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1He produced a long purse, with the greatest coolness, and counted them out on the table and pushed them over to me. This
2was the first time he had taken his leg from the chair. He sat astride of the chair when he had pushed the money over,
3and sat swinging his purse and eyeing Joe. "Well, Joseph Gargery? You look dumbfoundered?" "I am!" said Joe, in a very
4decided manner. "It was understood that you wanted nothing for yourself, remember?" "It were understood," said Joe. "And
5it are understood. And it ever will be similar according." "But what," said Mr. Jaggers, swinging his purse,--"what if
6it was in my instructions to make you a present, as compensation?" "As compensation what for?" Joe demanded. "For the
7loss of his services." Joe laid his hand upon my shoulder with the touch of a woman. I have often thought him since,
8like the steam-hammer that can crush a man or pat an egg-shell, in his combination of strength with gentleness. "Pip is
9that hearty welcome," said Joe, "to go free with his services, to honour and fortun', as no words can tell him. But if
10you think as Money can make compensation to me for the loss of the little child--what come to the forge--and ever the
11best of friends!--" O dear good Joe, whom I was so ready to leave and so unthankful to, I see you again, with your
12muscular blacksmith's arm before your eyes, and your broad chest heaving, and your voice dying away. O dear good
13faithful tender Joe, I feel the loving tremble of your hand upon my arm, as solemnly this day as if it had been the
14rustle of an angel's wing! But I encouraged Joe at the time. I was lost in the mazes of my future fortunes, and could
15not retrace the by-paths we had trodden together. I begged Joe to be comforted, for (as he said) we had ever been the
16best of friends, and (as I said) we ever would be so. Joe scooped his eyes with his disengaged wrist, as if he were bent
17on gouging himself, but said not another word. Mr. Jaggers had looked on at this, as one who recognised in Joe the
18village idiot, and in me his keeper. When it was over, he said, weighing in his hand the purse he had ceased to swing:--
19"Now, Joseph Gargery, I warn you this is your last chance. No half measures with me. If you mean to take a present that
20I have it in charge to make you, speak out, and you shall have it. If on the contrary you mean to say--" Here, to his
21great amazement, he was stopped by Joe's suddenly working round him with every demonstration of a fell pugilistic
22purpose. "Which I meantersay," cried Joe, "that if you come into my place bull-baiting and badgering me, come out! Which
23I meantersay as sech if you're a man, come on! Which I meantersay that what I say, I meantersay and stand or fall by!" I
24drew Joe away, and he immediately became placable; merely stating to me, in an obliging manner and as a polite
25expostulatory notice to any one whom it might happen to concern, that he were not a-going to be bull-baited and badgered
26in his own place. Mr. Jaggers had risen when Joe demonstrated, and had backed near the door. Without evincing any
27inclination to come in again, he there delivered his valedictory remarks. They were these. "Well, Mr. Pip, I think the
28sooner you leave here--as you are to be a gentleman--the better. Let it stand for this day week, and you shall receive
29my printed address in the meantime. You can take a hackney-coach at the stage-coach office in London, and come straight
30to me. Understand, that I express no opinion, one way or other, on the trust I undertake. I am paid for undertaking it,
31and I do so. Now, understand that, finally. Understand that!" He was throwing his finger at both of us, and I think
32would have gone on, but for his seeming to think Joe dangerous, and going off. Something came into my head which induced
33me to run after him, as he was going down to the Jolly Bargemen, where he had left a hired carriage. "I beg your pardon,
34Mr. Jaggers." "Halloa!" said he, facing round, "what's the matter?" "I wish to be quite right, Mr. Jaggers, and to keep
35to your directions; so I thought I had better ask. Would there be any objection to my taking leave of any one I know,
36about here, before I go away?" "No," said he, looking as if he hardly understood me. "I don't mean in the village only,
37but up town?" "No," said he. "No objection." I thanked him and ran home again, and there I found that Joe had already
38locked the front door and vacated the state parlour, and was seated by the kitchen fire with a hand on each knee, gazing
39intently at the burning coals. I too sat down before the fire and gazed at the coals, and nothing was said for a long
40time. My sister was in her cushioned chair in her corner, and Biddy sat at her needle-work before the fire, and Joe sat
41next Biddy, and I sat next Joe in the corner opposite my sister. The more I looked into the glowing coals, the more
42incapable I became of looking at Joe; the longer the silence lasted, the more unable I felt to speak. At length I got
43out, "Joe, have you told Biddy?" "No, Pip," returned Joe, still looking at the fire, and holding his knees tight, as if
44he had private information that they intended to make off somewhere, "which I left it to yourself, Pip." "I would rather
45you told, Joe." "Pip's a gentleman of fortun' then," said Joe, "and God bless him in it!" Biddy dropped her work, and
46looked at me. Joe held his knees and looked at me. I looked at both of them. After a pause, they both heartily
47congratulated me; but there was a certain touch of sadness in their congratulations that I rather resented. I took it
48upon myself to impress Biddy (and through Biddy, Joe) with the grave obligation I considered my friends under, to know
49nothing and say nothing about the maker of my fortune. It would all come out in good time, I observed, and in the
50meanwhile nothing was to be said, save that I had come into great expectations from a mysterious patron. Biddy nodded
51her head thoughtfully at the fire as she took up her work again, and said she would be very particular; and Joe, still
52detaining his knees, said, "Ay, ay, I'll be ekervally partickler, Pip;" and then they congratulated me again, and went
53on to express so much wonder at the notion of my being a gentleman that I didn't half like it. Infinite pains were then
54taken by Biddy to convey to my sister some idea of what had happened. To the best of my belief, those efforts entirely
55failed. She laughed and nodded her head a great many times, and even repeated after Biddy, the words "Pip" and
56"Property." But I doubt if they had more meaning in them than an election cry, and I cannot suggest a darker picture of
57her state of mind. I never could have believed it without experience, but as Joe and Biddy became more at their cheerful
58ease again, I became quite gloomy. Dissatisfied with my fortune, of course I could not be; but it is possible that I may
59have been, without quite knowing it, dissatisfied with myself. Anyhow, I sat with my elbow on my knee and my face upon
60my hand, looking into the fire, as those two talked about my going away, and about what they should do without me, and
61all that. And whenever I caught one of them looking at me, though never so pleasantly (and they often looked at
62me,--particularly Biddy), I felt offended: as if they were expressing some mistrust of me. Though Heaven knows they
63never did by word or sign. At those times I would get up and look out at the door; for our kitchen door opened at once
64upon the night, and stood open on summer evenings to air the room. The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am
65afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars for glittering on the rustic objects among which I had passed my life.
66"Saturday night," said I, when we sat at our supper of bread and cheese and beer. "Five more days, and then the day
67before the day! They'll soon go." "Yes, Pip," observed Joe, whose voice sounded hollow in his beer-mug. "They'll soon
68go." "Soon, soon go," said Biddy.
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