Great Expectations Page #2

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I hope so too.

- (SHOUTS)

- MAN:
Over here, Sergeant!

Come here!

SERGEANT:
You, man, break it off

Break it off.

Get them. Go.

(GRUNTING)

Get out there, you cowardly bastard

Move. Move.

(GRUNTS)

MAN:
I've got him!

- (GRUNTS)

- SERGEANT:
Break it off! Break it off!

What are you waiting for? Get out there!

(GROANS)

Go on, get in!

(GRUNTING)

CONVICT 1:
Let me at him!

(SHOUTS) Let me at him!

He tried to murder me!

(SHOUTING)

- I took him!

- Get those leg irons over here.

He tried to murder me!

Let him go free?

Let him profit from me again and again?

Let's put him down.

CONVICT 2:
He tried to murder me!

SERGEANT:
Quiet, you!

CONVICT 2:
I should have been a dead man,

if you hadn't got here.

CONVICT 1:
I wish to say something

- A confession if you like.

- Wait.

Go on.

A man can't starve.

I took, stole, some wittles

up at the village.

And a file too.

And I'll tell you from where.

The blacksmith's.

Brandy and a pie.

Have you missed such an article as a pie,

blacksmith?

- My wife did.

- So you're the blacksmith, are you?

Then I'm sorry to say I've eat your pie.

God knows you're welcome to it

We don't know what you've done,

but we wouldn't wish you to starve

to death for it, would us, Pip?

No.

Pip?

Move on!

MAN:
Swing your legs in there

I say, Pip, old chap!

What a scholaryou are!

I should like to be, some day.

Here, read it, Joe

Read it.

Read it.

My dearJoe,

I hope you are quite well.

I shall soon be able to teach you, Joe.

- And what larks!

- Larks.

It's a J.

An O.

(STAMMERS) That's the best O I ever saw

- It's astonishing!

- (PIP CHUCKLES)

How interesting this reading is!

Perhaps I could teach you one day, Joe.

Perhaps.

Be it so, be it so

But I fear I am most awful...

Awful... Dull.

(SIGHS)

- Not like you, young scholar!

- (BOTH CHUCKLING)

(SIGHS)

Everthe best of friends. Thanks, Pip.

Everthe best of friends, Joe

And when you're apprenticed to me,

what larks.

MRS JOE:

Gargery!

- She must be, what, two mile off?

- (LAUGHS)

MRS JOE:

(SCREAMING) Gargery!

Best be getting back, old chap.

You're not too quick for me yet.

MRS JOE:
Now, if this boy

ain't grateful, he neverwill be.

I only hope he won't be pampered.

She ain't in that line, Mum,

have no fear.

- JOE:
"She"?

- Well, Miss Havisham ain't a he, is she?

Even you ain't as dull as that!

Well put, ma'am Good indeed

- Mr Pumblechook...

- Hertenant, don't you see?

...goes to pay his rent

and Miss Havisham says,

does he know a boy who might go

and play there for her pleasure?

And Mr Pumblechook always being

considerate and thoughtful of us...

No more than you deserve, ma'am.

...mentions this boy prancing here.

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