A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth … - George Eliot

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George Eliot

A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?

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