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Brooks of Sheffield,’
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
the stifling oppression of that gentlewoman’s world, where everything was done for her and none asked for her aid
Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
Poor Lydgate! or shall I say, Poor Rosamond! Each lived in a world of which the other knew nothing. It had not occurred to Lydgate that he had been a subject of eager meditation to Rosamond, who had neither any reason for throwing her marriage into distant perspective, nor any pathological studies to divert her mind from that ruminating habit, that
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
‘You will have many lonely hours, Dorothea, for I shall be constrained to make the utmost use of my time during our stay in Rome, and I should feel more at liberty if you had a companion.’ The words ‘I should feel more at liberty’ grated on Dorothea. For the first time in speaking to Mr Casaubon she coloured from annoyance.