eneath her gladness for him, or how sorrowful
the good news made Joe.

That night Estella's face came before him, more full of disdain than
ever. As he thought of her and of the fine gentleman he was to be, the
humble kitchen and forge seemed to grow commoner and meaner by contrast.
He began to become a little spoiled and disdainful himself.

The news soon spread about, and every one who had looked down upon Pip
now gave him smiles and flattery. Uncle Pumblechook wept on his shoulder
and (instead of telling him, as usual, that he was sure to come to a bad
end) reminded him that he had always been his favorite.

Mr. Jaggers had given Pip a generous amount of money to buy new clothes
with, and these tended to make him more spoiled than ever. He began to
feel condescending toward Biddy, and found himself wondering whether,
when he should be rich and educated, Joe's manners would not make him
blush if they should meet.

And even when the day came for him to bid them good-by and he climbed
aboard the coach for London, he thought more of these things and his own
good luck than of the home he was parting from for ever, or of the true
and loving hearts he was leaving behind him.

This was an ignoble beginning for Pip and one that he came afterward to
remember with shame!

III

PIP DISCOVERS HIS BENEFACTOR

Mr. Jaggers, the lawyer in whose care Pip found himself in London, was
sharp and secret, and was so feared by criminals that they would never
go near his house, though he never locked his door, even at night.

He had a crusty clerk named Wemmick, as secret as he and a deal queerer.
Wemmick lived in a little wooden cottage that he called The Castle, and
which had its top cut out like a fort. It had a ditch all around it with
a plank drawbridge. When he got home from the office in the evening he
pulled up the drawbridge and ran up a flag on a flagstaff planted there.
And exactly at nine every night he fired off a brass cannon that he kept
in a latticework fortress beside it.

Wemmick was the first one Pip met in London, and the clerk took him to
the rooms where Mr. Jaggers had arranged for Pip to live, with the son
of a gentleman who was to be his teacher. This gentleman was a Mr.
Pocket, a relative (as Pip discovered) of Miss Havisham, which fact made
him all the more certain that she was his unknown friend. Mr. Pocket's
son was named Herbert, and the minute he and Pip first saw each other
they burst out laughing