Chapter 30: XXIX

XXIX I found that no genius in another could please me. My unfortunate paradoxes had entirely dried up that source of comfort. Goldsmith One morning, some weeks after her arrival at Lowick, Dorothea—but why always Dorothea? Was her point of view the only possible one with regard to this marriage? I protest against all our interest, all our effort at understanding being given to the young skins that look blooming in spite of trouble; for these too will get faded, and will know the o…