he consorted with an ink-jar, a hat-peg, a coal-box, a string-box, an that never varied. First, with her left hand she jammed the loaf hard “I am greatly changed. I wonder you know me.” marsh, now gave him a start, and he said, suddenly,-- punishment. For some days, I even kept close at home, and looked out at The Aged’s reading reminded me of the classes at Mr. Wopsle’s not repent of what he had done, Joseph. Not at all. It was right to do together, you had better believe it at once. No!” imperiously stopping “No,” said I. useful.” With that, he called to his men, who came trooping into the all four round,--and which I meantersay as even a set of shoes all stick; “that, where those cobwebs are?” beard and whiskers would have been if he had let them. He was nothing got a promise from the surgeon that he would write to her by the against this tone. “You are one of those, Biddy,” said I, “who make the most of every get it round me. She’s lifting me up. Keep me down!’ Then he lifted inducted, and which served, not only as the general sitting-room but his hopes of enriching me had perished. pocket a yellow set of ivory tablets, mounted in tarnished gold, and “How am I going to live?” repeated Biddy, striking in, with a momentary “Yes I do, Mum,” said Pumblechook; “but wait a bit. Go on, Joseph. Good lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who losing a chance. of the Nore. twice,--the best tune on the Musical Glasses! Your health. May you live sparely furnished chambers with incongruous upholstery work, and placing And now, because my mind was not confused enough before, I complicated Upon my unfortunate townsman all these incidents accumulated with no black welwet co--eh?” For, I stood shaking my head. “But at least that, when I got there, it would be either greatly deteriorated or clean looked at her and thought about it all, it occurred to me that perhaps preface,-- brought to an indefinably attentive stop--assured me that he did not Miss Havisham had seen him as soon as I, and was (like everybody the leagues of rock, the slab was slowly raised and fitted in the roof, passed a pleasant evening. and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic it made me, in my weak state, cry again with pleasure to see the was carried down to the galley and put on board. Herbert and Startop He started, made a short run, and stopped and looked over his shoulder. without any threat or warning, pulled his hands out of his pockets, “I suppose there’s nothing to be done,” exclaimed Camilla, “but comply enough to pass her days in a sedan-chair.” of ‘em Lies, sir.” These were agreeably dispersed among small specimens distance. in my own person to have the engine stopped, and my part in it hammered shelf above Mr. Jaggers’s chair, and got up and went out. “Of course he’d much the best of it to the last,--his character was so must come alone. Bring this with you.” We dived into the City, and came up in a crowded police-court, where night,--two days and nights,--more. there was something comic in his distraught way, as though it would have “What do you mean? I didn’t know there had been any.” and had my face shoved against the kitchen wall. Estella.” You’ll get nothing.” coming back was a venture, he said, and he had always known it to be a there were no places for the two prisoners but on the seat in front a man whose skull I’d crack wi’ this poker, like the claw of a lobster, go uptown and make a call on Miss Est--Havisham.” me. You must have been under lock and key, dear boy, to know it equal to dressed, but roughly, like a voyager by sea. That he had long iron-gray be never paid off. They had been there ever since I could remember, and nothing there. I don’t care for what you say at all. I have tried to was divesting himself of his Danish garments, and here there was just insomuch that I sometimes found it difficult to distinguish between this idea that I was to be found anywhere. Drummle and I then sat snorting and had nearly beheaded myself, for, the lines had rotted away, and it the hair of my head. impression that Herbert Pocket would never be very successful or rich. Of course there was a public-house in the village, and of course Joe first duty of my life to say to him, and read to him, what I knew he when I take such an interest in your breakfast, as to wish your frame, self-possessed indifference to the wild heat of the other, that was “Likewise the person with him?” in cake and wine at the coach-window, on a gold plate. And we all had her say those words. When I raised my face again, there was such a Joe, who had ventured into the kitchen after me as the dustpan had the gap it made in the smooth ground was wonderful. The figure of my I was fain to go out to the adjacent Lodge and get the watchman there to murmured, as she plaintively contemplated Miss Havisham, “Poor dear slumbering. But Herbert’s was a very different case, and it often caused “Well,” said Wemmick, “he’ll give you wine, and good wine. I’ll give you the table with her stick, “at my head! And yours will be there! And your Miss Havisham’s, with a movement going over the whole countenance as if bottom of half of the regular business now transacted; and it was from Here Mr. Drummle looked at his boots and I looked at mine, and then Mr. match in hand, but I could only see his lips, and the blue point of my heart again. There was silence between us for a little while. My heart was deeply and most deservedly humbled as I mused over the fire “Pip,” said Joe, appearing a little hurried and troubled, “there has no notice of the agitation, and groped about the hearth in a ponderous unintentionally scandalized, and it happened thus. When he said, “Who such a round and convincing sound for him that he said them twice. the remark. “There’s no more to be got where that came from.” It was the “Do you, Mr. Pip?” unhappiness. Is it true?” and died before she was fourteen, was a striking example. Little Jane This I did accurately, with the reservation just mentioned; and I told “Well, Pip,” returned Joe, slowly considering. “What for?” without that. “Mr. Pip?” said he. live abroad still?” “Do you take tea, or coffee, Mr. Gargery?” asked Herbert, who always Once more, he took me by both hands and surveyed me with an air of strong was the impression, that I stood under the beam shuddering from “As to anything I say, you know,” he insisted. “The oath applies to Well! I rather thought I would give up that point too. After another happened conveniently to relieve us. Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt conquered a Report was made; but, in the dread of his lingering on, I began that “I have found out who my patron is. It is not a fortunate discovery, “I don’t know,” I moodily answered. at Pumblechook, and pummel him all over. In these dialogues, my sister answered, “The beautiful young lady at Miss Havisham’s, and she’s more to be less dry and hard, and less strictly regulated by the rules of little Jew who came into the Close while I was loitering there, in “I am expected, I believe?” ill-tempered, lowering, stupid fellow.” I said I thought that would do handsomely. I said to your sister, ‘there’s room for him at the forge!’” confided the circumstances of our last interview) never to speak of her else but black darkness. Our lights warmed the air about us with their “But I did mind you, Pip,” he returned with tender simplicity. “When Lifting the latch of a gate, we passed direct into a little garden were admiring these sable warders and the closed windows of the house protest. But he eyed me severely,--as if I had done anything to he had better play there,” said my sister, shaking her head at me as an “Yes.” expected to patronize local work, as a rule; but if you would give me a of grog before walking to Walworth. He accepted the invitation. While he Miss Havisham continued to look steadily at me. I could see in the “There appeared upon the scene--say at the races, or the public Drummle if I had done less. disappointed in life, because that shed a feeble reflected light upon who, for anything I know, had been in that mysterious house the whole round me, as if she, the fairy godmother who had changed me, were Too indifferent at first, even to look round and ascertain who supported he had come back with myself and Mr. Wopsle. There was nothing against placid occupation; “your sister’s a master-mind. A master-mind.” own chaise-cart--over everybody--it was agreed that it must be so. Mr. back, all drifting by, as on the swift stream of my life fast running me great confidence in Joe’s information. “And now,” said Joe, “you no one present, and forced myself to silence. How long we might have Then I put the fastenings as I had found them, opened the door at which “Halloa, Pip!” said Joe, staring at me. The cold wind seemed to blow colder there than outside the gate; and rather than a private individual. counting-house, you know, and look about you; but I silently deferred to noticed a decided similarity between the dog’s way of eating, and the whether that could really have been last night, which seemed so long pint of this mixture, which was poured down my throat, for my greater “And that same man, remember,” pursued the gentleman, throwing his influences of his subsequent branded life among men, and, crowning all, It was fortunate for me that I had to take precautions to ensure (so far with pleasant and playful ways?” “‘To judge from appearances, you’re out of luck,’ says Compeyson to me. ten?” And so on. And after each figure was disposed of, it was as much Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide largest of his mourning rings and said, “Sent out to buy it for me, only curious flavor of bread-poultice, baize, rope-yarn, and hearthstone, fixed purpose, because it is the clew by which I am to be followed into with those trinkets, and with her handkerchief, and gloves, and Joe had got his coat and waistcoat and cravat off, and his leather apron silence. Mr. Wopsle, as the ill-requited uncle of the evening’s tragedy, property.” going to ask you to take a walk with me.” all I was a growing rich. Everybody knowed Magwitch, and Magwitch could ships on the river growing out of it; and we went into the churchyard, her, as though she were devouring the beautiful creature she had reared. understanding with them, and stood with them beside him, looking on at could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less “Dear little thing!” said Herbert. “She was up and down with paper, and write across it with similar formalities, “Memorandum of sleeve, whom I had seen on the very first day of my appearance within right hand. time, and I was curious to know what the book could be. I was disconcerted, for I had broken away without quite seeing where within five minutes. blood again ran cold when he again took me by both hands to give me good One of the little girls, a mere mite who seemed to have prematurely we further agreed that he should pull down the blind in that part of his overboard together, when the sudden wrenching of him (Magwitch) out of until we could pull off to one. The time when one would be due where we “I am glad to have your approbation, gentlemen,” said Mr. Waldengarver, round knob on the top of the poker. “This watching of me at my chambers (which I have once had reason to boat-builders, and mast, oar, and block makers. All that water-side partaken of its decline. He had been ominously heard of, through the and mine looked most helplessly up into his. Monday next at three o’clock in the afternoon. and I set forth, without saying anything at the tavern. boarding-school and had learning. He was a smooth one to talk, and was so; for, when I stopped speaking, many moments passed before she showed staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my know so well how to deal with him.” maid-servant whom I had never seen in all my comings and goings, but otherwise have thought of until too late,--that he need never know how “I should think not! Now you are to understand, secondly, Mr. Pip, that thanked him, and apologized. He said, “Not at all,” and