She came back, with some bread and meat and a little mug of beer. She put the mug down on the stones of the yard, and gave me the bread and meat without looking at me, as insolently as if I were a dog in disgrace. I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry, – I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart – God knows what its name was, – that tears started to my eyes.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 8. The boy Pip feels horribly humiliated when Estella feeds him in the yard of Satis House like he was some animal. In a simile he describes being treated by the young girl like “a dog in disgrace” and begins to cry. Estella with her superior attitude does little to hide her class prejudice in her treatment of Pip, whom she regards as common.