“God knows you’re welcome to it, – so far as it was ever mine,” returned Joe, with a saving remembrance of Mrs. Joe. “We don’t know what you have done, but we wouldn’t have you starved to death for it, poor miserable fellow-creatur. – Would us, Pip?”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 5. Joe Gargery’s kind and forgiving nature is very evident when the recaptured convict Magwitch tells him he is sorry for stealing his food. Instead of responding with anger and a demand for punishment, Joe’s reaction is full of forgiveness and compassion for a starving man.