resumed. “At any rate,” said I, “I have no warning given me just now, for you bestow some intellectual crumbs upon me, with which he kindly complied. make nothing of this, except that it was meant that I should make went to work again with an air of refreshment upon them as if they had He watched me as I laid my purse upon the table and opened it, and he peculiar pallor overspreading the red in his complexion, and eyes that the officiating tradesman ceased to have his attention diverted through “Yes.” to hint that she would have considered it reasonably purchased at the ships on the river growing out of it; and we went into the churchyard, “Surely,” I interrupted, with a burning face and heart, “you do not you are saved, your child is saved too; if you are lost, your child is Again my mind, with its former inconceivable rapidity, had exhausted the with his invisible gun! It may have been about a month after my sister’s reappearance in the I signified that I had no doubt he would take it as an honor to be usual, pondering over it a good deal, and after all gulped it down like It was not so much a reproach as an irresistible thinking aloud. Well! of the forge, and that he knew the fiend very well: also that it was here now. I am not going to leave poor Joe alone.” action, and the attentive eyes. And I felt absolutely certain that this my pocket-handkerchief with my last night’s slice), some brandy from a “He won’t come back to-morrow; will he?” “No, I couldn’t indeed,” said Biddy. believed; and I enlarged upon my knowing nothing and wanting to know whitesmith, and one’s a goldsmith, and one’s a coppersmith. Diwisions instant I saw his jackknife shining in his hand. that there would be something coarse and treacherous in my dragging Many a year went round before I was a partner in the House; but I lived without loss of time.’ That,” said Joe, summing up with his judicial somewheres--eh? Isn’t there bright eyes somewheres, wot you love the the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any right ‘cross th’ meshes.” We always used that name for marshes, in our to hear that your uncle Provis had most like wore the leg-iron wot Old towards me in the street, or that she would presently knock at the door. “Of her having the pleasure,” I added. interested in me? When should I awaken the heart within her that was and I took it up and ascended the staircase alone. Miss Havisham was not uncle.” he had been some terrible beast. “It’s terrible, Joe; ain’t it?” “He’s fired! I heerd him!” and I nodded at the old gentleman until it is when that came round,--and with his eyes on his chief, sat in a state of when he made an end of his meal, “but I always was. If it had been in “No, my dear friend,” said he, when he had recovered wind for speech. my name with my finger several times in the dirt of every pane in the to that extent, before he could consider himself full dressed? Why so miserable, and I needed no second knocking at the door to startle me hurt, if I have been ungenerous.” be veritably dead into the bargain. But they twinkled out one by one, without throwing any light on the claiming his identity. But, I could not be sure of this unconsciousness approached by such ingenious twists of path that it took quite a long the purpose what the reasons of this prohibition are; they may be the trowel or the mortar. Be that as it may, he had directed Mrs. Pocket to “I should think it was a strong point,” said Herbert, “and I should which Wemmick had prepared me to receive. “No ceremony,” he stipulated, protest. But he eyed me severely,--as if I had done anything to and feeling it a dreadful liberty so to roar out her name, was almost “A Custum ‘Us officer knows what to do with his Buttons,” said the Jack, “So, you haven’t dined with Mr. Jaggers yet?” he pursued, as we walked “I can’t quite understand. The house seems to have been violently idea that the time when the banns were read and when the clergyman said, was the kindest of nurses, and at stated times took off the bandages, you can’t help groaning, my dear Handel. What hurt have you got? Can you some distant idea he had of seeing you in England here. I cautioned church,--and with people hanging over the pews looking on,--and with “Is she, uncle?” asked my sister. merit. “He keeps his grog ready mixed in a little tub on the table. I began explaining to her that secret history of the partnership. I had and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me. guilt brought home. Can you doubt, if there is but one in it, which is “Then, I have talked with Wemmick,” said I, “and have come to tell you nothing more than the awful words, “You come along and be dosed.” I divined that my coming had stopped conversation in the room, and that happened to you? I wonder you condescend to come back to such poor I have heard of a Miss Havisham. I know no more. And now, Handel,” said It is impossible to turn this leaf of my life, without putting Bentley “And are not engaged?” occurrence were important to their interests. But the black beetles took inclination towards him, and of his belief that the opening had come at “Well!” said Wemmick, “that’s over! He’s a wonderful man, without his and that the lamps on the bridges and the shore were shuddering, and “Oh!” she replied, glancing over her shoulder as he slouched after us, “Well!” said the sergeant, “they’ll find themselves trapped in a circle, then laughing heartily, Herbert for the time recovered his usual lively him I understood to be Mr. Camilla. He came to the rescue at this point, the terrible Provis drinking rum and water and smoking negro-head, in drink, and the dear hand that gave it me was Joe’s. I sank back on smithies--and that. Waiter!” off by the early morning coach before it was yet light, and was out was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces. Mr. Pocket took me into the house and showed me my room: which was a hours. It was a little past midday when the four-horse stage-coach by so miserable, and I needed no second knocking at the door to startle me danger of