It is but a shallow haste which concludeth insincerity from what outsiders call inconsistency—putting a dead mechanism of “ifs” and “therefores” for the living myriad of hidden suckers ……
MiddlemarchCHAPTER LIII.
It is but a shallow haste which concludeth insincerity from what outsiders call inconsistency—putting a dead mechanism of “ifs” and “therefores” for the living myriad of hidden suckers ……
BOOK I. MISS BROOKE.
BOOK II. OLD AND YOUNG.
BOOK III. WAITING FOR DEATH.
BOOK IV. THREE LOVE PROBLEMS.
BOOK V. THE DEAD HAND.
BOOK VI. THE WIDOW AND THE WIFE.
BOOK VII. TWO TEMPTATIONS.