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CHAPTER 53
Pip goes to the appointed place in the marshes. At first, he sees no one there, though there is evidence someone has been there. He is attacked from behind suddenly and restrained. Orlick is his attacker. Orlick is angry that Pip got his employment at Miss Havisham's terminated. He also blames Pip for turning Biddy against him. He plans to kill Pip, for he has been in Orlick's way since he was a child.
Pip thinks about all the people he loves. Provis will think he abandoned him, and Herbert will thinks so too without any other evidence. Joe and Biddy would never know how sorry he is. He was going
