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CHAPTER 39
Pip leaves Barnard's Inn for the Temple. He and Herbert part for a year when Herbert goes on a business trip, but they remain good friends.
Pip is now twenty-three years old. Late one rainy night, he hears someone on the stairs. Inquiring who they want, the stranger replies Mr. Pip. The stranger seems glad to see Pip, and Pip resents him for it. The man seems to expect Pip to respond to him in a warm fashion. The man keeps holding out his hands as if to embrace Pip.
The man looks around the apartment in pleasure, as if he is responsible for it. Pip demands that the man state his business, and th
