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 Copyright, 1S82. 
 By Hall & Whiting. 
 
 Printed by Wright & Pottsr Printing Company. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 If the students and lovers of George Eliot's works fail to find all their 
 favorite passages in this little volume, let them remember onr "erabarras des 
 richesses " ; and moreover if it pains them to miss loved passages, it has been a 
 pain to us to omit them. Our Birth-Day Book would need to be issued in 
 volumes, did it contain all the noble thoughts of this great writer, which it 
 would be well for us to lodge in our meinories, and ponder in our hearts from 
 day to day. We have tried to introduce those which express our Great Teacher's 
 favorite lessons. 
 
 We confess to feeling a little audacious in selecting quotations for one hundred 
 and fifty women, especially when George Eliotherself says " Attempts at descrip- 
 tion are stupid : who can all at once describe a human being? " Let those in- 
 clined to criticise our selections reflect that in most instances it is impossible to 
 seize upon more than one point in a character. As women are many-sided, how 
 can we expect in a few lines to describe " that iridescence of character — that 
 play of various, nay contrary tendencies?" 
 
Anothei" difficulty has been to And the birth-days of women. We had not 
 thouglit of this as anytliing but a very simple matter. We had supposed it an 
 affair of a few minutes to discover Martha Washington's birth-day, whereas no 
 living person has any knowledge of it. We thought anyone who had stood by 
 Mrs. Browning's grave in Florence must know the day of her birth, but we 
 find recorded there only the day of her death. When Kobert Browning declares 
 that he does not know his wife's birth-daj% and confesses to feeling no curiosity 
 about it, we drop the search, feeling it would be bad taste in us to know more 
 about it than does the great poet himself. 
 
 In all cases where thei'e is not a reasonable certainty as to any woman's birth- 
 day, we have placed a star against her name in the index. 
 
 E. S. N. G. 
 
Presentiment of better things on earth 
 Sweeps in with every force that stirs our souls 
 To admiration, self-renouncing love, 
 Or thoughts, like light, that bind the world in one ; 
 Sweeps like the sense of vastness when at night 
 We hear the roll and dash of waves that break 
 Nearer and nearer with the rushing tide, 
 Which rises to the level of the cliff. 
 Because the wide Atlantic rolls behind, 
 Throbbing respondent to the fai'-off orbs. 
 
 A Minor Prophet. 
 
January 1. 
 
 Man can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. No 
 
 retrospect will take us to the true beginning ; and whether our prologue 
 
 be in heaven, or on earth, it is but a fraction of that all-presupposing 
 
 fact with which our story sets out. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 — ^^ — 
 
 Youth thinks itself the goal of each, old life. 
 Age has but travelled from a far-off time, 
 Just to be read}' for jouth's service. Well, 
 It was my chief delight to perfect 3'ou. 
 
 A.RMGAUT. 
 
 January 2. 
 
 I WILL elect my deeds, and be the liege, 
 Not of my birth, but of that good alone 
 I have discerned and chosen. 
 
 Our deeds still travel with us from afar, 
 
 And what we have been makes us what we are. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCH. 
 
January 1. 
 Maria Edgeworth, 1767. 
 
 January 2. 
 
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January 3. 
 
 Persons attracted him, as Hans Meyrick had done, in proportion to 
 
 the possibiUt}^ of his defending them, rescuing, telling upon their lives 
 
 with some sort of redeeming influence. 
 
 Daxiel Deronda. 
 
 January 4. 
 
 Mrs. Glegg chose to wear her bonnet in the house today — untied 
 and tilted slightly, of coui'se, a frequent practice of hers when she was 
 on a visit, and happened to be in a severe mood : she didn't knovv what 
 draughts there m-ight be in strange houses. For the same reason slie 
 wore a small sable tippet, which reached just to her shoulders, and was 
 very far from meeting across her well-formed chest. 
 
 The Mill os the Floss. 
 
January 3. 
 Lucretia Mott, 1793. 
 
 January 4. 
 
January 5. 
 
 Examine your words well, and you will find that even when 3'ou have 
 no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even 
 about your own immediate feelings — much harder tha,n to say something 
 fine about them which is not the exact truth. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 January 6. 
 
 Her inspired ignorance gives a sublimity to actions so incongruously 
 simple that otherwise they would make men smile. Some of that ardor 
 which has flashed out and illuminated all poetry and history was burning 
 today in the bosom of sweet Esther Lj-on. 
 
 Feux Holt. 
 
January 5. 
 Madame Rc^musat, 1780. 
 
 January 6. 
 
 'Joan of Arc, 1402, 
 
January 
 
 People Avho live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those im- 
 mediatel}' nnder our own ej'es ; and it seems superfluous when we con- 
 sider the remote geographical position of the Ethiopians, and how very 
 little the Greeks had to do with them, to inquire further wh}' Homer 
 
 calls them " blameless." 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 January S. 
 
 Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual selves, as the 
 life of mankind at large makes a moral tradition for the race; and to 
 have once acted greatly seems to make a reason why we should always 
 be noble. 
 
 ROMOLA. 
 
January 7. 
 
 JANUARY S. 
 
January 9. 
 
 Mr. Lydcatr, — 
 
 "'Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring ever}'- 
 body's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor? 
 The shortest way is to make your value felt so that people must put up 
 with you whether you flatter them or not." 
 Mr. Farebrother, — 
 
 " With all my heart. But then j'ou must be sure of having tlie value, 
 and you must keep }'our independence." 
 
 MlPDLEMAUCli. 
 
 January 10. 
 
 In the career of a great public orator who yields himself to the inspira- 
 tion of the moment, tliat conflict of selfish and unselfish emotion whicli 
 in most men is hidden in the chamber of the soul, is brought into terrible 
 evidence ; the language of the inner voices is written out in letters of fire. 
 
 ROMOLA. 
 
 10 
 
January 9. 
 
 January 10. 
 
 11 
 
January 1 1. 
 
 And young Mr. Lammeter, he'd have no way but he must be married 
 in Janiwar}', which to be sure 's a unreasonable time to be married in, 
 for it is n't like a christening or a burying, as you can't help. 
 
 Silas Marnek. 
 
 January 12. 
 
 It is dreadful to think on, people placing with their own insides in that 
 
 way ! And its flying i' the face o' Providence ; for what are the doctors 
 
 for if us are n't to call 'em in? And when folks have got the mone}' to 
 
 pay for a doctor, it isn't respectable, as I've told Jane many a time. 
 
 I'm ashamed of acquaintance knowing it. 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 12 
 
January 11. 
 
 January 12. 
 
 Hdu.(l:^^jcU, ^tr^^. /<^§ 
 
 18 
 
January 13. 
 
 If we want to avoid giving the dose of hemlock or the sentence of 
 banishment in the wrong case, nothing will do but a capacity to under- 
 stand the subject-matter on which tlie immovable man is convinced, and 
 fellowship with human travail, both near and far, to hinder us from 
 
 scanning any deep experience lightly. 
 
 Daniel Dejjonda. 
 
 January 14. 
 
 After all has been said that can be said about the widening influence 
 
 of ideas, it remains true that they could hardly be such strong agents 
 
 unless they were taken in a solvent of feeling. 
 
 Uqmola. 
 
 14 
 
January 13. 
 
 January 14. 
 
 15 
 
January 15. 
 
 O BUDDING time ! 
 O love's best prime ! 
 
 Two Lovers. 
 
 Young delight that wonders at itself 
 And throbs as innocent as opening flowers, 
 Knowing not comment, — soilless, beautiful. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 January 16. 
 
 A WOMAN mixed of such tine elements 
 That were all virtue and religion dead 
 She'd make them newly, being what she was. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
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 It is lawful to marry again, I suppose, unless we might as well be Hin- 
 doos instead of Christians. Of course if a woman accepts the wrong man 
 she must take the consequences, and one who does it a second time 
 
 deserves her fate. Middlemakch. 
 
 16 
 
January 15. 
 Margery Fleming, 1803. 
 
 January 16. 
 Sister Dora (Dorotlay Wiiidlow Pattison). 1832; Mrs. Thrale, 1740, 
 
January 1' 
 
 And it is in the nature of exasperation gradually to concentrate itself. 
 
 The sincere antipathy of a dog towards cats in general necessarily talvcs 
 
 the form of indignant barking at the neighbor's black cat which malvcs 
 
 daily trespass ; the bark at imagined cats, though a frequent exercise of 
 
 the canine mind, is yet comparatively feeble. 
 
 Felix Holt. 
 
 January IS. 
 
 Mr. Craig was not above tallcing politics occasionally, though he 
 
 piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specihc information. He 
 
 saw so far beyond the mere facts of a case, that realh' it was superfluous 
 
 to know them. 
 
 Ada:\i IJkdi;. 
 
 18 
 
January 17. 
 
 January 18. 
 
 19 
 
January 19. 
 
 Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy in the force of imagina- 
 tion that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud- 
 pictures. 
 
 Daniel Deuonda. 
 
 January 20. 
 
 There may come a moment when even an excellent husband, who has 
 dropped smoking under more or less of a pledge during courtship, for the 
 first time will introduce his cigar-smoke between himself and his wife, 
 with the tacit understanding that she will have to put up with it. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 20 
 
January 19. 
 Sarah Helen Whitman, 180,3. 
 
 January 20. 
 
 21 
 
January 21. 
 
 But what great mental or social type is free from specimens whose in- 
 significance is both ugly and noxious. One is afraid to think of alt that 
 the genus " patriot" embraces ; or of the elbowing there might be on the 
 day of judgment for those who ranlced as authors, and brought volumes 
 
 either in their hands or on trucks. 
 
 Daniel Dekonda. 
 
 January 22. 
 
 Mrs. Tl'lliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, jet she re- 
 tained in all the freshness of her early married life a facility for saying- 
 things which drove him in the opposite direction to the one she desired. 
 Some minds are wonderful for keeping their bloom in this way. 
 
 The Mill ox the Floss. 
 
January 21. 
 
 January 22. 
 
 ^r^ GoHy^dUL ^CL^Cn<r Tf^f^JL /^^44 
 
January 23. 
 
 There are so many things wrong and difficult in the world that no man 
 can be great — he can hardly keep himself from wickedness — unless he 
 gives up thinking much about pleasures or rewards, and gets strength to 
 endure what is hard and painful. 
 
 l\OMOLA. 
 
 January 24. 
 
 Mr. Borthrop Trumbull had a kindly liquid iu his veins ; he was an 
 admirer by nature, and would have liked to have the universe under his 
 hammer, feeling that it would go at a higher figure for his recommenda- 
 tion. 
 
 MiDDLKMARCII. 
 
 24 
 
January 23. 
 
 January 24. 
 
January 25. 
 
 1 UAVE often wondered whether those earl}- Madonnas of Raphael, with 
 the bland faces and somewhat stupid expression, kept their placidit}' un- 
 disturbed when their strong-limbed, strong-willed boys got a little too old 
 to do without clothing. I think they must have been given to feeble 
 remonstrance, getting more and more peevish as it became more and 
 
 more ineffectual. 
 
 The Mill ox the Floss. 
 
