Herbert Pocket: True Friendship

From Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The "pale young gentleman" Pip fights as a boy becomes his best friend in London and renames him Handel — embodying genuine, unaspiring gentility.
Chapter 11

First meeting: the pale young gentleman challenges Pip to a fight in Miss Havisham's garden.

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Chapter 22

Reunion in London; Herbert tells Pip Estella's history and renames him Handel.

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