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“The bias of human nature to be slow in correspondence triumphs even over the present quickening in the general pace of things” - George Eliot on texting people back, probably

tfw the working world is showing no eager need whatever of a young gentleman without capital and generally unskilled

Ahhhh 😭🫠 a cliffhanger?!?!?

Love to silence Objection by force of unreason….

A character named Josh………..

“the tiny black spaniel, which had the insight to decline his hollow caresses” noooooooo lol

I did not expect when I started this book that I would be rooting so intensely for a certain character to die….

Also, reading Middlemarch makes me want to reread some Rose Lerner - she’s so underrated!

Dorothea on Italy: “‘so many pictures almost all alike in the same place’” 💀💀💀