 January 26. 
 
 We sit up at night to read about Cakya-Monui, St. Francis, or Oliver 
 Cromwell ; but whether we should be glad for any one at all like them to 
 call on us the next morning, still more to reveal himself as a new rela- 
 tion, is quite another affair. 
 
 Daniei. Dekond.v. 
 
 26 
 
January 25. 
 
 January 26. 
 
January 27. 
 
 But under his calm and somewhat self-repressed exterior there was a 
 
 fervor, which made him easily find poetry and romance among the events 
 
 of every-da}' life. And perhaps poetry and romance are as plentiful as 
 
 ever in the world. They exist very easily in the same room with the 
 
 microscope, and even in railway carriages : what banishes them is the 
 
 vacuum in gentlemen and lady passengers. 
 
 Daniel Dekonda. 
 
 January 28. 
 
 The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its 
 charity, changes the lights for us. We begin to see things again in their 
 larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we toocan be seen and judged 
 in the wholeness of our character. 
 
 MlDDLEMAKCn. 
 
 28 
 
January 27. 
 * Dinah Mulocb Craik, 1826. 
 
 January 28. 
 
 29 
 
January 29. 
 
 There are few prophets in the world, — few sublimely beautiful women, 
 — few heroes. I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such 
 rarities ; I want a great deal of those feelings for mv every-day fellow- 
 men. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 January 30. 
 
 Depend upon it vanit}' is human, — native alike to men and women ; 
 only in the male it is of denser texture, less volatile, so that it less im- 
 mediatel}' informs you of its presence, but it is more massive and capable 
 of knocking you down if you come into collision with it ; while in women 
 vanity lays by its small revenges .as in a needle-case always at hand. 
 
 Theophha.stui? Such. 
 
 30 
 
January 29. 
 
 January 30. 
 
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January 31 
 
 This is what I call debasing the moral currenc}' ; lowering the value of 
 
 every inspiring fact and tradition so that it will command less and less 
 
 of the spiritual products, the generous motives which sustain the charm 
 
 and elevation of our social existence. 
 
 Theophkastus Sucu. 
 
 32 
 
January 31. 
 
 33 
 
Thkre is nolliing like settling with ourselves as there 's a deal we must 
 do without i' this life. Its no use looking on life as if it were Treddles'ou 
 fair, where folks go to see shows and get fairings. If we do, we shall 
 find it different. 
 
 AuAM Bkde. 
 
 34 
 
At the division of tlie Promised Land, each has to win his portion by 
 hard fighting ; the bestowal is after the manner of prophecy, and is a 
 title without possession. To carry the map of an ungotten estate in 
 your pocket is a poor sort of copyhold. And in fancy to cast his shoe 
 over Edom is little warrant that a man shall ever set the sole of his foot 
 on an acre of his own there, 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 35 
 
February 1. 
 
 To a fine ear, that tone said, as plainly as possible : " Whatever re- 
 commends itself to me, Thomas Jerome, as piety and goodness, shall 
 have my love and honor. Ah, friends, this pleasant world is a sad one, 
 too, is n't it? Let us help one another, let us help one another." 
 
 Janet's Repentance. 
 
 0^^ 
 
 No curse has fallen on us till we cease 
 To help each other. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 February 2. 
 
 She felt the largeness of the world, and the manifold wakings of men 
 to labor and endurance. She was a part of that involuntary, palpi- 
 tating life, and could neither look out on it from her luxurious shelter as 
 a mere spectator, nor hide her eyes in selfish complaining. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCH. 
 
 36 
 
February 1, 
 
 February 2. 
 Hannah More, 1745. 
 
 37 
 
February 3. 
 
 Look at his hands ; they are not small and dimpled, with tapering 
 fingers that seem to have only a deprecating touch ; they are long, 
 flexible, firmly-grasping liands such has Titian has painted in a picture 
 where he wanted to show the combination of refinement with force. 
 
 Danikl Deuonua. 
 
 February 4. 
 
 Am I a sage whose words must fall like seed 
 
 Silentl}' buried toward a far-off" spring? 
 
 I sing to living men, and my effect 
 
 Is like the summer's sun, that ri[)ens corn 
 
 Or now or never. If the world brings me gifts, 
 
 Gold, incense, myrrh — 'twill be the needful sign 
 
 That I have stirred it as the high year stirs 
 
 Before I sink to winter. 
 
 Ai{m<;aiit. 
 
 38 
 
February 3. 
 
 February 4. 
 
 * Mrs. Oliphanr, ISlSo 
 
 39 
 
February o. 
 
 This figure hath high price : 'Twas wrought with love 
 
 Ages ago in finest ivor}' ; 
 
 Nanglit modish in it, pure and nol>le lines 
 
 Of generous womanhood that fits all time. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCH. 
 
 February 6. 
 
 His veiy faults Avere middling. It was not in his nature to be superla- 
 tive in anything ; unless, indeed, he was superlatively middling, the 
 
 quintessential extract of mediocrity. 
 
 Amos Barton. 
 
 40 
 
February b. 
 Madame 8evign(:', 1626. 
 
 February 6. 
 
 Qneen Anne, of England, 1664. 
 
 41 
 
February 7. 
 
 The deed of Judas has ])een attributed to far-reaching views, and the 
 wish to hasten his Master's declaration of Himself as the Messiah. 
 Perhaps — I will not maintain the contrary — Judas represented his 
 motive in this wa}', and felt justified in his traitorous kiss ; but m}' belief 
 is that he deserved to be where Dante saw him. 
 
 THEf)PHKASTTTS SuCH. 
 
 February 8. 
 
 I HAVE all my life had a sympathy for mongrel, u'lgainly dogs, who are 
 nobody's pets ; and I would ratlier surprise one of them by a pat and a 
 pleasant morsel than meet the most condescending advances of the 
 loveliest sky-terrier who has his cushion l)y m}' lady's chair. 
 
 Amos Bakton. 
 
 42 
 
February 7. 
 
 February 8. 
 
February 9. 
 
 Neither Luther nor John Bunyan would have satisfied the modern 
 demand for an ideal hero, who believes nothing but what is true, feels 
 nothing but what is exalted, and does nothing but what is graceful. 
 
 Janet's liEPENTANCic. 
 
 February 10. 
 
 But truth-venders and medicine-venders usually recommend swallow- 
 ing. When a man sees his livelihood in a pill or proposition, he likes 
 
 to have orders for the dose, and not curious inquiries. 
 
 Feux Holt. 
 
 44 
 
February 9. 
 
 February 10. 
 
 45 
 
February 11. 
 
 Though all the luminous angels of the stars 
 
 Burst into cruel chorus on his ear, 
 
 Singing " We know no merc^'," he would cry 
 
 " I know it " still, and soothe the frightened bird 
 
 And feed the child a-liungered, walk abreast 
 
 Of persecuted men, and keep most hate 
 
 For rational torturei's. 
 
 Thk Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 February 12. 
 
 Second sight is a flag over disputed ground. But it is matter of 
 knowledge that there are persons whose yearnings, conceptions — nay, 
 travelled conclusions — continual!}' take the form of images which have 
 a foreshadowing power : the deed they would do starts up before them in 
 complete shape, making a coercive type ; the event they hunger for or 
 dread rises into vision with a seed-like growth, feeding itself fast on un- 
 numbered impressions. 
 
 Danikl Dekonda. 
 
 46 
 
February 11. 
 Lydiii Alalia Child, 1802. 
 
 February 12. 
 
February 13. 
 
 But my liiisbaiurs tongue 'ud have been a fortune to anybody, and 
 
 there was man}' a one said it was as good as a dose of pliysic to liear 
 
 him talk ; not but what that got liini into trouble, but he always said, if 
 
 the worst came to the worst, he could go and preach to the blacks. But 
 
 he did better than that, Mr. Lyon, for he married me. 
 
 Felix Holt. 
 
 February 14. 
 
 Young love-making — that gossamer web ! p]ven the points it clings 
 to — the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung — are scarceh' 
 perceptible ; momentary- touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from 
 blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and 
 lip*, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs 
 and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life toward another, visions of 
 completeness, indefinite trust. 
 
 MlDDLKMARCH. 
 
 48 
 
February 13. 
 
 February 14. 
 
 49 
 
February 15. 
 
 I 'vE no opinion o' the men, INIiss Gun — 1 don't know wliat you \\ix\Q. 
 And as for fretttng and stewing aljout what they 'II think of you from 
 morning till night, and making your life uneasy about what thej' 're 
 doing when the}' 're out o' your sight — as I tell Nancy, it 's a foil}' no 
 woman need be guilty of, if she 's got a good father and a good home ; 
 let her leave it to them as have got no fortin' and can 't help themselves. 
 
 Silas Mauneu. 
 
 February 1G. 
 
 There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where 
 
 we were born, where objects became dear to us before we had known the 
 
 labor of choice, and where the outer world seemed only an extension of 
 
 our own personality ; we accepted and loved it as we accepted our own 
 
 existence and our own limbs. 
 
 Thk Mill ox tue Floss. 
 
 50 
 
February 15. 
 
 Susan Anthony, 1820. 
 
 February 16. 
 
 51 
 
Agatha. 
 
 February 17. 
 
 Dear 
 
 As all the sweet home things she smiles upon, 
 The children and the cows, the apple-trees. 
 The cart, the plough, all named with that caress 
 "Which feigns them little, easy to be held, 
 Familiar to the e3'es and hand and heart. 
 
 February IS. 
 
 That 's what I jaw m}' old mother for. I sa3-s " ^-ou should ha' sent 
 me to a school a bit more," I says — " an' then I could ha' read i' the 
 books like fun, an' kep' my head cool an' empty." 
 
 The Mill ox the Floss. 
 
 52 
 
February 17. 
 Rose Terry Cook, 1827 
 
 February 18. 
 
 53 
 
February 19. 
 
 Hek body was so slight, 
 It seemed she coidd have floated in the sky, 
 And with the angeUc choir made s^'mphouy, 
 But in her cheek's rich tinge, and in the dark 
 Of darkest hair and eyes, she bore a mark 
 Of kinship to her generous Mother Earth, 
 The fervid land that gives the plumy palm-trees birth. 
 
 How Lisa Loa'ed thk Kino. 
 
 <#;>|o 
 
 Welly laike a linnet, wi' on'y joust body anoof to hold her voice. 
 
 Mh. Gilkili;.s Love-story. 
 
 February 20. 
 
 (), horrible 
 
 To be in chains ! Why 1, with all ni}' bliss, 
 Have longed sometimes to tt}' and be at large ; 
 Have felt imi)risoned in my luxury 
 AVith servants for m}' jailers. O my lord. 
 Do 3'ou not wish the world were ditlbreut? 
 
 The Spanish Gyps v. 
 54 
 
February lu. 
 Adelaide Fatti, 1843. 
 
 February 20. 
 
 Angelina Giinike Weld. 
 
 65 
 
February 21. 
 
 I 'vE ;x strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to 
 speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because tlicy couldn't. I can't help 
 being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there 's no need. But 
 they ma^' well have more in them than tliey know how to make us under- 
 stand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words. 
 
