When My Ablutions Were Completed?

by Charles Dickens
When my ablutions were completed, I was put into clean linen of the stiffest character, like a young penitent into sackcloth, and was trussed up in my tightest and fearfullest suit.

What was the speech that PIP knew Mr Pumblechook had been dying to make all along?

Pumblechook, who formally received me as if he were the Sheriff, and who let off upon me the speech that I knew he had been dying to make all along: "Boy, be forever grateful to all friends, but especially unto them which brought you up by hand!" "Good-bye, Joe!" "God bless you, Pip, old chap!"

When I was old enough I was to be apprenticed to Joe?

“I was fully old enough now to be apprenticed to Joe,” Pip states in chapter 12, so he is at least fourteen. ... She claims that Pip has “earned it,” presumably by helping her teach Estella the art of breaking men's hearts.

Marcus Vance

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