George Eliot

Tim Pigott-Smith

The Weaver of Raveloe (Penguin Classics)

Silas Marner

désirée

Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.

Maya Alexandrova

Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in. 

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings…[she] had a touch of refinement and fervour which came from no other teaching than that of tenderly-nurtured unvitiated feeling.

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