 Adam Bkdk. 
 
 February 22. 
 
 The greatest gift the hero leaves his race 
 Is to have been a hero. Say we fail ! 
 We feed the high tradition of the world. 
 
 .... I will not count 
 
 On aught 1)ut being faithful. 
 
 Tun Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 .56 
 
February 21. 
 
 February 22. 
 
 57 
 
February 23. 
 
 She is a royal changeling : there 's some crown 
 
 Lacks the right head, since hers wears naught but braids. 
 
 Fi:li\- IIoi.t. 
 
 However, she had the charm, and those who feared her weie also fond 
 of her ; the fear and fondness being perhaps both heightened by what 
 may be called the iridescence of her character — the play of various, nay, 
 contrary tendencies 
 
 Daniel Deuoxda. 
 
 February 24. 
 
 Loud men called his subdued tone an undertone, and sometimes im- 
 plied that it was inconsistent with openness ; though there seems no 
 reason why a loud man should not be given to concealment of anything 
 except his own voice unless it can be shown that Holy Writ has placed 
 the seat of candor in the lungs, 
 
 MiODLKMAKCU. 
 
 58 
 
February 23. 
 
 Mrs. Emma Wilkird, 1787. 
 
 February 24. 
 
 r>\) 
 
February 25. 
 
 Mrs. Bulstrode's naive Avay of conciliating piety and woiidliness, 
 tlie notliingness of tliis life and the desirability of cut glass, the con- 
 sciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask was not a sufficient 
 relief from the weight of her husband's invariable seriousness. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCn. 
 
 February 26. 
 
 Bright February da3-s have a stronger charm of hope about them than 
 any other days in tire year. One likes to pause in the mild rays of the 
 sun, and think th.at tiie beautiful 3'ear is all before one. The birds seem 
 to feel just the same : their notes are as clear as tlie clear air. 
 
 Adam Bkde. 
 
 GO 
 
February 25. 
 
 February 26. 
 
 61 
 
February 27. 
 
 Oh, there's pleasure in knowing one's not a fool, like half the people 
 
 one sees about. And managing one's husband is some pleasure ; and 
 
 doing all one's business well. Wh}', if I 've onl3'got some orange-flowers 
 
 to candy, I shouldn't like to die till I see them all right. 
 
 Felix Holt. 
 
 February 28. 
 
 Think you I felt myself a prima donna ? 
 No, but a happy, spiritual star 
 Such as old Dante saw, wrought in a rose 
 Of light in Paradise, whoseonly self 
 Was consciousness of glory wide-diffused, 
 Music, life, power — I moving in the midst 
 With a sublime necessity of good. 
 
 Armgart. 
 
 62 
 
February 27, 
 
 February 28. 
 Racbel, IS.'l. 
 
 63 
 
February 29. 
 
 When I was young, Mr. Lydgate, there never was any question about 
 right and wrong. We l<new our catechism, and that was enough ; we 
 learned our creed and our duty. Everj' respectable Church person had 
 the same opinions. But now, if you speal< out of the prayer-book 
 itself, you are liable to be contradicted. 
 
 MlDDLEMARCH. 
 
 64 
 
February 29. 
 
The wintiy da3's passed for Romola as the white ships pass one who 
 is standing lonelj' on the shore — passing in silence and sameness, and 
 yet each bearing a hidden burden of coming change. 
 
 ROMOLA. 
 
 66 
 
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no child- 
 hood in it, — if it were not the earth where the same flowers came up again 
 every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisp- 
 ing to ourselves on the grass, — the same hips and haws on the autumn 
 hedges, — the same red-l)reasts that we used to call " God's birds " be- 
 cause they did no harm to the precious crops. 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
Mapxh 1, 
 
 Natdre has her language, and she is not unveracious ; but we don't 
 know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we 
 may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 March 2. 
 
 I II AYE often seen the image of my earl}' youth, when it seemed to rae 
 astonishing that the philosophers had left so many difficulties unsolved, 
 and that so man}^ great themes had raised no great poet to treat them. 
 
 THEOPiiiiASTUs Such. 
 
 68 
 
March 1. 
 
 March 2. 
 
 69 
 
March 3, 
 
 On, Aristotle ! if 3-011 had had the advantage of being " the freshest 
 
 modern " instead of the greatest ancient, would you not have mingled 
 
 j-our praise of metaphorical speech, as a sign of high intelligence, with a 
 
 lamentation that intelligence so rarely shows itself in speech without a 
 
 metaphor, — that we seldom declare what a thing is except by saying 
 
 it is something else ? 
 
 The Mill ox the Floss. 
 
 March 4. 
 
 I THINK we had the chief of all love's joys 
 Onl}- in knowing that we loved each otlier. 
 
 Slowly she moA'cd to choose sul)limer pain : 
 Yearning yet shrinking, wrought upon by awe. 
 Her own brief life seeming a little isle 
 Remote through visions of a wider world 
 With fates close crowded. 
 
 The Spanish Gvpsy 
 70 
 
March 3. 
 
 March 4. 
 Rebecca Graty, 1781 ; Baroness Biinscn, 1791, 
 
 71 
 
March 5. 
 
 Ay, ay, you 're right there : there 's allaj's two 'pinions ; there 's the 
 
 'pinion a man has of hirasen, and there's the 'pinion other folks have on 
 
 him. There'd be two 'pinions about a cracked bell, if the bell could hear 
 
 itself. 
 
 Silas Marner. 
 
 March 6. 
 
 The way in which I have come to the conclusion that human nature is 
 lovable — the way I have learnt something of its deep pathos, its sub- 
 lime masteries — has been by living a great deal among people more or 
 less commonplace and vulgar, of whom you would perhaps hear nothing 
 very surprising if you were to inquire about them in the neighborhoods 
 
 where they dwelt. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 72 
 
March 5. 
 
 March 6. 
 
 73 
 
March 7. 
 
 It is undeniable that a too intense consciousness of one's Icinsliip with 
 
 all frailties and vices undermines the active lieroism which battles against 
 
 wrong. 
 
 Theophrastus Such. 
 
 March S. 
 
 Yet surel3% sureh' the only true knowledge of our fellow-man is that 
 which enables us to feel with him, — which gives a fine ear for the heart- 
 pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and 
 opinion. Our subtlest analysis of schools and sects must miss the 
 essential truth, unless it be lit up by the love that sees, in all forms of 
 human thought and work, the life and death struggles of separate human 
 
 beings. 
 
 Janet's Repentance. 
 
 74 
 
March 7. 
 
 March 8. 
 
 75 
 
March 9. 
 
 We get tired of a " manner" in conversation as in painting, when one 
 theme after another is treated with the same lines and touches. I begin 
 with a liking for an estimable master, but b}' the time he has stretched 
 his iuterpi'etation of the world unbrokcnl}' along a palatial gallerj-, I have 
 had wliat the cautious Scotch mind would call " enough" of him. 
 
 TiniOPHRASTus Such. 
 
 March 10. 
 
 He thought all loveliness was lovelier, 
 She crowning it ; all goodness credible, 
 Because of the great trust her goodness bred. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsi 
 
 76 
 
March 9. 
 
 March 10. 
 Queen Louise, of Prussia, 1776. 
 
 77 
 
March 11. 
 
 " Ah ! " said Mrs. Poyser, " an' it's poor work allays settiii' the dead 
 
 above the livin'. We shall all on us be dead sometime, I reckon ; it 'iid 
 
 be better if folks 'ud make much on us beforehand, i'stid o' beginnin' when 
 
 we are gone. It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last 3'ear's 
 
 crop." 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 March 12. 
 The calendar hath not an evil day 
 For souls made one by love, and even death 
 Were sweetness, if it came like rolling waves 
 While they two clasped each other and foresaw 
 
 No life apart. Middlemarch. 
 
 — ^np — 
 
 It lay in the probabilities of things that gentr3''s intellects should be 
 
 peculiar : since they had not to get their own living, the good Lord might 
 
 have economized in their case that common sense which others were so 
 
 much in need of. Felix Holt. 
 
 78 
 
March 11. 
 
 March 12 
 Lady Hester Stanhope, 1776; Mary Howitt, 1799. 
 
 79 
 
March 13. 
 
 For I have observed this remarkable coincidence, that the select 
 natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petti- 
 coats great enough to command their reverence or love, are curiously 
 
 in iniison with the narrowest and pettiest. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 March 14. 
 
 He felt for the first time that loving awe in the presence of noble 
 womanhood which is, perhaps, something like the worship paid of old to 
 a great nature-goddess, who was not all-knowing, but whose life and 
 powei" were something deeper and more primordial than knowledge. 
 
 KOMOLA. 
 
 80 
 
March 13. 
 
 March 14. 
 Aspasia, about 460 B. C. 
 
 81 
 
March 15, 
 
 Hkat is a great agent and a useful word, but considered as a means of 
 
 explaining tlie universe it requires an extensive knowledge of ditferences ; 
 
 and as a means of explaining character, " sensitiveness" is in much the 
 
 same predicament. 
 
 Daniel Dkkonda. 
 
 March 16. 
 
 We will watch the spheres, 
 
 And see the constellations bend and plunge 
 
 Into a depth of being where our eyes 
 
 Hold them no more. 
 
 TuK Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 He was gradually discovering the delight there is in frank kindness 
 and companionship between a man and a woman who have no passion to 
 hide or confess. 
 
 MiDDLEMAKCH. 
 
 82 
 
March 15. 
 
 March 16. 
 
 Caroline Herschel, 1750; Miss Berry, Horace Walpole's friend, 1763. 
 
 83 
 
March 17. 
 
 Like the sweet blackbird's fragmentary chant, 
 Yet wakes again, with varying rise and fall, 
 In songs that seem emergent memories 
 Prompting brief utterance. 
 
 Yes, dearest, it is true. 
 
 Speech is the broken light upon the depth 
 
 Of the unspoken ; even your loved words 
 
 Float in the larger meaning of your voice 
 
 As something dimmer. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 March IS. 
 
 And rank for her meant duty, various, 
 Yet equal in its worth, done worthily. 
 Command was service : humblest service done 
 By willing and discerning souls was glory. 
 
 Agatha. 
 
 84 
 
March 17. 
 Jean Ingelow, 1830, 
 
 March 18. 
 Princess Louise, wife of Marquis of Lome. 
 
 85 
 
March 19. 
 
 But uow, she was glowing like a dark-tipped yet delicate ivory-tinted 
 flower in the warm sunlight of content, thinking of an}" possible grief as 
 part of that life with Deronda which she could call b^'no other name than 
 good, Mirah was ready to believe that he had been a rescuing angel 
 to many besides herself. The only wonder was that she, among thsm 
 all, was to have the bliss of being continually by his side. 
 
 Daniel Deuonda. 
 
 March 20. 
 
 She stretched forth 
 Her tender hands, that oft had lain in his. 
 The hands he knew so well, that sight of them 
 Seemed like their touch. 
 
 The backward years — 
 O she would not forget them — would not drink 
 Of waters that brought rest, while he far off 
 Remembered. — " Father, I renounced the joy, 
 You must forgive the sorrow." Middlemakch. 
 
