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Awesome line

“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful for us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.”

Communication is a hot topic in marriage and dating these days; as it turns out, 19th-century English people struggled in this area too.

“Men outlive their love, but they do not outlive the consequences of their own recklessness.”

“One change terrified her as if it had been a sin; it was a violent shock of repulsion from her departed husband, who had had hidden thoughts, perhaps perverting everything she said and did. Then again she was conscious of another change which made her tremulous; it was a sudden strange yearning of heart towards Will Ladislaw…” ahh the 19th century passion has been simmering on low for 500 pages but look out!!

Thank God this one awful character is gone…but I’m afraid he’s left the woman in a bind.