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"And so she lay, with the soft night air breathing on her while she glided on the water and watched the deepening quiet of the sky. She was alone now: she had freed herself from all claims, she had freed herself even from that burden of choice which presses with heavier and heavier weight when claims have loosed their guiding hold."

"Her life could never be happy any more, but it must not, could not, be ignoble."

Eliot's doomed heroines.