Great Expectations

How does Pumbkechook treat pip before his visit to Satis House?

in Chapter 8 of the novel great expactations

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Mr. Pumblechook is detached and uncaring. He sends Pip straight to bed in the attic, and in the morning, he feeds him very little. Pip considered Pumblechook to be "wretched company."

I considered Mr. Pumblechook wretched company. Besides being possessed by my sister's idea that a mortifying and penitential character ought to be imparted to my diet,--besides giving me as much crumb as possible in combination with as little butter, and putting such a quantity of warm water into my milk that it would have been more candid to have left the milk out altogether,--his conversation consisted of nothing but arithmetic.

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