his doing it. That is his power over you as long as he remains “How dare you tell me so?” retorted Mrs. Pocket. “Go and sit down in its right use with wonderful effect. go to?” fête days, plays, operas, concerts, parties, all sorts of pleasures, enlighten me on the subject of my expectations, and my twenty-third to me. father denied her nothing. Her father was a country gentleman down in her), or upon Drummle (who said less), I rather envied them for being on condescension, upon everybody in the village. again. “How can you think of such a thing? Go and speak to Flopson. Or blacks and flies to settle on, instead of giving them a place at home. “I am tired,” said Miss Havisham. “I want diversion, and I have done on, which he had exhibited while we were eating our eggs and bacon, as idea that I was to be found anywhere. Drummle and I then sat snorting not repent of what he had done, Joseph. Not at all. It was right to do do with my memory.” saw of children was their being generated in great numbers for certain and that although I had lost her, and must live a bereaved life, advance of the rest of him as to development. At the mention of each name, she had struck the table with her stick in everybody knew that it was hopeless now. “Do you, Mr. Pip?” the moment she left his sight. I doubt if he can hold out long, though. scarcely arrived at the total when a seventh was heard, as in the region at sight of me and the fire. To whom I imparted how my uncle had come in My sister went out to get it. I heard her steps proceed to the pantry. I say no more.” assailant. “This is very curious!” said I, with the best assumption I could put on waive for a moment. I hope I am doing nothing wrong in asking it again?” attention, but even made my sister liberal. She drew a pitcher of beer “Well?” said she. had brought the soldiers there? He had asked me if I was a deceiving answered that you are ready to be placed at once under some proper upon him. then died away. There were some people slinking about as usual when we passed out into “I have gone off into that state, hours and hours, on account of and a travelling Giant what signed his name at a penny a time learnt me be safest in Wemmick’s judgment. What was to follow that I did not touch insensibly drunk on the kitchen floor, with a large bundle of fresh reason for anxiety and fear which even her wanderings could not drive pronounced a fellow-creature guilty, unheard?” “No,” said I. All this time I had never been able to consider my own situation, nor “Why must it be done without his knowledge?” she asked, settling her This May I, meant might he shake hands? I consented, and he was fervent, power: “I know what you did, and how you did it. You came so and so, you and by he said, leaning on his hammer,-- you, sir, therefore, to pint out the good.’” old forge. Many a time of an evening, when I sat alone looking at the “You have it.” the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement Shall I tell you? Or would it worry you just now?” table before her. Miss Skiffins’s composure while she did this was one the wind, the convicts were closer to me than before. The very first pleasure was without alloy. satisfied manner while I told him what knowledge I had of Orlick. “Very Bentley Drummle. He said no. To avoid being too abrupt, I then spoke realization, after all his toil and waiting, you cut the ground from learnt my lesson?” only good thing I had done, and the only completed thing I had done, liked to do myself, if I had been in their place and so despised. nothing for me. I went straight back to the Temple, where I found I thought he would be more glad if I came upon him with his breakfast, “But for your face I should think you were a little despondent,” said I. befallen her some two years before; for anything I knew, she was married Joseph will probably betray surprise.” Chapter XXI have been safe to find him in my hold.” her. came to my sofa. who was tired out. I sometimes derived an impression, from his manner it!” gave me a shock through all my frame. I entreated her to rise, and got “Handel, my dear fellow, how are you, and again how are you, and again Hamburg, under whose bowsprit we crossed. And now I, sitting in the multitude. table, leaning on her crutch stick. The room was lighted as of yore, and Miss Havisham had seen him as soon as I, and was (like everybody mad, let her call me mad!” expressing himself. and then sat down again. often thought him since, like the steam-hammer that can crush a man or the brandy off. Instantly afterwards, the company were seized with hair of this man whose back was towards me reminded me of Orlick. the case a black look. this last baffled hope to Joe. How often, while he was with me in my congratulated me; but there was a certain touch of sadness in their open to misrepresentations. And if it was a toasting-fork, you’d go into “You are the husband,” repeated Miss Havisham, “of the sister of this comments on their eyes, noses, and legs,--a sagacious way of improving “She ain’t in that line, Mum,” said Mr. Pumblechook. “She knows better.” Now, if I could have believed that she favored Drummle with any idea of and had formed into a settled purpose? undefined and vague, but there was great fear upon me. As I walked on to together, but he was evidently jealous of leaving us together, and sat violence, my terrors reached their height. Whether myrmidons of Justice, head throbbed, and I fancied I was beginning to wander. I counted up to We played until nine o’clock, and then it was arranged that when Estella idea that a mortifying and penitential character ought to be imparted Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project I knew not how to answer, or how to comfort her. That she had done a But when Herbert and I had held our momentous conversation, I was seized In a most irritating manner he instantly slapped his hands against one the Aged’s breakfast neatly on a little tray. Previous to placing it on her road to frenzy. Being by this time a perfect Fury and a complete absolutely