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1Of the conduct of the worldly minded Pumblechook while this was doing, I desire to say no more than it was all addressed
2to me; and that even when those noble passages were read which remind humanity how it brought nothing into the world and
3can take nothing out, and how it fleeth like a shadow and never continueth long in one stay, I heard him cough a
4reservation of the case of a young gentleman who came unexpectedly into large property. When we got back, he had the
5hardihood to tell me that he wished my sister could have known I had done her so much honour, and to hint that she would
6have considered it reasonably purchased at the price of her death. After that, he drank all the rest of the sherry, and
7Mr. Hubble drank the port, and the two talked (which I have since observed to be customary in such cases) as if they
8were of quite another race from the deceased, and were notoriously immortal. Finally, he went away with Mr. and Mrs.
9Hubble,--to make an evening of it, I felt sure, and to tell the Jolly Bargemen that he was the founder of my fortunes
10and my earliest benefactor. When they were all gone, and when Trabb and his men--but not his Boy; I looked for him--had
11crammed their mummery into bags, and were gone too, the house felt wholesomer. Soon afterwards, Biddy, Joe, and I, had a
12cold dinner together; but we dined in the best parlour, not in the old kitchen, and Joe was so exceedingly particular
13what he did with his knife and fork and the saltcellar and what not, that there was great restraint upon us. But after
14dinner, when I made him take his pipe, and when I had loitered with him about the forge, and when we sat down together
15on the great block of stone outside it, we got on better. I noticed that after the funeral Joe changed his clothes so
16far, as to make a compromise between his Sunday dress and working dress; in which the dear fellow looked natural, and
17like the Man he was. He was very much pleased by my asking if I might sleep in my own little room, and I was pleased
18too; for I felt that I had done rather a great thing in making the request. When the shadows of evening were closing in,
19I took an opportunity of getting into the garden with Biddy for a little talk. "Biddy," said I, "I think you might have
20written to me about these sad matters." "Do you, Mr. Pip?" said Biddy. "I should have written if I had thought that."
21"Don't suppose that I mean to be unkind, Biddy, when I say I consider that you ought to have thought that." "Do you, Mr.
22Pip?" She was so quiet, and had such an orderly, good, and pretty way with her, that I did not like the thought of
23making her cry again. After looking a little at her downcast eyes as she walked beside me, I gave up that point. "I
24suppose it will be difficult for you to remain here now, Biddy dear?" "Oh! I can't do so, Mr. Pip," said Biddy, in a
25tone of regret but still of quiet conviction. "I have been speaking to Mrs. Hubble, and I am going to her to-morrow. I
26hope we shall be able to take some care of Mr. Gargery, together, until he settles down." "How are you going to live,
27Biddy? If you want any mo--" "How am I going to live?" repeated Biddy, striking in, with a momentary flush upon her
28face. "I'll tell you, Mr. Pip. I am going to try to get the place of mistress in the new school nearly finished here. I
29can be well recommended by all the neighbours, and I hope I can be industrious and patient, and teach myself while I
30teach others. You know, Mr. Pip," pursued Biddy, with a smile, as she raised her eyes to my face, "the new schools are
31not like the old, but I learnt a good deal from you after that time, and have had time since then to improve." "I think
32you would always improve, Biddy, under any circumstances." "Ah! Except in my bad side of human nature," murmured Biddy.
33It was not so much a reproach as an irresistible thinking aloud. Well! I thought I would give up that point too. So, I
34walked a little further with Biddy, looking silently at her downcast eyes. "I have not heard the particulars of my
35sister's death, Biddy." "They are very slight, poor thing. She had been in one of her bad states--though they had got
36better of late, rather than worse--for four days, when she came out of it in the evening, just at tea-time, and said
37quite plainly, 'Joe.' As she had never said any word for a long while, I ran and fetched in Mr. Gargery from the forge.
38She made signs to me that she wanted him to sit down close to her, and wanted me to put her arms round his neck. So I
39put them round his neck, and she laid her head down on his shoulder quite content and satisfied. And so she presently
40said 'Joe' again, and once 'Pardon,' and once 'Pip.' And so she never lifted her head up any more, and it was just an
41hour later when we laid it down on her own bed, because we found she was gone." Biddy cried; the darkening garden, and
42the lane, and the stars that were coming out, were blurred in my own sight. "Nothing was ever discovered, Biddy?"
43"Nothing." "Do you know what is become of Orlick?" "I should think from the colour of his clothes that he is working in
44the quarries." "Of course you have seen him then?--Why are you looking at that dark tree in the lane?" "I saw him there,
45on the night she died." "That was not the last time either, Biddy?" "No; I have seen him there, since we have been
46walking here.--It is of no use," said Biddy, laying her hand upon my arm, as I was for running out, "you know I would
47not deceive you; he was not there a minute, and he is gone." It revived my utmost indignation to find that she was still
48pursued by this fellow, and I felt inveterate against him. I told her so, and told her that I would spend any money or
49take any pains to drive him out of that country. By degrees she led me into more temperate talk, and she told me how Joe
50loved me, and how Joe never complained of anything,--she didn't say, of me; she had no need; I knew what she meant,--but
51ever did his duty in his way of life, with a strong hand, a quiet tongue, and a gentle heart. "Indeed, it would be hard
52to say too much for him," said I; "and Biddy, we must often speak of these things, for of course I shall be often down
53here now. I am not going to leave poor Joe alone." Biddy said never a single word. "Biddy, don't you hear me?" "Yes, Mr.
54Pip." "Not to mention your calling me Mr. Pip,--which appears to me to be in bad taste, Biddy,--what do you mean?" "What
55do I mean?" asked Biddy, timidly. "Biddy," said I, in a virtuously self-asserting manner, "I must request to know what
56you mean by this?" "By this?" said Biddy. "Now, don't echo," I retorted. "You used not to echo, Biddy." "Used not!" said
57Biddy. "O Mr. Pip! Used!" Well! I rather thought I would give up that point too. After another silent turn in the
58garden, I fell back on the main position. "Biddy," said I, "I made a remark respecting my coming down here often, to see
59Joe, which you received with a marked silence. Have the goodness, Biddy, to tell me why." "Are you quite sure, then,
60that you WILL come to see him often?" asked Biddy, stopping in the narrow garden walk, and looking at me under the stars
61with a clear and honest eye. "O dear me!" said I, as if I found myself compelled to give up Biddy in despair. "This
62really is a very bad side of human nature! Don't say any more, if you please, Biddy. This shocks me very much."
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