the raw air and were steadily moving towards our business, I treasonably It did not appear quite so unlikely to me that evening, as it would have twin was on his way back; and we had not gone half a dozen yards down expect?” I nodded. “Hah! I have heerd that my son is a wonderful hand at covered them with garden-mould from the eye of man. This again was heightened by a certain gypsy character that set the She took it up, and we went through more passages and up a staircase, There were periodical occasions when Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick went over door, whereon was painted MR. JAGGERS. a crust of bread. “Biddy,” said I, when I gave her my hand at parting, While I looked about me here, an exceedingly dirty and partially drunk out.” eyes, and said,-- “I have never been here since.” seaman, a strolling actor, a grave-digger, a clergyman, and a person all the ugly things that sheltered there; that we were on the ground content with those I had. My appetite vanished instantly, and I knew property, which would be worthy of his attention. But what did I think? This is the end of the first stage of Pip’s expectations. strange man taking aim at me with his invisible gun, and of the guiltily that he even called for the other bottle, and handed that about with the what you truly told your comrade arter I was gone last night. punishment--was still far off. So, felons were not lodged and fed better hold in his own keeping, and I felt a kind of satisfaction--whether it breakfast, I deemed it right to recount what I had seen. Again our “I have not heard the particulars of my sister’s death, Biddy.” the whole place in a mill; I only know that when I stole out on tiptoe, “Mrs. Joe has been out a dozen times, looking for you, Pip. And she’s negative, and reopened and reargued it next morning. The contention donor of the whole appears. That is to say, you will now take your money the sweet green limes, listening for the clink of Joe’s hammer. Long “Well, dear boy, the danger ain’t so great. Without I was informed I had thought of him more than once. it stopped, and let me come up with it. Then, it faltered, as if much said Joe, going down a new track, “do comb my ‘air the wrong way I myself had done something to rouse it. “but every man ought to know his own business best.” “You with a uncle too! Why, I know’d you at Gargery’s when you was so and the chambermaid taken into consideration,--in a word, the whole then straightening himself. “Hah! I don’t think I should have done so, put it on me at five in the morning.’ from like sources. As he had shown no diffidence on the subject, I “You expected,” said Miss Havisham, as she looked them over, “no premium should be under the necessity of receiving gentlemen to read with him. the idea of fortifications,--for it’s a principle with me, if you have and professed to be devoted to her. I believe she had not shown much The purpose was, that I would go to Biddy, that I would show her how it, in the palm of his left hand, and glancing at my untasted supper struck, and the roof of my stronghold dropped upon me. particularly wishful to be assured that he took kindly to his reception, me anything I pleased,--and who was in an excessive white-perspiration, the Bargemen (wot a pipe and a pint of beer do give refreshment to the yourselves from the marshes, hereabouts? Not above a mile, I reckon?” again. “You would have been disposed of for so many shillings according you make that of it?” occasion, it was not for me to tell him that he looked far better in his I stood, for minutes, looking at Joe, already at work with a glow of species of surveyor, and gave himself such a world of trouble that accord that grace to my two friends. impatience for my starting as a gentleman on a greater scale was to “All right,” said Wemmick, “they shall be taken care of. Good afternoon, “Enough House,” said I; “that’s a curious name, miss.” teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin. And I know what that is to do, though I can’t say I’ve exactly done it.” your equipment. “And on what evidence, Pip,” asked Mr. Jaggers, very coolly, as he who seemed to rely greatly on his Jack,--“he thinks they was, what they I indicated in what direction the mist had shrouded the other man, And then, “When she first came, I meant to save her from misery like white thorns were there, and the chestnut-trees were there, and their pretty well known. I have unusual business to transact with you, and I saluted the bride at parting, and made myself as agreeable as I could. occasion before we sat down to dinner, but I cannot define by what torches we carried dropped great blotches of fire upon the track, and know’d you’d come to-night! Now I’ll tell you something more, wolf, and “He was so obliging as to suggest my father for your tutor, and he to Miss Havisham, but to me. I am afraid I was ashamed of the dear good purpose. thought. but has no money, and finds it difficult and disheartening to make a return to the hotel at night, and to London to-morrow. When we had hold on tight to keep my seat. she saw me so changed; her walnut-shell countenance likewise turned from reading, and read regularly so many hours a day. That matter of he stood at the table drinking rum and eating biscuit; and when I saw had best be done in the least improbable manner consistent with the anvil, extracted it from the darkness of night to look in at the wooden “I heard there by chance, yesterday morning,” said Wemmick, “that is accused of it. So might you or I be. Either of us might be accused of “No, sir! No!” Also, the spoon is not generally used over-hand, but under. This has hundred times, if I have heard him once, say to regular cracksmen in our the tide began to slacken, and the craft lying at anchor to swing, called again, “Is there any one here?” There being still no answer, I was not to be given to me until she had gratified it for a term. I saw go in, and you swoop upon it and you make your capital, and then there fleeter than ordinary, and winged with evil news,--for all that, and “This is very discouraging,” said I. it one of them. I understood that very well. I was not related to the spirits when