Great Expectations Page #3

That's all till next time.

Miss Havisham, I can't come next time.

This is sad news, Pip. Why not?

Tomorrow is my birthday

and I'm fourteen.

And you start your apprenticeship

with the blacksmith, do you not?

Yes, Miss Havisham.

Why so glum, Pip?

Are you not excited

by your new venture?

I used to think I would be,

but I'm not now.

Pip...

here are some golden sovereigns.

- A gift from me.

- Thank you, Miss Havisham.

Do with them what you please.

You've earned them well.

Thank you.

Come and see me on your next birthday.

- Yes, Miss Havisham.

- Estella, show him out.

Goodbye, Miss Havisham.

Goodbye, Pip.

You'd better say goodbye to me

because I'm going away too.

- Going away?

- Yes.

I'm going to France

to be educated for a lady.

- Educated for a lady?

- Yes.

Well? Aren't you sorry I'm going?

Yes, Estella. I'm very sorry.

I wish I knew when

you were coming back. I wish...

What do you wish?

I wish I could kiss you goodbye.

My boyhood had ended

and my life as a blacksmith began.

It was in the sixth year

of my apprenticeship,

and it was a Friday night.

Are you the blacksmith

by name Joseph, or Joe, Gargery?

Yes, sir.

Have you an apprentice commonly

known as Pip? Is he here?

I'm Pip, sir.

- So you are Pip?

- Yes, sir.

My name is Jaggers.

I'm a lawyer in London.

I wish to have

a private conference with you two.

We'd better go into the house.

Now, Joseph Gargery,

I am the bearer of an offer

to relieve you of this young fellow.

You would not object to cancel

his apprenticeship for his own good?

- You would want nothing?

- Heaven forbid I should want anything

for not standing in Pip's way.

Very well, then.

I come now to this young fellow.

And my communication to him

is that he has great expectations.

I am instructed to communicate to him

that he will come into

a handsome property.

Further, that it is at the desire of

the present possessor of that property

that he shall be removed from his

present sphere of life and from this place

and be brought up as befits a young

gentleman of great expectations.

Now, Mr. Pip, you are to understand first

that it is at the request of the person

from whom I take my instructions

that you always bear the name of Pip.

If you have any objection,

now is the time to mention it.

I have no objection.

I should think not, indeed.

Secondly, Mr. Pip,

you are to understand that the name

of the person who is your benefactor

is to remain a profound secret

until that person chooses to reveal it.

If you have any suspicion

whom that person might be,

keep that suspicion

within your own breast.

If you have any objection,

now is the time to mention it.

- Speak out.

- I have no objection.

And now, Mr. Pip,

kindly consider me your guardian.

I thank you, sir.

I'm well paid for my services,

otherwise I shouldn't render them.

I have arranged for you

to go to London in a week's time.

You will need some new clothes.

They should not be working clothes.

Twenty guineas.

Well, Joseph Gargery?

You look dumbfounded.

I am.

Then good night, Mr. Gargery.

- Good night, Pip.

- Good night, sir.

Pip!

A young gentleman of great

expectations!

Biddy! Biddy!

Pip!

This is a very gay figure, Pip.

I start for London tomorrow.

I thought you would not mind

my taking leave of you.

Well?

I've come into such good fortune

since I saw you last

and I am so grateful for it.

I've seen Mr. Jaggers, Pip.

I've heard about it.

- So you go tomorrow?

- Yes, Miss Havisham.

And you are adopted by a rich person.

- Not named?

- No, Miss Havisham.

And Mr. Jaggers is made your guardian?

Yes, Miss Havisham.

- Is Estella...

- Abroad.

Prettier than ever

and admired by all who see her.

And you too have

a promising career before you.

Be good and deserve it, Pip.

You will always keep

the name of Pip, you know.

Yes, Miss Havisham.

Goodbye, Pip.

Well...

Bye, Joe.

God bless you, dear old Pip.

God bless you.

- Bye, Biddy.

- Goodbye, Pip.

One day I'll come

and see you in London, Pip,

and then what larks, eh?

- Goodbye!

- Goodbye, Joe.

Goodbye, Pip, old chap.

Hey, London.

Ahem. Excuse me, please.

Is Mr. Jaggers at home?

He is not. He's in court at present.

- Am I addressing Mr. Pip?

- Yes, I'm Mr. Pip.

Mr. Jaggers left word would you wait

in his room. This way, please.

Couldn't say how long he might be

but he won't be longer than he can help.

Go and wait outside, Mike.

- I hope I'm not interrupting.

- Oh, certainly not.

Oi!

- Your first time in London, Mr. Pip?

- Yes, sir.

I was new here once.

Rum to think of it now.

- Whose likeness is that?

- That?

This is our most famous client.

Got us a world of credit.

This chap murdered his master.

Didn't plan it badly.

- Is it like him?

- Like him? It is him, you know.

This cast was made in Newgate,

directly after he was taken down.

Your man is on this afternoon.

Got the witness?

- Yes, Mr. Jaggers.

- Wait here.

- Mr. Pip's here.

- Good.

Ah, so you've arrived safely, Mr. Pip.

Good morning.

- Good morning, Mr. Jaggers.

- We can soon settle you.

Wemmick, Mr. Pip's file.

Wemmick will show you to Mr. Herbert

Pocket's rooms in Barnard's Inn,

where you will live.

Oh, sit down, Mr. Pip, sit down.

Mr. Pocket can give you a good lead

as to the places in London

with which you should become

acquainted. That is agreeable?

- Yes, Mr. Jaggers.

- Next, money.

Your allowance will be 250 per annum,

which means that

you will draw from Wemmick

the sum of 62 pounds,

10 shillings per quarter.

A very handsome sum

of money too, I think.

- You consider it so?

- How could I do otherwise?

- But answer the question.

- Undoubtedly, Mr. Jaggers.

Good.

Get out!

Here is a list of tradespeople

with whom you may run an account.

- Take Mr. Pip to Barnard's Inn.

- Yes, sir.

I shall check the bills

and pull you up if you get on too well.

You'll go wrong somehow,

but that's no fault of mine.

Goodbye and good luck, Mr. Pip. Mike!

Mr. Wemmick, I don't quite know

what to make of Mr. Jaggers.

He don't mean that you should know.

Deep, that's what he is, as Australia.

Who was that

he shouted at so fiercely?

That was his housekeeper,

name of Molly.

He got her off on a murder charge.

Murder? Isn he frightened of her?

Not him. When you come to see us again,

take a good look at her.

- Shall I see anything uncommon?

- You'll see a wild beast tamed.

Keep your eye on it.

Here we are.

Mr. Pocket's on the first floor.

- You don't want me any more?

- No, thank you.

As I keep the cash,

we shall most likely meet pretty often.

Very glad to make your acquaintance.

- Good day.

- Good day, sir.

Mr. Pip?

Mr. Pocket?

I'm extremely sorry, but the fact is

I've been out on your account,

for I thought you might like a little fruit.

- I went to Covent Garden market for it.

- Thank you. It's very nice of you.

Can I take the parcels?

It sticks, you know.

Pray, come in.

Now, this is the sitting room.

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