Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Pip, now telling his tale right next to me, went to the business side of town, looking for a place to eat. Here, Mr. Jaggers met him and asked him if he would dine with himself (Mr. Jaggers) and Mr. Wemmick. Pip agreed to do so and went with Jaggers to fetch Wemmick. Once they had done so, they took a coach to Mr. Jaggers' house. There they ate dinner, with Jaggers' faithful servant Molly to wait on them. Wemmick delivered a letter from Miss Havisham to Pip, which stated that she wanted to talk to him about a proposition that he had made her on his past visit. Pip eagerly told them that he would leave first thing in the morning. The first item of gossip at the table was Estella and Bentley Drummle getting married. They drank a toast to Estella and left it at that. Meanwhile, Jaggers chastised Molly a few times for being slow and, as Pip watches her, he begins to see that she is Estella's mother. Molly doesn't look like her child, but her hands and eyes were the same (very unusual, that doesn't happen very often, I mean, who says, "You have your mother's hands"?). After dinner, Wemmick and Pip left together, at which time Pip began to ask questions about Molly and how she was tamed by Mr. Jaggers. Wemmick proceeded to tell Pip about how she was aquitted for murder of a large, strong woman ten years older than her, who was found dead in a barn. This large woman had had an affair with Molly's husband, which was why she was tried. However, when she was tried, she looked a lot less strong than she really was because her clothes were concealing her true figure. The only thing amiss were the backs of her hands, which were lacerated. Mr. Jaggers was her lawyer and proved that the lacerations were from brambles because traces of brambles were in her hands and pieces of her dress were on the brambles and therefore was aquitted. She also had a child, which was female, but she was said to have killed it. Pip, knowing this information was now positive that Estella was Molly's child, excused himself from Wemmick's presence and walked home, with this unusual development on his mind.
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