"“Then,” said I, “after all, stopping short here, never taking another penny from him, think what I owe him already!..."See in text(Chapter XLI)
Pip learns that his mysterious benefactor is not Miss Havisham, as she led him to believe. Instead, it is Abel Magwitch—the terrifying convict Pip helped when he was a small child. Though Pip appears to live the life of a gentleman, his fortune is rooted in criminality. Money and easy living, then, are not the only requirements of leading a gentlemanly life.
