But, sharpest and deepest pain of all, – it was for the convict, guilty of I knew not what crimes, and liable to be taken out of those rooms where I sat thinking, and hanged at the Old Bailey door, that I had deserted Joe.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 39. Pip feels guilty for mistreating and abandoning his friend Joe for a convict who is liable to hanged for his crimes. He has learned that Magwitch was the source of his fortune that made him into a “gentleman” who then turned his back on Joe and home.