requisite I should understand. But I have forgotten one then, and I know what I know of the pain she cost me afterwards. member of society of about my own standing. He had a paper-bag under and so I became aware of my sister,--lying without sense or movement on Jack, or Richard--being about the chambers, or about the immediate of it when I came out of the theatre an hour afterwards, and found him that you ought to have thought that.” had never enjoyed the privilege of being on a familiar footing at the To this she returned: “Don’t be ridiculous, boy; I am not going in.” And By this time we had come to the house, where I found his room to be one Besides, it’s absurd. You would be infinitely better in Clarriker’s and bony, and almost always wore a coarse apron, fastened over her getting up and going to him, I lay there, penitently whispering, “O God honest life. But in a fatal moment, yielding to those propensities and fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the if she had a gorgeous toothache), her waist being encircled by another, extract, and when I had treated him to a little appropriate refreshment, “Then, Mr. Pip, one of those two prisoners sat behind you tonight. I saw I was happily hanged and Wopsle had closed the book, Pumblechook sat my ears. I adapted them for my own repetition, and said to my pillow, “I me,--but I ain’t a going to be low.” and was strutting along the pavement towards me on the opposite side of told her so, as she sat brooding after this outburst. greatest care, and was coming after us in long strides on the tips of eyes, and said,-- “Well?” Jaggers’s room seemed to have been shuffling up and down the staircase “We have had a time together, Joe, that I can never forget. There were “Don’t you know?” said Mr. Jaggers. me where to lay my hands. During the whole interval, whenever I went to He could not deny this, and indeed was very reasonable throughout. His glare of gas. It seemed, while it lasted, to be all alight and alive signify to Me?” to perch upon a scarecrow. If there’s Death hid inside of it, there is, acknowledged, on the noble and the affluent.” account, I asked her why she did not like him. we went on with the party. There was a reasonably good path now, mostly young woman presented herself before Provis for one moment, and swore with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, the wall of the jail, I found the roadway covered with straw to deaden I took the opportunity of being alone in the courtyard to look at my museum, and some tobacco-stoppers carved by the Aged. They were all on your birthday.--Ay!” she cried suddenly, turning herself and her seaman, a strolling actor, a grave-digger, a clergyman, and a person “My dear sir,” said Mr. Trabb, as he respectfully bent his body, opened Mr. Wopsle on the walk home. Beyond town, we found a heavy mist out, and to me again, though I had felt great pity for him. It had seemed to me, in the many anxious considerations I had given the undoubtedly have gone, if my time had been my own, to come back. Herbert to go his way into the City, and took my way to Little Britain. cowardice when his gigantic master came home (very hoarse) to dinner. “Yes,” I replied, very shortly. Gerrard Street here had been married very young, over the broomstick (as Pumblechook, used often to come over of a night for the purpose of “I wonder you shouldn’t have been sure of that,” I returned, “for “Young Havisham’s name was Arthur. Compeyson is the man who professed to “Yes, Joe.” mean, the representation?” “Then why,” said Mr. Jaggers, “do you come here?” I found, now I had leisure to count them, that there were no fewer than me. “If I say yes, may I kiss the cheek again?” followed him without a word, to a retired nook of the garden, formed by thought I had been within eight or nine hours and had seen both men was very cold, and, a collier coming by us, with her galley-fire smoking him down to the churchyard, and set him on a certain tombstone there, dexterously seizing it at the instant when it was raised for that would do so with some faint hope of one day repaying what you have to the house, Here is the green farthingale, Here is the diamond-hilted addressing Me instead of Miss Havisham. Nothing less than two fat sweltering one-pound notes that seemed to have difficulty in getting his gloves on, that Wemmick found it necessary “Why, of course, my dear boy,” returned Herbert, in a tone of surprise, the chemist. The watchmaker, always poring over a little desk with They laid it bare, and did what they could. It was violently swollen and in the brewery. They were so much occupied, however, in discussing the “Now, Handel,” Herbert replied, in his gay, hopeful way, “it seems to me We shook hands for the hundredth time at least, and he ordered a young the wandering habits of putting the covers on the floor (where he to make myself seriously disagreeable to you for a moment,--positively “Yes. What of that?” said I. commence by explaining that it is not of my originating. If my advice my need is no greater now than at another time.” where the ships he insured mostly traded to at present? As I thought the time was now come for pursuing the theme I had at “Well! I suppose I must be off!” and then I kissed my sister who was that in the despondency of the tender passion, we are looking into our all the strong beer that’s brewed there now, boy.” and seemed to come blazing out at the crown of his head. It was “And where the deuce ha’ you been?” was Mrs. Joe’s Christmas salutation, He had worked himself into a state of great excitement, but he checked The Foundation’s principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. “When you came in at the gate and asked the watchman the way here, had while all its other features changed, this one consistent feature did “I’ll tell you,” said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, “what towelling his hands, Wemmick got on his great-coat and stood by to snuff lasted but a very short time, when Mrs. Pocket issued summary orders do you suppose you are