Middlemarch - 39

by George Eliot in English Fiction Stories

CHAPTER XXXIX. “If, as I have, you also doe, Vertue attired in woman see,And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She; And if this love, though placed so, From prophane ...Read Moreyou hide,Which will no faith on this bestow, Or, if they doe, deride: Then you have done a braver thing Than all the Worthies did,And a braver thence will spring, Which is, to keep that hid.”—DR. DONNE. Sir James Chettam’s mind was not fruitful in devices, but his growing anxiety to “act on Brooke,” once brought close Read Less