Pip and Herbert's plans to transport Magwitch are ready to begin. The pair set down on the river towards Clara's house to pick up Magwitch. They started to row down the marshes, and the rowing became harder, almost like a sign that things were about to take a drastic change. The group stays at a shady inn, and a servant there tells the group that he has seen an ominous boat that was hovering around the inn. Pip worries that either Compeyson or policemen have arrived, so the group decided that Pip and Magwitch should sneak out early the next morning and rejoin the boat further down the river. Making their way down the river, safety was in sight. A German steamer that Magwitch could use for cover, seemed like a beacon of escape. However the attempt to escape was foiled, when a rowboat appears. A policeman calls out for Magwitch's arrest, yet when he sees Compeyson in the other boat he is enraged. Magwitch hurls himself at Compeyson. In the water, they grapple and only Magwitch resurfaces. Magwitch cannot avoid being chained and imprisoned, but Pip promises to be by his side until the very end. In an effort to soothe and support Magwitch after his death sentence, he reveals to him that his long lost daughter, Estella, is alive and well. Even more so, Pip tells Magwitch that she is beloved to him.
A full circle is completed by Pip, who is able to offer peace to his benefactor, at his life's end of passage. For all that Magwitch had done for him, and for all the opportunities that he created for him, he was at least able to offer the dying man the solace that his daughter was not only still alive, but very dear to Pip.
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