Middlemarch - 78

by George Eliot in English Fiction Stories

CHAPTER LXXVIII. “Would it were yesterday and I i’ the grave,With her sweet faith above for monument.” Rosamond and Will stood motionless—they did not know how long—he looking towards the spot where Dorothea had stood, and she looking towards ...Read Morewith doubt. It seemed an endless time to Rosamond, in whose inmost soul there was hardly so much annoyance as gratification from what had just happened. Shallow natures dream of an easy sway over the emotions of others, trusting implicitly in their own petty magic to turn the deepest streams, and confident, by pretty gestures and remarks, of making the Read Less