avorably by the law than Magwitch: "And when the verdict come, warn't it Compeyson as was recommended to mercy on account of good character and bad company, and giving up all the information he could agen me, and warn't it me as got never a word but Guilty?" (324). Compeyson exhibits no redeeming qualities at all, but it is Magwitch who gets the tougher sentence. Though Magwitch's fate seems inconsistent with his kind and unselfish behavior, it is in perfect alignment with the theme under consideration. The interplay between divine and human justice is again alluded to at the convict's final court appearance when he says to the Judge "My Lord, I have received my sentence of Death from the Almighty, but I bow to yours" (272). One can draw from the narrator's ow
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