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Chapter 40 is brilliant!!!

This encounter is very Lady Catherine/Elizabeth Bennet. On the whole though I think Young’s writing reminds me most of George Eliot’s.

“Life’s very puzzling. What is it meant for? I feel as if we ought to be doing marvelous, heroic, splendid things and all we really do is wash up the dishes. And then we mind so much about our own concerns and feelings. That can’t be right, but how dull it would be if we didn’t” (235).

“Resisted the common temptation of trying to mould her into an alien form” (178).

Cecil and Dahlia too? Only Cecil to Dahlia or also Dahlia to Cecil? 🤔