пятница, 29 марта 2013 г.

Pleasure Reading: Part 1 ('Great Expectations' by Ch. Dickens)

Philip Pirrip was an orphan, who lived with his elder sister's family. Mrs. Joe Gargery was not really glad to bring up her brother, that's why she always reminded him of how thankful he should be for living in that family. Even all their friends and relatives told him so, except Mr. Joe Gargery. He supported the boy. Joe was the only friend to Pip.

Once Pirrip went to the cemetry to visit his parents' grave. There he met a runaway convict, who threatened and made the boy steal some food from the house. The other day, the soldiers came to Mr. Joe for help, he was a blacksmith. They asked him to repair a pair of handcuffs, as they chased the runaway convict. When Joe finished his work, the soldiers allowed him and Pip to come with them. Finally, the convict was caught. As it turned out, it was exactly that person whom Pip met at the cemetry. But both of them pretended they hed never met.

Sometime later, Pip was sent to one rich old woman to entertain her. She was a very strange woman living with a niece Estella. She always sat in the dark room that's why she was very pale. The boy was to visit Miss Havisham once a week.

As Pip liked Estella, he decided to go to school in order Estella noticed him. Once on his way from school, the boy came to a public-house to bring Joe home. Joe introduced him a stranger, in whom Pirrip recognized that runaway convict. Before leaving the public house, that man gave Pip a shilling.

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