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Magwitch returns: Chapters 39 - 44

Peter Whitbread as Compeyson

Compeyson

Shortly after, Pip receives a visitor – Abel Magwitch, the convict he helped all those years ago. Magwitch has made a fortune in Australia and it is he – not Miss Havisham – who has been financing Pip. Now he wants to live with Pip. Pip is horrified, but resolves to care for him.

Pip realises that the man who abandoned Miss Havisham (called Compeyson) had been Magwitch's partner – and got Magwitch sent to jail for crimes he (Compeyson) had committed. Pip guesses Estella is Magwitch's daughter.

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