And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 49. Despite the harm she has caused him, Pip looks with sympathy at the profoundly remorseful Miss Havisham. He sees her as having been punished by fate and has only compassion for the woman who has been ruined by the curse of the vanities of the world. Recognizing that she has suffered for her sins, he is able to forgive her.