I stopped, and he came up breathless.
"No, my dear friend," said he, when he had recovered wind for speech.
"Not if I can help it.

This occasion shall not entirely pass without that affability on your part .-- May I, as an old friend and well-wisher?
May I ?" We shook hands for the hundredth time at least, and he ordered a young carter out of my way with the greatest indignation.

Then, he blessed me and stood waving his hand to me until I had passed the crook in the road; and then I turned into a field and had a long nap under a hedge before I pursued my way home.
I had scant luggage to take with me to London, for little of the little I possessed was adapted to my new station.

But I began packing that same afternoon, and wildly packed up things that I knew I should want next morning, in a fiction that there was not a moment to be lost.
So, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, passed; and on Friday morning I went to Mr.Pumblechook's, to put on my new clothes and pay my visit to Miss Havisham.

Mr.Pumblechook's own room was given up to me to dress in, and was decorated with clean towels expressly for the event.