Great Expectations Page #7

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I understand.

I understand your desperation.

Pip...

you don't understand what

I risked for you.

- Eh?

- Me?

Me? What are you to me?

You're the child who acted

noble to me...

and I have never forgot it, Pip.

You?

Abel Magwitch.

Convict then.

And since...

a sheep-farmer...

stock-breeder who came to

wonderful wealth, Pip.

Look, I'm glad you have recovered

yourself but...

I cannot renew that chance intercourse

for our ways are different ways now.

Oh, no, they're not!

- I asked Wemmick for your address.

- You know Wemmick?

I instruct his master. Jaggers.

You have been chosen to...

subside to some property.

Are you not?

May I ask whose property?

- I don't know.

- I do.

Look at your fine linen.

And the ring set round with rubies.

That's a gentleman's.

Yes, Pip... dear boy.

It's me who's done this.

I made a gentleman on you.

There wasn't no one else?

Who else should there be?

- It should be...

- I swore that time,

sure as ever I earned a guinea,

that guinea should go to you.

I swore since, sure as I ever

speculated and got rich,

you should get rich.

I lived rough, that you

should live smooth.

And you do!

And my pleasure to

see you do it.

Best of all, Pip!

Best of any one of them!

From the judge in his wig

to the colonist of the dust.

I'll show them a better gentleman

than all of them put together.

No!

I looked forward so distant, Pip.

From so far.

Herbert, I think.

Take it in right hand.

Lord strike you dead on the spot

if you speak in any way or soever..

- Kiss it.

- Do Herbert as he wishes it.

Now you're on oath you know,

Pip's comrade.

Have I the pleasure of meeting

Mr. Joe Gargery then?

You are not as Pip describes you.

I'm not in the business

of fashioning old shoes.

I make gentlemen,

don't I, Pip?

I own one brought up

in London, gentlemen.

Pip?

When I was a boy Mr. Magwitch

found himself caught in the manacle.

Now I find it made him rose

into my flesh.

If I never take another penny from him,

think how much I owe him already.

And you intend to take

no further benefits from him?

- Oh, how can I?

- But your debts, Pip?

If I choose to renounce my patron

that is a matter of me, Herbert.

Why do you seek to

give me this advice?

I seek to give you this advice

as a friend.

You may look and him and feel

quite unable to accept

any expenses he comes

to lavish you with,

but think how he may

react to that.

- What do you mean?

- Well... think of this.

He comes here at the risk

of his own life,

for the realization of his

fixed idea... yourself.

In the moment of this realization,

after all his toil and waiting,

you cut the ground from under

his feet, destroy his idea,

and make his gains

worthless to him.

And that kind of disappointment do you see

nothing that he might do.

My reputation is ruined if I accept

his money and ruined if I don't.

That's his power of you.

But only as long as he

remains in England.

But how I am supposed to get him

out of the country?

If you want to induce him to go

you will have to go with him.

Go where?

Go for a soldier in east of India?

Don't be absurd.

Wherever I go with him

I can't prevent his coming back.

The danger of his recklessness

is here and now

and Newgate is the next street.

The first thing you must do

is to get him out of here.

- Find a lodging house for him.

- Yes.

And as for the rest,

you are right.

I have to extricate myself.

Extricate myself from him.

I'm going back to Kent tonight.

Some business there with Miss Havisham.

You will be back to tend

your business here?

Oh, yes.

Clara. A new tenant

for your house.

Miss.

You best not loiter, Abel.

We will blast them all one day,

eh, Pip?

We will blast them all, eh?

Pip's gentleman.

Pip, this is my dear girl Clara.

Now I see why have you looked

so favourably to the future.

I think it was with some

excitement too.

Herbert, I have to leave to Kent.

- Goodbye.

- Goodbye.

What wind blows you here?

When I set off from the coach

I had one purpose only.

And now I find I have

other business too.

Well, speak.

These past few years it seems

I have been harbouring a delusion.

More than one, in fact.

And you encouraged them.

Fueled them.

- You let me go on.

- Yes. I let you go on.

Was that kind?

Who am I for god's sake

that I should be kind?

I have found out

who my patron is.

It is not a fortunate discovery,

and is not likely ever to enrich me

in reputation, station,

fortune, anything.

But I think I have since made

the worst discovery.

I've just seen Drummle.

I'm going to marry him.

Why not tell me?

And not inform me?

You ingrate!

I plan to presently. It is the reason

for this visit but it is my own act

and that is something

long overdue.

You cold cold heart.

Do you reproach me

for being cold?

I learned your lessons.

I am what you have made me.

So proud.

Who taught me to be proud?

Who told me that the daylight

would blind me

that I should not go near to now?

Cannot!

I have never been unfaithful

to you all your schooling.

I have never shown any weakness

that I can charge myself with.

It would be weakness

to return respect?

To return love?

Love?

Estella?

You know I love you.

You cannot give yourself away

to that mean and stupid brute.

I shall do well enough.

So shall my husband.

You're supposed to marry for love, Estella.

Not as an act of will.

Mr. Drummle knows I take nothing

to the marriage. He does not mind it.

He will not feel it.

And so that's you choose him?

Who should I go to Pip?

The man who would expect marriage

to me to be a blessing.

Who would expect feeling,

who would expect love?

And so the man who loves you

is to be rejected by you.

Man who loves me will no longer be

disappointed by me, tormented by me.

- I will always be tormented by you.

- Nonsense. It will pass in a week.

- To the last hour of my life!

- No, I cannot comprehend it.

I cannot comprehend.

I have a heart to be stabbed

in a shooting, Pip.

Nothing more.

I did try to warn you of this.

Can I help you there, Joe?

Pip.

Pip standing large as life

in the forge door?

Why? This is astonishing,

old chap!

- Oh, how are you, Joe?

- Well, I'm astonished.

What brings you here?

I had business at Satis House.

You could send me a word, Pip,

for I am a reader now,

thanks to Biddy.

I wasn't expected.

In fact, it's been difficult to make

any plans lately, Joe.

Come, Joe.

Let's beat it out.

No, Pip. I don't think

that'll be fit now. Do you?

Not any more, old chap.

Sir? Sir?

The messanger of this said

you would be most kind if you

read it by my lantern.

Mr. Pip, don't go home.

You have my note?

Never leave documentary

evidence if you can help it.

Now...

The disappearance of a certain

person from the colonies

has provoked some conjecture

amongst the fraternity of which

he was a member.

And your chambers

are being watched.

Who by?

- You have somewhere to go tonight?

- Yes.

Then I advise you not to break cover

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