I saw his hand appear on the other side of Miss Skiffins. Instantly, Miss Skiffins stopped it with the neatness of a placid boxer, took off that girdle or cestus as before, and laid it on the table. Taking the table to represent the path of virtue, I am justified in stating that during the whole time of the Aged’s reading, Wemmick’s arm was straying from the path of virtue and being recalled to it by Miss Skiffins.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 37. Using a series of humorous metaphors and simile, Dickens describes how Miss Skiffins doesn’t like Wemmick putting his hand on her waist and keeps removing it. Miss Skiffins is girlfriend to the insistent Wemmick, who keeps trying to embrace her during his father’s reading.