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1I rang for the tea, and the waiter, reappearing with his magic clue, brought in by degrees some fifty adjuncts to that
2refreshment, but of tea not a glimpse. A teaboard, cups and saucers, plates, knives and forks (including carvers),
3spoons (various), salt-cellars, a meek little muffin confined with the utmost precaution under a strong iron cover,
4Moses in the bulrushes typified by a soft bit of butter in a quantity of parsley, a pale loaf with a powdered head, two
5proof impressions of the bars of the kitchen fireplace on triangular bits of bread, and ultimately a fat family urn;
6which the waiter staggered in with, expressing in his countenance burden and suffering. After a prolonged absence at
7this stage of the entertainment, he at length came back with a casket of precious appearance containing twigs. These I
8steeped in hot water, and so from the whole of these appliances extracted one cup of I don't know what for Estella. The
9bill paid, and the waiter remembered, and the ostler not forgotten, and the chambermaid taken into consideration,--in a
10word, the whole house bribed into a state of contempt and animosity, and Estella's purse much lightened,--we got into
11our post-coach and drove away. Turning into Cheapside and rattling up Newgate Street, we were soon under the walls of
12which I was so ashamed. "What place is that?" Estella asked me. I made a foolish pretence of not at first recognising
13it, and then told her. As she looked at it, and drew in her head again, murmuring, "Wretches!" I would not have
14confessed to my visit for any consideration. "Mr. Jaggers," said I, by way of putting it neatly on somebody else, "has
15the reputation of being more in the secrets of that dismal place than any man in London." "He is more in the secrets of
16every place, I think," said Estella, in a low voice. "You have been accustomed to see him often, I suppose?" "I have
17been accustomed to see him at uncertain intervals, ever since I can remember. But I know him no better now, than I did
18before I could speak plainly. What is your own experience of him? Do you advance with him?" "Once habituated to his
19distrustful manner," said I, "I have done very well." "Are you intimate?" "I have dined with him at his private house."
20"I fancy," said Estella, shrinking "that must be a curious place." "It is a curious place." I should have been chary of
21discussing my guardian too freely even with her; but I should have gone on with the subject so far as to describe the
22dinner in Gerrard Street, if we had not then come into a sudden glare of gas. It seemed, while it lasted, to be all
23alight and alive with that inexplicable feeling I had had before; and when we were out of it, I was as much dazed for a
24few moments as if I had been in lightning. So we fell into other talk, and it was principally about the way by which we
25were travelling, and about what parts of London lay on this side of it, and what on that. The great city was almost new
26to her, she told me, for she had never left Miss Havisham's neighbourhood until she had gone to France, and she had
27merely passed through London then in going and returning. I asked her if my guardian had any charge of her while she
28remained here? To that she emphatically said "God forbid!" and no more. It was impossible for me to avoid seeing that
29she cared to attract me; that she made herself winning, and would have won me even if the task had needed pains. Yet
30this made me none the happier, for even if she had not taken that tone of our being disposed of by others, I should have
31felt that she held my heart in her hand because she wilfully chose to do it, and not because it would have wrung any
32tenderness in her to crush it and throw it away. When we passed through Hammersmith, I showed her where Mr. Matthew
33Pocket lived, and said it was no great way from Richmond, and that I hoped I should see her sometimes. "O yes, you are
34to see me; you are to come when you think proper; you are to be mentioned to the family; indeed you are already
35mentioned." I inquired was it a large household she was going to be a member of? "No; there are only two; mother and
36daughter. The mother is a lady of some station, though not averse to increasing her income." "I wonder Miss Havisham
37could part with you again so soon." "It is a part of Miss Havisham's plans for me, Pip," said Estella, with a sigh, as
38if she were tired; "I am to write to her constantly and see her regularly and report how I go on,--I and the
39jewels,--for they are nearly all mine now." It was the first time she had ever called me by my name. Of course she did
40so purposely, and knew that I should treasure it up. We came to Richmond all too soon, and our destination there was a
41house by the green,--a staid old house, where hoops and powder and patches, embroidered coats, rolled stockings, ruffles
42and swords, had had their court days many a time. Some ancient trees before the house were still cut into fashions as
43formal and unnatural as the hoops and wigs and stiff skirts; but their own allotted places in the great procession of
44the dead were not far off, and they would soon drop into them and go the silent way of the rest. A bell with an old
45voice--which I dare say in its time had often said to the house, Here is the green farthingale, Here is the
46diamond-hilted sword, Here are the shoes with red heels and the blue solitaire--sounded gravely in the moonlight, and
47two cherry-coloured maids came fluttering out to receive Estella. The doorway soon absorbed her boxes, and she gave me
48her hand and a smile, and said good-night, and was absorbed likewise. And still I stood looking at the house, thinking
49how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable. I
50got into the carriage to be taken back to Hammersmith, and I got in with a bad heart-ache, and I got out with a worse
51heart-ache. At our own door, I found little Jane Pocket coming home from a little party escorted by her little lover;
52and I envied her little lover, in spite of his being subject to Flopson. Mr. Pocket was out lecturing; for, he was a
53most delightful lecturer on domestic economy, and his treatises on the management of children and servants were
54considered the very best text-books on those themes. But Mrs. Pocket was at home, and was in a little difficulty, on
55account of the baby's having been accommodated with a needle-case to keep him quiet during the unaccountable absence
56(with a relative in the Foot Guards) of Millers. And more needles were missing than it could be regarded as quite
57wholesome for a patient of such tender years either to apply externally or to take as a tonic. Mr. Pocket being justly
58celebrated for giving most excellent practical advice, and for having a clear and sound perception of things and a
59highly judicious mind, I had some notion in my heart-ache of begging him to accept my confidence. But happening to look
60up at Mrs. Pocket as she sat reading her book of dignities after prescribing Bed as a sovereign remedy for baby, I
61thought--Well--No, I wouldn't.
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