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`` Very good , Pip , '' he observed , when I had concluded , `` I 'll go round presently , and pay our friend off . '' Rather alarmed by this summary action , I was for a little delay , and even hinted that our friend himself might be difficult to deal with . `` Oh no he wo n't , '' said my guardian , making his pocket-handkerchief-point , with perfect confidence ; `` I should like to see him argue the question with me . '' As we were going back together to London by the midday coach , and as I breakfasted under such terrors of Pumblechook that I could scarcely hold my cup , this gave me an opportunity of saying that I wanted a walk , and that I would go on along the London road while Mr. Jaggers was occupied , if he would let the coachman know that I would get into my place when overtaken . I was thus enabled to fly from the Blue Boar immediately after breakfast . By then making a loop of about a couple of miles into the open country at the back of Pumblechook 's premises , I got round into the High Street again , a little beyond that pitfall , and felt myself in comparative security . It was interesting to be in the quiet old town once more , and it was not disagreeable to be here and there suddenly recognized and stared after .