Chapter 39
Stormy night in the Temple; Magwitch climbs the stairs and reveals himself: "Yes, Pip, dear boy, I've made a gentleman on you!"
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From Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The climactic revelation that Pip's fortune comes from the convict, not Miss Havisham — the great pivot of the novel that destroys his gentleman's dream.
Chapter 39
Pip's revulsion: "The abhorrence in which I held the man, the dread I had of him, the repugnance with which I shrank from him, could not have been exceeded if he had been some terrible beast."
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