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"until you spoke to her the other day, and until i saw in you a looking-glass that showed me what i once felt myself, i did not know what i had done. what have i done!... my dear! believe this: when she first came to me, i meant to save her from misery like my own. at first i meant no more. … but as she grew, and promised to be very beautiful, i gradually did worse, … i stole her heart away and put ice in its place"().

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The passage is taken from the novel "Great Expectations" written by  Charles Dickens.

What is "Great Expectations"?

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens' twelfth and penultimate finished book. It depicts Pip, an orphan, going to school (the book is a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story). Following David Copperfield, it is Dickens' second book that is entirely recounted in the first person. From 1 December 1860 to 8 August 1861, Dickens' weekly publication All the Year Round ran the novel as a serial. The book was released by Chapman and Hall in three volumes in October 1861.

As retaliation for herself being dumped on, Havisham instills in her young ward Estella a bitterness that causes her to despise men and destroy their hearts. Later, when Estella departs to wed Pip's rival, Bentley Drummle, Miss Havisham regrets her actions after realizing that Pip's heart had been broken in the same way as her own. She hasn't gotten any sort of personal retribution; instead, she's simply made things worse. Pip is begged for forgiveness by Miss Havisham.

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