Anne Wise’s Reviews > Ross Poldark > Status Update

“One did not so much feel sorrow at his absence as a sense of the unfitness of his not being here.“

“Every family, thought, Ross, had its rakes and its spendthrifts; their blood was passed on with the rest, strange taints of impulse and perversity. It was the only explanation.“

“And a woman,“ Ross said, pulling her down again, “never knows when a subject must be dropped.”She lay quiet against him, knowing a last word, but not saying it.

“So he found that what he had half despised was not despicable, that what had been for him the satisfaction of an appetite, a pleasant but common place adventure in disappointment, owned wayward and elusive depths he had not known before and carried the knowledge of beauty in its heart.“