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1But I could not submit to be thrown off in that way, and I made a passionate, almost an indignant appeal, to him to be
2more frank and manly with me. I reminded him of the false hopes into which I had lapsed, the length of time they had
3lasted, and the discovery I had made: and I hinted at the danger that weighed upon my spirits. I represented myself as
4being surely worthy of some little confidence from him, in return for the confidence I had just now imparted. I said
5that I did not blame him, or suspect him, or mistrust him, but I wanted assurance of the truth from him. And if he asked
6me why I wanted it, and why I thought I had any right to it, I would tell him, little as he cared for such poor dreams,
7that I had loved Estella dearly and long, and that although I had lost her, and must live a bereaved life, whatever
8concerned her was still nearer and dearer to me than anything else in the world. And seeing that Mr. Jaggers stood quite
9still and silent, and apparently quite obdurate, under this appeal, I turned to Wemmick, and said, "Wemmick, I know you
10to be a man with a gentle heart. I have seen your pleasant home, and your old father, and all the innocent, cheerful
11playful ways with which you refresh your business life. And I entreat you to say a word for me to Mr. Jaggers, and to
12represent to him that, all circumstances considered, he ought to be more open with me!" I have never seen two men look
13more oddly at one another than Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick did after this apostrophe. At first, a misgiving crossed me that
14Wemmick would be instantly dismissed from his employment; but it melted as I saw Mr. Jaggers relax into something like a
15smile, and Wemmick become bolder. "What's all this?" said Mr. Jaggers. "You with an old father, and you with pleasant
16and playful ways?" "Well!" returned Wemmick. "If I don't bring 'em here, what does it matter?" "Pip," said Mr. Jaggers,
17laying his hand upon my arm, and smiling openly, "this man must be the most cunning impostor in all London." "Not a bit
18of it," returned Wemmick, growing bolder and bolder. "I think you're another." Again they exchanged their former odd
19looks, each apparently still distrustful that the other was taking him in. "You with a pleasant home?" said Mr. Jaggers.
20"Since it don't interfere with business," returned Wemmick, "let it be so. Now, I look at you, sir, I shouldn't wonder
21if you might be planning and contriving to have a pleasant home of your own one of these days, when you're tired of all
22this work." Mr. Jaggers nodded his head retrospectively two or three times, and actually drew a sigh. "Pip," said he,
23"we won't talk about 'poor dreams;' you know more about such things than I, having much fresher experience of that kind.
24But now about this other matter. I'll put a case to you. Mind! I admit nothing." He waited for me to declare that I
25quite understood that he expressly said that he admitted nothing. "Now, Pip," said Mr. Jaggers, "put this case. Put the
26case that a woman, under such circumstances as you have mentioned, held her child concealed, and was obliged to
27communicate the fact to her legal adviser, on his representing to her that he must know, with an eye to the latitude of
28his defence, how the fact stood about that child. Put the case that, at the same time he held a trust to find a child
29for an eccentric rich lady to adopt and bring up." "I follow you, sir." "Put the case that he lived in an atmosphere of
30evil, and that all he saw of children was their being generated in great numbers for certain destruction. Put the case
31that he often saw children solemnly tried at a criminal bar, where they were held up to be seen; put the case that he
32habitually knew of their being imprisoned, whipped, transported, neglected, cast out, qualified in all ways for the
33hangman, and growing up to be hanged. Put the case that pretty nigh all the children he saw in his daily business life
34he had reason to look upon as so much spawn, to develop into the fish that were to come to his net,--to be prosecuted,
35defended, forsworn, made orphans, bedevilled somehow." "I follow you, sir." "Put the case, Pip, that here was one pretty
36little child out of the heap who could be saved; whom the father believed dead, and dared make no stir about; as to
37whom, over the mother, the legal adviser had this power: "I know what you did, and how you did it. You came so and so,
38you did such and such things to divert suspicion. I have tracked you through it all, and I tell it you all. Part with
39the child, unless it should be necessary to produce it to clear you, and then it shall be produced. Give the child into
40my hands, and I will do my best to bring you off. If you are saved, your child is saved too; if you are lost, your child
41is still saved." Put the case that this was done, and that the woman was cleared." "I understand you perfectly." "But
42that I make no admissions?" "That you make no admissions." And Wemmick repeated, "No admissions." "Put the case, Pip,
43that passion and the terror of death had a little shaken the woman's intellects, and that when she was set at liberty,
44she was scared out of the ways of the world, and went to him to be sheltered. Put the case that he took her in, and that
45he kept down the old, wild, violent nature whenever he saw an inkling of its breaking out, by asserting his power over
46her in the old way. Do you comprehend the imaginary case?" "Quite." "Put the case that the child grew up, and was
47married for money. That the mother was still living. That the father was still living. That the mother and father,
48unknown to one another, were dwelling within so many miles, furlongs, yards if you like, of one another. That the secret
49was still a secret, except that you had got wind of it. Put that last case to yourself very carefully." "I do." "I ask
50Wemmick to put it to himself very carefully." And Wemmick said, "I do." "For whose sake would you reveal the secret? For
51the father's? I think he would not be much the better for the mother. For the mother's? I think if she had done such a
52deed she would be safer where she was. For the daughter's? I think it would hardly serve her to establish her parentage
53for the information of her husband, and to drag her back to disgrace, after an escape of twenty years, pretty secure to
54last for life. But add the case that you had loved her, Pip, and had made her the subject of those 'poor dreams' which
55have, at one time or another, been in the heads of more men than you think likely, then I tell you that you had
56better--and would much sooner when you had thought well of it--chop off that bandaged left hand of yours with your
57bandaged right hand, and then pass the chopper on to Wemmick there, to cut that off too." I looked at Wemmick, whose
58face was very grave. He gravely touched his lips with his forefinger. I did the same. Mr. Jaggers did the same. "Now,
59Wemmick," said the latter then, resuming his usual manner, "what item was it you were at when Mr. Pip came in?" Standing
60by for a little, while they were at work, I observed that the odd looks they had cast at one another were repeated
61several times: with this difference now, that each of them seemed suspicious, not to say conscious, of having shown
62himself in a weak and unprofessional light to the other. For this reason, I suppose, they were now inflexible with one
63another; Mr. Jaggers being highly dictatorial, and Wemmick obstinately justifying himself whenever there was the
64smallest point in abeyance for a moment. I had never seen them on such ill terms; for generally they got on very well
65indeed together.
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