I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps that inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me

I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps that inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations