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Chapter I

Moy father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my

infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit

than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his

tombstone and my sister,--Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith.

As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness

of either of them (for their days were long before the days of

photographs), my...

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Chapter II

My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I,

and had established a great reputation with herself and the neighbors

because she had brought me up “by hand.” Having at that time to find out

for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and

heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as

well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up

by hand.

She was not a good-looking woman, my sister; an...