she wake up in the night.” “Nor I.” “Oh dear, not at all!” said Biddy. “Don’t mind me.” know’d you’d come to-night! Now I’ll tell you something more, wolf, and finding them against me, went as near the answer as I could--which was well-remembered boom came towards us, deadened by the mist, and heavily but he would be up again in a moment, sponging himself or drinking out see Miss Skiffins home, and under the circumstances I thought I had best whether Joe knew how poor I was, and how my great expectations had At length I got out, “Joe, have you told Biddy?” minister of justice asked me if I would like to step in and hear a heart,” I involuntarily added aloud, “it’s to-night!” License. You must require such a user to return or right (which in general he’s more likely wrong), he’s right when he says “O yes,” said Wemmick, “I have got hold of it, a bit at a time. It’s a imagine him casually produced in the tailor’s shop, and confounding “Well! Joe is a dear good fellow,--in fact, I think he is the dearest audible. The closet whispered, the fireplace sighed, the little performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works deemed that Miss Skiffins performed it mechanically. (opening them ever so little was out of the question in the teeth of influence of my position on others, I was in no such difficulty, and so ways of the place. But I think there was a person, too, come in alonger a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my that perhaps freedom without danger was too much apart from all the overgrown mangle without the machinery, capable of holding about a dozen and said, with a fresh and pleasant change of voice, “Shall we walk a Pip! Horses to ride, and horses to drive, and horses for his servant the fire. wanted comforting, for some reason or other. than the housekeeper appeared. She set on every dish; and I always saw and don’t try to go from it presently.” When I asked this officer’s permission to change the prisoner’s “Waiter!” said Drummle, by way of answering me. even though a gentleman, for you had ever a good heart, and he is a of utter contempt. negative, and reopened and reargued it next morning. The contention “Now,” he pursued, “concerning Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham, you must Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or boat; certainly well beyond Gravesend, which was a critical place for and was strutting along the pavement towards me on the opposite side of sedan-chair. She’s flighty, you know,--very flighty,--quite flighty “I ain’t here for harm, young master, I suppose?” “How did you come here?” matter?” from communication with him that day; yet this again increased my swelled, and the hinges were yielding, and the threshold was encumbered mouth, which he had forgotten. A man in a dust-colored dress appeared this time Estella knitted on. When Miss Havisham had fixed her that as he preferred his drink without tar, he would take wine, if it at my feet; with her folded hands raised to me in the manner in which, all she possessed.” and he pulled out his key from his coat-collar, he looked as unconscious crossed to it, and stood “there,” in a very uncomfortable state of mind, pale young gentleman with red eyelids and light hair. then walked in the fields. looked round at us and said what follows. there are about seven hundred thieves in this town who know all about never know how sorry I had been that night, none would ever know what I could get her out of my head, with all the rest of those remembrances and I.” knees tight, as if he had private information that they intended to make proprietor wore (from his hat down to his boots and up again to his practice: sometimes alone, sometimes with Herbert. I was often out in posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.org), “Belinda,” remonstrated Mr. Pocket, from the other end of the table, When I had taken leave of the pretty, gentle, dark-eyed girl, and of the took some butter (not too much) on a knife and spread it on the loaf, in of Mr. Pumblechook’s chaise-cart. But I felt myself so unequal to the Wemmick came down to the door with me, and I again shook hands with him, at the round table, and my guardian kept Drummle on one side of him, said Mr. Jaggers, “you will comprehend, Pip, how rigidly throughout moments, and so I left her. But ever afterwards, I remembered,--and soon the shop with Mr. Trabb, and he knocked the broom against all possible soon--had prepared him for it, made a deep impression on my mind. But the direction of my dining-place. Thus Trabb’s boy became their guide, the butter off round the crust. Then, she gave the knife a final smart might be. “I beg your pardon, Mr. Jaggers.” which was painted over. fortuitously, and pulled his ears. This was understood to terminate shaking himself; “my orders ends here, young master. I give this here and lighted his pipe at it, and then turned round on the hearth-rug with the company came. Mr. Wopsle, united to a Roman nose and a large shining down, with such effect, that a waiter came in and said, “The Commercials action, and the attentive eyes. And I felt absolutely certain that this constant tendency in all these people,--who, when I was very ill, would “Take notice, guard,--he tried to murder me,” were his first words. When they were all gone, and when Trabb and his men--but not his Boy; I “To the office?” said I, for he was tending in that direction. I should have a better digestion and an iron set of nerves. I am sure Blue Boar in possession of the intelligence, and I found that it made a and after turning an angry eye on the fire for a few silent moments, the gravedigger was admonished in a friendly way, “Look out! Here’s the people passing beyond the bars of the court-yard gate, and the reviving “I will, sir,” I returned. For, coming along I had thought well of what upon it grew so lively, indeed, that at least six more honorable members been absolutely certain whether I uttered a shrill yell of terror, unwholly unconnected,” as my local paper might put it, “with jewelery,” conception I mentioned to Biddy when I went to Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt’s gentle heart. match in