 8G 
 
March 19. 
 Margaret Klopstock, 1728. 
 
 March 20. 
 Heloise, about 1102. 
 
 87 
 
March 21. 
 
 In fact there was a general sense in the Featherstone blood that every- 
 bod}' must watch everA'body else, and that it would be well for ever3body 
 else to reflect that the Almighty was watching him. 
 
 MlDDLEMARCH. 
 
 March 22. 
 
 A SOFT light fell from the upper windows on sleek brown or gra}^ flanks 
 and haunches ; on mild equine faces looking out with active nostrils over 
 the varnished brown boarding, on the ha}' hanging from racks and on 
 the pale-golden straw scattered or in heaps. 
 
 "Do you take oflT your hat to the horses?" said Grandcourt with a 
 
 slight sneer. " Why not ? " said Deronda. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
March 21. 
 
 March 22. 
 Rosa Bonheur, 1822. 
 
 89 
 
March 23. 
 
 As Diuali expressed it, " She was never left to herself, but it was always 
 given to her when to keep silence and when to speak." And do we not 
 all agree to call rapid thought and nohle impulse by the name of inspira- 
 tion ? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still 
 say as Dinah did, that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all 
 
 given to us. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 March 24. 
 
 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, was speculative and irresolute, and we 
 have a great tragedy in consequence. But if his father had lived to a 
 good old age, and his uncle had died an early death, we can conceive 
 Hamlet's having married Ophelia, and got through life with a reputa- 
 tion for sanity, notwithstanding many soliloquies and some moody 
 sarcasms towards the fair daughter of Polonius, to say nothing of the 
 
 frankest incivility to his father-in-law. 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 90 
 
March 23. 
 
 March 24. 
 
 91 
 
March 25. 
 
 A man's mind — wiiat there is of it — has alwaj's the advantage of being 
 masculine, — as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most 
 soaring palm, — and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCH. 
 
 March 26. 
 
 I KNOW it is difficult for people in these instructed times to believe in 
 Uncle Pullet's ignorance ; but let them reflect on the remarkable results 
 of a great natural faculty under favoring circumstances. And Uncle 
 Pullet had a great natural faculty for ignorance. 
 
 The Mili. ox the Floss, 
 
 98 
 
March 25. 
 
 ^^'^^-^^^^ ^cu.cLU, ZudLsA^ , /|?^6 
 
 March 26. 
 
 n 
 
March 27. 
 
 But was not Mirah to be there ? What furniture can give such a 
 
 finish tearoom as a tender woman's face? And is there an}' bar mo nj' 
 
 of tints tliat has such stirrings of delight as the sweet modulations of her 
 
 voice ? 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 March 28. 
 
 The strong emotions from which the life of a human being receives a 
 new bias win their victory as the sea wins his ; though the advance maj'^ 
 be snre, they will often, after a mightier wave than usual, seem to roll 
 back so far as to lose all the ground they had made. 
 
 » Janet's Repentance, 
 
 94 
 
March 2' 
 
 March 28. 
 
 95 
 
March 29 
 
 What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist 
 in the presence of a great calamit}', when all the artificial vesture of our 
 life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? 
 
 The Mill ox thk Floss. 
 
 March 30. 
 
 It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death 
 hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too, — as if it were 
 comparativel}' a light thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother 
 who has to climb the whole toilsome steep with us, and all our tender- 
 ness was due to the one who is spared that hard journe3\ 
 
 Janet's Ivepentance. 
 
 96 
 
March 29. 
 
 March oO. 
 
 97 
 
March 31. 
 
 I a:m not sure that the greatest man of his age, if ever that solitary 
 superlative existed, could escape unfavorable reflections of himself in 
 various small mirrors ; and even Milton, looking for his portrait in a 
 spoon, must submit to have the facial angle of a bumi)kin. 
 
 MiDDLEMAKCn. 
 
 98 
 
March 31. 
 
 09 
 
She thought it was part of tlie hardship of her life that tliere was laid 
 upon her the burden of larger wants than others seemed to feel, — that 
 she had to endure this wide, hopeless 3earning for that something, what- 
 ever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth. Poor child ! she 
 was as lonely in her trouble as if she had been the onh' girl in the civil- 
 ized world of that day who had come out of her school-life with a soul 
 untrained for inevitable struggles, with much futile information about 
 Saxon and other kings of doulitful example, but unhappily quite without 
 that knowledge of the inevitable laws within and without her, which, 
 governing the habits, becomes morality, and, developing the feelings of 
 submission and dependence, becomes religion. 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 100 
 
There are various orders of beaut}' causing men to make fools of 
 themselves ; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn 
 the heads, of men, but even of women. It is a beautj- like tliat of 
 kittens, or very small, downy ducks, making gentle, rippling noises with 
 their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in con- 
 scious mischief. 
 
 Hetty's was a spring-tide beaut}^ ; it was the beautv of young, frisk- 
 ing things, round-limbed, gambolling, circumventing you by a false air of 
 innocence — the innocence of a young star-browed calf, for example, 
 that, being inclined for a promenade out of bounds, leads you a severe 
 steeple-chase over hedge and ditch, and only comes to a stand in the 
 middle of a bog. 
 
 Adam Bhdk. 
 
 101 
 
April 1. 
 
 But the sweet spring came to Milby notwithstanding : the elm-tops 
 were red with buds ; the church-yard was starred with daisies ; the lark 
 showered his love-music on the flat fields ; the rainbows hung over the 
 dingy town, clothing the ver}' roofs and chimneys in a strange trans- 
 figuring beauty. 
 
 Janet's Repentance. 
 
 April 2. 
 
 It 's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his 
 
 teeth, and walk fifty miles on end, treml)ling and turning hot and cold at 
 
 only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It 's a 
 
 mystery we can give no account of; but no more we can of the sprouting 
 
 o' the seed, for that matter. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 102 
 
April 1 
 
 April 2. 
 
 in;; 
 
April 3. 
 Imagination is always based on a keen vision, a keen consciousness of 
 what is and carries tlie store of definite knowledge as material for the 
 construction of its inward visions. Tiieophrastus Such. 
 
 — "^^^ — 
 For they the ro3'al-hearted women are 
 Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace 
 For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, 
 Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, 
 The heavenliest ray that pitietb the vile. 
 
 How Lisa Lovkd the King. 
 
 April 4. 
 
 The creature we help to save, though only a half-reared linnet, bruised 
 
 and lost by the wa3'side — how we watch and fence it, and dote on its 
 
 signs of recovery ! Our pride becomes loving, our self is a not-self for 
 
 whose sake we become virtuous, when we set to some hidden work of 
 
 reclaiming a life from misery, and look out for our triumph in the 
 
 secret joy — " This one is the bettor for me." 
 
 Daniel Dekonda. 
 
 Kl-t 
 
April 3. 
 Harriet Prei^cott Spofford, 183.5; Mary Carpenter, 1807 
 
 April 4 
 
 Dorothea Dix, 1809. 
 
 105 
 
April 5. 
 Sprinkle food before a delicate-eared bird ; there is nothing he would 
 more willingly take, yet he keeps aloof, because of his sensiliility to 
 checks which to 3'ou are imperceptible. And one man differs from 
 another, as we all differ from the Bojesman, in a sensibility to checks 
 that come from a variety of needs, spiritual or other. 
 
 Our consciences are not all of the same pattern, an inner deliverance 
 
 of fixed laws : They are the voice of sensil)ilities as various as our 
 
 memories. 
 
 Daniel Dekoxda. 
 
 April 6. 
 
 But always there is seed being sown silently and unseen, and every- 
 where there come sweet flowers without our foresight or labor. We 
 reap what we sow, but Nature has love over and above that justice, and 
 gives us shadow and blossom and fruit that spring from no planting of 
 
 ours. 
 
 Janet's Repentance. 
 
 106 
 
April o. 
 
 April 6 
 
April 7. 
 
 The rush of the. water and the booming of the mill bruig a dream}' 
 
 deafness, which seems to heighten the peacefnlness of the scene. They 
 
 are like a great curtain of sound, sliutting one out from tlie world 
 
 beyond. 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 April 8. 
 
 In speech and look 
 A touch of graceful wildness, as of things; 
 Not trained or tamed for uses of the world ; 
 Most like the Fauns that roamed in da3's of o!d 
 About the listening, whispering woods, and shared 
 The subtler sense of silvan ears and eyes 
 Undulled by scheming thought. 
 
 Tni: Spanish Gypsy 
 
 10s 
 
April 7. 
 
 April 8. 
 • Bright Eyes," Siizette La Fleche, 1854. 
 
 109 
 
April 9. 
 
 Happy the man, 3'ou would have thought, whose eye will rest on her 
 in the pauses of his fireside reading — whose hot, aching forehead will 
 be soothed by the contact of her cool, soft hand — who will recover him- 
 self from dejection at his mistakes and failures in the loving light of her 
 
 unreproaching eyes. 
 
 Amos Barton. 
 
 April 10. 
 
 Strange and piteous to think what a centre of wretchedness a delicate 
 piece of human flesh like that might be, wrapped round with fine raiment, 
 the poor self within her sitting in sick distaste of all things. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 A CHIEF misfortune of high birth is that it usually shuts a man out 
 from the large sympathetic knowledge of human experience, which 
 comes from contact with various classes on their own level. 
 
 Theophrastus Such. 
 
 llu 
 
April 9 
 
 April 10. 
 
 Queen Hortcuse, of Holland, 1783. 
 
 in 
 
April 11. 
 
 Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should 
 think as much about his own qualifications for making a eliavming girl 
 happ}- as he thinks of hers for making himself happy. As if a man 
 could choose not onh- his wife, but his wife's husband ! or as if he were 
 bound to provide charms for his posterity in his own person ! 
 
 MlDDLEMARCH. 
 
 April 12. 
 
 As for them best Holland sheets, I should repeut buying 'em, only 
 
 they '11 do to lay us out in. An' if you was to die tomorrow, Mr. Tulli- 
 
 ver, they 're mangled beautiful, an' all ready, an' smell o' lavender as it 
 
 'ud be a pleasure to lay them out, an' they lie at the left-hand corner o' 
 
 the big oaken chest, at the back — not as I should trust anybody to look 
 
 'em out but m^'self. 
 
 Thk Mill ox rnr': Floss. 
 
 112 
 
April 11. 
 
 April 12. 
 
 113 
 
April 13. 
 
 A TOUNG lad}' of some birth and fortune, who knelt suddenly down 
 on a brick floor by the side of a sick laborer, and prayed fervently, as if 
 she thought herself living in the time of the Apostles — who had strange 
 whims of fastinp- and of sitting up at night to read old theological books ! 
 Such a wife might awaken 3-ou some fine mornhig with a new scheme for 
 the application of her income. 
 
 MiDDLEMAKGH. 
 
 April 14. 
 
 He dreaded, as if it were a dwelling-place of lost souls, that dead ana- 
 tomy- of culture which turns the universe into a mere ceaseless answer to 
 queries, and knows, not ever3-thing, but everything else about every- 
 thing — as if one should be ignorant of nothing concerning the scent of 
 violets except the scent itself, for which one had no nostril. 
 
