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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...nworthy of it. He stayed a little longer than he had intended, on a slight pressure of invitation from Mr. Brooke, who offered no bait except his own ... ...to have room for the energies which stirred uneasily under the dimness and pressure of her own ignorance and the petty peremptoriness of the world’s h... ...marking off within him; and with what spirit he wrestles against universal pressure, which will one day be too heavy for him, and bring his heart to i... ...al audience which crowded his laborious uncreative hours with the vaporous pressure of Tartarean shades. For to Dorothea, after that toy box history o... ...don’t understand,” said Lydgate; he could hardly say “Of course.” “Oh, she gauges everybody. I prepared her for confirmation— she is a favorite of mine... ...any ways shaped his life rather uneasily for himself; few men who feel the pressure of small needs are so nobly resolute not to dress up their inevita...

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