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1In her furred travelling-dress, Estella seemed more delicately beautiful than she had ever seemed yet, even in my eyes.
2Her manner was more winning than she had cared to let it be to me before, and I thought I saw Miss Havisham's influence
3in the change. We stood in the Inn Yard while she pointed out her luggage to me, and when it was all collected I
4remembered--having forgotten everything but herself in the meanwhile--that I knew nothing of her destination. "I am
5going to Richmond," she told me. "Our lesson is, that there are two Richmonds, one in Surrey and one in Yorkshire, and
6that mine is the Surrey Richmond. The distance is ten miles. I am to have a carriage, and you are to take me. This is my
7purse, and you are to pay my charges out of it. O, you must take the purse! We have no choice, you and I, but to obey
8our instructions. We are not free to follow our own devices, you and I." As she looked at me in giving me the purse, I
9hoped there was an inner meaning in her words. She said them slightingly, but not with displeasure. "A carriage will
10have to be sent for, Estella. Will you rest here a little?" "Yes, I am to rest here a little, and I am to drink some
11tea, and you are to take care of me the while." She drew her arm through mine, as if it must be done, and I requested a
12waiter who had been staring at the coach like a man who had never seen such a thing in his life, to show us a private
13sitting-room. Upon that, he pulled out a napkin, as if it were a magic clue without which he couldn't find the way
14upstairs, and led us to the black hole of the establishment, fitted up with a diminishing mirror (quite a superfluous
15article, considering the hole's proportions), an anchovy sauce-cruet, and somebody's pattens. On my objecting to this
16retreat, he took us into another room with a dinner-table for thirty, and in the grate a scorched leaf of a copy-book
17under a bushel of coal-dust. Having looked at this extinct conflagration and shaken his head, he took my order; which,
18proving to be merely, "Some tea for the lady," sent him out of the room in a very low state of mind. I was, and I am,
19sensible that the air of this chamber, in its strong combination of stable with soup-stock, might have led one to infer
20that the coaching department was not doing well, and that the enterprising proprietor was boiling down the horses for
21the refreshment department. Yet the room was all in all to me, Estella being in it. I thought that with her I could have
22been happy there for life. (I was not at all happy there at the time, observe, and I knew it well.) "Where are you going
23to, at Richmond?" I asked Estella. "I am going to live," said she, "at a great expense, with a lady there, who has the
24power--or says she has--of taking me about, and introducing me, and showing people to me and showing me to people." "I
25suppose you will be glad of variety and admiration?" "Yes, I suppose so." She answered so carelessly, that I said, "You
26speak of yourself as if you were some one else." "Where did you learn how I speak of others? Come, come," said Estella,
27smiling delightfully, "you must not expect me to go to school to you; I must talk in my own way. How do you thrive with
28Mr. Pocket?" "I live quite pleasantly there; at least--" It appeared to me that I was losing a chance. "At least?"
29repeated Estella. "As pleasantly as I could anywhere, away from you." "You silly boy," said Estella, quite composedly,
30"how can you talk such nonsense? Your friend Mr. Matthew, I believe, is superior to the rest of his family?" "Very
31superior indeed. He is nobody's enemy--" "Don't add but his own," interposed Estella, "for I hate that class of man. But
32he really is disinterested, and above small jealousy and spite, I have heard?" "I am sure I have every reason to say
33so." "You have not every reason to say so of the rest of his people," said Estella, nodding at me with an expression of
34face that was at once grave and rallying, "for they beset Miss Havisham with reports and insinuations to your
35disadvantage. They watch you, misrepresent you, write letters about you (anonymous sometimes), and you are the torment
36and the occupation of their lives. You can scarcely realise to yourself the hatred those people feel for you." "They do
37me no harm, I hope?" Instead of answering, Estella burst out laughing. This was very singular to me, and I looked at her
38in considerable perplexity. When she left off--and she had not laughed languidly, but with real enjoyment--I said, in my
39diffident way with her,-- "I hope I may suppose that you would not be amused if they did me any harm." "No, no you may
40be sure of that," said Estella. "You may be certain that I laugh because they fail. O, those people with Miss Havisham,
41and the tortures they undergo!" She laughed again, and even now when she had told me why, her laughter was very singular
42to me, for I could not doubt its being genuine, and yet it seemed too much for the occasion. I thought there must really
43be something more here than I knew; she saw the thought in my mind, and answered it. "It is not easy for even you." said
44Estella, "to know what satisfaction it gives me to see those people thwarted, or what an enjoyable sense of the
45ridiculous I have when they are made ridiculous. For you were not brought up in that strange house from a mere baby. I
46was. You had not your little wits sharpened by their intriguing against you, suppressed and defenceless, under the mask
47of sympathy and pity and what not that is soft and soothing. I had. You did not gradually open your round childish eyes
48wider and wider to the discovery of that impostor of a woman who calculates her stores of peace of mind for when she
49wakes up in the night. I did." It was no laughing matter with Estella now, nor was she summoning these remembrances from
50any shallow place. I would not have been the cause of that look of hers for all my expectations in a heap. "Two things I
51can tell you," said Estella. "First, notwithstanding the proverb that constant dropping will wear away a stone, you may
52set your mind at rest that these people never will--never would in a hundred years--impair your ground with Miss
53Havisham, in any particular, great or small. Second, I am beholden to you as the cause of their being so busy and so
54mean in vain, and there is my hand upon it." As she gave it to me playfully,--for her darker mood had been but
55momentary--I held it and put it to my lips. "You ridiculous boy," said Estella, "will you never take warning? Or do you
56kiss my hand in the same spirit in which I once let you kiss my cheek?" "What spirit was that?" said I. "I must think a
57moment. A spirit of contempt for the fawners and plotters." "If I say yes, may I kiss the cheek again?" "You should have
58asked before you touched the hand. But, yes, if you like." I leaned down, and her calm face was like a statue's. "Now,"
59said Estella, gliding away the instant I touched her cheek, "you are to take care that I have some tea, and you are to
60take me to Richmond." Her reverting to this tone as if our association were forced upon us, and we were mere puppets,
61gave me pain; but everything in our intercourse did give me pain. Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put
62no trust in it, and build no hope on it; and yet I went on against trust and against hope. Why repeat it a thousand
63times? So it always was.
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