After midnight on a Friday night/Saturday morning. Is this really what I should be doing? I was invited to a party to-night, you know, I do have a life. But I'm also sick and might have TB, so this renders my social life...not so good...
It'd be so uncomfortable to wear only one shoe!
Pip and Uncle Pumblechook arrive at his house. Pip sleeps in the attic. 87They eat breakfast at 8:00 the next morning.
Pip: [Good morning.]
Uncle Pumblechook: Seven times nine, boy!
They eat
88Uncle Pumblechook: Seven? And four? And eight? And six? And two? And ten?
At 10:00 they depart for Miss Havisham’s. They arrive and wait at a gate.
Uncle Pumblechook: And fourteen?
A girl arrives on the opposite side of the gate.
Estella: What name?
Uncle Pumblechook: Pumblechook.
Estlla: Quite right.
89Uncle Pumblechook: This, is Pip.
Estella: This is Pip, is it? Come in, Pip.
She admits Pip, but stops Uncle Pumblechook at the gate.
Estella: Oh! Did you wish to see Miss Havisham?
Uncle Pumblechook: If Miss Havisham wished to see me.
Estella: Ah! But you see she don't.
Uncle Pumblechook: Boy! Let your behaviour here be a credit unto them which brought you up by hand!
Estella locks the gate and they start walking to the house. Pip eyes a large brewery.
90Estella: You could drink without hurt all the strong beer that's brewed there now, boy.
Pip: I should think I could, miss.
Estella: Better not try to brew beer there now, or it would turn out sour, boy; don't you think so?
Pip: It looks like it, miss.
Estella: Not that anybody means to try, for that's all done with, and the place will stand as idle as it is, till it falls. As to strong beer, there's enough of it in the cellars already, to drown the Manor House.
Pip: Is that the name of this house, miss?
Estella: One of its names, boy.
Pip: It has more than one, then, miss?
Estella: One more. Its other name was Satis; which is Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three—or all one to me—for enough.
Pip: Enough House, that's a curious name, miss.
Estella: Yes, but it meant more than it said. It meant, when it was given, that whoever had this house, could want nothing else. They must have been easily satisfied in those days, I should think. But don't loiter, boy.
91They come to and enter the house and arrive at a large door.
Estella: Go in.
Pip: After you, miss.
Estella: Don’t be ridiculous, boy; I am not going in.
She departs and Pip enters nervously. 92He finds a large dressing room of a bride and Miss Havisham, dressed in an old yellowed bridal gown.
93Miss Havisham: Who is it?
Pip: Pip, ma'am.
Miss Havisham: Pip?
Pip: Mr. Pumblechook's boy, ma'am. Come—to play.
Miss Havisham: Come nearer; let me look at you. Come close. Look at me. You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?
Pip: No.
Miss Havisham (laying her hands on her left side): Do you know what I touch here?
Pip: Yes, ma'am.
Miss Havisham: What do I touch?
Pip: Your heart.
Miss Havisham: Broken! 94I am tired. I want diversion, and I have done with men and women. Play. I sometimes have sick fancies, and I have a sick fancy that I want to see some play. There there! Play, play, play!
Unsure what to do, Pip skips around the room trying to imitate Uncle Pumblechook’s chaise-cart.
Miss Havisham: Are you sullen and obstinate?
Pip: No, ma'am, I am very sorry for you, and very sorry I can't play just now. If you complain of me I shall get into trouble with my sister, so I would do it if I could; but it's so new here, and so strange, and so fine—and melancholy--
95Miss Havisham: So new to him, so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us! Call Estella. Call Estella. You can do that. Call Estella. At the door.
Pip goes out the door and calls for Estella. She arrives and goes to Miss Havisham, who puts a jeweled necklace on her.
Miss Havisham: Your own, one day, my dear, and you will use it well. Let me see you play cards with this boy.
Estella: With this boy? Why, he is a common labouring-boy!
Miss Havisham (quietly, to Estella): Well? You can break his heart.
