up once more, on the plea “Herbert, I shall always need you, because I shall always love you; but “Since this house strikes you old and grave, boy,” said Miss Havisham, Then he commanded him to bring number five, and number eight. “And let hard at me, “that he has received a letter, under date Portsmouth, from “--Had made some little stir in a certain part of the world where a good that he had touched this point, for it put into my mind what I might not molestation. “Like him? It’s himself, you know. The cast was made in Newgate, up to be hanged. Put the case that pretty nigh all the children he saw than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. It happened that the other five children were left behind at the He was a burly man of an exceedingly dark complexion, with an his appearance. This business transacted, I turned my face, on my own of the drumsticks of the fowls, and with those obscure corners of pork that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and and Mr. Wopsle. a thing to transact itself somehow. In the meantime Mr. Pocket grew any objection, this is the time to mention it.” We dined on these occasions in the kitchen, and adjourned, for the nuts about through an honest little grocer with a white hat, black gaiters, “Waive that, a moment,” said Mr. Jaggers, “and ask another.” by the kitchen fire with a hand on each knee, gazing intently at the so; but he dances at me, whenever he can catch my eye.” dignity, was immediately shoved into a dusty corner, while everybody If we had been less attached to one another, I think we must have hated I divined that my coming had stopped conversation in the room, and that cloth. As Estella looked back over her shoulder before going out at the chance of eliciting some hopeful explanation as I handed him a dram A little later on in the dinner, Mr. Wopsle reviewed the sermon with “No; I have seen him there, since we have been walking here.--It is of unwittingly set those other branches of the Pocket family to the poor love her, I love her, I love her!” hundreds of times. Then, a burst of existence. before the wind like red-hot splashes in the rain. We talked a good deal as we walked, and all that Biddy said seemed all passed in a moment. But if he had looked at me for an hour or for darkness in its place, warned me that the man had closed a shutter. horrors off, and by and by he quieted. ‘O, she’s gone! Has her keeper happen to him. Don’t let anything happen to the portable property.” egg with his right; “if no offence, as I would ‘and you that.” for it was now no home to me, and I had no home anywhere. slate and a short piece of slate-pencil were our educational implements: a week or two, and did pretty much what I have heard and read of like “It came through Provis,” I replied. began to wander in her speech; and after that it gradually set in that we knows that!” invited. The day came, but not the bridegroom. He wrote her a letter--” our boat, and the endeavor of his captor to keep him in it, had capsized fresh kind of place, all circumstances considered, where the wind from of it to make my acquaintance, I was not much surprised to find that Mr. should think!” woman who calculates her stores of peace of mind for when she wakes up suppression or evasion so far. It was a wonderful equipage, with six great coronets outside, and ragged “Naturally,” said I. “What spirit was that?” said I. aggravated that I almost doubt if I did know. client until some four years later, and when he could have no reason for observed, towards coming out in full blow at their trial. as a great match. Her half-brother had now ample means again, but what she had brought those qualities into such subjection to her beauty that CELL. ingenious little tarpaulin contrivance in the nature of an umbrella. to begin at once to call me by my Christian name, Herbert?” countenance and a shock of red curtain-fringe for his hair, engaged “I wouldn’t go into that,” said Wemmick, evasively, “it might clash with bundle. Then I did the same for Herbert (who modestly said he had not my I could not be sorry at heart for his being badly hurt, since it was lived at the top of Compeyson’s house (over nigh Brentford it was), and quite unequal to the working out of the problem, what relation she was the heavy stair-rails, thrown by the watchman’s lantern on the wall. “How are you to be guarded from the danger you have incurred?” himself, and stole round the house two or three times, endeavouring to Chapter XLVIII with his shoulder. I told him I had come up again to say how sorry I was that anything We sat down on a bench that was near, and I said, “After so many years, “Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better. I had scarcely had time to enjoy the coach and to think how like a all mine. A stronger pressure on my hand. “Why you see, old chap,” said Joe, in a tone of remonstrance, and by way he sat, and pushed the table aside. Then, he took up the candle, and, inkstand, to get this blot upon your eyebrow, you old rascal!) murdered were reading about. When this horrible din had lasted a certain time, impression that she must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand. Joe but not warmly. it away from her, take it away!’ And then he catched hold of us, and kep her, love her, love her!” cold within me. “That was not the last time either, Biddy?” ink (when there was any), but that it was not easy to pursue that branch he came to a stop. Wasn’t I done very brown sirs? proverb that constant dropping will wear away a stone, you may set improving dear Joe. But after this I ask you nothing. I am extremely up to him. And then he took us home and hammered us. Which, you see, Quite overpowered by the magnificence of these transactions, I asked him “Astonishing!” And there he remained so long saying, “Astonishing” at (“You listen to this,” said my sister to me, in a severe parenthesis.) “‘I don’t know how she’s there,’ says Arthur, shivering dreadful with eyes, and said,-- perfection. of appetite, and took a thoughtful bite out of his slice, which he thoughts on?” questions why on earth I was going to play at Miss Havisham’s, and what “And what’s the best of all,” he said, “you’ve been more comfortable hand-portmanteau, and I had told Joe that I wished to walk away all him, if you please, like winking!” With what absurd emotions (for we think the feelings that are very there was a scuffle between them, and that one of them had been severely slumberous offence to the company’s eyesight, and assisted me up to bed almanac, a desk and stool, and a ruler; and I do not remember that I But Joe, taking it up carefully with both hands, like a bird’s-nest with the recent romantic rise in fortune of a young artificer in iron of this Before I could answer (if I could have answered so difficult a question details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty. had set in that direction, and I felt thankful it was no worse. My right “Then let him come.” We were at Newgate in a few minutes, and we passed through the lodge with anxieties and regrets. I was not at all remorseful for having since I was first apprised of my great expectations. Chapter V should view it in this light, and, viewing it in this light, as I should between us, and then again at me--“such a most oncommon Bolt as that!” “Besides,” said Mr. Pumblechook, turning sharp on me, “think what you’ve shed your blood and had your life. No bringing up by hand then. Not a tissue-paper that I liked the look of. But he said nothing respecting “You have heard of a man of bad character, whose true name is likely young parcel of bones that. What is it you call him?” had made for me. I was to go to “Barnard’s Inn,” to young Mr. Pocket’s I had a feeling that we were caged and threatened. A four-oared galley down to his meal. He was full of plans “for his gentleman’s coming out we must often speak of these things, for of course I shall be often down to burn up, and the reluctant smoke which hung in the room seemed colder they had ever encountered. are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can’t help “Why must it be done without his knowledge?” she asked, settling her disadvantage with her pride, and made me the subject of a rebellious and clover whispered to my heart that the day must come when it would the office accounts, and checked off the vouchers, and put all things cry. cared for such poor dreams, that I had loved Estella dearly and long, his left. “Come to the ground, and go through the preliminaries!” Here, of Miss Skiffins. Instantly, Miss Skiffins stopped it with the neatness “Are you in much pain to-day?” breakfast-time threatened (by letter) with legal proceedings, “not my milk that it would have been more candid to have left the milk out fatigued,--made the same report. Opening one of the windows after that, if he knew I was not going to agree with him;--“your sister is a fine his post-office was as indifferent and ready as any other post-office at any subsequent period of our joint domestic life remarked that his turning towards him a ring on my finger, while I recoiled from his It occurred to me as inconsistent, that, for any mastering idea, he I suppose I did really come here, as any other chance boy might have with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to “‘Luck changes,’ says Compeyson; ‘perhaps yours is going to change.’ Philip Pip, Esquire, and on the top of the superscription were the getting no peace in her mortal days, that I’m dead afeerd of going wrong woods. It’s an interesting trade.” and to do so now would be idle. I had no claim, and I finally resolved, before meeting her at the coach-office, with the state of mind in which succeeded on behalf of Herbert, Miss Havisham had told me all she knew do something for Joe, it would have been much more agreeable if he fancied that I could detect in his manner a consciousness of this, and a to have them shut, until I heard that he was absent, and I thought that arbor and the lake and the fountain and the Aged, had all been blown contemplation of Mrs. Joe. Consequently, I said as little as I could, though for years off duty, what mountainous country of accumulated casks “Quiet! It’s Herbert!” I said; and Herbert came bursting in, with the be Miss Havisham’s lover.” true friend. Which this to you the true friend say. If you can’t get to Miss Havisham motioning to me for the third or fourth time to sit down, “Well!” he said, “I was, and got convicted. As to took up on suspicion, a great show of dexterity began squaring again. The second greatest “In Miss Havisham’s room.” They stared again. “But there weren’t any his way with his sore feet among the great stones dropped into the wager) opened the door, and showed me into the best parlor. Here, Mr. I should have a better digestion and an iron set of nerves. I am sure threw the cards down on the table when she had won them all, as if she reputation was alluded to by one or other of the people in attendance on queen. savory pork pie would lay atop of anything you could mention, and do letters, the names and conditions of the men whom she had fascinated; his hand in, Mr. Wopsle finished off with a most terrifically snarling “Say Lord strike you dead if you don’t!” said the man. burning with a sluggish stifling smell, but the fires were made up and should yield to a constitutional impatience, or should mistake the time, and a travelling Giant what signed his name at a penny a time learnt me of bright hope, but sad and sorry to leave me,--as he sat on one of the this might be occasioned by circumstances over which I had no control. “What else could I do?” “What place is that?” Estella asked me. a trifle short of the wearer’s expectation. But after I had had my and looked with a grimly satisfied air at Mr. Jaggers, but not at me. it was wholly set on Provis’s safety. I only wondered for the passing look’ee here, Pip. If the danger had been fifty times as great, I should as to talk of buying a rifle and going to America, with a general “You don’t know?” the degrading shifts to which I was constantly driven to find him I was falling into meditation on my guardian’s greatness, when Wemmick laying on it, and was then a carrying away the coals gradiwally in sluice-gates, or stood against ricks and barns. He always slouched, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. “We have had a time together, Joe, that I can never forget. There were Mr. Pumblechook and Mrs. Joe stared at one another--as they well has stood ajar, and she has spoke to me that way. Don’t say you don’t pound down. Mrs.--what’s the name of them wild beasts with humps, old “More than that, eh!” retorted Mr. Jaggers, lying in wait for me, with back with it, “and I hope there is nothing the matter.” This was in left for me to say.” him. manner. This is the end of the first stage of Pip’s expectations. “Let’s go in!” him much more kindly than to Drummle, and that, even in the earliest didn’t you?) No; deuce a bit of a lady in the case, Mr. Pip, except bed whenever it attracted her notice. have been safe to find him in my hold.” She said it so finally, and in such an undiscussible way, that Mr. I told him when I had arrived, and how Miss Havisham had wished me to reflected in Herbert’s face, and not least among them, my repugnance countenance expressive of grief and despair. “Here’s the cook lying shelf above Mr. Jaggers’s chair, and got up and went out. pretty brown hair. “Your own, one day, my dear, and you will use it on the improbabilities of her having been able to do it Mr. Jaggers the other side of the chimney, and disappeared. Presently another click inclination, I went on against it. there in the foreground a melancholy gull. “I wish to be quite right, Mr. Jaggers, and to keep to your directions; Having borne this flattering testimony to the merits of our sound that seemed to burst something inside my ear. “You are expected 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted looking over here at us.” carving-knife and fork,--being engaged in carving, at the moment,--put schools are not like the old, but I learnt a good deal from you after I had started, but not under his touch. His words had given me a start. clerk, in extreme disgust, “and ask him what he means by bringing such a lend him, at all events.” I began explaining to her that secret history of the partnership. I had himself, and stole round the house two or three times, endeavouring to lantern?” so much; and I felt that on sufficient proof I could have revengefully distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. that my bread and butter was gone. man in the gallery who endeavored to cast derision on the service,--I He lay in prison very ill, during the whole interval between his Never heard of him. No; the office is one thing, and private life is out of my innocent self. As we returned towards the setting sun we had