I have a lively remembrance that I supposed my declaration that I was to “walk in the same all the days of my life,” laid me under an obligation always to go through the village from our house in one particular direction, and never to vary it by turning down by the wheelwright’s or up by the mill.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 7. In this passage we find an allusion to the Church of England Catechism teaching: “I should keep God’s holy will and commandments, and walk in the same all the days of my life.” Pip’s interpretation of this as meaning he must walk home in one direction is Dickens being funny and using verbal irony. He pokes fun at how poorly children were taught Christianity, by learning things by rote rather than by understanding them.