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1For eleven years, I had not seen Joe nor Biddy with my bodily eyes,--though they had both been often before my fancy in
2the East,--when, upon an evening in December, an hour or two after dark, I laid my hand softly on the latch of the old
3kitchen door. I touched it so softly that I was not heard, and looked in unseen. There, smoking his pipe in the old
4place by the kitchen firelight, as hale and as strong as ever, though a little grey, sat Joe; and there, fenced into the
5corner with Joe's leg, and sitting on my own little stool looking at the fire, was--I again! "We giv' him the name of
6Pip for your sake, dear old chap," said Joe, delighted, when I took another stool by the child's side (but I did not
7rumple his hair), "and we hoped he might grow a little bit like you, and we think he do." I thought so too, and I took
8him out for a walk next morning, and we talked immensely, understanding one another to perfection. And I took him down
9to the churchyard, and set him on a certain tombstone there, and he showed me from that elevation which stone was sacred
10to the memory of Philip Pirrip, late of this Parish, and Also Georgiana, Wife of the Above. "Biddy," said I, when I
11talked with her after dinner, as her little girl lay sleeping in her lap, "you must give Pip to me one of these days; or
12lend him, at all events." "No, no," said Biddy, gently. "You must marry." "So Herbert and Clara say, but I don't think I
13shall, Biddy. I have so settled down in their home, that it's not at all likely. I am already quite an old bachelor."
14Biddy looked down at her child, and put its little hand to her lips, and then put the good matronly hand with which she
15had touched it into mine. There was something in the action, and in the light pressure of Biddy's wedding-ring, that had
16a very pretty eloquence in it. "Dear Pip," said Biddy, "you are sure you don't fret for her?" "O no,--I think not,
17Biddy." "Tell me as an old, old friend. Have you quite forgotten her? "My dear Biddy, I have forgotten nothing in my
18life that ever had a foremost place there, and little that ever had any place there. But that poor dream, as I once used
19to call it, has all gone by, Biddy,--all gone by!" Nevertheless, I knew, while I said those words, that I secretly
20intended to revisit the site of the old house that evening, alone, for her sake. Yes, even so. For Estella's sake. I had
21heard of her as leading a most unhappy life, and as being separated from her husband, who had used her with great
22cruelty, and who had become quite renowned as a compound of pride, avarice, brutality, and meanness. And I had heard of
23the death of her husband, from an accident consequent on his ill-treatment of a horse. This release had befallen her
24some two years before; for anything I knew, she was married again. The early dinner hour at Joe's, left me abundance of
25time, without hurrying my talk with Biddy, to walk over to the old spot before dark. But, what with loitering on the way
26to look at old objects and to think of old times, the day had quite declined when I came to the place. There was no
27house now, no brewery, no building whatever left, but the wall of the old garden. The cleared space had been enclosed
28with a rough fence, and looking over it, I saw that some of the old ivy had struck root anew, and was growing green on
29low quiet mounds of ruin. A gate in the fence standing ajar, I pushed it open, and went in. A cold silvery mist had
30veiled the afternoon, and the moon was not yet up to scatter it. But, the stars were shining beyond the mist, and the
31moon was coming, and the evening was not dark. I could trace out where every part of the old house had been, and where
32the brewery had been, and where the gates, and where the casks. I had done so, and was looking along the desolate garden
33walk, when I beheld a solitary figure in it. The figure showed itself aware of me, as I advanced. It had been moving
34towards me, but it stood still. As I drew nearer, I saw it to be the figure of a woman. As I drew nearer yet, it was
35about to turn away, when it stopped, and let me come up with it. Then, it faltered, as if much surprised, and uttered my
36name, and I cried out,-- "Estella!" "I am greatly changed. I wonder you know me." The freshness of her beauty was indeed
37gone, but its indescribable majesty and its indescribable charm remained. Those attractions in it, I had seen before;
38what I had never seen before, was the saddened, softened light of the once proud eyes; what I had never felt before was
39the friendly touch of the once insensible hand. We sat down on a bench that was near, and I said, "After so many years,
40it is strange that we should thus meet again, Estella, here where our first meeting was! Do you often come back?" "I
41have never been here since." "Nor I." The moon began to rise, and I thought of the placid look at the white ceiling,
42which had passed away. The moon began to rise, and I thought of the pressure on my hand when I had spoken the last words
43he had heard on earth. Estella was the next to break the silence that ensued between us. "I have very often hoped and
44intended to come back, but have been prevented by many circumstances. Poor, poor old place!" The silvery mist was
45touched with the first rays of the moonlight, and the same rays touched the tears that dropped from her eyes. Not
46knowing that I saw them, and setting herself to get the better of them, she said quietly,-- "Were you wondering, as you
47walked along, how it came to be left in this condition?" "Yes, Estella." "The ground belongs to me. It is the only
48possession I have not relinquished. Everything else has gone from me, little by little, but I have kept this. It was the
49subject of the only determined resistance I made in all the wretched years." "Is it to be built on?" "At last, it is. I
50came here to take leave of it before its change. And you," she said, in a voice of touching interest to a
51wanderer,--"you live abroad still?" "Still." "And do well, I am sure?" "I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and
52therefore--yes, I do well." "I have often thought of you," said Estella. "Have you?" "Of late, very often. There was a
53long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
54But since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my
55heart." "You have always held your place in my heart," I answered. And we were silent again until she spoke. "I little
56thought," said Estella, "that I should take leave of you in taking leave of this spot. I am very glad to do so." "Glad
57to part again, Estella? To me, parting is a painful thing. To me, the remembrance of our last parting has been ever
58mournful and painful." "But you said to me," returned Estella, very earnestly, "'God bless you, God forgive you!' And if
59you could say that to me then, you will not hesitate to say that to me now,--now, when suffering has been stronger than
60all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but--I
61hope--into a better shape. Be as considerate and good to me as you were, and tell me we are friends." "We are friends,"
62said I, rising and bending over her, as she rose from the bench. "And will continue friends apart," said Estella. I took
63her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left
64the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw
65no shadow of another parting from her.
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