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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Dickens, Charles

Dickens, Charles
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Great Expectations: Stage Two, Chapters 20 - 30

Chapter Twenty

The journey takes five hours. London frightens Pip with its size and he
chooses to ignore the ugliness and filth he sees there. He hires a ragged
hackney-coach that takes him to Jaggers' door; which the coachman appears to
know and fear. Inside, Jaggers has left word that Pip should wait in his
office until he returns. In a room lit only by a skylight, Pip contemplates
a rusty pistol, two plaster casts of peculiarly swollen faces, and Jaggers'
coffinlike chair. He grows rapidly more ...

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