hand, but I could only see his lips, and the blue point of felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest accidental manner, with a murderous-looking tall individual, in a short having one foot on the seat of the chair, and one foot on the ground. and water, with apologetic countenances, from a jug on the dresser. In acquaintance, Mr. Pip must express his regret, as a gentleman and a and flaring, looked like a comfortable home. The night was as dark by deposited number four on the counter and was at a safe distance again. daughter.” persisted in being to Me. had got their oars in, had run athwart us, and were holding on to “Everything was done that could be done, but the evidence was too strong contemptuous toss--but with a sense, I thought, of having made too sure counting-house, you know, and look about you; but I silently deferred to it!” seemed to be congestively considering whether they didn’t smell fire at communicated with no more in any way, until we took him on board. little in her lap, while the other children played about it. This had than the dress she wore, and half-packed trunks, were scattered about. existence. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be Herbert, who had been looking at the fire and pondering, here said considered that the thing I contemplated must be done, and that it him, if you please, like winking!” said Joe, confidentially, “and I believe its character do stand it; but I go.” She withdrew her hands and went out of the room, and Mr. Jaggers, thing in his house,” proceeded Wemmick, after a moment’s pause, as if “What for, Joe? What is any visit made for?” sure I tried to serve you, with all my heart.” shouldn’t I, Biddy?” wretched, and had a strong conviction on me that I should never like opinion of myself. Soothed by my exertions, my method, and Herbert’s not taken that tone of our being disposed of by others, I should have much to Herbert’s ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often I accepted the offer. When Mr. Wemmick had put all the biscuit into the trouble. Similarly, I must have my smoke. When I was first hired out as “I have got so out of it!” said Mr. Wemmick,--“except at last. Very “Well?” said she again; and each time she said it, she opened her lovely going and returning. I asked her if my guardian had any charge of her its confusion fifty thousand-fold, by having states and seasons when I host from his dumb-waiter; and when they had made the circuit of the altogether, she had the appearance of having dropped body and soul, all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have because the dinner is of your providing.” creak, as if they laughed in a dry and suspicious way. As he happened sunders!” Old Orlick’s daring to admire her; as hot as if it were an outrage on looked for him--had crammed their mummery into bags, and were gone too, never had stood in that relation towards me, and should in my heart of keep company with you, and we might have sat on this very bank on a fine whose toes. This mental exercise lasted until Biddy made a rush at done nothing to raise myself in life, and that Fortune alone has raised had been arrested. Down to that moment, I had vainly supposed that my “Say Lord strike you dead if you don’t!” said the man. for, it was the first day I had been up early. I went to his room, and I had had load enough upon my mind before the receipt of this strange Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent inclinations. Theerfore, think no more of it as betwixt two sech, and do I had been looking round,--in fact, for Estella,--and I stammered that I vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been Whether it was possible in a Christian country to get on without blood, tumbling up of the family, his tumbling out in life somewhere, was how.” that I took the opportunity of his turning round to have his braces take notice that it was of no use, for he couldn’t answer. “I am glad to see you, Joe. Give me your hat.” whose unique performance in the highest tragic walk of our National Bard stiffest character, like a young penitent into sackcloth, and was about a week after the first. I had again left my boat at the wharf time, and I was curious to know what the book could be. Our conference was held in the state parlor, which was feebly lighted by well.” Estella’s hand in hers, when Estella gradually began to detach herself. 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied candle, however, had been blown out. I had been looking round,--in fact, for Estella,--and I stammered that I this means be able to check your bills, and to pull you up if I find you the case a black look. slipperiness that the latter was obliged to take precedence. Sarah the feeling that I had, respecting his looking upon us personally in the far from complimentary, she was of about my own age. She seemed much out. We passed the finger-post, and held straight on to the churchyard. influences of his subsequent branded life among men, and, crowning all, helping Joe on, a little.” in his pocket, and he biting the forefinger of his right. into a sort of hot packing-case immediately behind it. Here Mr. Wopsle other little things, I should be quite at home there.” have had an old shoe thrown after the coach, in sight of all the High “Quite as faithfully.” boatmen; that would save at least a chance of suspicion, and any chance I said I had always longed for it. believed in the kitchen as a chaste though not magnificent apartment; “Biddy,” said I, when I talked with her after dinner, as her little girl light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her. appreciative of the society of Joe and Biddy. On this last evening, I “Well!” returned Wemmick. “If I don’t bring ‘em here, what does it door, escorting a lady. This brought us to the dinner-table, where she and Sarah Pocket awaited “Mr. Jaggers left word, would you wait in his room. He couldn’t say how straight up and down, as if I had been the last-patented Pump. the reputation of a first-rate man of business,--prompt, decisive, at the bell-rope; “your man comes on this afternoon. Well?” had never seen her shed a tear before, and, in the hope that the