Estella: What do you play, boy?
Pip: Nothing but beggar my neighbour, miss.
Miss Havisham: Beggar him.
96The two play cards as Miss Havisham watches
Estella: He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy! And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!
97Estella wins the game and Pip, incorrectly, deals the next.
Miss Havisham: You say nothing of her. She says many hard things of you, but you say nothing of her. What do you think of her?
Pip: I don't like to say.
Miss Havisham: Tell me in my ear.
Pip (whispering to Miss Havisham): I think she is very proud.
Miss Havisham: Anything else?
Pip(still whispering): I think she is very pretty.
Miss Havisham: Anything else?
Pip (whispering): I think she is very insulting.
Miss Havisham: Anything else?
Pip (whispering): I think I should like to go home.
Miss Havisham: And never see her again, though she is so pretty?
Pip (whispering):I am not sure that I shouldn't like to see her again, but I should like to go home now.
Miss Havisham: You shall go soon. Play the game out.
98The two play cards. Estella wins again.
Miss Havisham: When shall I have you here again? Let me think.
Pip: [To-day is Wednesday]
Miss Havisham: There, there! I know nothing of days of the week; I know nothing of weeks of the year. Come again after six days. You hear?
Pip: Yes, ma'am.
Miss Havisham: Estella, take him down. Let him have something to eat, and let him roam and look about him while he eats. Go, Pip.
They go out to a courtyard.
Estella: You are to wait here, you boy.
Pip surveys his hands and boots while he waits for Estella. She returns, gives him a mug of beer, bread and meat and leaves him. After she is gone, he cries and 100kicks against the brewery wall. He thinks his sister’s upbringing made him sensitive. He eats the food and 101decides to explore the brewery-yard and pigeon-house. 102In the brewery, he hallucinates a figure of Miss Havisham, hung. He runs, and 103sees Estella approaching him to let him out.
Estella: Why don't you cry?
Pip: Because I don't want to.
Estella: You do. You have been crying till you are half blind, and you are near crying again now.
Shes pushes him out and locks the gates. Pip goes to Uncle Pumblechook’s and, upon finding him absent, walks home.
Pip: [Good morning.]
Uncle Pumblechook: Seven times nine, boy!
They eat
88Uncle Pumblechook: Seven? And four? And eight? And six? And two? And ten?
At 10:00 they depart for Miss Havisham’s. They arrive and wait at a gate.
Uncle Pumblechook: And fourteen?
A girl arrives on the opposite side of the gate.
Estella: What name?
Uncle Pumblechook: Pumblechook.
Estlla: Quite right.
89Uncle Pumblechook: This, is Pip.
Estella: This is Pip, is it? Come in, Pip.
She admits Pip, but stops Uncle Pumblechook at the gate.
Estella: Oh! Did you wish to see Miss Havisham?
Uncle Pumblechook: If Miss Havisham wished to see me.
Estella: Ah! But you see she don't.
Uncle Pumblechook: Boy! Let your behaviour here be a credit unto them which brought you up by hand!
Estella locks the gate and they start walking to the house. Pip eyes a large brewery.
90Estella: You could drink without hurt all the strong beer that's brewed there now, boy.
Pip: I should think I could, miss.
Estella: Better not try to brew beer there now, or it would turn out sour, boy; don't you think so?
Pip: It looks like it, miss.
Estella: Not that anybody means to try, for that's all done with, and the place will stand as idle as it is, till it falls. As to strong beer, there's enough of it in the cellars already, to drown the Manor House.
Pip: Is that the name of this house, miss?
Estella: One of its names, boy.
Pip: It has more than one, then, miss?
Estella: One more. Its other name was Satis; which is Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three—or all one to me—for enough.
Pip: Enough House, that's a curious name, miss.
Estella: Yes, but it meant more than it said. It meant, when it was given, that whoever had this house, could want nothing else. They must have been easily satisfied in those days, I should think. But don't loiter, boy.
