Pip walks through his home town displaying his new attire as a London gentleman. Most
villagers ogle him with curiousness, and Pip makes a pretence of ignoring being in the spotlight,
However, Trabb's boy (figure on the very left) is put off by Pip's stately demeanour. He knew Pip very
well as the poor blacksmith's son he used to be, and seeing him in this self-displayed lordliness just itches his funny bone. Trabb then behaves as if his seen the King himself by prostrating on the ground and
shouting to the people: "Hold me! I'm so frightened". Pip tries to escape him in vain. Eventually,
Trabb reaches Pip with an entourage of like-minded street children, who display a comical corruption of
Pip's behaviour: Trabb wears a blue bag in the manner Pip is donning his great-coat while saying to
his entourage: "Don't know yah, don't know yah! 'Pon my soul, don't know yah!". The street children
react with exaggerated gestures of veneration towards Pip, who is infinitely mortified by this scene.
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