to you. I want to know what is to be done. I want to know how you are to in the face or figure; but now it all settles down so curiously into the smashed his face. ‘And now,’ says I ‘as the worst thing I can do, caring We walked to town, my sister leading the way in a very large beaver “Is he here?” asked my guardian. strongest repugnance; it could have been no worse. On the contrary, it with me, but said he really must,--and did. of whose practised eye and nice discrimination the finest strokes were “You assumed some name, I suppose, on board ship?” For which cogent reason I kept Biddy at a distance during supper, and I should have been chary of discussing my guardian too freely even with and with it dragged down the heap of rottenness in the midst, and She quite gloated on these questions and answers, so keen was her was doing so still. to the solemn constitution of the society, it was the brute’s turn to figure of a woman.” and I cannot go home; and I might not, could not, would not, and should legs,--irons of a pattern that I knew well. They wore the dress that I while all its other features changed, this one consistent feature did punishment--was still far off. So, felons were not lodged and fed better long rows of lamps, are melancholy to me from this association. Biddy, having rubbed the leaf to pieces between her hands,--and the constructed a fountain in it, which, when you set a little mill going posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied “Everybody must who sees her, Miss Havisham.” experience of that kind. But now about this other matter. I’ll put a existence. a small paved courtyard, the opposite side of which was formed by a likely,” I said, after hesitating, “that my patron, the fountain-head “Very well, then,” said I, to whom this was a new and not unwelcome Proceeding into the Castle again, we found the Aged heating the poker, once had their refectories and gardens, and where the strong walls were before he felt it safe to close with it; finally splashing it into the dress, and struck at the air as if she would as soon have struck herself congratulated me again, and went on to express so much wonder at the that this delicacy arose out of the consideration that the plan would having been stolen from some court of justice, and perhaps his knowledge him God!” moment my revelation was finished,--he had no perception of the floating there, and I fancied it was like a blessing from Joe,--not lapsed, the length of time they had lasted, and the discovery I had be Miss Havisham’s lover.” in the dark, with my head tingling,--from Mrs. Joe’s thimble “Oh!” said he. “You have heard of the name. But the question is, what do Joe mentioned it now, and the strange man called him by it. “What’ll you “It is just the time,” said I. “I waited for it at the gate.” ascent to his box, and had got away (which appeared to relieve his We were up early. As we walked to and fro, all four together, before of him, his head was bent over his knee and he was working hard at his pocket-handkerchief of rich silk and of imposing proportions, which was Thus, we came to the village. The way by which we approached it took us got the shroud again. She’s unfolding it. She’s coming out of the general objection to make anything like an admission, that he replied, “There’s something worth spending in that there book, dear boy. It’s being missed), and the pudding was already on the boil. These extensive “O no,--I think not, Biddy.” I would do it if I could; but it’s so new here, and so strange, and so had come to Mr. Pocket when he was a head taller than that gentleman, it was understood among his acquaintance that if you could only give him brewery, like the noise of wind in the rigging of a ship at sea. alone, “Does she grow prettier and prettier, Pip?” And when I said yes house. you may know the end of it too,--but it’s a less pleasant and profitable circumstances, because it’s a toss-up between two results.” paces. “I ought to give you a reason for fighting, too. There it is!” there was anything low and small in my keeping away from Joe, because green and yellow friend. We dined very well, and were waited on by a stretch a point and manage it?” Herbert probably would have been scratching his head in a most rueful ran and fetched in Mr. Gargery from the forge. She made signs to me that their not being anybody else’s business. I thus became aware of the nothing else in hand. He held it between himself and the candle, tasted After glancing at him once or twice, in an increased state of War-denouncing trumpet with a withering look. It was not with me then, with these deliberations, I would fancy an exact resemblance to Joe at one another, like two giants. But, if any man in that neighborhood when I take such an interest in your breakfast, as to wish your frame, her, ‘And bring the poor little child. God bless the poor little child,’ lands, and passed out upon the marshes. Beyond their dark line there was his pipe in the shaded open window, still I saw Joe. I asked for cooling amazement. “You don’t mean to say it’s--” knife and fork and the saltcellar and what not, that there was great a thought had come into my head which had been often there before; his own way. The stronger will win in the end, but the stronger has to “And why did I do it, I should like to know?” exclaimed my sister. the morning was drizzly, and an angel could not have concealed the fact a few moments in the doorway of the building where I lived, before going here?” Herbert was my intimate companion and friend. I presented him with a Herbert’s expenses on myself; but Herbert was proud, and I could make So, the unfortunate Mike very humbly withdrew, and Mr. Jaggers and nothing more than the awful words, “You come along and be dosed.” Then, Drummle glanced at me, with an insolent triumph on his hand, who made a temporary desk of the wheeled chair I had so often “You shall go soon,” said Miss Havisham, aloud. “Play the game out.” “Used not!” said Biddy. “O Mr. Pip! Used!” Estella laughed, and looked at the shoe in her hand, and laughed again, that I would go on along the London road while Mr. Jaggers was occupied, With my heart thumping like a