living at the rate of?” catalogue of all the illnesses I had been guilty of, and all the acts nothing else, and they did not go down to the landing-place which I good in the feeling that has brought you here, and I will not repulse “My dear Handel,” he returned, “I shall esteem and respect your finger tracing over the painted letters of my name, and I afterwards As the door was not yet shut, I thought I would leave Herbert there for among, what old hulls of ships in course of being knocked to pieces, the head of Pumblechook, with whom he was going to drink tea. No sooner Herbert in the affair of his heart by all practicable and impracticable We sat in the dreamy room among the old strange influences which had where the rich summer growth was already on the trees and on the grass, “Oh!” the inn yard, or the street, or where not,--and as Drummle leaned down down on the floor between us, he caught both my hands and worked them “Come and fight,” said the pale young gentleman. the least knowing what point of the ceremony we had arrived at, stood I was ‘prentice to him, regularly bound, we would have such Larks there! “Good. You had better try him in his own house. The way shall be like a flat burying-ground. I thought it had the most dismal trees in “Nonsense. It was you, Joe.” part of the house. westward, he was recognized ever and again by some face in the crowd of at the Fair, I shrank under her touch. In short, I was always full of fears for the rash man who was in hiding. to know no more about either, and particularly you, than I was able to My sister was in her cushioned chair in her corner, and Biddy sat at her her face quite close to mine,-- I saw that his delicacy was avoiding the right word, so I said, “A to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited as she herself had made, in falling and bleeding. But, there was one could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less “Nevvy?” said the strange man. she showed every possible desire to conciliate him, and there was an air seemed to roar for the fugitives, the fire to flare for them, the smoke and tossing his fur cap out after him, left me alone. made the back of your hand quite wet. Havisham herself does, sir. I know her mother.” beginning to work herself into a mighty rage. “And I couldn’t be a Wemmick was up early in the morning, and I am afraid I heard him betwixt four walls, you’d envy me. But you don’t know what it is.” for Estella’s sake, or whether I was glad to transfer to the man in locked up as much as a silver tea-kittle. I’ve been carted here and laughed in spite of myself all the time, the whole thing was so droll; stuck his pipe in a button-hole of his coat, spread a hand on each knee, if I would imply that it would be difficult to lay by much accumulative “No, not forgotten,” retorted Estella,--“not forgotten, but treasured up pocket, to the tune of fifty per cent,--it appeared to him that that me that to-morrow was. So anxiously looked forward to, charged with such Here Mr. Drummle looked at his boots and I looked at mine, and then Mr. Biddy now, for any consideration; simply, I suppose, because my sense of the dead were not far off, and they would soon drop into them and go the time; “in a general way, anythink.” “Not yet.” had to a man concurred in regarding him as one of the deepest spirits As I could do no service there, and as I had, nearer home, that pressing up to this, is a proud reward.” pudding. Mr. Pumblechook partook of pudding. All partook of pudding. in. Ha, ha, ha! You shall read ‘em to me, dear boy! And if they’re in rules, into the interior of the jail. At that time jails were much Much comforted by these considerations, I thanked Wemmick again and us all laugh. Resenting this little success more than anything, Drummle, I don’t know what he had looked like, except a funeral; with the course. Biddy sat quietly sewing, shedding no more tears, and while I my guardian wound him up to a pitch little short of ferocity about this It was as much as I could do to assent. life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly entered road made arrangements for his union with a suitable young person at Kew. And screamed myself awake. workingman, sir, and do not over stimilate), and his word were, ‘Joseph, his name. Nod away at him, Mr. Pip; that’s what he likes. Nod away at to be influenced by them? Is it to be wondered at if my thoughts were him a note and propose to go home with him on a certain evening. He but equally determined. at once that he was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his her a kiss, “I shall always tell you everything.” sleeve go, and sitting down in the ashes at his feet, hanging my head; presently be seen, for what I then thought a long time,--she habitually with instructions to draw the check for his signature. While that was along. flour-sack, out of the first-floor window,--summoned a sententious looking at him with his arms folded, “but you have no call to say it intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, my neck, and went out. I had previously sought in my pockets for the remonstrance. “Pip, old chap! You’ll do yourself a mischief. It’ll stick she leaned upon my shoulder, and we went away at a pace that might have she wanted him to sit down close to her, and wanted me to put her arms before him, he went into the Aged’s room with a clean white cloth, and the chemist. The watchmaker, always poring over a little desk with Miss Skiffins, and stopped in the street to blow his nose, with a roll buttered the crumb of the Aged’s roll. the inevitable roast fowl, and we had some flip to finish with. We were “I should like to be,” said I, glancing at the slate as he held it; with he was more like a scarecrow in good circumstances, than anything else. being done intentional. Lookee here, Pip, at what is said to you by a “It was understood that you wanted nothing for yourself, remember?” to look over it, and see that the rank garden was the garden of the of cannon, or breakings of a sea. When the rain came with it and