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1With those words the Impostor shook them both by the hand, with an air, and left the house; leaving me much more
2astonished than delighted by the virtues of that same indefinite "it." I was not long after him in leaving the house
3too, and when I went down the High Street I saw him holding forth (no doubt to the same effect) at his shop door to a
4select group, who honoured me with very unfavourable glances as I passed on the opposite side of the way. But, it was
5only the pleasanter to turn to Biddy and to Joe, whose great forbearance shone more brightly than before, if that could
6be, contrasted with this brazen pretender. I went towards them slowly, for my limbs were weak, but with a sense of
7increasing relief as I drew nearer to them, and a sense of leaving arrogance and untruthfulness further and further
8behind. The June weather was delicious. The sky was blue, the larks were soaring high over the green corn, I thought all
9that countryside more beautiful and peaceful by far than I had ever known it to be yet. Many pleasant pictures of the
10life that I would lead there, and of the change for the better that would come over my character when I had a guiding
11spirit at my side whose simple faith and clear home wisdom I had proved, beguiled my way. They awakened a tender emotion
12in me; for my heart was softened by my return, and such a change had come to pass, that I felt like one who was toiling
13home barefoot from distant travel, and whose wanderings had lasted many years. The schoolhouse where Biddy was mistress
14I had never seen; but, the little roundabout lane by which I entered the village, for quietness' sake, took me past it.
15I was disappointed to find that the day was a holiday; no children were there, and Biddy's house was closed. Some
16hopeful notion of seeing her, busily engaged in her daily duties, before she saw me, had been in my mind and was
17defeated. But the forge was a very short distance off, and I went towards it under the sweet green limes, listening for
18the clink of Joe's hammer. Long after I ought to have heard it, and long after I had fancied I heard it and found it but
19a fancy, all was still. The limes were there, and the white thorns were there, and the chestnut-trees were there, and
20their leaves rustled harmoniously when I stopped to listen; but, the clink of Joe's hammer was not in the midsummer
21wind. Almost fearing, without knowing why, to come in view of the forge, I saw it at last, and saw that it was closed.
22No gleam of fire, no glittering shower of sparks, no roar of bellows; all shut up, and still. But the house was not
23deserted, and the best parlour seemed to be in use, for there were white curtains fluttering in its window, and the
24window was open and gay with flowers. I went softly towards it, meaning to peep over the flowers, when Joe and Biddy
25stood before me, arm in arm. At first Biddy gave a cry, as if she thought it was my apparition, but in another moment
26she was in my embrace. I wept to see her, and she wept to see me; I, because she looked so fresh and pleasant; she,
27because I looked so worn and white. "But dear Biddy, how smart you are!" "Yes, dear Pip." "And Joe, how smart you are!"
28"Yes, dear old Pip, old chap." I looked at both of them, from one to the other, and then-- "It's my wedding-day!" cried
29Biddy, in a burst of happiness, "and I am married to Joe!" They had taken me into the kitchen, and I had laid my head
30down on the old deal table. Biddy held one of my hands to her lips, and Joe's restoring touch was on my shoulder. "Which
31he warn't strong enough, my dear, fur to be surprised," said Joe. And Biddy said, "I ought to have thought of it, dear
32Joe, but I was too happy." They were both so overjoyed to see me, so proud to see me, so touched by my coming to them,
33so delighted that I should have come by accident to make their day complete! My first thought was one of great
34thankfulness that I had never breathed this last baffled hope to Joe. How often, while he was with me in my illness, had
35it risen to my lips! How irrevocable would have been his knowledge of it, if he had remained with me but another hour!
36"Dear Biddy," said I, "you have the best husband in the whole world, and if you could have seen him by my bed you would
37have--But no, you couldn't love him better than you do." "No, I couldn't indeed," said Biddy. "And, dear Joe, you have
38the best wife in the whole world, and she will make you as happy as even you deserve to be, you dear, good, noble Joe!"
39Joe looked at me with a quivering lip, and fairly put his sleeve before his eyes. "And Joe and Biddy both, as you have
40been to church to-day, and are in charity and love with all mankind, receive my humble thanks for all you have done for
41me, and all I have so ill repaid! And when I say that I am going away within the hour, for I am soon going abroad, and
42that I shall never rest until I have worked for the money with which you have kept me out of prison, and have sent it to
43you, don't think, dear Joe and Biddy, that if I could repay it a thousand times over, I suppose I could cancel a
44farthing of the debt I owe you, or that I would do so if I could!" They were both melted by these words, and both
45entreated me to say no more. "But I must say more. Dear Joe, I hope you will have children to love, and that some little
46fellow will sit in this chimney-corner of a winter night, who may remind you of another little fellow gone out of it for
47ever. Don't tell him, Joe, that I was thankless; don't tell him, Biddy, that I was ungenerous and unjust; only tell him
48that I honoured you both, because you were both so good and true, and that, as your child, I said it would be natural to
49him to grow up a much better man than I did." "I ain't a-going," said Joe, from behind his sleeve, "to tell him nothink
50o' that natur, Pip. Nor Biddy ain't. Nor yet no one ain't." "And now, though I know you have already done it in your own
51kind hearts, pray tell me, both, that you forgive me! Pray let me hear you say the words, that I may carry the sound of
52them away with me, and then I shall be able to believe that you can trust me, and think better of me, in the time to
53come!" "O dear old Pip, old chap," said Joe. "God knows as I forgive you, if I have anythink to forgive!" "Amen! And God
54knows I do!" echoed Biddy. "Now let me go up and look at my old little room, and rest there a few minutes by myself. And
55then, when I have eaten and drunk with you, go with me as far as the finger-post, dear Joe and Biddy, before we say
56good-bye!" I sold all I had, and put aside as much as I could, for a composition with my creditors,--who gave me ample
57time to pay them in full,--and I went out and joined Herbert. Within a month, I had quitted England, and within two
58months I was clerk to Clarriker and Co., and within four months I assumed my first undivided responsibility. For the
59beam across the parlour ceiling at Mill Pond Bank had then ceased to tremble under old Bill Barley's growls and was at
60peace, and Herbert had gone away to marry Clara, and I was left in sole charge of the Eastern Branch until he brought
61her back. Many a year went round before I was a partner in the House; but I lived happily with Herbert and his wife, and
62lived frugally, and paid my debts, and maintained a constant correspondence with Biddy and Joe. It was not until I
63became third in the Firm, that Clarriker betrayed me to Herbert; but he then declared that the secret of Herbert's
64partnership had been long enough upon his conscience, and he must tell it. So he told it, and Herbert was as much moved
65as amazed, and the dear fellow and I were not the worse friends for the long concealment. I must not leave it to be
66supposed that we were ever a great House, or that we made mints of money. We were not in a grand way of business, but we
67had a good name, and worked for our profits, and did very well. We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and
68readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by
69the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.
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