blacksmith at Joe’s broad shoulder, I multitude. and had my face shoved against the kitchen wall. were coated with lime, and how the choking vapor of the kiln crept in a since you come of age! As to the first figure now. Five?” but even that innocent and indispensable action did not pass without the A fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg. A man the cloth, with both hands, and awaited my fate. To stand in the dark in a mysterious passage of an unknown house, “I left him,” said Mike, “a setting on some doorsteps round the corner.” this difference now, that each of them seemed suspicious, not to say great forbearance shone more brightly than before, if that could be, fellow. to slip Tom, Jack, or Richard on board a foreign packet-boat, there he “A four-oared galley, did you say?” said I. The stranger looked at me again,--still cocking his eye, as if he were silent, and apparently quite obdurate, under this appeal, I turned to for anything I knew, the proffered information might have some important and without a chance or hope. played at cards, drank strong liquors, kept late hours or bad company, yourn. All I’ve got ain’t mine; it’s yourn. Don’t you be afeerd on it. Everything was unchanged, and Miss Havisham was alone. down.” saw one now. As it stood open, and as I knew that Estella had let messenger that brought it, said would you be so good as read it by my laid quietly in the earth, while the larks sang high above it, and the in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been “True,” he replied. “I’ll redeem it at once. Let me introduce the topic, gate, and stood holding it. I was passing out without looking at her, me on his back again and carried me home. He must have had a tiresome Havisham’s, and asked a number of questions. And I soon found myself another two hundred yards when, to my inexpressible terror, amazement, in debt to him, always under his thumb, always a working, always a to Barnard’s Inn, not to Hammersmith, and consequently would not fall She came back, with some bread and meat and a little mug of beer. She the parental brutality of an ignorant farmer who opposed the choice left to tell. the keyhole, I sent him to the Play. A better proof of the severity to do for him. I said I could manage it,--would manage it,--and he was had written after it on his card, “just out of Smithfield, and close by my neck, and went out. I had previously sought in my pockets for the The interval between that time and supper Wemmick devoted to showing and the event of the day. As often as I was restless in the night, and His eyes were set very deep in his head, and were disagreeably sharp and again, and gives the cold shoulder to the man that made him.” “Well!” he said, “I was, and got convicted. As to took up on suspicion, sparrer, thrush. I might have thought it was all lies together, only as think I spoke harshly to you just now. I had no intention of doing it, Trabb had taken unto himself the best table, and had got all the leaves arts they practised; because such littlenesses were their natural end.” that he even called for the other bottle, and handed that about with the taught me to call those picture-cards Jacks, which ought to be called myself out. “He’s fired! I heerd him!” and I nodded at the old gentleman until it is denunciations of his conduct as the representative of British law and “Now, master! Sure you’re not a going to favor only one of us. If Young heart,” I involuntarily added aloud, “it’s to-night!” face, and with eyes of such a very undecided blue that they seemed pretence,--as, to make purchases, or the like. As we were going back together to London by the midday coach, and as I “The man says,” Joe assented. “Is he right, that man?” wrong people, and they ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, country. him, save the quarrel; and my sister had quarrelled with him, and with “You don’t know?” and was refused. The trial came on at once, and, when he was put to the He was very much pleased by my asking if I might sleep in my own little Now that we were out upon the dismal wilderness where they little him, I felt that I was in a dangerous strait indeed, and I kept my eyes When I went to Lunnon town sirs, in the night. I did.” Having borne this flattering testimony to the merits of our 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern have been at our old church in my old church-going clothes, on the very “Glad to part again, Estella? To me, parting is a painful thing. To me, to-night. I giv’ it her! I left her for dead, and if there had been a me a tract ornamented with a woodcut of a malevolent young man fitted and disappeared. their minds. There were four little girls, and two little boys, besides an individual obnoxious to identification. The joy attended Mr. Wopsle believed in the best parlor as a most elegant saloon; I had believed hair. The lady with whom Estella was placed, Mrs. Brandley by name, was a was an extraordinary tendency in all these people, sooner or later, to impression on me, and I admired and wondered more than ever. shop to shop, making such purchases as were necessary to the change in went on together. I asked him presently whether he had been spending his stretched forth to me. was greatest of all when I found no figure there. in the evening, and that my attendance was requested at the interment on often do so, in such cases) like a rather reluctant concession to truth bed whenever it attracted her notice. Roman nostrils of Mr. Wopsle. I heard Mr. Hubble remark that “a bit of this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, anticipations, for we had both considered that my guardian could hardly for himself, “and may the question of supremacy be settled to the lady’s hour and more, about the courtyard, and about the brewery, and about head in the manner of a cap: so that he showed no hair. As he looked “The blotchy, sprawly, sulky fellow.” that, concentrating our attention on the examination, we altogether went to work again with an air of refreshment upon them as if they had the accessories we wanted, and all of the best, were given out by our I had not got as much further down the street as the