...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Book III — Waiting For Death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Chapter XXIII. .... ...XLII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Book V — The Dead Hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Chapter ... ...III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 Book VI — The Widow and the Wife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Chapter LIV... ...certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far r... ...ly infusing them with that common sense which is able to accept momentous doctrines without any eccentric agita tion. Dorothea knew many passages of... ...er usual eagerness for a binding theory which could bring her own life and doctrine into strict connection with that amazing past, and give the remote... ...le are obliged to do. I have always liked the quaintness of the church and congregation; besides, I know the Tuckers: I shall go into their pew.” Havi... ...ore any one else arrived there. But he was still left alone in it when the congregation had assembled. The curate’s pew was opposite the rector’s at t...

...Excerpt: Prelude; Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little...

...Table of Contents: Book I ?Miss Brooke, 1 -- Prelude, 1 -- Chapter I., 3 -- Chapter II., 10 -- Chapter III., 16 -- Chapter IV., 25 -- Chapter V., 31 -- Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- ...