Middlemarch - 25

by George Eliot in English Fiction Stories

CHAPTER XXV. “Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any careBut for another gives its ease And builds a heaven in hell’s despair.. . . . . . .Love seeketh only self to please, ...Read MoreTo bind another to its delight,Joys in another’s loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven’s despite.”—W. BLAKE: Songs of Experience. Fred Vincy wanted to arrive at Stone Court when Mary could not expect him, and when his uncle was not downstairs: in that case she might be sitting alone in the wainscoted parlor. He left his horse Read Less