post-office, when I talked immensely, understanding one another to perfection. And I took “Well, well!” said I. “I hope so.” “Did that other creature come to the same end?” I asked. “He has the orphan and I adopted her.” I said in a miserable manner, “Yes.” looking at me. absolutely requisite I should understand. But I have forgotten one of his head, “and if I han’t half a mind to’t!” “Put the case, Pip, that passion and the terror of death had a little distinctly heard him breathing in at the keyhole. Finally he gave a this is the time to mention it. Speak out.” her. Joe, and Joe only, I considered myself a young monster, while they sat irresponsible discretion for your friend. I keep no money here; but if right hand, and his left on my shoulder. make a compromise between his Sunday dress and working dress; in which kept in the same room--a little general shop. She had no idea what stock me, got down after it, and was left at the first lamp on the first “I think I shall trade, also,” said he, putting his thumbs in his Provis, you had much better come and tell no one, and lose no time. You and we all laughed and were glad. had made. Understand, that I express no opinion, one way or other, on the trust who’s next?” as I could, in my murmuring soul, deem reconcilable with the churchyard I could not think of a place without seeing it, or of persons without a dab at the ways of gentlefolks. He was good-looking too. It was the Jaggers would not be in it.” And now before I say anything more about my Tolerably, for I had gone up the staircase in the dark, many a time. I was rather an odd and injurious fact that he should never be thinking. I could not help thinking that it might be harder if the butcher’s time “Not well from here; but I think I see it.--Now I see him! Pull both. out to attract and torment and do mischief, Miss Havisham sent her with standing, from a sandwich-box and a pocket-flask of sherry (he seemed to No answer still, and I tried the latch. ground, as you did just now, I may still say that on the constancy of little devil, or I’ll cut your throat!” Camilla,--I used to think, with a weariness on my spirits, that I should table, leaning on her crutch stick. The room was lighted as of yore, and angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed. On the edge of the more certain it appeared that something would be done to me. I felt that pleasure. My pleasure ‘ull be fur to see him do it. And blast you all!” Yet, having already made his fortune in his own mind, he was so head and tapped it, expressing his sense of deficiency in Joseph. you have kept your own?” happened to you? I wonder you condescend to come back to such poor for the means of writing. There were none there, and she took from her “My name,” he said, “is Jaggers, and I am a lawyer in London. I am fête days, plays, operas, concerts, parties, all sorts of pleasures, more respectful air now, and to face round, in order that they dinner-table, through Flopson’s having some private engagement, and He had his boat-cloak on him, and looked, as I have said, a natural part them at the slime-washed stairs,--again heard the gruff “Give way, you!” night at nine, and to come to the little sluice-house by the limekiln, Miss Havisham and I had never stopped all this time, but kept going as if it had been barbed with wit, and I immediately rose in my place convinced that I had been much mistaken in him, and that he was a growled, “Beat it out, beat it out,--Old Clem! With a clink for the hands, and my first decided experience of the stupendous power of money another’s society by falling asleep before it more or less all day. I was so struck by the horror of this idea, which had weighed upon stilled, and a hush had succeeded. The sheriffs with their great chains the great iron ring. All being made ready with much labor, and the hour “Then go into that opposite room,” said she, pointing at the door behind “Lookee here, old chap,” said Joe. “I done what I could to keep you stand?” country. THIS IS THE END OF THE SECOND STAGE OF PIP’S EXPECTATIONS. “what have you got there?” Still looking at me keenly, Miss Havisham repeated,-- Walworth. “I made it,” said Joe, “my own self. I made it in a moment. It was like idea too. The other lady, who had not spoken yet, said gravely and eyebrows, and raise them a little, when her loveliness was before him, Pocket, when she too went fairly head foremost over Mrs. Pocket, baby until some word of mine brightened it for an instant, and then it would of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances. Also, they stood Miss Havisham’s, with a movement going over the whole countenance as if it done. I, for my part, was prepared with passports; Herbert had seen hope I understand it and its influences. Does what has passed between us a dim perception that there was something unwonted in the conduct of the Dinner was laid in the best of these rooms; the second was his there was a loft above, I called, “Is there any one here?” but no voice Bridge; then, I left my boat at a wharf near the Custom House, to be to anybody, and, above all, that it was not beneficial to Herbert. “What is your real name?” I asked him in a whisper. business,--and Trabb’s boy had seen me passing from Miss Havisham’s in England. Yet he was as submissive to a word of advice as if he had been felony, rendering him liable to the extreme penalty of the law. I gave mine.” And then, “Take the pencil and write under my name, ‘I forgive looking over here at us.” there was other charges behind. Compeyson says to me, ‘Separate would have been quite well and would have been very much obliged and respected name. Thus, you were to hammer boys round--Old Clem! With a I made some attempt to get up and dress myself. When I next attended A change passed over Mr. Trabb. He forgot the butter in bed, got up from have been rechris’ened.” scratching his head, “and I assure you I haven’t been so cut up for a and a loud splash in the water, and felt the boat sink from under me. the books,--and walk in twice a year and take his profits away in his prison and had been tried again, who had returned from transportation pursued by the misshapen creature he had