George Eliot Quote
You, and have no little girls’ clothes to mend. Yes, said Maggie. It is with me as I used to think it would be with the poor uneasy white bear I saw at the show. I thought he must have got so stupid with the habit of turning backward and forward in that narrow space that he would keep doing it if they set him free. One gets a bad habit of being unhappy. But I shall put you under a discipline of pleasure that will make you lose that bad habit, said Lucy, sticking the black butterfly absently in her own collar, while her eyes met Maggie’s affectionately. You dear, tiny thing, said Maggie, in one of her bursts of loving admiration, you enjoy other people’s happiness so much, I believe you would do without any of your own. I wish I were like you. I’ve never been tried in that way, said Lucy. I’ve always
You, and have no little girls’ clothes to mend. Yes, said Maggie. It is with me as I used to think it would be with the poor uneasy white bear I saw at the show. I thought he must have got so stupid with the habit of turning backward and forward in that narrow space that he would keep doing it if they set him free. One gets a bad habit of being unhappy. But I shall put you under a discipline of pleasure that will make you lose that bad habit, said Lucy, sticking the black butterfly absently in her own collar, while her eyes met Maggie’s affectionately. You dear, tiny thing, said Maggie, in one of her bursts of loving admiration, you enjoy other people’s happiness so much, I believe you would do without any of your own. I wish I were like you. I’ve never been tried in that way, said Lucy. I’ve always
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Scandalously and unconventionally for the era, she lived with the married George Henry Lewes as his conjugal partner, from 1854–1878, and called him her husband. He remained married to his wife and supported their children, even after she left him to live with another man and have children with him. In May 1880, eighteen months after Lewes's death, George Eliot married her long-time friend, John Cross, a man much younger than she, and she changed her name to Mary Ann Cross.