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1"My name," he said, "is Jaggers, and I am a lawyer in London. I am pretty well known. I have unusual business to
2transact with you, and I commence by explaining that it is not of my originating. If my advice had been asked, I should
3not have been here. It was not asked, and you see me here. What I have to do as the confidential agent of another, I do.
4No less, no more." Finding that he could not see us very well from where he sat, he got up, and threw one leg over the
5back of a chair and leaned upon it; thus having one foot on the seat of the chair, and one foot on the ground. "Now,
6Joseph Gargery, I am the bearer of an offer to relieve you of this young fellow your apprentice. You would not object to
7cancel his indentures at his request and for his good? You would want nothing for so doing?" "Lord forbid that I should
8want anything for not standing in Pip's way," said Joe, staring. "Lord forbidding is pious, but not to the purpose,"
9returned Mr. Jaggers. "The question is, Would you want anything? Do you want anything?" "The answer is," returned Joe,
10sternly, "No." I thought Mr. Jaggers glanced at Joe, as if he considered him a fool for his disinterestedness. But I was
11too much bewildered between breathless curiosity and surprise, to be sure of it. "Very well," said Mr. Jaggers.
12"Recollect the admission you have made, and don't try to go from it presently." "Who's a-going to try?" retorted Joe. "I
13don't say anybody is. Do you keep a dog?" "Yes, I do keep a dog." "Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but
14Holdfast is a better. Bear that in mind, will you?" repeated Mr. Jaggers, shutting his eyes and nodding his head at Joe,
15as if he were forgiving him something. "Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is,
16that he has great expectations." Joe and I gasped, and looked at one another. "I am instructed to communicate to him,"
17said Mr. Jaggers, throwing his finger at me sideways, "that he will come into a handsome property. Further, that it is
18the desire of the present possessor of that property, that he be immediately removed from his present sphere of life and
19from this place, and be brought up as a gentleman,--in a word, as a young fellow of great expectations." My dream was
20out; my wild fancy was surpassed by sober reality; Miss Havisham was going to make my fortune on a grand scale. "Now,
21Mr. Pip," pursued the lawyer, "I address the rest of what I have to say, to you. You are to understand, first, that it
22is the request of the person from whom I take my instructions that you always bear the name of Pip. You will have no
23objection, I dare say, to your great expectations being encumbered with that easy condition. But if you have any
24objection, this is the time to mention it." My heart was beating so fast, and there was such a singing in my ears, that
25I could scarcely stammer I had no objection. "I should think not! Now you are to understand, secondly, Mr. Pip, that the
26name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret, until the person chooses to reveal it. I am
27empowered to mention that it is the intention of the person to reveal it at first hand by word of mouth to yourself.
28When or where that intention may be carried out, I cannot say; no one can say. It may be years hence. Now, you are
29distinctly to understand that you are most positively prohibited from making any inquiry on this head, or any allusion
30or reference, however distant, to any individual whomsoever as the individual, in all the communications you may have
31with me. If you have a suspicion in your own breast, keep that suspicion in your own breast. It is not the least to the
32purpose what the reasons of this prohibition are; they may be the strongest and gravest reasons, or they may be mere
33whim. This is not for you to inquire into. The condition is laid down. Your acceptance of it, and your observance of it
34as binding, is the only remaining condition that I am charged with, by the person from whom I take my instructions, and
35for whom I am not otherwise responsible. That person is the person from whom you derive your expectations, and the
36secret is solely held by that person and by me. Again, not a very difficult condition with which to encumber such a rise
37in fortune; but if you have any objection to it, this is the time to mention it. Speak out." Once more, I stammered with
38difficulty that I had no objection. "I should think not! Now, Mr. Pip, I have done with stipulations." Though he called
39me Mr. Pip, and began rather to make up to me, he still could not get rid of a certain air of bullying suspicion; and
40even now he occasionally shut his eyes and threw his finger at me while he spoke, as much as to express that he knew all
41kinds of things to my disparagement, if he only chose to mention them. "We come next, to mere details of arrangement.
42You must know that, although I have used the term 'expectations' more than once, you are not endowed with expectations
43only. There is already lodged in my hands a sum of money amply sufficient for your suitable education and maintenance.
44You will please consider me your guardian. Oh!" for I was going to thank him, "I tell you at once, I am paid for my
45services, or I shouldn't render them. It is considered that you must be better educated, in accordance with your altered
46position, and that you will be alive to the importance and necessity of at once entering on that advantage." I said I
47had always longed for it. "Never mind what you have always longed for, Mr. Pip," he retorted; "keep to the record. If
48you long for it now, that's enough. Am I answered that you are ready to be placed at once under some proper tutor? Is
49that it?" I stammered yes, that was it. "Good. Now, your inclinations are to be consulted. I don't think that wise,
50mind, but it's my trust. Have you ever heard of any tutor whom you would prefer to another?" I had never heard of any
51tutor but Biddy and Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt; so, I replied in the negative. "There is a certain tutor, of whom I have
52some knowledge, who I think might suit the purpose," said Mr. Jaggers. "I don't recommend him, observe; because I never
53recommend anybody. The gentleman I speak of is one Mr. Matthew Pocket." Ah! I caught at the name directly. Miss
54Havisham's relation. The Matthew whom Mr. and Mrs. Camilla had spoken of. The Matthew whose place was to be at Miss
55Havisham's head, when she lay dead, in her bride's dress on the bride's table. "You know the name?" said Mr. Jaggers,
56looking shrewdly at me, and then shutting up his eyes while he waited for my answer. My answer was, that I had heard of
57the name. "Oh!" said he. "You have heard of the name. But the question is, what do you say of it?" I said, or tried to
58say, that I was much obliged to him for his recommendation-- "No, my young friend!" he interrupted, shaking his great
59head very slowly. "Recollect yourself!" Not recollecting myself, I began again that I was much obliged to him for his
60recommendation-- "No, my young friend," he interrupted, shaking his head and frowning and smiling both at once,--"no,
61no, no; it's very well done, but it won't do; you are too young to fix me with it. Recommendation is not the word, Mr.
62Pip. Try another." Correcting myself, I said that I was much obliged to him for his mention of Mr. Matthew Pocket--
63"That's more like it!" cried Mr. Jaggers.--And (I added), I would gladly try that gentleman. "Good. You had better try
64him in his own house. The way shall be prepared for you, and you can see his son first, who is in London. When will you
65come to London?" I said (glancing at Joe, who stood looking on, motionless), that I supposed I could come directly.
66"First," said Mr. Jaggers, "you should have some new clothes to come in, and they should not be working-clothes. Say
67this day week. You'll want some money. Shall I leave you twenty guineas?"
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