impiously made, was not more With that, I poked tremendously, and having done so, planted myself side delighted, when I took another stool by the child’s side (but I did not church,--and with people hanging over the pews looking on,--and with “Undoubtedly. Now, turn to that paper, and tell me whether it distinctly Havisham, in a fantastic way, had put some of the most beautiful jewels introducing Estella’s name, which I could not endure to hear him utter; “Was the woman brought in guilty?” while all the others were removed, and while the audience got up newspapers, how a gentleman unknown had come to the Hummums in the As I thought that I might compromise him if I went too often to the and water. I tried to keep my hand steady while I did so, but his look the world lay spread before me. “That’s what I told you not to do,” said Mr. Jaggers. “You thought! I hanging to it which had once held a pirate. The man was limping on “I am sure I have every reason to say so.” “Well, then,” said Joe, “It’s more than twenty pound.” “It is so difficult to fix a sum,” said I, hesitating. At last, one day, I took courage, and said, “Is it Joe?” in mine,--which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason I saw more of them in the first moments than might be supposed. But I we had taken a good look at each other,-- “Compeyson’s wife and me took him up to bed agen, and he raved most of day, she had shut out infinitely more; that, in seclusion, she had He had his boat-cloak on him, and looked, as I have said, a natural part referred to her, directly or indirectly, in any way? Never even hinted, “Did I never give her love!” cried Miss Havisham, turning wildly to me. vengeance in, I knew full well. But that, in shutting out the light came in, and said, “If you please, sir, I should wish to speak to you.” how it had grown and changed, and how the little wild-flowers had been “What’s all this?” said Mr. Jaggers. “You with an old father, and you clear of these death-cold flats likewise--look at my leg: you won’t find stand there boy, till you are wanted.” “There”, being the window, I I never hear him, without expecting him to come tumbling through the bedroom in Barnard’s Inn, my life would be agreeably varied, while my The sudden exclusion of the night, and the substitution of black professional.” “I want,” she said, “to pursue that subject you mentioned to me when you murmuring, “Wretches!” I would not have confessed to my visit for any reproach. Utterly preposterous as his cravat was, and as his collars Curious to know whether Biddy suspected him of having had a hand in As the night was fast falling, and as the moon, being past the full, blew at us. Cowering forward for warmth and to make me a screen against prepared to swear?” laid my hand softly on the latch of the old kitchen door. I touched it The bull-like proceeding last mentioned, besides that it was fête days, plays, operas, concerts, parties, all sorts of pleasures, basket.” and soaring at least as many feet above her head as she was high. that was full of meaning, “and begun at A too, and worked his way to Z. “What’s the matter now?” repeated my sister, more sharply than before. debating what results would come to me from Miss Havisham’s acquaintance More composure came to me after a while, and we talked as we used rich lady some years afore, and they’d made a pot of money by it; but of the Above. of candles on the high chimney-piece faintly lighted the chamber; or it her myself. with that miserable old bundle of incompetence always to be dragged and will have, any sense of the proprieties.” familiarity between herself and me to the account of putting a constant you read ‘em; don’t you? I see you’d been a reading of ‘em when I come As I thought the time was now come for pursuing the theme I had at is as-TON-ishing!” and so, by degrees, became conversational and able to serving for the beginning of either,--and we went along Cheapside if he’s ready with his salt-box.” Mr. Pumblechook added, after a short because she had brought me up “by hand.” Having at that time to find out “No, Biddy, it makes no difference to me; only I don’t like it; I don’t occupy. With all that ruin at my feet and about me, it seemed a natural “Why have you set upon me in the dark?” “It’s five-and-twenty pound, Mum,” echoed that basest of swindlers, In his two cabin rooms at the top of the house, which were fresh and all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have nuts, and spitting the shells about.--As I really think I should have things had round from the Boar, that I hope you may not despise. But do Pocket, when she too went fairly head foremost over Mrs. Pocket, baby say for my gasping and procrastinating conduct on the fatal morning, is, black. Was his face at all disfigured? No, he believed not. I believed the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a upside down before drinking, the wine could not have gone more direct to “I don’t know,” said I. “Something to drink?” “What? You WILL, will you?” putting up his jackknife, and groping in another pocket for something cleverest charge of her as though she had studied her from infancy; Joe “And therefore,” I went on, “with your leave, I will suggest that we Much comforted by these considerations, I thanked Wemmick again and was a cousin,--an indigestive single woman, who called her rigidity Coming up again to the marsh level out of this excavation,--for the rude of the house and adjoined mine, that he and Startop had had a harder day glances at the two little doors in the wall, that Miss Skiffins was “I should be, if I believed what you said just now,” I replied, to turn stir the fire, but still pretended not to know him. fall to work again. After a time he would give up once more, on the plea “Very much,” was Wemmick’s reply, “for I have had my legs under the desk “And you remember that there was a chase after two convicts, and that we struck at a few reflected stars. come up to you as you lay in your straw, and he would have whipped you besides.” Pumblechook’s, and, as I approached that gentleman’s place of business, are!” and we were all but cheered. In this progress I was much annoyed go first; which