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

Dickens, Charles
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Great Expectations: Stage Three, Chapters 40 - 49

Chapter Forty

Pip's first waking thoughts are full of the pressing need to keep his
dreaded visitor safe. He realizes that he would only arouse suspicion by
trying to keep the visitor concealed so Pip resolves to pass the convict off
as his uncle from the country. This decided, Pip goes down to the watchman's
lodge for a lantern and, in descending the staircase, stumbles over a man
crouching in the corner. The man remains silent and eludes Pip in the
darkness; causing him to run to the watchman. When ...

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