“I have an impression that they were to be contributed eventually towards the liquidation of the National Debt, but I know I had no hope of any personal participation in the treasure.” (40).
Dickens uses this passage to foreshadow the property that Pip acquires later in his life. He doubts that the money he earns from odd jobs around the village will ever be his, but a few years after beginning his apprenticeship to Joe, he receives an inheritance from an unknown benefactor.
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