Pleasure Reading: Part 6

Jaggers invited Pip to dinner, where he gave the young man a note from Miss Havisham, that's why Pip visited Miss Havisham.  She felt unbearably guilty for having caused Estella to break his heart. He acted kindly toward her, then went for a walk in the garden. When he looked up at her window and saw her bend over the fire and went up in a column of flame. Pip safed he, but Miss Havisham became an invalid.


When Pirrip returned to London, he got a message from Wemmick, indicating that they should be ready to move Magwitch in two days. But Pip also found an anonymous note threatening “Uncle Provis,” demanding that Pip traveled to the marshes in secret.


The night was dark over the marsh. Pip entered an abandoned stone quarry and suddenly found his candle extinguished; a noose was thrown over his head in the darkness. He was bound tightly, and a gruff voice threatened to kill him if he cried out. Pip saw in the dark, that it was Orlick, a former Joe's worker.


Orlick accused Pip of coming between him and a young woman he fancied, among other things, and declared his intention to have revenge. He also admited to killing Mrs. Joe. Orlick revealed that he had some connection with Compeyson and has solved the mystery of Magwitch. When Orlick was going to kill him, Herbert bursted in with a group of men to save Pip.

On the other day, in the morning, Pip and Herbert prepared to put their plan in motion. Pip and Magwick sailed from Clara's house, and were very silent and cautious. But nevertheless, soon they were found by policemen. Magwitch was sent to the prison.

Jaggers was certain that Magwitch would be found guilty, but Pip remained loyal. He did not worry when he learnt that the state would appropriate Magwitch’s fortune, including Pip’s money. While Magwitch awaited sentencing, Herbert prepared to marry Clara and Wemmick enjoyed a comical wedding to Miss Skiffins. Herbert offered Pip a job, but Pip delayed his answer.

Pip visits Magwitch, who was sick and imprisoned. Soon the old man was found guilty and sentenced to death. But he died earlier due to his serious ill.


After Magwitch’s death, Pip was also arrested for debt and nearly carted away to prison; he was spared only because of his extreme ill health. He experienced wild hallucinations, reliving scenes with Orlick and Miss Havisham and continually seeing Joe’s face. But the last was not a hallucination: Joe had really come, and he nursed Pip through his illness.


As Pip recovers, Joe tells him the news from home: Miss Havisham had died. And Joe had news about himself: Biddy had helped him learn how to read and write.

When Pip arrived at his childhood home, he found Satis House pulled apart in preparation for an auction. When Pip found Biddy and Joe, he was shocked to discover that they had been married. Despite his disappointed expectation of marriage to Biddy, he expressed happiness for them and decided to take the job with Herbert and went to Egypt.

Eleven years later, Pip returned to England. He went to visit Joe and Biddy.

Pip then went to Satis House and found that it was no longer standing. In a silvery mist, Pip walked through the overgrown, ruined garden and thought of Estella. He had heard that she was unhappy with Drummle but that Drummle had recently died. As the moon rised, Pip found Estella wandering through the old garden. They discussed the past fondly; as the mists rise, they leaved the garden hand in hand, Pip believed never to part again.