“Pip has earned a premium here,” she said, “and here it is. There are five-and-twenty guineas in this bag. Give it to your master, Pip.”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 13. The wealthy Miss Havisham gives Pip twenty-five guineas so that he can be apprenticed to blacksmith Joe. While this may seem a generous act, it is also part of Miss Havisham’s plan that Pip fall in love with Estella so that she rejects him and breaks his heart.