I had never seen her shed a tear before, and, in the hope that the relief might do her good, I bent over her without speaking. She was not kneeling now, but was down upon the ground. “O!” she cried, despairingly. “What have I done! What have I done!”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 49. Miss Havisham feels tremendous guilt for shaping her daughter Estella into a weapon to inflict emotional pain on men. In this pitiful scene, her deep remorse and realization of her role in causing so much emotional pain elicits a certain sympathy from the reader.