what is the dffremce between the original ending of great expectations and the revised ending?

Charles Dickens wrote two different endings for Great Expectations. Dickens changed the ending at the suggestion of a friend, the novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton, presumably for the sake of a happier ending. The majority of books being published currently contain the first ending, or both, with the Dickens' original with its own explanation.

Original ending:

Pip meets Estella on the streets. Her abusive husband Drummle has died and she has remarried to a doctor. Estella and Pip exchange brief pleasantries, after which Pip states while he could not have her in the end, he was at least glad to know she was a different person now, somewhat changed from the cold-hearted girl Miss Havisham had reared her to be. The novel ends with Pip saying he could see that “suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham's teaching and had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be.”

Revised ending:

Pip and Estella meet again at the ruins of Satis House:

'"We are friends," said I, rising and bending over his, as he rose from the bench.

"And will continue friends apart," said Estella.

I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as

the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so the

evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil

light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.'

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_expec…