No need to take a file from his pocket and show it to me; no need to take the handkerchief from his neck and twist it round his head; no need to hug himself with both his arms, and take a shivering turn across the room, looking back at me for recognition.

I knew him before he gave me one of those aids, though, a moment before, I had not been conscious of remotely suspecting his identity.
He came back to where I stood, and again held out both his hands.
Not knowing what to do,--for, in my astonishment I had lost my self-possession,--I reluctantly gave him my hands.

He grasped them heartily, raised them to his lips, kissed them, and still held them.
"You acted noble, my boy," said he.

"Noble, Pip! And I have never forgot it!" At a change in his manner as if he were even going to embrace me, I laid a hand upon his breast and put him away.
"Stay!" said I."Keep off! If you are grateful to me for what I did when I was a little child, I hope you have shown your gratitude by mending your way of life.

If you have come here to thank me, it was not necessary.