 Damel Dkuonda. 
 
 114 
 
April 13. 
 Madame Guyon, 104S. 
 
 April 14. 
 
 115 
 
April 15. 
 
 The saints were cowards who stood b}' to see 
 Christ crucified : they should have flung themselves 
 Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain — 
 The grandest death, to die in vain — for love 
 Greater than swap's the forces of the world. 
 
 Thk Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 O memories ! 
 O past that is ! 
 
 April 16. 
 
 Two Lovers. 
 
 To he right in great memorable moments, is perhaps the thing we need 
 most desire for ourselves. 
 
 What we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and 
 present realities — a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger 
 sweep of the world's forces — a movement toward a more assured end 
 than the chances of a single life. 
 
 Felix Holt. 
 
 IIG 
 
April 15. 
 
 Mrs. Brown, wife of John Bro\i n, of Ossawottamy. 
 
 April 16. 
 
 117 
 
April 17. 
 
 The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider 
 
 vision. 
 
 The Mill ox the Floss. 
 
 That subtle result of culture which we call Taste was subdued by the 
 need of far deeper motive ; just as the nicer demands of the palate are 
 annihilated by urgent hunger. 
 
 ROMOLA. 
 
 April IS. 
 
 There is a terrible coercion in our deeds which may at first turn the 
 
 honest man into a deceiver, and then reconcile him to the change ; for 
 
 this reason : that the second wrong presents itself to him in the guise of 
 
 the only practicable right. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 118 
 
April 17. 
 
 April IS. 
 
 119 
 
April 19 
 
 She felt a deep stillness within. She thirsted for no pleasure ; she 
 
 craved no worldly good. She saw the years to come stretch before her 
 
 like an autumn afternoon, filled with resigned memor}'. Life to her 
 
 coukl nevermore have an}' eagerness ; it was a solemn service of gratitude 
 
 and patient effort. 
 
 Janet's Kepentance, 
 
 April 20. 
 
 She uad the essential attributes of a lady — high veracity, delicate 
 honor in her dealings, deference toothers, and refined personal habits. 
 
 Silas Marnek. 
 
 It is terrible, the keen bright eye of a woman, when it has once been 
 
 turned with admiration on what is severely true ; but then the severel}' 
 
 true rarely comes within its range of vision. 
 
 Felix Holt. 
 
 120 
 
April 19. 
 
 Liicreria ll:ii),l,,lf Oarficld. 18^2. 
 
 April 20. 
 
 Joanna Baillie, 1762. 
 
 ]?1 
 
April 21. 
 
 This was the work of Jabal ; he began 
 
 The pastoral life, and, sire of joys to be. 
 
 Spread the sweet ties that bind the famih'. 
 
 O'er dear, dumb souls that thrilled at man's caress, 
 
 And shared his pain with patient helpfulness. 
 
 The Legend of Jlbal. 
 
 April 22. 
 
 She was one of those satisfactory creatures whose intercourse has the 
 charm of discover}' ; whose integrity- of faculty and expression begets a 
 wish to know what they will sa}' on all subject's, or how they will perform 
 whatever they undertake ; so that they end by raising not only a con- 
 tinual expectation, but a continual sense of fulfilment. 
 
 Daxiel Deronda. 
 
 122 
 
April 21. 
 
 April 22. 
 Madame de Stael, 176C. 
 
 12£ 
 
April 23. 
 No great deed is done 
 B}' falterers who ask for certainty. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 The world has made up its mind rather contemptuously about those 
 who were deaf to Columbus. Middlemarch. 
 
 I WILL not feed on doing great tasks ill, 
 Dull the world's sense with mediocrity, 
 And live by trash that smothers excellence, 
 One o'ift I had that i-anked me with the best. 
 
 Ar.mgart. 
 
 April 24. 
 
 The uncertainty of things is a text rather too wide and obvious for 
 
 fruitful application ; aud to discourse of it is, as one may sa^', to bottle 
 
 up the air and make a present of it to those who ai'e already standing 
 
 out of doors. 
 
 Felix Holt. 
 
 121- 
 
April 23. 
 
 Queen Isabella, of Castile, 1451 ; Charlotte Bronte, 1816. 
 
 April 24. 
 
 ]2l 
 
April 25. 
 
 I will so live they shall remember me 
 For deeds of such divine beneficence 
 As rivers have, that teach men what is good 
 By blessing them. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 Heva dog, Miss — They're better friends nor an}' Christian. 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 April 26. 
 
 Oh, I can live unmated, but not live 
 
 Without the bliss of singing to the world, 
 
 And feeling all my world respond to me. 
 
 Armgakt. 
 
 Heaven knows what would become of our sociality if we never visited 
 people we speak ill of; we should live like Egj'ptian hermits in crowded 
 solitudes. 
 
 Janet's Repentance, 
 
 126 
 
April 25 
 Baroness Burdett-Coutts, 1814. 
 
 April 26. 
 
 Alice Caiy, 1822. 
 
 127 
 
April 27. 
 
 A self disturbed 
 
 By budding growtlis oi" reason, premature, 
 
 That breed disease. 
 
 The Spamsh Gyps v. 
 
 While this is tlie social air in which mortals begin to breathe, there 
 will be collisions such as those in Dorothea's life, where great feelings 
 will take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. 
 
 MlDDLEMAKCH. 
 
 April 28. 
 
 That 's what a man wants in a woman mostly ; lie wants to make sure 
 
 o' one fool as '11 tell him he 's wise. But there 's some men can do wi'- 
 
 out that — they think so much o' themselves a' read}- ; an' that 's how it 
 
 is there 's old bachelors. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 128 
 
April 27. 
 
 Mary WoUstonecraft Godwin, 17S9. 
 
 April 28. 
 
 129 
 
April 29. 
 
 One may prefer fresh eggs though laid ]\y a fowl of the meanest ini- 
 
 derstanding, but why fresh sermons ? 
 
 Theophhastus Srcn. 
 
 A sermon heard with all the more satisfaction because it had been 
 heard for the twentieth time ; for to minds on the Shepperton level, it is 
 repetition, not novelt}', that produces the strongest effect ; and phrases, 
 like tunes, are a long time making themselves at home in the brain. 
 
 Mk. Gilfill's Loye-Story. 
 April 30. 
 
 The firmaments of daisies since to me 
 Have had those mornings in their opening ej'es, 
 The bunched cow^slip's pale transparency', 
 Carries that sunshine of sweet memories. 
 
 Brother and Sister. 
 
 The soul without still helps the soul within. 
 And its deft magic ends wliat we begin. 
 
 The Legend of Jubal. 
 
 130 
 
April 29. 
 
 April 30. 
 
 131 
 
It was in the prime 
 Of the sweet spring-time, 
 In the linnet's throat 
 Trembled the love-note, 
 And the love-stirred air 
 Thrilled the blossoms there. 
 Little shadows danced, 
 Each a tiny elf, 
 Happy in large light 
 And the thinnest self. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 132 
 
1 MIGHT mention all the divine charms of a bright, spring day, 
 bnt if you had never in your life utterly forgotten yourself in straining 
 your eyes after the mounting lark, or in wandering through the still 
 lanes when the fresh-opened blossoms fill them with a sacred, silent 
 beauty like that of fretted aisles, where would be the use of ni}' descrip- 
 tive catalogue ? I could never make you know what I meant by a briglit, 
 spring day. 
 
 132 
 
May 1. 
 
 Capable of conceiving and choosing a life's task with far-off issues, 
 yet capable of the unapplauded heroism which turns off the road of 
 achievement at the call of the neai'er dut}- whose effect lies within the 
 beatings of the hearts that are close to us, as the hunger of the un- 
 fledged bird to Ihe breast of its parent. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 May 2. 
 
 But 3'ou — you claimed tlie universe ; nought less 
 
 Then all existence working in sure tracks 
 
 Towards 3'our supremacy. The wheels might scathe 
 
 A myriad destinies — nay, must perforce — 
 
 But 3'ours tiic}' must keep clear of. 
 
 Armgart. 
 
 134 
 
May 1. 
 
 Fidelia Fisk, 1816. 
 
 May 2. 
 Empress Catherine II., of Russia, 1729. 
 
 135 
 
May 3. 
 
 Our delight in the sunshine on the deep-bladed grass today might be 
 
 no more than the faint perception of wearied souls, if it were not for the 
 
 sunshine and the grass in the far-off ^ears, which still live in us, and 
 
 transform our perception into love. 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 May 4. 
 
 Behold my lady's carriage stop the wa}'. 
 
 With powdered lacque}' and with champing bay ; 
 
 She sweeps the matting, treads the crimson stair. 
 
 Her arduous function solely " to be there," 
 
 Like Siriiis rising o'er the silent sea. 
 
 She hides her heart in lustre loftily. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 136 
 
May 3. 
 
 May 4. 
 * Lad}' Martha Washington, 1732. 
 
 137 
 
May 5. 
 
 All the world was hers. 
 
 Splendor was but the herald trumpet note 
 
 Of Jier imperial coming. 
 
 The Spanish G\tsy. 
 
 The great story of this world reduced for her to the little tale of her 
 
 own existence — dull obscurity everywhere, except where the keen light 
 
 fell on the narrow track of her own lot, wide onl}- for a woman's 
 
 anguish. 
 
 Felix Holt. 
 
 May 6. 
 
 And for my part, I can call no age absolutely unpoetic ; how should it 
 be so, since there are always children to whom the acorns and the swal- 
 low's eggs are a wonder To be quite fair toward the ages, a 
 
 little ugliness as well as beauty must be allowed to each of them, a 
 little implicit poetry even to those which echoed loudest with servile, 
 
 pompous and trivial prose. 
 
 Theopiikastus Such. 
 
 138 
 
May 5. 
 
 Empress Eugenie, 1826. 
 
 May 6. 
 
 139 
 
May 7. 
 
 The temptations of beauty are much dwelt upon ; but I fancy they 
 
 only bear the same relations to those of ugliness, as the temptation to 
 
 excess at a feast, where the delights are varied for e3'e and ear as well as 
 
 palate, bears to the temptations that assail the desperation of hunger. 
 
 Does not the Hunger Tower stand as the type of the utmost trial to 
 
 what is human in us? 
 
 The Mill ox the Floss. 
 
 May 8. 
 
 But, for the point of wisdom, I would choose 
 To know the mind that stirs l)etween the wings 
 Of bees and budding wasps, or fills the woods 
 With myriad murmurs of responsive sense 
 And true-aimed impulse, rather than to know 
 The thoughts of warriors. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 140 
 
May 
 
 May S. 
 
 141 
 
May 9. 
 
 ^Iany legends were afterwards told about the blessed Lad}' who came 
 over the sea, but they were legends by which all who heard might know 
 that in times gone by a woman had done beautiful, loving deeds there, 
 rescuing those who were ready to perish. 
 
 ROJIOLA. 
 
 May 10. 
 
