The protagonist of this novel claims that marriage "drinks up all of our power of giving" love and that it "stays with us like a murder."
The protagonist of this novel claims that marriage "drinks up all of our power of giving" love and that it "stays with us like a murder." A banker in this novel used to be a pawnbroker selling stolen goods, a fact he tries to cover up by contributing to the death of Sir John Raffles. That banker is Nicholas Bulstrode. The protagonist's husband dies before he can complete The Key to All Mythologies. In this novel, the mayor's daughter, Rosamond Vincy, is attracted to the doctor, Tertius Lydgate. This novel ends with the protagonist announcing she will marry Will Ladislaw. For 10 points, name this George Eliot novel about Dorothea Brooke set in the title town.
The protagonist of this novel claims that marriage "drinks up all of our power of giving" love and that it "stays with us like a murder."
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life