Great Expectations (Penguin) by Charles Dickens
Author:Charles Dickens
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Literary, Classics, Fiction
ISBN: 9780698155992
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-10-23T07:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER XI
After well considering the matter while I was dressing at the Blue Boar in the morning, I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlickâs being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havishamâs. âWhy, of course he is not the right sort of man, Pip,â said my guardian, comfortably satisfied beforehand on the general head, âbecause the man who fills the post of trust never is the right sort of man.â It seemed quite to put him into spirits, to find that this particular post was not exceptionally held by the right sort of man, and he listened in a satisfied manner while I told him what knowledge I had of Orlick. âVery good, Pip,â he observed, when I had concluded, âIâll go round presently, and pay our friend off.â Rather alarmed by this summary action, I was for a little delay, and even hinted that our friend himself might be difficult to deal with. âOh no he wonât,â said my guardian, making his pocket-handkerchief-point, with perfect confidence; âI should like to see him argue the question with me.â
As we were going back together to London by the midday coach, and as I breakfasted under such terrors of Pumblechook that I could scarcely hold my cup, this gave me an opportunity of saying that I wanted a walk, and that I would go on along the London-road while Mr. Jaggers was occupied, if he would let the coachman know that I would get into my place when overtaken. I was thus enabled to fly from the Blue Boar immediately after breakfast. By then making a loop of about a couple of miles into the open country at the back of Pumblechookâs premises, I got round into the High-street again, a little beyond that pitfall, and felt myself in comparative security.
It was interesting to be in the quiet old town once more, and it was not disagreeable to be here and there suddenly recognised and stared after. One or two of the tradespeople even darted out of their shops and went a little way down the street before me, that they might turn, as if they had forgotten something, and pass me face to faceâon which occasions I donât know whether they or I made the worse pretence; they of not doing it, or I of not seeing it. Still my position was a distinguished one, and I was not at all dissatisfied with it, until Fate threw me in the way of that unlimited miscreant, Trabbâs boy.
Casting my eyes along the street at a certain point of my progress, I beheld Trabbâs boy approaching, lashing himself with an empty blue bag. Deeming that a serene and unconscious contemplation of him would best beseem me, and would be most likely to quell his evil mind, I advanced with that expression of countenance, and was rather congratulating myself on my success, when suddenly the knees of Trabbâs boy smote together, his hair uprose,
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