Fresh from his experience with Estella, Pip asks Biddy to help him learn as quickly as possible. He recounts to the reader how there is a whole lot of mischief in between a very small amount of learning in Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's classroom. Later, he goes to retrieve Joe from a tavern, the Three Jolly Bargemen, where he meets a stranger. The stranger, at one point, stirs a drink with an old file- and Pip realizes that this stranger must know the convict who he helped. The stranger gives them a guinea wrapped in some one-pound notes. When he gets home, his sister.....
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