Well viewers, this will probably be my last letter. My health has gone down hill and I don't know how much longer I can hold on. It is okay because I have made my peace with the world and I know it is my time to die. On a more cheerful note, I have altered my will in the favor of Matthew Pocket who shall receive four thousand pounds. I have made this decision because of the wonderful things he has done, according to Pip. As for the rest of the lot, Georgiana will receive twenty pounds, Sarah will receive twenty-five pounds for medicine on the count of being 'bilious,' and Camilla will obtain five pounds for rushlights when she is worrying for everybody else in the night. That's about enough from me: I have made my peace with God. I have a feeling I shan't be here much longer, and give my thanks for viewing: Farewell!
" 'Well, old chap,' said Joe, 'it do appear that she had settled the most of it, which I meantersay tied it up, on Miss Estella. But she had wrote out a little coddleshell in her own hand a day or two afore the accident, leaving a cool four thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket. And why, do you suppose, above all things, Pip, she left that cool four thousand unto him? "Because of Pip's account of him the said Matthew." I am told by Biddy, that air the writing,' said Joe, repeating the legal turn as if it did him infinite good, ' "account of him the said Matthew." And a cool four thousand, Pip! (496)
" 'Miss Sarah,' said Joe, 'she have twenty-five pound peranium fur to buy pills, on account of being bilious. Miss Georgiana, she have twenty pound down. Mrs.-what's the name of them wild beasts with humps, old chap?'
'Camels?' said I, wondering why he could possibly want to know.
Joe nodded. 'Mrs. Camels, 'by which I presently understood he meant Camilla, 'she have five pound fur to buy rushlights to put her in spirits when she wake up in the night.' " (496)
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