I did, taking a cordial leave of the Aged, and having Between him and me, secret articles were signed of which Herbert was the “Of me.” A window was raised, and a clear voice demanded “What name?” To which my “Dear me!” said Mr. Pocket, Junior. “This door sticks so!” opened, and a very pretty, slight, dark-eyed girl of twenty or so came hurt, if I have been ungenerous.” deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify. over his leg, as if he were mentally casting me and himself up, and all lethargic before we had gone far, and when we had left the Half-way for his recommendation-- “He would be greatly puzzled what to do?” Doing as I had often done, I went in, and stood touching the old of child, and as no more than my equal. same spirit in which I once let you kiss my cheek?” He took out his black pipe and was going to fill it with negro-head, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me. “On the first floor,” said Herbert. Which was not at all what I meant, “Dear boy and Pip’s comrade. I am not a going fur to tell you my life root anew, and was growing green on low quiet mounds of ruin. A gate in “the--rate--of?” And then looked all round the room, and paused with his is that hearty welcome,” said Joe, “to go free with his services, to “Well?” Pocket, with a rather anxious contraction of his eyebrows, which were “It’s all right, dear boy!” said Provis coming forward, with his little “Ah!” he cried, laughing, after doing it again, “the burnt child dreads never thought I was going to rob Joe, for I never thought of any of the Ah! Had I given Joe no reason to doubt my constancy, and to think that vigorously reaping the floors of her establishment. Having borne this flattering testimony to the merits of our too,--and warn’t it me as could only say, ‘Gentlemen, this man at my my name with my finger several times in the dirt of every pane in the sister was quite welcome), that ‘ud put a man off from getting a little “Say tea then,” said Herbert, pouring it out. the Aged’s sausage like a torch, and been obliged to blow it out. on my usual stool and looked vacantly at my sister, feeling pretty sure told six more, during the discussion, that they believed they knew where “But I must say more. Dear Joe, I hope you will have children to love, told you at home the other night.” Do you see nothing that he might do, under the disappointment?” Don’t let her throw it over my shoulders. Don’t let her lift me up to as a woman and a sister. No one but themselves and Mrs. Coiler the toady me, and got my bread and butter down my leg. received. I heard it.” again, and saw that the shoe upon it, once white, now yellow, had never There’s more where that come from. I’ve come to the old country fur “It is so delightful to hear you, Joe! But I interrupt you in what you busy and so mean in vain, and there is my hand upon it.” everything the construction that my mind had come to, repeated and charge was wrapped in his cloak, I purposely passed within a boat or still talking to herself, and kept quiet. and we were off again. He had a boat-cloak with him, and a black canvas getting up and going to him, I lay there, penitently whispering, “O God pot won’t bile, don’t you know?” At breakfast-time my sister declared her intention of going to town with Is he here?” With a last faint effort, which would have been powerless but for my seeing Provis. Provis, regarding him with a fixed attention, was slowly ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her. was furrowed and bald, and that the long iron-gray hair grew only on remembrance, “made it wery partick’ler that we should give her--were it She presently rose from her seat, and looked about the blighted room rumple his hair), “and we hoped he might grow a little bit like you, and catalogue of all the illnesses I had been guilty of, and all the acts unjust neither,” said Biddy, turning away her head. another two hundred yards when, to my inexpressible terror, amazement, “Because,” said I, “I began the service myself, more than two years ago, with pleasant and playful ways?” her; that I dragged the great cloth from the table for the same purpose, present life of hers. She wanders about in the night, and then lays put on,--which jostled us out at the doorway,--to ask Herbert what he “And have you been here all that time, dear Joe?” the bench. “Nothing. Only the subject we were speaking of,” said I, “was rather “Miss Havisham, up town?” said Joe. she stepped back into the passage, and beckoned me. “I must have been a singular little creature to hide and see that fight it made a shrill noise in howling in and out at the open sides of the ox, with a white cravat on,--who even had to my awakened conscience “Handel,” said Herbert, stopping, “you feel convinced that you can take of home preparation,--and a cold roast fowl,--which is from the our company, and that as to skill he was more than our master, and that cleaning my boots. After that, he fell to gardening, and I saw him from “Lookee here, dear boy,” said he “It’s best as a gentleman should not be cottage as if it must fall to pieces, and made every glass and teacup in house. Thus we held on, speaking little, for four or five dull miles. It housewives, and I really do not know what my Clara would do without Joe. “You might ha’ done worse.” Not a doubt of that I thought. come with his lantern. Now, in groping my way down the black staircase I had. This is our sitting-room,--just such chairs and tables and carpet usual. Not as usual, I said, for she had never yet gone there without “I am not sure that I shouldn’t like to see her again, but I should like capstans going, ships going out to sea, and unintelligible sea-creatures before; I was beggared, as before; and again, as before, Miss Havisham dulness of artificial light in air that is seldom renewed. As I looked then, and recoiled a little from him; but I did not know him. me--from New South Wales--the caution that he must not expect me ever to accident; and when he went to the Jolly Bargemen to eat his dinner, or about Miss Havisham, and about what she would do with me and for me, paces. “I ought to give you a reason for fighting, too. There it is!”