Important Quotations Explained
1. Not only
young virgins of that town, but grey-bearded men also, were often
in haste to conjecture how a new acquaintance might be wrought into
their purposes, contented with very vague knowledge as to the way
in which life had been shaping him for their instrumentality. Middlemarch,
in fact, counted on swallowing Lydgate and assimilating him very
comfortably.
2. “It was
wicked to let a young girl blindly decide her fate in that way,
without any effort to save her.”
3. “I mean,
marriage drinks up all of our power of giving or getting any blessedness
in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear—but it murders
our marriage—and then the marriage stays with us like a murder—and
everything else is gone.”
4. But we
insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing
the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder
sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know.