91They come to and enter the house and arrive at a large door.
Estella: Go in.
Pip: After you, miss.
Estella: Don’t be ridiculous, boy; I am not going in.
She departs and Pip enters nervously. 92He finds a large dressing room of a bride and Miss Havisham, dressed in an old yellowed bridal gown.
93Miss Havisham: Who is it?
Pip: Pip, ma'am.
Miss Havisham: Pip?
Pip: Mr. Pumblechook's boy, ma'am. Come—to play.
Miss Havisham: Come nearer; let me look at you. Come close. Look at me. You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?
Pip: No.
Miss Havisham (laying her hands on her left side): Do you know what I touch here?
Pip: Yes, ma'am.
Miss Havisham: What do I touch?
Pip: Your heart.
Miss Havisham: Broken! 94I am tired. I want diversion, and I have done with men and women. Play. I sometimes have sick fancies, and I have a sick fancy that I want to see some play. There there! Play, play, play!
Unsure what to do, Pip skips around the room trying to imitate Uncle Pumblechook’s chaise-cart.
Miss Havisham: Are you sullen and obstinate?
Pip: No, ma'am, I am very sorry for you, and very sorry I can't play just now. If you complain of me I shall get into trouble with my sister, so I would do it if I could; but it's so new here, and so strange, and so fine—and melancholy--
95Miss Havisham: So new to him, so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us! Call Estella. Call Estella. You can do that. Call Estella. At the door.
Pip goes out the door and calls for Estella. She arrives and goes to Miss Havisham, who puts a jeweled necklace on her.
Miss Havisham: Your own, one day, my dear, and you will use it well. Let me see you play cards with this boy.
Estella: With this boy? Why, he is a common labouring-boy!
Miss Havisham (quietly, to Estella): Well? You can break his heart.
Estella: What do you play, boy?
Pip: Nothing but beggar my neighbour, miss.
Miss Havisham: Beggar him.
96The two play cards as Miss Havisham watches
Estella: He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy! And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!
97Estella wins the game and Pip, incorrectly, deals the next.
Miss Havisham: You say nothing of her. She says many hard things of you, but you say nothing of her. What do you think of her?
Pip: I don't like to say.
Miss Havisham: Tell me in my ear.
Pip (whispering to Miss Havisham): I think she is very proud.
Miss Havisham: Anything else?
Pip(still whispering): I think she is very pretty.
Miss Havisham: Anything else?
Pip (whispering): I think she is very insulting.
Miss Havisham: Anything else?
Pip (whispering): I think I should like to go home.
Miss Havisham: And never see her again, though she is so pretty?
Pip (whispering):I am not sure that I shouldn't like to see her again, but I should like to go home now.
Miss Havisham: You shall go soon. Play the game out.
98The two play cards. Estella wins again.
Miss Havisham: When shall I have you here again? Let me think.
Pip: [To-day is Wednesday]
Miss Havisham: There, there! I know nothing of days of the week; I know nothing of weeks of the year. Come again after six days. You hear?
Pip: Yes, ma'am.
Miss Havisham: Estella, take him down. Let him have something to eat, and let him roam and look about him while he eats. Go, Pip.
They go out to a courtyard.
Estella: You are to wait here, you boy.
Pip surveys his hands and boots while he waits for Estella. She returns, gives him a mug of beer, bread and meat and leaves him. After she is gone, he cries and 100kicks against the brewery wall. He thinks his sister’s upbringing made him sensitive. He eats the food and 101decides to explore the brewery-yard and pigeon-house. 102In the brewery, he hallucinates a figure of Miss Havisham, hung. He runs, and 103sees Estella approaching him to let him out.
Estella: Why don't you cry?
Pip: Because I don't want to.
Estella: You do. You have been crying till you are half blind, and you are near crying again now.
Shes pushes him out and locks the gates. Pip goes to Uncle Pumblechook’s and, upon finding him absent, walks home.
