Great Expectations

Once Pip found new fortune, he asked Biddy to ______ Joe so he may move up a social class.

Once Pip found new fortune, he asked Biddy to ______ Joe so he may move up a social class.

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Pip wants Biddy to teach Joe manners and a bit of reading and writing....... whatever she can teach him.

"Well! Joe is a dear good fellow - in fact, I think he is the dearest fellow that ever lived - but he is rather backward in some things. For instance, Biddy, in his learning and his manners."

Although I was looking at Biddy as I spoke, and although she opened her eyes very wide when I had spoken, she did not look at me.

"Oh, his manners! won't his manners do, then?" asked Biddy, plucking a black-currant leaf.

"My dear Biddy, they do very well here--"

"Oh! they do very well here?" interrupted Biddy, looking closely at the leaf in her hand.

"Hear me out - but if I were to remove Joe into a higher sphere, as I shall hope to remove him when I fully come into my property, they would hardly do him justice."

 

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