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1The pale young gentleman and I stood contemplating one another in Barnard's Inn, until we both burst out laughing. "The
2idea of its being you!" said he. "The idea of its being you!" said I. And then we contemplated one another afresh, and
3laughed again. "Well!" said the pale young gentleman, reaching out his hand good-humouredly, "it's all over now, I hope,
4and it will be magnanimous in you if you'll forgive me for having knocked you about so." I derived from this speech that
5Mr. Herbert Pocket (for Herbert was the pale young gentleman's name) still rather confounded his intention with his
6execution. But I made a modest reply, and we shook hands warmly. "You hadn't come into your good fortune at that time?"
7said Herbert Pocket. "No," said I. "No," he acquiesced: "I heard it had happened very lately. I was rather on the
8lookout for good fortune then." "Indeed?" "Yes. Miss Havisham had sent for me, to see if she could take a fancy to me.
9But she couldn't,--at all events, she didn't." I thought it polite to remark that I was surprised to hear that. "Bad
10taste," said Herbert, laughing, "but a fact. Yes, she had sent for me on a trial visit, and if I had come out of it
11successfully, I suppose I should have been provided for; perhaps I should have been what-you-may-called it to Estella."
12"What's that?" I asked, with sudden gravity. He was arranging his fruit in plates while we talked, which divided his
13attention, and was the cause of his having made this lapse of a word. "Affianced," he explained, still busy with the
14fruit. "Betrothed. Engaged. What's-his-named. Any word of that sort." "How did you bear your disappointment?" I asked.
15"Pooh!" said he, "I didn't care much for it. She's a Tartar." "Miss Havisham?" "I don't say no to that, but I meant
16Estella. That girl's hard and haughty and capricious to the last degree, and has been brought up by Miss Havisham to
17wreak revenge on all the male sex." "What relation is she to Miss Havisham?" "None," said he. "Only adopted." "Why
18should she wreak revenge on all the male sex? What revenge?" "Lord, Mr. Pip!" said he. "Don't you know?" "No," said I.
19"Dear me! It's quite a story, and shall be saved till dinner-time. And now let me take the liberty of asking you a
20question. How did you come there, that day?" I told him, and he was attentive until I had finished, and then burst out
21laughing again, and asked me if I was sore afterwards? I didn't ask him if he was, for my conviction on that point was
22perfectly established. "Mr. Jaggers is your guardian, I understand?" he went on. "Yes." "You know he is Miss Havisham's
23man of business and solicitor, and has her confidence when nobody else has?" This was bringing me (I felt) towards
24dangerous ground. I answered with a constraint I made no attempt to disguise, that I had seen Mr. Jaggers in Miss
25Havisham's house on the very day of our combat, but never at any other time, and that I believed he had no recollection
26of having ever seen me there. "He was so obliging as to suggest my father for your tutor, and he called on my father to
27propose it. Of course he knew about my father from his connection with Miss Havisham. My father is Miss Havisham's
28cousin; not that that implies familiar intercourse between them, for he is a bad courtier and will not propitiate her."
29Herbert Pocket had a frank and easy way with him that was very taking. I had never seen any one then, and I have never
30seen any one since, who more strongly expressed to me, in every look and tone, a natural incapacity to do anything
31secret and mean. There was something wonderfully hopeful about his general air, and something that at the same time
32whispered to me he would never be very successful or rich. I don't know how this was. I became imbued with the notion on
33that first occasion before we sat down to dinner, but I cannot define by what means. He was still a pale young
34gentleman, and had a certain conquered languor about him in the midst of his spirits and briskness, that did not seem
35indicative of natural strength. He had not a handsome face, but it was better than handsome: being extremely amiable and
36cheerful. His figure was a little ungainly, as in the days when my knuckles had taken such liberties with it, but it
37looked as if it would always be light and young. Whether Mr. Trabb's local work would have sat more gracefully on him
38than on me, may be a question; but I am conscious that he carried off his rather old clothes much better than I carried
39off my new suit. As he was so communicative, I felt that reserve on my part would be a bad return unsuited to our years.
40I therefore told him my small story, and laid stress on my being forbidden to inquire who my benefactor was. I further
41mentioned that as I had been brought up a blacksmith in a country place, and knew very little of the ways of politeness,
42I would take it as a great kindness in him if he would give me a hint whenever he saw me at a loss or going wrong. "With
43pleasure," said he, "though I venture to prophesy that you'll want very few hints. I dare say we shall be often
44together, and I should like to banish any needless restraint between us. Will you do me the favour to begin at once to
45call me by my Christian name, Herbert?" I thanked him and said I would. I informed him in exchange that my Christian
46name was Philip. "I don't take to Philip," said he, smiling, "for it sounds like a moral boy out of the spelling-book,
47who was so lazy that he fell into a pond, or so fat that he couldn't see out of his eyes, or so avaricious that he
48locked up his cake till the mice ate it, or so determined to go a bird's-nesting that he got himself eaten by bears who
49lived handy in the neighbourhood. I tell you what I should like. We are so harmonious, and you have been a
50blacksmith,--would you mind it?" "I shouldn't mind anything that you propose," I answered, "but I don't understand you."
51"Would you mind Handel for a familiar name? There's a charming piece of music by Handel, called the Harmonious
52Blacksmith." "I should like it very much." "Then, my dear Handel," said he, turning round as the door opened, "here is
53the dinner, and I must beg of you to take the top of the table, because the dinner is of your providing." This I would
54not hear of, so he took the top, and I faced him. It was a nice little dinner,--seemed to me then a very Lord Mayor's
55Feast,--and it acquired additional relish from being eaten under those independent circumstances, with no old people by,
56and with London all around us. This again was heightened by a certain gypsy character that set the banquet off; for
57while the table was, as Mr. Pumblechook might have said, the lap of luxury,--being entirely furnished forth from the
58coffee-house,--the circumjacent region of sitting-room was of a comparatively pastureless and shifty character; imposing
59on the waiter the wandering habits of putting the covers on the floor (where he fell over them), the melted butter in
60the arm-chair, the bread on the bookshelves, the cheese in the coal-scuttle, and the boiled fowl into my bed in the next
61room,--where I found much of its parsley and butter in a state of congelation when I retired for the night. All this
62made the feast delightful, and when the waiter was not there to watch me, my pleasure was without alloy. We had made
63some progress in the dinner, when I reminded Herbert of his promise to tell me about Miss Havisham. "True," he replied.
64"I'll redeem it at once. Let me introduce the topic, Handel, by mentioning that in London it is not the custom to put
65the knife in the mouth,--for fear of accidents,--and that while the fork is reserved for that use, it is not put further
66in than necessary. It is scarcely worth mentioning, only it's as well to do as other people do. Also, the spoon is not
67generally used over-hand, but under. This has two advantages. You get at your mouth better (which after all is the
68object), and you save a good deal of the attitude of opening oysters, on the part of the right elbow." He offered these
69friendly suggestions in such a lively way, that we both laughed and I scarcely blushed.
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