Then he asked me tenderly if I remembered our boyish games at sums, and how we had gone together to have me bound apprentice, and, in effect, how he had ever been my favourite fancy and my chosen friend? If I had taken ten times as many glasses of wine as I had, I should have known that he never had stood in that relation towards me, and should in my heart of hearts have repudiated the idea. Yet for all that, I remember feeling convinced that I had been much mistaken in him, and that he was a sensible, practical, good-hearted prime fellow.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 19. When Pip rises from relative poverty to riches, some people like Mr. Pumblechook begin to treat him differently. The insincere Pumblechook who abused and neglected Pip as a child now fawns over and flatters him. Rewriting history, he pretends to have been Pip’s friend and to have played an important role in securing his apprenticeship. While Pip sees through the pretense, he enjoys the flattery.