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1"MY DEAR MR PIP:-- "I write this by request of Mr. Gargery, for to let you know that he is going to London in company
2with Mr. Wopsle and would be glad if agreeable to be allowed to see you. He would call at Barnard's Hotel Tuesday
3morning at nine o'clock, when if not agreeable please leave word. Your poor sister is much the same as when you left. We
4talk of you in the kitchen every night, and wonder what you are saying and doing. If now considered in the light of a
5liberty, excuse it for the love of poor old days. No more, dear Mr. Pip, from "Your ever obliged, and affectionate
6servant, "BIDDY." "P.S. He wishes me most particular to write what larks. He says you will understand. I hope and do not
7doubt it will be agreeable to see him, even though a gentleman, for you had ever a good heart, and he is a worthy,
8worthy man. I have read him all, excepting only the last little sentence, and he wishes me most particular to write
9again what larks." I received this letter by the post on Monday morning, and therefore its appointment was for next day.
10Let me confess exactly with what feelings I looked forward to Joe's coming. Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him
11by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity. If I could have
12kept him away by paying money, I certainly would have paid money. My greatest reassurance was that he was coming to
13Barnard's Inn, not to Hammersmith, and consequently would not fall in Bentley Drummle's way. I had little objection to
14his being seen by Herbert or his father, for both of whom I had a respect; but I had the sharpest sensitiveness as to
15his being seen by Drummle, whom I held in contempt. So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually
16committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. I had begun to be always decorating the chambers in some
17quite unnecessary and inappropriate way or other, and very expensive those wrestles with Barnard proved to be. By this
18time, the rooms were vastly different from what I had found them, and I enjoyed the honour of occupying a few prominent
19pages in the books of a neighbouring upholsterer. I had got on so fast of late, that I had even started a boy in
20boots,--top boots,--in bondage and slavery to whom I might have been said to pass my days. For, after I had made the
21monster (out of the refuse of my washerwoman's family), and had clothed him with a blue coat, canary waistcoat, white
22cravat, creamy breeches, and the boots already mentioned, I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat; and
23with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence. This avenging phantom was ordered to be on duty at
24eight on Tuesday morning in the hall, (it was two feet square, as charged for floorcloth,) and Herbert suggested certain
25things for breakfast that he thought Joe would like. While I felt sincerely obliged to him for being so interested and
26considerate, I had an odd half-provoked sense of suspicion upon me, that if Joe had been coming to see him, he wouldn't
27have been quite so brisk about it. However, I came into town on the Monday night to be ready for Joe, and I got up early
28in the morning, and caused the sitting-room and breakfast-table to assume their most splendid appearance. Unfortunately
29the morning was drizzly, and an angel could not have concealed the fact that Barnard was shedding sooty tears outside
30the window, like some weak giant of a Sweep. As the time approached I should have liked to run away, but the Avenger
31pursuant to orders was in the hall, and presently I heard Joe on the staircase. I knew it was Joe, by his clumsy manner
32of coming upstairs,--his state boots being always too big for him,--and by the time it took him to read the names on the
33other floors in the course of his ascent. When at last he stopped outside our door, I could hear his finger tracing over
34the painted letters of my name, and I afterwards distinctly heard him breathing in at the keyhole. Finally he gave a
35faint single rap, and Pepper--such was the compromising name of the avenging boy--announced "Mr. Gargery!" I thought he
36never would have done wiping his feet, and that I must have gone out to lift him off the mat, but at last he came in.
37"Joe, how are you, Joe?" "Pip, how AIR you, Pip?" With his good honest face all glowing and shining, and his hat put
38down on the floor between us, he caught both my hands and worked them straight up and down, as if I had been the
39last-patented Pump. "I am glad to see you, Joe. Give me your hat." But Joe, taking it up carefully with both hands, like
40a bird's-nest with eggs in it, wouldn't hear of parting with that piece of property, and persisted in standing talking
41over it in a most uncomfortable way. "Which you have that growed," said Joe, "and that swelled, and that gentle-folked;"
42Joe considered a little before he discovered this word; "as to be sure you are a honour to your king and country." "And
43you, Joe, look wonderfully well." "Thank God," said Joe, "I'm ekerval to most. And your sister, she's no worse than she
44were. And Biddy, she's ever right and ready. And all friends is no backerder, if not no forarder. 'Ceptin Wopsle; he's
45had a drop." All this time (still with both hands taking great care of the bird's-nest), Joe was rolling his eyes round
46and round the room, and round and round the flowered pattern of my dressing-gown. "Had a drop, Joe?" "Why yes," said
47Joe, lowering his voice, "he's left the Church and went into the playacting. Which the playacting have likeways brought
48him to London along with me. And his wish were," said Joe, getting the bird's-nest under his left arm for the moment,
49and groping in it for an egg with his right; "if no offence, as I would 'and you that." I took what Joe gave me, and
50found it to be the crumpled play-bill of a small metropolitan theatre, announcing the first appearance, in that very
51week, of "the celebrated Provincial Amateur of Roscian renown, whose unique performance in the highest tragic walk of
52our National Bard has lately occasioned so great a sensation in local dramatic circles." "Were you at his performance,
53Joe?" I inquired. "I were," said Joe, with emphasis and solemnity. "Was there a great sensation?" "Why," said Joe, "yes,
54there certainly were a peck of orange-peel. Partickler when he see the ghost. Though I put it to yourself, sir, whether
55it were calc'lated to keep a man up to his work with a good hart, to be continiwally cutting in betwixt him and the
56Ghost with "Amen!" A man may have had a misfortun' and been in the Church," said Joe, lowering his voice to an
57argumentative and feeling tone, "but that is no reason why you should put him out at such a time. Which I meantersay, if
58the ghost of a man's own father cannot be allowed to claim his attention, what can, Sir? Still more, when his mourning
59'at is unfortunately made so small as that the weight of the black feathers brings it off, try to keep it on how you
60may." A ghost-seeing effect in Joe's own countenance informed me that Herbert had entered the room. So, I presented Joe
61to Herbert, who held out his hand; but Joe backed from it, and held on by the bird's-nest. "Your servant, Sir," said
62Joe, "which I hope as you and Pip"--here his eye fell on the Avenger, who was putting some toast on table, and so
63plainly denoted an intention to make that young gentleman one of the family, that I frowned it down and confused him
64more--"I meantersay, you two gentlemen,--which I hope as you get your elths in this close spot? For the present may be a
65werry good inn, according to London opinions," said Joe, confidentially, "and I believe its character do stand it; but I
66wouldn't keep a pig in it myself,--not in the case that I wished him to fatten wholesome and to eat with a meller
67flavour on him."
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