Joe faints from excitement. Pip visits Miss Havisham and learns that Estella has been sent abroad. On the way home, Pip sees Orlick in the shadows and hears guns fire from the prison ships. When he arrives home, he learns that Mrs. Joe has been attacked and is now a brain-damaged invalid. The detectives who come from London to solve the crime are bumblers, and the identity of the attacker remains undiscovered.
From this, Biddy deduces that she is referring to Orlick. I had thought of that too, and it was very far from comforting to me to find that he had thought of it; for it seemed to render it more probable. But Joe had got the idea of a present in his head and must harp upon it. No, I would not. And shark-headers is open to misrepresentations. I never thought of making Miss Havisham any present.
In brief, Joe thought that if I thought well of it, he thought well of it. But, he was particular in stipulating that if I were not received with cordiality, or if I were not encouraged to repeat my visit as a visit which had no ulterior object but was simply one of gratitude for a favour received, then this experimental trip should have no successor.
By these conditions I promised to abide. Now, Joe kept a journeyman at weekly wages whose name was Orlick. He pretended that his Christian name was Dolge—a clear impossibility—but he was a fellow of that obstinate disposition that I believe him to have been the prey of no delusion in this particular, but wilfully to have imposed that name upon the village as an affront to its understanding.
He was a broadshouldered loose-limbed swarthy fellow of great strength, never in a hurry, and always slouching. He never even seemed to come to his work on purpose, but would slouch in as if by mere accident; and when he went to the Jolly Bargemen to eat his dinner, or went away at night, he would slouch out, like Cain or the Wandering Jew, as if he had no idea where he was going and no intention of ever coming back.
On Sundays he mostly lay all day on the sluice-gates, or stood against ricks and barns. He always slouched, locomotively, with his eyes on the ground; and, when accosted or otherwise required to raise them, he looked up in a half resentful, half puzzled way, as though the only thought he ever had, was, that it was rather an odd and injurious fact that he should never be thinking. This morose journeyman had no liking for me. When I was very small and timid, he gave me to understand that the Devil lived in a black corner of the forge, and that he knew the fiend very well: also that it was necessary to make up the fire, once in seven years, with a live boy, and that I might consider myself fuel.
Not that he ever said anything, or did anything, openly importing hostility; I only noticed that he always beat his sparks in my direction, and that whenever I sang Old Clem, he came in out of time.
Dolge Orlick was at work and present, next day, when I reminded Joe of my half-holiday. He said nothing at the moment, for he and Joe had just got a piece of hot iron between them, and I was at the bellows; but by-and-by he said, leaning on his hammer:. If Young Pip has a half-holiday, do as much for Old Orlick.
Now, master! No favouring in this shop. Be a man! The master refusing to entertain the subject until the journeyman was in a better temper, Orlick plunged at the furnace, drew out a red-hot bar, made at me with it as if he were going to run it through my body, whisked it round my head, laid it on the anvil, hammered it out—as if it were I, I thought, and the sparks were my spirting blood—and finally said, when he had hammered himself hot and the iron cold, and he again leaned on his hammer:.
My sister had been standing silent in the yard, within hearing—she was a most unscrupulous spy and listener—and she instantly looked in at one of the windows. You are a rich man, upon my life, to waste wages in that way. I wish I was his master! What did that fellow Orlick say to me, Pip?
What did he call me, with my husband standing by? Hold me! That Orlick! In my own house! Upon seeing Pip, Miss Havisham immediately informs Pip that she will not give him anything, but softens when Pip assures her that there is no ulterior motive to his visit and she tells him he can visit her on his birthdays.
Miss Havisham then intuits that Pip has come to see Estella and informs Pip that Estella has gone abroad to study. She asks Pip, with "a malignant enjoyment," if he feels he has lost her, then dismisses a flustered Pip.
Like Joe, Sarah Pocket and Miss Havisham are also initially confused by Pip's desire to pay a friendly visit and assume Pip is trying to get more money from her.
Yet, when she is convinced he isn't asking for money, Miss Havisham's attitude towards Pip becomes parental, offering to be an enduring presence in Pip's life albeit only once a year.
In town, Pip runs into Mr. Wopsle who is on his way to Uncle Pumblechook 's for a reading of the Tragedy of George Barnwell and convinces Pip to come. The three read the tragedy with Pip reading the role of Barnwell. Wopsle and Uncle Pumblechook chastise Pip as if the character's grizzly acts—including murdering his uncle—are Pip's own. The play charts the downfall of a young apprentice who eventually murders his uncle.
Pip, a young boy who will soon be apprenticed to his uncle, may feel the action of the play strike too close to home. On the misty walk back to the village late that night, Mr. Wopsle and Pip discover Orlick under the turnpike house. He says he has spent his half-holiday in town and notes that the guns have been going off at the Hulks, signaling escaped convicts. He walks with Pip and Mr.
Wopsle and, as the three pass the Three Jolly Bargemen, a riled up crowd informs Mr. Wopsle that people the crowd suspects convicts have broken into the forge while Joe was out. Upon returning home, the group find the forge swarmed with villagers. Joe and a surgeon are on the kitchen floor beside Mrs. When they head for home they come across Orlick who is waiting beside the road and says he has been to London. He points out that the guns at the hulks are firing, showing that a prisoner has escaped.
On returning to the forge, Pip finds his sister unconscious. The argument and the fight put Orlick under suspicion. Contact Us Register Sign In.
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