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"He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James.
"No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs Cadwallader [ . . . ]
"Oh, he dreams footnotes, and they run away with all his brains."

the scream I let out

"What answer was possible to such stupid complimenting?"

"She likes giving up."
"If that were true, Celia, my giving-up would be self-indulgence, not self-mortification. But there may be good reasons for choosing not to do what is very agreeable," said Dorothea.

Alix E. Harrow wrote a newsletter about how Black Silk is Middlemarch fanfic and now I have to read Middlemarch bc I'm a sicko (can't stop thinking about Black Silk)

https://buttondown.com/alixeharrow/ar...