Steve #1

So, Steve has made some decisions about his life.

Here are some of them:

    - Nobody will know anything about his personal life anymore;
    - He will try to stay sober for one year;
    - He will try, for some months, follow a balanced diet without sugar, sodas and change coffee by tea. When eating, he will try to choose better what to eat.

Of course that Steve is a complex guy, so there are many other things that he is planning and thinking about. His head is a real mess

Lucky for you Steve.

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations - Chapter ten

Pip is willing to become uncommon. In order to accomplish his plan, he starts to attend the course ministered by Biddy, Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt.

Pip spends some pages explaining the content of this weird course. He even agrees that this experience would take time to reach its ends.

By the end of the day, Pip goes to a pub to bring Joe home.

'I had received strict orders from my sister to call for him at the Three Jolly Bargemen, that evening, on my way from school, and bring him home...'

Joe is there, smoking his pipe in company with Mr.Wopsle and a stranger.

Pip describes the stranger as 'He was a secret-looking man whom I had never seen before. His head was all on one side, and one of his eyes was half shut up as if he were taking aim at something with an invisible gun. He had a pipe in his mouth, and he took it out, and, after slowly blowing all his smoke away and looking hard at me all the time, nodded.'

The stranger offers Pip to take a seat on his side, but Pip refuses and seats beside Joe. After that, the stranger asks Joe and Mr. Wopsle what they wish to drink. Joe says that is not used to 'drinking at anybody's expense but my own', but accept the drink, as well as Mr.Wopsle.

Pip sees the stranger stirring his drink with the same file that Pip stole for the convict. The stranger gives Pip two pounds, which Pip later gives to Mrs.Joe. He continues to worry that his aid to the convict will be discovered.

See you on chapter eleven.