 Though I were happy, throned beside the king, 
 
 I should be tender to each little thing ; 
 
 With hurt warm breast, that had uo speech to tell 
 
 Its inward pangs, and I would soothe it well 
 
 With tender touch and with a low, soft moan 
 
 For company. 
 
 How Lisa Loved the King. 
 
 142 
 
May 9. 
 * Florence Nightingale, 1820. 
 
 May 10. 
 Mrs. Emily Warren Appleton, Foundress, of the Boston Society P. C. A., 1818. 
 
 143 
 
May 11. 
 
 A FOUNTAIN mere, vase-shapen and broad-lipped. 
 Where timorous birds alight with tim' feet, 
 And hesitate and bend wise listening ears, 
 And fly away again with undipped beak. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 May 12. 
 
 She minds what she is doing, and that is a point in a woman. A 
 man whose life is of an}' Value should think of his wife as a nurse ; that 
 is what I should do, if I married ; and I believe I have lived single long 
 enough not to make a mistake in that line. Some men must marry to 
 elevate themselves a Utile, but when I am in need of that, I hope 
 some one will tell me so — I hope some individual will apprise me of the 
 fact. 
 
 MlDDLEMAPCH. 
 
 144 
 
May 11. 
 
 CLtCWvCA. /u* i<Lb4cci»n.*.jly i r^ \c ^ 
 
 May 12. 
 
 145 
 
May 13. 
 
 But you were born to reign. 
 
 'T is a compulsion of a higher sort, 
 
 Whose fetters are the net Invisible 
 
 That holds all life together. Royal deeds 
 
 May make long destinies for multitudes, 
 
 And 3-ou are called to do them. You belong 
 
 Not to the pett}' round of circumstance 
 
 That makes a woman's lot. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 May 14. 
 
 What sort of earth or heaven would hold any spiritual wealth in it fur 
 souls pauperized by inaction ? If one firmament has no stimulus for our 
 attention and awe, I don't see how four would have it. 
 
 A CHANGE came over her face — that subtle change in nerve and 
 muscle which will sometimes give a child-like expression even to the 
 elderl}' ; it is the subsidence of self-assertion. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 146 
 
May 13. 
 Maria Theresa, 1717. 
 
 May 14. 
 
 Mrs. Delany, 1700. 
 
 147 
 
May 15. 
 
 We are often startled by the severity of mild people on exceptional 
 
 occasions ; the reason is, that mild people are most likely to be nnder 
 
 the 3^oke of traditional impressions. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 May 16. 
 
 Like all 3'outhful creatures, she felt as if the present conditions of 
 choice were final. And in one sense she was under no illusion. It is 
 only in that freshness of our time that the choice is possible which gives 
 unity to life, and makes the memory a temple where all relics and all 
 votive offerings, all worship and all grateful joy are an unbroken history 
 sanctified bv one religion. Felix Holt. 
 
 You always see what nobody else sees, yet you never see what is quite 
 
 plain. MiDDLEMAROH. 
 
 148 
 
May 15. 
 
 May 16. 
 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, 1S04 
 
 149 
 
May 17. 
 
 If we had lost oui- own chief good, other people's good would remain, 
 and that is worth trjing for. Some can be happy. I seemed to see 
 that more clearly than ever, when I was most wretched. I can hardly 
 think how I could have borne the trouble if that feeling hud not come to 
 me to make strength. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCH. 
 
 May 18. 
 
 To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of 
 quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand 
 playing with finel3'-ordered variety on the chords of emotion — a soul in 
 which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes 
 back as a new organ of knowledge. 
 
 MiDDLEMAUCH. 
 
 150 
 
May 17; 
 Lady Byron, 1792 
 
 May is, 
 EIizal)cth Barrett Browning, 1809. 
 
 151 
 
May 19. 
 
 Full souls are double mirrors, making still 
 An endless vista of fair things before 
 Repeating them behind. 
 
 A Minor Prophet. 
 
 May 20. 
 
 This brave, active man, who would have hastened toward any danger 
 or toil to rescue Hett}^ from an apprehended wrong or misfortune, felt 
 himself powerless to contemplate irremediable evil and suffering. Ener- 
 getic natures, strong for all strenuous deeds, will often rush away from a 
 hopeless sufferer, as if they were hard-hearted. It is the overmastering 
 
 •sense of pain that drives them. 
 
 Adajvi Bede. 
 
 152 
 
May 19. 
 Mrs. Jameson, 1797. 
 
 May 20. 
 
 153 
 
May 21. 
 It seems to mo that beauty is part of the finished language by which 
 goodness speaks. Romola. 
 
 Her profile, as well as her stature and bearing, seemed to gain the 
 more dignity from her plain garments, Avhich by the side of provincial 
 fashion, gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible — 
 or from one of our elder poets — in a paragraph of today's newspaper. 
 
 How can we live and thinic that anyone has trouble — piercing 
 trouble — and we could help them and never try. Middlemarch. 
 
 May 22. 
 
 That solid, imperturbable ease and good-humor which is infectious, 
 and, like great grassy hills in the sunshine, quiets even an irritated 
 egoism, and makes it rather ashamed of itself. 
 
 MlDDLEMAKCII. 
 
 15i 
 
May 21. 
 
 Duchess of Sutherland, 1806; Mrs. Elizabeth Fry, 1780. 
 
 May 22. 
 
 155 
 
May 23. 
 
 She was a creature full of eager, passionate longings, for all that was 
 beautiful and glad ; thirsty for all knowledge ; with an ear straining 
 after dreamy music that died » away and would not come near to her ; 
 with a blind, unconscious yearning for something that would link to- 
 gether the wonderful impressions of this mysterious life, and give her 
 soul a sense of home in it. The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 A SENSE of contributing to form the world's opinions makes conver- 
 sation particularly livel}'. Middlemarch. 
 
 May 24. 
 
 A woman's rank 
 Lies in the fulness of her womanhood ; 
 Therein alone she is royal. Armgart. 
 
 In this, her woman's lot was perfect ; that the man she loved was her 
 hero ; that her woman's passion and her reverence for rarest goodness 
 rushed together in an undivided current. Felix Holt. 
 
 156 
 
May 23. 
 Margaret Fuller, 1810. 
 
 May 24. 
 Queen Victoria, 1819. 
 
 lol 
 
May 25. 
 
 It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness that I delight in 
 many Dutch paintings, wliich lofty-minded people despise. I find a 
 source of delicious sympathy in these faithful pictures of a monotonous, 
 homely existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my 
 fellow mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suf- 
 fering or of world stirring actions. Adam Bedk. 
 
 May 26. 
 
 She did not want to deck herself with knowledge — to wear it loose 
 from the nerves and blood that fed her action. . . But something she 
 3^earned for by which her life might be filled with action at once rational 
 and ardent. Middlemarch. 
 
 158 
 
May 25. 
 
 May 26. 
 Lady Mavy Wortley Montagu, 1689. 
 
 159 
 
May 27. 
 Who can all at once describe a human being . 
 
 Lo ! she turns — immortal youth 
 Wrought to mortal stature, 
 Fresh as starlight's aged truth — 
 Mauy-uamed Nature. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCH. 
 
 May 28. 
 
 Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great 
 tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us 
 by the subtler web of our brains ; blends yearning and repulsion, ani 
 ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 160 
 
May 27. 
 Julia Waj-d Howe, 1819. 
 
 May 28. 
 
 ici 
 
May 29. 
 
 I MEANT, all life is but poor mockery ; 
 Action, place, power, the visible wide world 
 Are tattered masquerading of this self, 
 This pulse of conscious myster}' ; all change. 
 Whether to high or low, is change of rags. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 Certainly if a bad-tempered man can be admirably virtuous, he must 
 
 be so under extreme difficulties. 
 
 Theophrastus Such. 
 
 May 30. 
 
 Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, some- 
 times find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on 
 their faith in the Invisible — nay, on the sense that their past joys and 
 sorrows are a real experience, when they are suddenly transported to a 
 new land, where the beings around them know nothing of their history, 
 and share none of their ideas, where their mother Earth shows another 
 lap, and human life has other forms than those on which their souls have 
 
 been nourished. 
 
 Silas Marner. 
 
 162 
 
M^vY 29. 
 Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 1660. 
 
 May 30. 
 
 163 
 
May 31. 
 
 Wife. "What are the Madicojurabras and Zuzitotzuras? I never 
 heai\l you talk of them before. What use can it be troubling yourself 
 about such things ? " 
 
 Husband. " That is the way Julia ! That is the way wives alienate 
 their husbands, and make any hearth pleasanter to him than his own." 
 
 Theophrastus Such. 
 
 1G4 
 
May 31. 
 
 165 
 
But it is almo'":t certain that 3'ou,' too, have been in love — perhaps 
 even more than once, though you ma}' not choose to say so to all your lady 
 friends ; if so, you will no more think the slight words, the timid looks, 
 the tremulous touches, by which two human souls approach each other 
 gradually, like two little quivering rain streams before they mingle into 
 one, than you will think the first-detected signs of coming spring trivial. 
 Those slight words and looks and touches are part of the soul's lan- 
 guage, and the finest language is chiefl}' made up of unimposing words 
 such as "light," " sound," " stars," " music" — words really not worth 
 looking at, or hearing in themselves ; it is only that they happen to be 
 the signs of something unspeakably great and beautiful. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 166 
 
3 
 
 There was one time of the year which was held in Raveloe to be 
 especially suitable for a wedding. It was when the great lilacs and 
 laburnums in the old-fashioned gardens showed their golden and purple 
 wealth above the lichen-tinted walls, and when there were calves still 
 young enough to want bucketfuls of fragrant milk. 
 
 People were not so busy then as they must become when the full 
 cheese-making and the mowing had set in ; and besides it was a time 
 when a bridal dress could be worn with comfort and seen to advantage. 
 
 Silas Marxer. 
 
 167 
 
June 1. 
 
 In the screening time 
 Of purple blossoms, when the petals crowd 
 And softly crush like cherub cheeks in heaven, 
 Who thinks of greenly-withered fruit and worms ? 
 
 Tun Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 June 2. 
 
 All honor and reverence to the divine beauty of form ! Let us culti- 
 vate it to the utmost in men, women and children — in our gardens and 
 in our houses ; but let us love that other beauty, too, which lies in no 
 secret of proportion, but in the secret of deep, human sympathy. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 168 
 
June 1. 
 
 7 ^ 
 
 June 2 
 
 169 
 
June 3. 
 
 Mr. Irwine was like a good meal o' A'ictnal — 3'ou were the better for 
 him without thinking on it ; and Mr. Rvde was like a dose o' phj'sic — 
 he griped you and worrited you, and after all he left 3'ou much the same. 
 
 AdjUM Bede. 
 
 June 4. 
 
 And now above them pours a wondrous voice 
 (Such as Greek reapers heard in Sicil^') 
 With wounding rapture in it, like love's arrows ; 
 And clear upon clear air as colored gems 
 Dropped in a crystal cup of water pure, 
 Fall words of sadness, simple, lyrical. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 170 
 
June 3. 
 
 June 4. 
 Sappho, about 610 B. C. 
 
 171 
 
June h. 
 
