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“It’s not that,” said he, “To return to the man and make an end of him. The marriage day was
fixed, the wedding dresses were bought, the wedding tour was planned out, the wedding guests were
invited. The day came, but not the bridegroom. He wrote her a letter – ”
“Which she received,” I struck in, “when she was dressing for her marriage? At twenty minutes
to nine?”
“At the hour and minute,” said Herbert, nodding, “at which she afterwards stopped all the
clocks.”
“Is that all the story?” I asked.
“All I know of it. But I have forgotten one thing. It has been supposed that the man to whom
she gave her misplaced confidence acted throughout in concert
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with her half-brother; that it was a
conspiracy between them; and that they shared the profits.”
“I wonder he didn’t marry her and get all the property,” said I.
“He may have been married already,” said Herbert. “But I don’t know that.”
“What became of the two men?” I asked, after considering the subject.
“They fell into deeper shame and degradation – if there can be deeper – and ruin.”
“Are they alive now?”
“I don’t know.”
“You said just now that Estella was not related to Miss Havisham, but adopted. When adopted?”
Herbert shrugged his shoulders. “There has always been an Estella, since I have heard of a Miss
Havisham. I know no more. And now, Handel, all that I know about Miss Havisham, you know.”
“And all that I know,” I retorted, “you know.”
On the Monday morning at a quarter before nine, Herbert went to the counting-house. He was
to come away in an hour or two to attend me to Hammersmith, and I was to wait about for him.
We went back to Barnard’s Inn and got my little bag, and then took coach for Hammersmith. We
arrived there at two or three o’clock in the afternoon, and had very little way to walk to Mr. Pocket’s
house. Lifting the latch of a gate, we passed direct into a little garden overlooking the river, where
Mr. Pocket’s children were playing about.
Mrs. Pocket was sitting on a garden chair under a tree, reading, with her legs upon another
garden chair; and Mrs. Pocket’s two nurse-maids were looking about them while the children played.
“Mamma,” said Herbert, “this is young Mr. Pip.”
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acted throughout in concert –
действовал заодно
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