Great Expectations  
                                       远大前程 
1  Pip meets a stranger 
My first name was Philip，but when I was a small child I could only manage to say  
Pip．So Pip was what every-body called me．I lived in a small village in Essex with  
my sister，who was over twenty years older than me ，and married to Joe  
Gargery，the village blacksmith ．My parents had died when I was a baby，so I could  
not remember them at all，but quite often I used to visit the churchyard，abut a mile  
from the village ，to look at their names on their gravestones ． 
My first memory is of sitting on a gravestone in that church-yard one  
cold，grey，December afternoon，looking out at the dark，flat ，wild marshes  
divided by the black line of the River Thames，and listening to the rushing sound of  
the sea in the distance ． 
‘Don't say a word      cried a terrible voice  as a man jumped up from among the  
                   ！’                        ， 
graves and caught hold of me         If you shout I'll cut your throat   He was a big  
                                ．‘                                   ！’ 
man，dressed all in grey，with an iron chain on his leg ．His clothes were wet and  
torn ．He looked exhausted，and hungry，and very fierce ．I had never been so  
frightened in my whole life ． 
‘Oh   Don't cut my throat    sir    I begged in terror 
    ！                      ，    ！’                     ． 
‘Tell me your name     boy   Quick      he said    still holding me    And show me  
                     ，     ！        ！’          ，                  ．‘ 
where you live ！’ 
‘My name's Pip，sir ．And I live in the village over there ．’ 
He picked me up and turned me upside-down．Nothing fell out of my pocket except a  
piece of old bread．He ate it in two bites，like a dog，and put me back on the  
gravestone ． 
‘So where are your father and mother？’he asked． 
‘There，sir，’I answered，pointing to their graves． 
‘What      he cried   and was about to run     when he saw where I was  
       ！’           ，                        ， 
pointing     Oh       he said      I see   They're dead    Well   who do you live with     if  
         ．‘      ！’          ．‘          ．               ．      ，                       ， 
I let you live，which I haven't decided yet ？’ 
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‘With my sister，sir，wife of Joe Gargery ，the blacksmith ．’ 
Blacksmith，you say ？And he looked down at his leg ．Then he held me by both arms  
and stared fiercely down into my eyes ． 
‘Now look here．You bring me a file ．You know what that is ？And you bring me  
some food ．If you don't，or if you tell anyone about me，I'll cut your heart out．’ 
‘I promise I'll do it，sir，’I answered．I was badly fright ened and my whole body  
was trembling . 
‘You see，’he continued，smiling unpleasantly，‘I travel with a young man，a  
friend of mine ，who roasts b

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