 Yet love is not quite even, 
 For feeble creatures, little birds and fawns, 
 Are shaken more by fear, while large, strong things 
 Can bear it stoutly. So we women still 
 Are not well dealt with — yet would I choose to be 
 Fedalma loving Silva. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 June 6. 
 
 There are faces which nature charges with a meaning and a pathos 
 
 not belonging to the single human soul that flutters beneath them, but 
 
 speaking the joys and sorrows of foregone generations. Eyes that tell 
 
 of deep love which doubtless has been and is somewhere, but not paired 
 
 with these eyes ; just as a national language may be instinct with poetry 
 
 unfelt by the lips that use it. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 172 
 
June 5. 
 
 June 6. 
 
 1 7;! 
 
June 
 
 Is it out of the question tiiat we should entertain some scruple about 
 mixing our own flavor, as of the too cheap and insistent nutmeg, with that 
 of every great writer, and every great subject — especiall}' when our 
 flavor is all we have to give, the matter or knowledge having been 
 already given by somebody' else ? 
 
 Theoi'iiuastus Such. 
 
 June S. 
 
 O God, we know not yet 
 
 If bliss itself is not young misery 
 
 AVith fangs swift growing. 
 
 The Spanish (ivpsv. 
 
 But it was not entire!}' out of devotion to her future husband that she 
 wislied to know Latin and Greelv. Those provinces of masculine Ivuowl- 
 edge seemed to her a standing ground from which all truth could be seen 
 more trui}-. 
 
 MiDOI.EMAHCH. 
 
 174 
 
June 7. 
 
 (XLcl ^^ajuu^. IS-^i^. 
 
 June S. 
 Lady Jane Gra}-, 1,537. 
 
 175 
 
June 9. 
 
 These gems have life in them ; their colors speak, 
 Say what words fail of. So do many things : 
 The scent of jesamine, and the fountain's plash, 
 The moving shadows on the far-off hills, 
 The slanting moonlight and our clasping hands. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 June 10. 
 
 When the Bible 's such a big book, an' thee canst read all thro 't, an' 
 
 ha' the pick o' the texes, I canna think why thee dostna pick better 
 
 words as donna mean so much more nor they say. Adam does na pick 
 
 pick a that'n ; I can understan' the tex as he 's alias's a-sayin', " God 
 
 helps them as helps theirsens." 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 176 
 
June 9. 
 
 June 10. 
 
 177 
 
June 11. 
 
 Rosamond was particularly forcible by means of that mild persistence 
 which, as we know, enables a white, soft, living substance to make its 
 
 way in spite of opposing rock. 
 
 MiDDI.EMARCH. 
 
 June 12. 
 
 The faith that life on earth is being shaped 
 To glorious ends, that order, justice, love. 
 Mean man's completeness, mean etfect as sure 
 As roundness in the dew-drop — that great faith 
 Is but the rushing and expanding stream 
 Of thought, of feeling, fed by all the past. 
 
 A MixoK Prophet. 
 
 178 
 
June 11. 
 
 June 12 
 Harriet Martineau, 1802. 
 
 17!) 
 
June 13. 
 
 Her look was something like that of a fawn, or other gentle animal, 
 
 before it turns to run awa}' ; no blush, no special alarm, but only some 
 
 timidity which j'et could not hinder her from a long look before she 
 
 turned. 
 
 Daniel Deuonda. 
 
 ^» 
 
 That moment will not come again ; applause 
 Ma}' come and plenty ; but the first, first draught ! 
 Music has sounds for it : I know no words. 
 
 Akmgart. 
 
 June 14. 
 
 It is more than a woman's love that moves us in a woman's ej'es — it 
 
 seems to be a far-off', mighty love that has come near to us, and made 
 
 speech for itself there ; the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by 
 
 something more than their prettiness, by their close kinship with all we 
 
 have known of tenderness and peace. 
 
 Adaji Bede. 
 
 180 
 
June 13 
 
 Fanny Burney, 1752. 
 
 June 14. 
 
 181 
 
June 15. 
 
 A CRYSTAL mirror to the life around, 
 
 Flashing the comment keen of simple fact 
 
 Defined in words ; lending brief, lyric voice 
 
 To grief and sadness ; hardly taking note. 
 
 Of difference betwixt his own and others ; 
 
 But rather singing as a listener 
 
 To the deep moans, the cries, the wild, strong joys 
 
 Of universal Nature. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 June 16. 
 
 It 's the same with love and happiness as with sorrow — the more we 
 know of it the better we can feel what other people's lives are, or might 
 be, and so we shall onl}^ be more tender to 'em and wishful to help 'em. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 183 
 
June 15. 
 Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1812. 
 
 June 16. 
 
 183 
 
June 17. 
 
 It is this living force of sentiment in common which makes a national 
 
 consciousness. Nations so moved will resist conquest with the very 
 
 breasts of their women, will pay their millions and their blood to abolish 
 
 slavery, will share privation in famine and all calamitv, will produce 
 
 poets to sing " some great stor}' of a man," and thinkers whose theory 
 
 will bear the test of tlie action. 
 
 Theophkastus Such. 
 
 June 18.. 
 
 This afternoon the dog-roses were tossing out their pink wreaths, the 
 nightshade was in its 3'ellow and purple glory, the pale honey-suckle 
 grew out of reach, peeping high up out of a holly-bush, and, over all, an 
 ash or a sycamore every now and then threw its shadow across the path. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 184 
 
June 1' 
 
 June IS. 
 
 I8i 
 
June 10. 
 
 But I must observe that goodness is of a modest nature, easily dis- 
 couraged, and when mucli elbowed in early life, is apt to retire into ex- 
 treme privac}', so that it is more easil}' believed in by those who construct 
 a selfish old gentleman theoreticall}^ than b}^ those who form the narrow- 
 est judgments based on his personal acquaintance. 
 
 MlDDLEMARCII. 
 
 June 20. 
 
 The finest child-like faces have this consecrating power, and make us 
 
 shudder anew at all the grossness and basel3^-wrought griefs of the world, 
 
 lest the}- should enter here and defile. 
 
 Daniel Deijonda. 
 
 He's eighty-three, you know. It's really an unconscionable age. 
 It 's only women who have a right to live as long as that. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 186 
 
June 19. 
 
 June 20. 
 
 Mrs. BarbauUl, 174:5. 
 
 is; 
 
June 21, 
 
 And the women, he observed, could never do anything but put finger 
 in eye at a wedding. Even Mrs . Poyser could not trust herself to speak as 
 the neighbors shook hands with her ; and Lisbcth began to cry in the 
 face of the verj' first person who told her she was getting 3"oung again. 
 
 Adaai Brdk. 
 
 June 22. 
 
 If there must be women to make trouble in the world, it's but fair 
 
 there should be women to be comforters under it ; and she 's one — she 's 
 
 one. It's a pity she 's a Methodist; but there's no getting a woman 
 
 without some foolishness or other. 
 
 Adam Bedk. 
 
 188 
 
June 21. 
 
 June 22. 
 
 189 
 
June 23. 
 
 All men who watched 
 Lost her regretfully, then drew content 
 From thought tlmt she must quickly come again, 
 And filled the time with striving to be near. 
 
 Deep despair 
 Fills all your tones as with slow agony, 
 Speak words that narrow anguish to some shape ; 
 Tell me what dread is close before you? 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 June 24. 
 
 There is a charm of eye and lip which comes with every little phrase 
 that certifies delicate preception or fine judgment, with evei-y unosten- 
 tatious word or smile that shows a heart awake to others ; and no sweep 
 of garment or turn of figure is more satisfying than that which enters as 
 a restoration of cofidence that one person is present on whom no inten- 
 tion will be lost. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 190 
 
June 23.. 
 Empress Josephine, 1763. 
 
 June 2^ 
 
 191 
 
June 25. 
 
 For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocation 
 in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie 
 of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape 
 their own deeds and alter the world a little. Tlie story of their coming 
 to be shapen after the average is hardly ever told even in their con- 
 sciousness. 
 
 MlDI)I,EMARCH. 
 
 June 26. 
 
 At the gate there was half the dairy of cows, standing one behind the 
 other, extremely slow to understand that their large bodies might be in 
 the way ; at the far gate thei'e was the mare holding her head over the 
 bars, and, beside her, the liver-coloi'cd foal, with its head toward its 
 mother's flank, apparently still much embarrassed by its own straddling 
 existence. 
 
 Adam Bedk. 
 
 192 
 
June 25. 
 
 June 26. 
 
 193 
 
June 27, 
 
 My lord, I will be frank, there 's no such thing 
 As naked manhood. If the stars look down 
 On any mortal of our shape, whose strength 
 Is to judge all things without preference, 
 He is a monster, not a faitiiful man. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 June 28. 
 
 Eyes that could see her on this summer-day 
 Might find it liard to turn another way. 
 She had a pensive i^eaut}' ; yet not sad ; 
 Rather, like minor cadences that glad 
 The hearts of little birds among spring boughs. 
 
 How Lisa Lovko thk King 
 
 194 
 
June 27. 
 
 June 28. 
 
 195 
 
June 29. 
 
 Until one height 
 Showed him the ocean, stretched in liquid light, 
 And he could hear its multitudinous roar, 
 Its plunge and hiss upon the pebbled shore. 
 
 The Legend of .Tubal. 
 
 June 30. 
 
 When one sees a perfect woman, one never thinks of her attributes — 
 one is conscious of her presence. 
 
 What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each 
 other ? 
 
 Dorothea herself had no dreams of being praised above other women, 
 feeling that there was always something better which she might have done 
 if she had been better and known better. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCH. 
 
 196 
 
June 29. 
 Celia Thaxter, 183.5. 
 
 k^tijLi^ 'jCc^cCuAU^ i^^r-'/ccrrTTzC JJ^f 
 
 June 30. 
 Harriet Winslow Sewall. 
 
 197 
 
You love the roses — so do I. I wish 
 The sky would rain down roses, as they rain 
 From off the shaken bush. Why will it not ? 
 Then all the valleys would be pink and white, 
 And soft to tread on. They would fall as light 
 As feathers, smelling sweet ; and it would be 
 Like sleeping and yet waking, all at once. 
 Over the sea, Queen, where we soon shall go. 
 Will it rain roses ? 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 198 
 
A HUMAN life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native 
 
 land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, 
 
 for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, 
 
 for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference 
 
 amidst the future widening of knowledge : a spot where the definite- 
 
 ness of early memories may be inwrought with affection, and kindly 
 
 acquaintance with all neighbors, even to the dogs and donkeys, may 
 
 spread, not by sentimental effort and reflection, but as a sweet habit of 
 
 the blood. 
 
 Daniel Dekonua. 
 
 109 
 
July 1. 
 
 A spirit framed 
 Too proudly special for obedience, 
 Too subtly pondering for mastery : 
 Born of a goddess with a mortal sire, 
 Heir of flesh-fettered, weak divinity. 
 Doom-gifted with long resonant consciousness 
 And perilous heightening of the sentient soul, 
 But look less curiously ; life itself 
 May not express us all, may leave the worst 
 And the best, too, like tunes in mechanism 
 Never awakened. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 July 2. 
 
