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1After well considering the matter while I was dressing at the Blue Boar in the morning, I resolved to tell my guardian
2that I doubted Orlick's being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham's. "Why of course he is not
3the right sort of man, Pip," said my guardian, comfortably satisfied beforehand on the general head, "because the man
4who fills the post of trust never is the right sort of man." It seemed quite to put him into spirits to find that this
5particular post was not exceptionally held by the right sort of man, and he listened in a satisfied manner while I told
6him what knowledge I had of Orlick. "Very good, Pip," he observed, when I had concluded, "I'll go round presently, and
7pay our friend off." Rather alarmed by this summary action, I was for a little delay, and even hinted that our friend
8himself might be difficult to deal with. "Oh no he won't," said my guardian, making his pocket-handkerchief-point, with
9perfect confidence; "I should like to see him argue the question with me." As we were going back together to London by
10the midday coach, and as I breakfasted under such terrors of Pumblechook that I could scarcely hold my cup, this gave me
11an opportunity of saying that I wanted a walk, and that I would go on along the London road while Mr. Jaggers was
12occupied, if he would let the coachman know that I would get into my place when overtaken. I was thus enabled to fly
13from the Blue Boar immediately after breakfast. By then making a loop of about a couple of miles into the open country
14at the back of Pumblechook's premises, I got round into the High Street again, a little beyond that pitfall, and felt
15myself in comparative security. It was interesting to be in the quiet old town once more, and it was not disagreeable to
16be here and there suddenly recognised and stared after. One or two of the tradespeople even darted out of their shops
17and went a little way down the street before me, that they might turn, as if they had forgotten something, and pass me
18face to face,--on which occasions I don't know whether they or I made the worse pretence; they of not doing it, or I of
19not seeing it. Still my position was a distinguished one, and I was not at all dissatisfied with it, until Fate threw me
20in the way of that unlimited miscreant, Trabb's boy. Casting my eyes along the street at a certain point of my progress,
21I beheld Trabb's boy approaching, lashing himself with an empty blue bag. Deeming that a serene and unconscious
22contemplation of him would best beseem me, and would be most likely to quell his evil mind, I advanced with that
23expression of countenance, and was rather congratulating myself on my success, when suddenly the knees of Trabb's boy
24smote together, his hair uprose, his cap fell off, he trembled violently in every limb, staggered out into the road, and
25crying to the populace, "Hold me! I'm so frightened!" feigned to be in a paroxysm of terror and contrition, occasioned
26by the dignity of my appearance. As I passed him, his teeth loudly chattered in his head, and with every mark of extreme
27humiliation, he prostrated himself in the dust. This was a hard thing to bear, but this was nothing. I had not advanced
28another two hundred yards when, to my inexpressible terror, amazement, and indignation, I again beheld Trabb's boy
29approaching. He was coming round a narrow corner. His blue bag was slung over his shoulder, honest industry beamed in
30his eyes, a determination to proceed to Trabb's with cheerful briskness was indicated in his gait. With a shock he
31became aware of me, and was severely visited as before; but this time his motion was rotatory, and he staggered round
32and round me with knees more afflicted, and with uplifted hands as if beseeching for mercy. His sufferings were hailed
33with the greatest joy by a knot of spectators, and I felt utterly confounded. I had not got as much further down the
34street as the post-office, when I again beheld Trabb's boy shooting round by a back way. This time, he was entirely
35changed. He wore the blue bag in the manner of my great-coat, and was strutting along the pavement towards me on the
36opposite side of the street, attended by a company of delighted young friends to whom he from time to time exclaimed,
37with a wave of his hand, "Don't know yah!" Words cannot state the amount of aggravation and injury wreaked upon me by
38Trabb's boy, when passing abreast of me, he pulled up his shirt-collar, twined his side-hair, stuck an arm akimbo, and
39smirked extravagantly by, wriggling his elbows and body, and drawling to his attendants, "Don't know yah, don't know
40yah, 'pon my soul don't know yah!" The disgrace attendant on his immediately afterwards taking to crowing and pursuing
41me across the bridge with crows, as from an exceedingly dejected fowl who had known me when I was a blacksmith,
42culminated the disgrace with which I left the town, and was, so to speak, ejected by it into the open country.
43[Illustration] But unless I had taken the life of Trabb's boy on that occasion, I really do not even now see what I
44could have done save endure. To have struggled with him in the street, or to have exacted any lower recompense from him
45than his heart's best blood, would have been futile and degrading. Moreover, he was a boy whom no man could hurt; an
46invulnerable and dodging serpent who, when chased into a corner, flew out again between his captor's legs, scornfully
47yelping. I wrote, however, to Mr. Trabb by next day's post, to say that Mr. Pip must decline to deal further with one
48who could so far forget what he owed to the best interests of society, as to employ a boy who excited Loathing in every
49respectable mind. The coach, with Mr. Jaggers inside, came up in due time, and I took my box-seat again, and arrived in
50London safe,--but not sound, for my heart was gone. As soon as I arrived, I sent a penitential codfish and barrel of
51oysters to Joe (as reparation for not having gone myself), and then went on to Barnard's Inn. I found Herbert dining on
52cold meat, and delighted to welcome me back. Having despatched The Avenger to the coffee-house for an addition to the
53dinner, I felt that I must open my breast that very evening to my friend and chum. As confidence was out of the question
54with The Avenger in the hall, which could merely be regarded in the light of an antechamber to the keyhole, I sent him
55to the Play. A better proof of the severity of my bondage to that taskmaster could scarcely be afforded, than the
56degrading shifts to which I was constantly driven to find him employment. So mean is extremity, that I sometimes sent
57him to Hyde Park corner to see what o'clock it was. Dinner done and we sitting with our feet upon the fender, I said to
58Herbert, "My dear Herbert, I have something very particular to tell you." "My dear Handel," he returned, "I shall esteem
59and respect your confidence." "It concerns myself, Herbert," said I, "and one other person." Herbert crossed his feet,
60looked at the fire with his head on one side, and having looked at it in vain for some time, looked at me because I
61didn't go on. "Herbert," said I, laying my hand upon his knee, "I love--I adore--Estella." Instead of being transfixed,
62Herbert replied in an easy matter-of-course way, "Exactly. Well?" "Well, Herbert? Is that all you say? Well?" "What
63next, I mean?" said Herbert. "Of course I know that." "How do you know it?" said I. "How do I know it, Handel? Why, from
64you." "I never told you." "Told me! You have never told me when you have got your hair cut, but I have had senses to
65perceive it. You have always adored her, ever since I have known you. You brought your adoration and your portmanteau
66here together. Told me! Why, you have always told me all day long. When you told me your own story, you told me plainly
67that you began adoring her the first time you saw her, when you were very young indeed." "Very well, then," said I, to
68whom this was a new and not unwelcome light, "I have never left off adoring her. And she has come back, a most beautiful
69and most elegant creature. And I saw her yesterday. And if I adored her before, I now doubly adore her."
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