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1As I was getting too big for Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's room, my education under that preposterous female terminated.
2Not, however, until Biddy had imparted to me everything she knew, from the little catalogue of prices, to a comic song
3she had once bought for a half-penny. Although the only coherent part of the latter piece of literature were the opening
4lines, When I went to Lunnon town sirs, Too rul loo rul Too rul loo rul Wasn't I done very brown sirs? Too rul loo rul
5Too rul loo rul --still, in my desire to be wiser, I got this composition by heart with the utmost gravity; nor do I
6recollect that I questioned its merit, except that I thought (as I still do) the amount of Too rul somewhat in excess of
7the poetry. In my hunger for information, I made proposals to Mr. Wopsle to bestow some intellectual crumbs upon me,
8with which he kindly complied. As it turned out, however, that he only wanted me for a dramatic lay-figure, to be
9contradicted and embraced and wept over and bullied and clutched and stabbed and knocked about in a variety of ways, I
10soon declined that course of instruction; though not until Mr. Wopsle in his poetic fury had severely mauled me.
11Whatever I acquired, I tried to impart to Joe. This statement sounds so well, that I cannot in my conscience let it pass
12unexplained. I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to
13Estella's reproach. The old Battery out on the marshes was our place of study, and a broken slate and a short piece of
14slate-pencil were our educational implements: to which Joe always added a pipe of tobacco. I never knew Joe to remember
15anything from one Sunday to another, or to acquire, under my tuition, any piece of information whatever. Yet he would
16smoke his pipe at the Battery with a far more sagacious air than anywhere else,--even with a learned air,--as if he
17considered himself to be advancing immensely. Dear fellow, I hope he did. It was pleasant and quiet, out there with the
18sails on the river passing beyond the earthwork, and sometimes, when the tide was low, looking as if they belonged to
19sunken ships that were still sailing on at the bottom of the water. Whenever I watched the vessels standing out to sea
20with their white sails spread, I somehow thought of Miss Havisham and Estella; and whenever the light struck aslant,
21afar off, upon a cloud or sail or green hillside or water-line, it was just the same.--Miss Havisham and Estella and the
22strange house and the strange life appeared to have something to do with everything that was picturesque. One Sunday
23when Joe, greatly enjoying his pipe, had so plumed himself on being "most awful dull," that I had given him up for the
24day, I lay on the earthwork for some time with my chin on my hand, descrying traces of Miss Havisham and Estella all
25over the prospect, in the sky and in the water, until at last I resolved to mention a thought concerning them that had
26been much in my head. "Joe," said I; "don't you think I ought to make Miss Havisham a visit?" "Well, Pip," returned Joe,
27slowly considering. "What for?" "What for, Joe? What is any visit made for?" "There is some wisits p'r'aps," said Joe,
28"as for ever remains open to the question, Pip. But in regard to wisiting Miss Havisham. She might think you wanted
29something,--expected something of her." "Don't you think I might say that I did not, Joe?" "You might, old chap," said
30Joe. "And she might credit it. Similarly she mightn't." Joe felt, as I did, that he had made a point there, and he
31pulled hard at his pipe to keep himself from weakening it by repetition. "You see, Pip," Joe pursued, as soon as he was
32past that danger, "Miss Havisham done the handsome thing by you. When Miss Havisham done the handsome thing by you, she
33called me back to say to me as that were all." "Yes, Joe. I heard her." "ALL," Joe repeated, very emphatically. "Yes,
34Joe. I tell you, I heard her." "Which I meantersay, Pip, it might be that her meaning were,--Make a end on it!--As you
35was!--Me to the North, and you to the South!--Keep in sunders!" I had thought of that too, and it was very far from
36comforting to me to find that he had thought of it; for it seemed to render it more probable. "But, Joe." "Yes, old
37chap." "Here am I, getting on in the first year of my time, and, since the day of my being bound, I have never thanked
38Miss Havisham, or asked after her, or shown that I remember her." "That's true, Pip; and unless you was to turn her out
39a set of shoes all four round,--and which I meantersay as even a set of shoes all four round might not be acceptable as
40a present, in a total wacancy of hoofs--" "I don't mean that sort of remembrance, Joe; I don't mean a present." But Joe
41had got the idea of a present in his head and must harp upon it. "Or even," said he, "if you was helped to knocking her
42up a new chain for the front door,--or say a gross or two of shark-headed screws for general use,--or some light fancy
43article, such as a toasting-fork when she took her muffins,--or a gridiron when she took a sprat or such like--" "I
44don't mean any present at all, Joe," I interposed. "Well," said Joe, still harping on it as though I had particularly
45pressed it, "if I was yourself, Pip, I wouldn't. No, I would not. For what's a door-chain when she's got one always up?
46And shark-headers is open to misrepresentations. And if it was a toasting-fork, you'd go into brass and do yourself no
47credit. And the oncommonest workman can't show himself oncommon in a gridiron,--for a gridiron IS a gridiron," said Joe,
48steadfastly impressing it upon me, as if he were endeavouring to rouse me from a fixed delusion, "and you may haim at
49what you like, but a gridiron it will come out, either by your leave or again your leave, and you can't help yourself--"
50"My dear Joe," I cried, in desperation, taking hold of his coat, "don't go on in that way. I never thought of making
51Miss Havisham any present." "No, Pip," Joe assented, as if he had been contending for that, all along; "and what I say
52to you is, you are right, Pip." "Yes, Joe; but what I wanted to say, was, that as we are rather slack just now, if you
53would give me a half-holiday to-morrow, I think I would go uptown and make a call on Miss Est--Havisham." "Which her
54name," said Joe, gravely, "ain't Estavisham, Pip, unless she have been rechris'ened." "I know, Joe, I know. It was a
55slip of mine. What do you think of it, Joe?" In brief, Joe thought that if I thought well of it, he thought well of it.
56But, he was particular in stipulating that if I were not received with cordiality, or if I were not encouraged to repeat
57my visit as a visit which had no ulterior object but was simply one of gratitude for a favour received, then this
58experimental trip should have no successor. By these conditions I promised to abide.
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