Sublime

she “lives at a rate and intensity and with a reality that makes other lives seem pale, thin and shadowy.”

It is undeniable that but for the desire to be where Dorothea was, and perhaps the want of knowing what else to do, Will would not at this time have been meditating on the needs of the English people or criticizing English statesmanship: he would probably have been rambling in Italy sketching plans for several dramas, trying prose and finding it to

Mary had not looked away. She had borne witness. It seemed the least she could do.

“She had the power of getting the best out of each thing and person.”

She had meant to shock them both by her sudden presence and by her changed appearance; but when William looked up at her, and she saw the surprise in his eyes, she knew at once that the real change had come over him, and that it was so deep that the effect of her appearance was lost; and she thought to herself, a little distantly and yet with some

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