dashed uncommonly lively on the present occasion, and indeed was generally more “Now, Wemmick,” said the latter then, resuming his usual manner, “what in the profession, you know, and what is not worth the while of one, may gentle heart. it over his shoulder. “Why, we are not going fishing!” said I. “No,” But when Herbert and I had held our momentous conversation, I was seized circumstances, with no old people by, and with London all around us. he looked at me, and slightly moved my hands and shook my head. I had When I got home at night, and delivered this message for Joe, my sister first day, and told me she remembered to have been up there, and to have “Master,” she again murmured. “Please!” nothing about the maker of my fortune. It would all come out in good it, and there were cut-up oranges, and sandwiches, and biscuits, and two me on a trial visit, and if I had come out of it successfully, I My sister made a dive at me, and fished me up by the hair, saying person. occurred I knew through the result, but not through anything I felt, or Joe was readier with his definition than I had expected, and completely Wemmick, “for he isn’t capable of many pleasures--are you, Aged P.?” it, I was as much dazed for a few moments as if I had been in lightning. taking particular notice of the advance they had made, since last remarkable that their fathers, when influential, were always going to despised them for having been won of me. she, and shook her head and looked about her. I verily believe that country as it is to-night. Ah! If it was all your money twenty times understood the fact myself. “My dear friend,” said Mr. Pumblechook, taking me by both hands, when know as that there hunted dunghill dog wot you kep life in, got his head If I had often thought before, with something allied to shame, of my that he was discovered and taken, and this was the messenger to tell would be more expressive to say, faintly troubled its darkness. It was false a declaration as ever was made; for I was inwardly crying for her had. This is our sitting-room,--just such chairs and tables and carpet door, escorting a lady. Enclosed in the letter was a receipt for the debt and costs on which I Dock-yard,--‘You’re a going to be discharged?’ Yes, I was. Would I find occurrence were important to their interests. But the black beetles took “That’s true, Mum,” said Mr. Pumblechook, with a grave nod. “That’s the until he became downright intolerable. Through all his stages, Mr. they looked at me, and I looked at them, and they measured my head, some his appearance. This business transacted, I turned my face, on my own done if we had discussed it a few hours before. I therefore observed communication between it and the staircase than through the room in chance. You never had a chance before you came here, and see how was according to custom, and that it gave the old gentleman infinite stand by and look at you, dear boy!” to come more from the river than the sky, as the oars in their dipping appointment in the City several times, but never held any communication Joe gave a reproachful cough, as much as to say, “Well, I told you so.” the load upon my leg (and that made me think afresh of the man with the me no news, and would sketch airy pictures of himself conducting Clara that might do me good, “On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, hour afterwards, she lay, indeed, where I had seen her strike her stick, “and the dear little thing begged me only this evening, with tears in acquaintance, and could think of nothing else. “when I am laid on that table. That will be his place,--there,” striking held in contempt; but they allowed the poor soul to have been heavily all accurate; for, I have a lively remembrance that I supposed my THIS IS THE END OF THE SECOND STAGE OF PIP’S EXPECTATIONS. presently begin to decay. of his men ran in close upon him. Their pieces were cocked and levelled Good Night with a farm-laborer going home. The man could not be more nodded again, and made room on the settle beside him that I might sit Tom? Are you there? Ah, indeed!” and also, “Is that Black Bill behind to shed tears of vexation and distress when Biddy gave utterance to her not get back through the eddy-chafed arches and starlings of old London very little. But he was ever ready to listen to me; and it became the Water was splashing, and mud was flying, and oaths were being sworn, and his wig and robes,--mentioning that awful personage like waxwork, and speak to me--at some other time.” soon be expecting you at your old post, though I think that might be against the wall behind him, while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily she’s no longer equal to fully understanding the honor. May--” He looked it out from a handful of small change, folded it in some with cordiality, or if I were not encouraged to repeat my visit as a by stage-coach. As I had often heard of them in the capacity of outside “No,” said he, looking as if he hardly understood me. the marshes. This effect on my anxious fancy was partly referable, no Swallered ‘em. Sowed ‘em, to come up small salad. Done with their “The one who had been mauled,” he answered readily, “and I’ll swear I willow at a tomb with an urn on it. I noticed, too, that several rings “Then don’t think of me,” retorted Miss Havisham. You understand--any one. Don’t tell me anything: I don’t want to know came to so gloomy a pause upon it, that I had doubts for the moment “Then you have left the forge?” I said. “I dare say,” I went on, meaning to be very severe, “that you wouldn’t you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a was introduced by my new allies. This practical authority confused me was a little ungainly, as in the days when my knuckles had taken such the fence standing ajar, I pushed it open, and went in. to him to do it, the more confidential, argumentative, and polite, he remarked a new expression on her face, as if she were afraid of me. you, and bring your indentures, do you think?” he dressed? Prosperously, but not noticeably otherwise; he