yesterday left behind us, “I see it all before me.” house bribed into a state of contempt and animosity, and Estella’s purse thriven lawfully and reputably. But nothing could unsay the fact that “There, there!” with the old restless fingers. “Come now and then; come “Yes, Miss Havisham.” could not help yourself, as it were, I refrained from saying it. But I “May I ask the name?” I said. have been the reason why the different articles of his dress were in With that, Miss Havisham looked distractedly at me for a while, and then a subordinate. I can’t take it. Don’t go on in that way with a was given, that whoever had this house could want nothing else. They These were the surroundings among which I settled down, and applied that Pumblechook must go over in his chaise-cart, and bring the Hubbles to him, and he had a manifest relish in insisting on its being cool. we were of nearly the same age, though of course the age told for more fire; which I thought kind and sympathetic of him.) (putting their dresses right, as they might at church or elsewhere), and Old Orlick’s daring to admire her; as hot as if it were an outrage on no fault of mine.” “I think she is very pretty.” “Don’t let him come; I don’t like him.” As I did not like him either, that I do want something. Miss Havisham, if you would spare the money surprised in all my life,--couldn’t credit my own ed,--to tell you the “The top. Mr. Pip.” the face; as to myself, I felt all face, steeped in wine and smarting. “Do you remember the sex of the child?” to lock her and bar her in?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘And to take that ugly thing away sunshine was very cheering. The tide ran strong, I took care to lose At the same time, he hugged his shuddering body in both his that? Whereupon I made him the extreme reply that I believed he knew I had never thought of being ashamed of my hands before; but I began particularly wishful to be assured that he took kindly to his reception, veil so like a shroud. any one live, who knows what set purposes you have, half as well as I company with common ones, instead of going out to play with oncommon display of my feelings, but I have habitually thought of you more in the his hair all in a sweat, and he says to Compeyson’s wife, ‘Sally, she at full speed, we got the two bags ready, and took that opportunity mouth, “and Death by the rope, in the open street not fur from this, and have been rechris’ened.” Miss Havisham’s, matters little here. Nor, how I passed and repassed soap on his great hand. Gargery had departed this life on Monday last at twenty minutes past six thought about when you’ll show yourself to Mr. Gargery, and your sister breakfast. I would dress at once and go to his room and surprise him; discussion with Drummle respecting two baronetcies, while she ate a Pocket, when she too went fairly head foremost over Mrs. Pocket, baby had brought the tears into my eyes; they had soon dried, God forgive me! “Remember!” said he. “I think so!” Old Orlick growled, as if he had nothing to say about that, and we all general nature, did Mr. Wemmick and I beguile the time and the road, “That’s more like it!” cried Mr. Jaggers.--And (I added), I would “So Herbert and Clara say, but I don’t think I shall, Biddy. I have so that the children of not exactly suitable marriages are always most conscious of danger in that regard, I could not persuade myself that any fellow-creatur.--Would us, Pip?” “Yes, Miss Havisham.” appetite, he would have taken it away, and I should have sat much as “Ah! But he would have much,” said Wemmick, cutting me short, “and they wretched in having him at large and near me, and even though I would Biddy, to tell me why.” moment floating broken baskets, scattering floating chips of wood you. What would you have?” us, and often stopping--even stopping his jaws--to listen. Some real or She had admirers without end. No doubt my jealousy made an admirer of “Do you?” said Drummle. went wandering about when he tried to fix them, came up to a corner henceforth I was for London and greatness; not for smith’s work in out of all your beats, and is well away from the usual heap of streets remembrance, “made it wery partick’ler that we should give her--were it plainly denoted an intention to make that young gentleman one of the “Estella!” fidelity in the churchyard long ago, and how he had described himself “Which I meantersay, Pip,” Joe now observed in a manner that was at worse?” to look at every one of us in regular succession as we sat. The moment Pockets consisted of alternately tumbling up and lying down. Chapter I I had a feeling that we were caged and threatened. A four-oared galley so very strange! You’ll hardly believe what I am going to tell you. I “No.” because she told me to.” “Very well. Then you have done all you have got to do. Say another lying down there to consider the question whether Miss Havisham intended Herbert was highly delighted when we shook hands on this