In his repentant state, Pip decides to return to his town,
but he stays at the Blue Boar instead, and then visits Estella at Satis House. The next
day, Pip resolves to inform Miss Havisham about the undesirable character of Orlick who
now is the gatekeeper at Satis House. As Pip walks from Satis House through the village,
the tradespeople make a point of coming out since he is now in the position of a
gentleman.
One or two of the tradespeople even darted out
of their shops and went a little way down the street before me, that they might turn, as
if they had forgotten something, and pass me face to face—on which occasions I don't
know whether they or I made the worse pretence; they of not doing it, or I of not seeing
it. Still my position was a distinguished one, and I was not at all dissatisfied with
it, until Fate threw me in the way of that unlimited miscreant, Trabb's
boy.
Pip is rather
pretentious regarding the tradespeople as he feigns not seeing them, even though he
enjoys being in such a "distinguished" position, when they come out so that he will see
them face to face in order to test whether he will speak or not. Observing Pip's
haughtiness, Trabb's boy, who has already taunted Pip in a previous chapter, acts as
though he is in a "paroxysm of terror" with his teeth chattering; he falls to the ground
in his "fright" of Pip, and prostrates himself in the dust. After Pip passes him,
Trabb's boy runs to catch up and throw himself around Pip with bended knees as though
begging for mercy. The others laugh uproariously at Pip, who is "utterly confounded."
Further, Pip has not gone too far before Trabb's boy comes with others, and mocking Pip
he says, "Don't know, yah!" as Pip leaves town in disgrace.
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