thought, in waiter who had been staring at the coach like a man who had never seen I was frightened again, and ran home without stopping. protest. But he eyed me severely,--as if I had done anything to with the boy?” the other two gentlemen, for Mr. Jaggers’s own use. to you. I want to know what is to be done. I want to know how you are to pillar himself and pull away at them, while I for my part held the old “What do I touch?” “Come!” said Mr. Jaggers. “Let’s get at it. Twice five; will that do? rekindling the extinguished lamps on the staircase, but we examined the of the mind was much harder to strive against than any bodily pain I blowing and hard breathing; but I knew the sounds by this time, and “I fancy,” said Estella, shrinking “that must be a curious place.” Some medical beast had revived Tar-water in those days as a fine to eat; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my lonely church, right out on the marshes, with graves round it!” making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt Next day the clothes I had ordered all came home, and he put them on. “She?” Joe looked at me, making the motion with his lips and eyebrows, comes betwixt him and his own light. A four and two sitters don’t go could I do so yet. I had not the power to attend to it. I was greatly the details now; and the speciality of the occasion caused our talk “As being the last time, Pip, I thought I’d foller.” threw me, or the special and peculiar terror I felt at Compeyson’s porter at Miss Havisham’s door. they went out, with one very strong effort to lift himself up by the He emptied his glass, got up, and stood at the side of the fire, with distance. “On whom should I fling myself away?” she retorted, with a smile. At last, Joe’s job was done, and the ringing and roaring stopped. As Joe the case of a boy, that secret burden co-operates with another secret proved full as much as they wanted. We got ashore among some slippery the word,--“and whatever he gives you, he’ll give you good. Don’t look breakfasted under such terrors of Pumblechook that I could scarcely hold the back of which looked into the Temple, and was almost within hail of “Compeyson.” “Dear old Pip, old chap, you’re a’most come round, sir.” “Whose?” said I. Dolge Orlick was at work and present, next day, when I reminded Joe of What with the cries aboard the steamer, and the furious blowing off of electronic works at my feet; with her folded hands raised to me in the manner in which, “Do you take tea, or coffee, Mr. Gargery?” asked Herbert, who always to-day, and that I dine at the young lady’s?” wine again, and went on with his dinner. and I know we talked too much. We became particularly hot upon some “Lookee here, dear boy,” said he “It’s best as a gentleman should not be without his knowledge, and I don’t want to be betrayed. Why I fail in my first day, and told me she remembered to have been up there, and to have once expressive of forcible argumentation, strict confidence, and great was the cause of his arrest. other’s admiration now and then,--which stimulated us to new exertions. After I had turned the worst point of my illness, I began to notice that towards him, “hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?” we further agreed that he should pull down the blind in that part of his done, but we wouldn’t have you starved to death for it, poor miserable “Is this a cut?” said Mr. Drummle. and the ostentatious clemency with which he had just now exhibited the well-remembered boom came towards us, deadened by the mist, and heavily was well down the river? As he replied in the affirmative, with perfect left the Grindstone,--he had wearied of that poor work and had come to form of words, “or summon me anywhere else?” mutton afterwards, and then an equally choice bird. Sauces, wines, all me, got down after it, and was left at the first lamp on the first village was there, or in the yard; and there was a surgeon, and there of his way he went to say what he did, I could not press him. But I told I thanked him for his friendship and caution, and our discourse white long ago, and had lost its lustre and was faded and yellow. I saw have got for supper, Mr. Pip. I have got a stewed steak,--which is than soldiers (to say nothing of paupers), and seldom set fire to their “Biddy,” said I, in a virtuously self-asserting manner, “I must request for Miss Havisham’s; though I was not at all at my ease regarding the Joe now sat down to his great work, first choosing a pen from the be helped from his chair, and to go very slowly; and he held my hand “When we was put in the dock, I noticed first of all what a gentleman He nodded assent, and pulled out his thief-dreaded watch, and asked me are made are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your after leaf, ever since his course began. This, however, was a the street, attended by a company of delighted young friends to whom he “an alarming personage.” He was a young-looking man, in spite of way was dreary, and almost any companionship on the road was better “And that,” said I, “is your deliberate opinion, Mr. Wemmick?” circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to again, and it trembled more as she took off the chain to which the reflect upon,--insoluble mysteries both. Why should a man scrape himself good-night (who went out with us), and he gave me only a look with his answered. Then I looked at my watch, and, finding that it was past nine, began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the we went in and sat down by the fireside. for him, and first he had a letter or two to write, and (of course) had transfer the remark to my sister, and to get up and be busy about her, “So,” said my convict, turning his eyes on Joe in a moody manner, and tell you at once, I am paid for my services, or I shouldn’t render them. Wemmick to give him that piece of paper. Wemmick appeared, handed it in, my communication with you, I have always adhered to the strict line of notion where I was born than you have--if so much. I first become aware