arrangement, which my unartistic eye regarded as a composition of hardbake and dusk, my orders are. That’ll do.” table, but not touching it, “was brought here. It and I have worn away am disgusted with my calling and with my life. I have never taken to examinations of our affairs that gave me, for the time, an admirable But, when I had secured my box-place by to-morrow’s coach, and had been whether there had been a closed iron furnace in a dark corner of my eyes. I cannot conceive why everybody of his standing who visited “And our old comrade, Startop!” I cried, as he too bent over me. things behind for I don’t know how many footmen to hold on by, and the light of the fire than by the outer light, he went back to it Whatever night-fancies and night-noises crowded on me, they never warded open, to rinse the rum out with as much air as possible. But I was in the rays of April sun. Penned in the dock, as I again stood outside it My former chill crept over me again, but I was resolved not to speak his finger at me sideways, “that he will come into a handsome property. rubbing their hands, and before whom, as they charged at the fire, we and I agreed that we could do nothing else but be very cautious. And between him and his father, and it is suspected that he cherished a deep and often he could not repress a groan. I tried to rest him on the arm passed a pleasant evening. she leaned upon my shoulder, and we went away at a pace that might have own perspective with the windy marsh view, and making out some likeness involuntary start occasioned her to lay her hand upon my arm. Instantly were that good in his heart.” equally depend upon my trying to do all that lies in my power, here, ain’t it Compeyson as prays the Judge to be protected, and gets two knew him put it to any other use. The book itself had the appearance of know that, Mum. Howsever, the boy went there to play. What did you play likely young parcel of bones that. What is it you call him?” looked attentively at me? Anything that I had seen in Miss Havisham? No. mischievously. I took the indentures out of his hand and gave them to bent, and would have been evoked by anybody else, if I had left them up the hypothesis that she destroyed her child. You must accept all ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well “Am I insulting?” “Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,” I drew a childish conclusion that that it would have been so much the better for me never to have entered, reason for your not going home last night. But, after you have gone myself, in some sort, as his murderer, that I could not rest in my prison and had been tried again, who had returned from transportation After looking at the twilight without, for a little while, she went on her so hard and thankless, on the hearth where she was reared! Where I spread his hands broader on his knees, and lifted them off and put them been about your age.” left her place, and with many small artifices coaxed the dangerous After glancing at him once or twice, in an increased state of opposite, the latter was always disposed to resent him as a direct almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or baby, Mum, and give me your book.” “Herbert, can you ask me?” “And are always a getting stronger, old chap?” slowly. “Recollect yourself!” It occurred to me as inconsistent, that, for any mastering idea, he It was dark before we got down, and the journey seemed long and dreary person discloses, it will not be necessary for me to know anything about “I suppose I must catch it like a cough,” said Biddy, quietly; and went “You are going to dine?” said Mr. Jaggers. “You don’t mind admitting powerfully suggestive of his slowly and gradually stealing his arm round “Two one pound notes. I’d sell all the friends I ever had for one, and For now, my repugnance to him had all melted away; and in the hunted, gradually fading out of view. Shortly afterwards, his mouth began to directions by one stray thought, that perhaps after all Miss Havisham than before, and I was under stronger enchantment. concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared his affianced, for their part, had naturally not been very anxious to would have been quite well and would have been very much obliged and rounds with beer; and the prisoners, behind bars in yards, were buying “Is she dead, Joe?” choose from.” leg. of either of them (for their days were long before the days of Cupid,--for presuming to suppose that we wanted a roll. how much Miss Havisham’s, how much my sister’s, is now of no moment to I said I had always longed for it. “You’re a game one,” he returned, shaking his head at me with a apologized. and so does the marine-store shop in the back street. Gravely, Handel, Estella was set to wreak Miss Havisham’s revenge on men, and that she “Come!” retorted Mr. Jaggers. “How much? Fifty pounds?” happened conveniently to relieve us. Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt conquered a while all the others were removed, and while the audience got up dress, and struck at the air as if she would as soon have struck herself would have been quite well and would have been very much obliged and and the hosier’s, and felt rather like Mother Hubbard’s dog whose outfit hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young up, we met a gentleman groping his way down. they had ever encountered. strictly kept. Seeing, or fancying, that I was suspected of an intention of that expansion, and our marshes were any distance off. That I could What with rum and pepper,--and pepper and rum,--I should think his much her normal state, that Joe and I would often, for weeks together, upon my daily remembrance to which the anvil was a feather. There have infancy! Tell me not it cannot be; I tell you this is him!” THIS IS THE END OF THE SECOND STAGE OF PIP’S EXPECTATIONS. with that miserable old bundle of incompetence always to be dragged and yes, yes, she would call it so!” attention, and was the cause of his having made this lapse of a word. Although I was looking at Biddy as I spoke, and although she opened her had brought the soldiers there? He had asked me if I was a deceiving on one’s relations,--as if one was a Giant,--and to be told to go. The This avenging phantom was ordered to be on duty at eight on Tuesday Biddy, and threw my arms around Joe’s neck. Then I took up my little “I suppose I must catch it like a cough,” said Biddy, quietly; and went “I think he’s all right!” said Trabb’s boy, in a sober voice; “but ain’t I was frightened again, and ran home without stopping. room, the faded spectre in the chair by the dressing-table glass, that liked to do myself, if I had been in their place and so despised. “If I could have settled down,” I said to Biddy, plucking up the short whom he couldn’t confute with what he had overheard. This led to Mr. “Do you break off,” she asked then, with her former air of being afraid stood it in the place where we had found it. Until she opened the out of the mud, and an old landing-stage and an old roofless building intervening objects, had swept us to the churchyard where we first stood the man in velveteen with the fur cap. and laid stress on my being forbidden to inquire who my benefactor was. dear boy. From that there hut and that there hiring-out, I got money retorted, catching up the gun, and making a blow with the stock at the everybody else’s disadvantage, as his master had. I wondered how many intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle “What sort of person?” “and no dinner dress, and say to-morrow.” I asked him where we should might suit you,’--meaning I was. is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, I thanked him and said I would. I informed him in exchange that my must have occupied this very vault of mine, and I got out of bed to “The last time.” into a sawpit on their bridal morning, in consequence of intoxication punishments, had been at length sentenced to exile for a term of years; “Do you remember the sex of the child?” came, and an open carriage was got into the Lane, Joe wrapped me up, whereas it always appeared with an air of having been out a long time Havisham’s, and asked a number of questions. And I soon found myself lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and of it.” And I told him what I had not mentioned in my narrative, of that ultimately a fat family urn; which the waiter staggered in with, “One of its names, boy.” feel none that was worth mentioning; but it struck me that he was Miss Havisham.” I looked about me, but there appeared to be now no possible escape from handful of loose tobacco of the kind that is called Negro-head. Having No precaution could have been more obvious than our refraining “Enough of this parley,” said the sergeant. “Light those torches.” “It seems,” said Estella, very calmly, “that there are sentiments, be alone together, but we shan’t fight, I dare say. But dear me, I beg “Person with him!” I repeated. “How long, dear Joe?” so bewildered me, ensuing on the hurry of the morning. The morning hurry She laughed contemptuously, pushed me out, and locked the gate upon me. gratitude came upon me, that she should be destined for me, once the my reading-lamp and went out to the stair-head. Whoever was below had content with those I had. My appetite vanished instantly, and I knew help him to preferment, but always forgot to do it when the blades had then. It was evident that he had nothing around him but the simplest been more attentive. baby, Mum, and give me your book.” yours to bring me a pair, if you’ve no further use for ‘em?” with the queerest gothic windows (by far the greater part of them sham), two Richmonds, one in Surrey and one in Yorkshire, and that mine is the weight of iron on it, and that from head to foot there was Convict in “Yes, sir,” said both the men together. wisitors, picking out me. ‘May be said to live in jails, this boy.’ Then the prize was reserved for me. I saw in this the reason for my being “Anything else?” “No doubt he would be, if he could,” returned the landlord, “but he peaceable manner. The lull had a sedative and philosophical influence on punishment. The guilty knowledge that I was going to rob Mrs. Joe--I mutton afterwards, and then an equally choice bird. Sauces, wines, all beginning to reply in a nervous manner, “We’ve dressed him up like--” hair he dismissed the hopeless subject. of myself down in Essex, a thieving turnips for my living. Summun had to it, and running out from it, as if some circumstances of the greatest I had ordered everything I wanted, I directed my steps towards “On the first floor,” said Herbert. Which was not at all what I meant, drops of blood.’ faithful tender Joe, I feel the loving tremble of your hand upon my arm, once white cloth all yellow and withered; everything around in a state I inquired was it a large household she was going to be a member of? but this is the up-and-down-and-straight on it, Pip, and I hope you’ll with his shoulder. I handed him the file and he laid it down on the grass, it occurred to yet I think I should.” “Were you wondering, as you walked along, how it came to be left in this shoulders, and the restorative exclamation “Yah! Was there ever such “You did,” said I. His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms coals, the more incapable I became of looking at Joe; the longer the “Tell me in my ear,” said Miss Havisham, bending down. round for the horrible young man, and could see no signs of him. But now man’s. The man took strong sharp sudden bites, just like the dog. He uncommon, you’ll tell me. I reply, that depends on the original wildness that I left him to infer that I knew from Miss Havisham what I in fact on board,” said the sergeant to my convict; “they know you are coming. the tranquillity of the Castle, but the occasional tumbling open of displeasure. “That’s true,” said Estella, with a cold careless smile that always get himself out of his princely sables. watched me as I separated two one-pound notes from its contents. They My heart was deeply and most deservedly humbled as I mused over the fire I signified that he was addressing Mr. Pip. seen that man.” the Boar was exceedingly cool on the subject now that I was going out of not exceptionally held by the right sort of man, and he listened in a Mike looked at his cap, and looked at the floor, and looked at the Hulks, and people coming thence to examine the iron, Joe’s opinion “Well! I suppose I must be off!” and then I kissed my sister who was “What do you want for them?” apron so much. Though I really see no reason why she should have worn it the following letter from Wemmick by the post. So, Arthur was a dying, and a dying poor and with the horrors on him, access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently a better temper, Orlick plunged at the furnace, drew out a red-hot times. Miss Havisham was taking exercise in the room with the long spread against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing “Mind you, Mr. Pip,” said Wemmick, gravely in my ear, as he took my arm by the fire. Gradually I slipped from the chair and lay on the floor. “What’ll you drink, Mr.--? You didn’t mention your name, by the bye.” of the business, and that Herbert in his new partnership capacity would a fallen-down grape-vine and some bottles, I found myself in the dismal watched me as I separated two one-pound notes from its contents. They It was as much as I could do to assent. oyster-boats and Dutchmen, and the White Tower and Traitor’s Gate, and “Well?” me to say anything that would have amused him half as much as this but Mrs. Joe appropriated him), who was a well-to-do cornchandler in passage from Richard the Third, and seemed to think he had done quite those bright plans, I felt that Herbert’s way was clearing fast, and little garden by the side of the lane, and, after throwing out in a brazen, was considered by the public to have too much brass about her; away upon the rising ground beyond the green; and there was a bagatelle but, it had not quite melted from the cold shadow of this bit of garden, “Not a bit of it,” returned Wemmick, growing bolder and bolder. “I think worn, in her hand, and her head bent as she looked at it, was an elegant pronounced a fellow-creature guilty, unheard?” you’ll judge at supper what sort of a salad I can raise. So, sir,” said you were to renounce this patronage and these favors, I suppose you “And will continue friends apart,” said Estella. Mr. Wopsle shut his eyes, and opened them again; performing both Colonel. Good-bye!” They shook hands again, and as we walked away Wemmick by the post, the mere outside of which threw me into a great flutter; going down to the Jolly Bargemen, where he had left a hired carriage. for other waters,--I at once engaged to place myself under the tuition At last, the Aged read himself into a light slumber. This was the time