“I have been informed by a person named Abel Magwitch, that he is the benefactor so long unknown to me…I am not so unreasonable, sir, as to think you at all responsible for my mistakes and wrong conclusions; but I always supposed it was Miss Havisham.”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 40. In conversation with Mr. Jaggers, Pip says that he has been told the convict Magwitch is his benefactor. However, he confesses to believing all along that Miss Havisham was the one who helped him – an example of Pip’s self-deception.