The guiltily coarse and common thing it was, to be on secret terms of conspiracy with convicts.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 10. This quote highlights Pip’s sense of shame and unease over his association with the convict Magwitch. He feels guilt after a stranger arrives to the Jolly Bargemen with the file Magwitch used to cut his leg irons and gives Pip “two fat sweltering one-pound notes.”