 And as wood-lilies that sweet odors bring, 
 
 Might dream the light that opes their modest eyne 
 
 Was lily-odo)"ed. 
 
 So the miniatuz'e. 
 Perplexed of her soul's world, all virgin pure. 
 Filled with heroic virtues that bright form. 
 
 How Lisa Loved the King. 
 
 200 
 
July 1. 
 George Sand, 1804. 
 
 July 2. 
 
 201 
 
July 3. 
 
 Such tragedy' as lies in the conflicts of young souls, hungry for joy, 
 under a lot made hard to them, under the dreariness of a home where the 
 morning brings no promise with it, and where the unexpectant discontent 
 of worn and disappointed parents, weighs on the children like a damp, 
 thick air, in Avhich all the functions of life are depressed. 
 
 The Mux on tuk Floss. 
 
 July 4. 
 
 The greatest question in the world is how to give every man a man's 
 
 share in what goes on in life — we want a freeman's share, and that is to 
 
 think and speak and act about what concerns us all, and see whether 
 
 these fine gentlemen who undertake to govern us are doing the best they 
 
 can for us. 
 
 Felix Hon. 
 
 202 
 
July 3. 
 
 Frederica Soybia Wilbemina, 1709. 
 
 July 4. 
 
 ^AtAM^ ^X^tiZ UUCULJ^JU. /<^^^ 
 
 203 
 
July 5. 
 
 Ant great achievement in acting, or in music, grows with tlie growth. 
 Whenever an artist has been able to say " I came, I saw, I conquered," 
 it has been at the end of patient practice. Genius at first is little more 
 than a great capacity for receiving discipline. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 July 6. 
 
 I 'd sooner ha' brewin' day and washin* da}' together than one o' these 
 pleasurin' days. There 's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' 
 an' not rightly knowin' what 3'ou 're goin' to do next ; an' keepin' your 
 face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day, for fear people should na 
 think 3'ou civil enough. An' 3'ou've nothing to show for 't when it's 
 done, if it isn't a y allow face wi' eatin' things as disagree. 
 
 Apa.m Bedk. 
 
 204 
 
July 5. 
 Mrs. Siddons, 17o.; 
 
 July 6. 
 
 'm:. 
 
July 7. 
 
 How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth, from the farthest 
 
 firmament to the tender bosom of the mother who nourished us, make 
 
 poetr}' for a mind that has no movements of awe and tenderness, no 
 
 sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back 
 
 again from the distant to the near? 
 
 Daniel Deuoxda. 
 
 July 8. 
 
 One long summer's day 
 An angel entered at the rose-hung gate, 
 With skirts pale blue, a brow to quench the pearl, 
 Hair soft and blonde as infants', plenteous 
 As hers who made the wav}^ lengths once speak 
 The grateful worship of a rescued soul. 
 
 Yet her years were few, 
 Her outward beauties all in budding-time, 
 Her virtues the aroma of the plant 
 That dwells in all its being, root, stem, leaf, 
 And waits not ripeness. * Aoatiia. 
 
 20G 
 
July 7. 
 
 July 8. 
 Maria White Lowell, 1821. 
 
 207 
 
July 9. 
 
 These familiar flowers, these well-remembered bird-notes, this sky 
 with its fitful brightness, these furrowed and grassy fields, each with a 
 sort of a personality given to it by the capricious hedge rows — such 
 things as these are the mother tongue of our imagination, the language 
 that is laden with all the subtle, inextricable associations, the fleeting 
 hours of our childhood left behind thou. 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 July 10. 
 
 The angel was a lad}', noble, young, 
 
 Taught in all seemliness that fits a court, 
 
 All love that shapes the mind to delicate, use, 
 
 Yet quiet, lowly as a meek white dove 
 
 That with its presence teaches gentleness. 
 
 Agatha. 
 
 208 
 
July 9. 
 Ann Radcliff, 1764. 
 
 6iL^j)jL^-iH/ 
 
 July 10. 
 Margaret Roper, daughter of Sir Tbomas More, and friend of Erasmus, 1503. 
 
 209 
 
July 11. 
 
 To the far woods he wandered, listenhig, 
 
 And heard the birds their little stories sing 
 
 In notes whose rise and fall seem melted speech — 
 
 Melted with tears, smiles, glances. 
 
 The Legend of Jubal. 
 
 July 12. 
 
 It is more needful that I should have a fibre of sympathy connecting 
 me with that vulgar citizen who weighs out my sugar in a vilely-assorted 
 cravat and waistcoat, than with the handsomest rascal in red scarf and 
 green feathers ; more need that my heart should swell with loving admi- 
 ration at some trait of gentle goodness in the faulty people who sit at 
 the same hearth with me, than at the deeds of heroes I shall never know 
 
 except by hearsay. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 210 
 
July 11. 
 
 July 12. 
 
 211 
 
July 13. 
 
 This sort of passion had nested in the sweet-natured, strong Rex, and 
 
 he had made up his mind to its companionship, as if it had been an 
 
 object supremely- dear, stricken dumb and helpless, and tui-ning all the 
 
 future of tenderness into a shadow of the past. But he had also made 
 
 up his mind that his life was not to be pauperized because he had to 
 
 renounce one sort of joy ; rather he had begun life again with a new 
 
 counting-up of the treasures that remained to him. 
 
 Daniel Deuonb.a. 
 
 July 14. 
 
 P\)R the first time, he felt that he was alone — that da}' after da}-, 
 month after month, 3'ear after 3'ear, would have to be lived through with- 
 out Milly's love. Spring would come, and she would not be there ; sum- 
 mer, and she would not be there ; and he would never have her again 
 ■with him by the fire-side iu tlie long evenings. The seasons all seemed 
 irksome to his thoughts ; and how dreary the sunshiny days that would 
 be sure to come ! She was gone from him ; and he could never make up 
 for omissions in the past by filling future days with tenderness. 
 
 Amos Baktox. 
 
 212 
 
July 13. 
 
 July 14. 
 .lane Welsh Carlylc, 1801. 
 
 213 
 
July 15. 
 
 When our indignation is borne in submissive silence, we are apt to 
 
 feel twinges of doubt afterward as to our own generosity, if not justice ; 
 
 how much more when the object of our anger has gone into everlasting 
 
 silence, and we have seen his face for the last time in the meekness of 
 
 death. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 July 16. 
 
 His sister was quite used to the peculiar absence of ceremony with 
 which he marked his sense of blood-relationship. Indeed she, herself, 
 was accustomed to think that entire freedom from the necessity of 
 behaving agreeably was included in the Almighty's intentions about 
 families. 
 
 MiDDLEMAUCU. 
 
 214 
 
July 15. 
 
 July 16. 
 
 215 
 
July 17. 
 
 Mrs. Stelling was not a, loving, tender-hearted woman ; she was a 
 
 woman whose skirt sat well, who adjusted her waist and patted her curls 
 
 with a pre-occupied air when she inquired after your welfare. These 
 
 things, doubtless, represent a great social power, but it is not the power 
 
 of love. 
 
 TuK Mill ox thk Floss. 
 
 July IS. 
 
 Though Death were King 
 And cruelty his right-hand minister, 
 Pit3% insurgent in some human breasts, 
 Makes spiritual empire, reigns supreme 
 As persecuted faith in faithful hearts. 
 
 TiiK Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 i'k; 
 
July 17. 
 
 July 18. 
 
 Miss Louisa W. King, of Georgia, 1848. 
 
 217 
 
July 19. 
 
 When he had something painful to tell, it was usually his way to intro- 
 duce it among a number of disjointed particulars, as if it were a medi- 
 cine that would get a milder flavor by mixing. 
 
 MiDDLEIMARCH. 
 
 July 20. 
 
 It was the first sign within the poor child of that new sense which is 
 the gift of sorrow — that susceptibility to the bare offices of humanity 
 which raises them into a bond of loving fellowship. 
 
 Maggie could make no answer but a long, deep sob of that mysterious, 
 wondrous happiness, that is, one with pain. 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 218 
 
July 19. 
 
 July 20. 
 
 - ; '.) 
 
July 21. 
 
 For the sanctity- of oaths 
 Lies not in lightning that avenges them, 
 Bnt in the injury wrought by brolven bonds 
 And in the garnered good of human trust. 
 
 TiiK SpAxrsn Gypsv. 
 
 The real tie lies in the feeling and expectations we have raised in 
 other minds. Else all pledges might be broken, when there was no out- 
 ward penalty. There would be no such thing as faithfulness. 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 July 22. 
 
 Sfie is one of those respectable witnesses wlio would testif}' to the 
 exact moment of an apparition, because any desirable moment will be 
 as exact as another to her remembrance ; or who would be the most 
 worthy to witness the actions of spirits on slates and tables, because the 
 action of limbs would not probably arrest her attention. 
 
 Theophh.vstus Such. 
 
 220 
 
July 21, 
 
 July 22. 
 
 221 
 
July 23. 
 
 I AM not descrying the life of the true artist. I am exalting it. I 
 say it is out of the reach of any but choice organizations — natures 
 framed to love perfection and to labor for it ; ready like all true lovers, 
 to endure, to wait, to say, I am not yet worthy, but she — Art, my 
 mistress — is worthy, and I will live to merit her. An honorable life? 
 Yes. But the honor comi'S from the inward vocation and the hard- won 
 achievement ; there is no honor in donning the life as a livery. 
 
 Daniel Dehonua. 
 
 July 24. 
 
 Will's generous reliance on the intentions of tlie uni-\'erse with regard 
 to himself, he held to be a mark of genius ; and certainly it is no mark 
 to the contrary, genius consisting neither in self-conceit nor humility, 
 but in a power to make, or do, not anything in general, but something in 
 particular. 
 
 MiDOLEMARCH. 
 
 222 
 
July 23. 
 Charlotte Cushman, 1816. 
 
 July 24. 
 
 223 
 
July 25. 
 
 The true cross of the Redeemer was the sin and sorrow of this world, 
 
 — that was what hxy heav}' on his heart, — and that is the cross we shall 
 
 share with him, if we would have any part in that Divine Love which is 
 
 one with his sorrow. 
 
 Adam Bedk. 
 
 July 26. 
 
 Between him and her indeed there was that total missing of each 
 other's mental track, which is too evidently possible even between per- 
 sons who are continually thinking of each other. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCH. 
 
 224 
 
July 25. 
 
 sALOA-lM^*^ CXC^ L^criu^ . / fL 
 
 ■I- 
 
 July 26. 
 
July 27. 
 
 " Hearing m3-self," he said, " hems in my life, 
 
 And I will get me to some far-off land 
 
 Where higher mountains under heaven stand, 
 
 And touch the hlue at rising of the stars, 
 
 Whose song they hear where no rough mingling mars 
 
 The great, clear voices." 
 
 The Legend of Jubal. 
 
 July 28. 
 
 As if all the great poetic criminals were not women ! I think the men 
 are poor, cautious creatures. Daniel Deronda. 
 
 Soothing, unspeakable charm of gentle womanhood ! which supersedes 
 all acquisitions, all accomplishments. You would never have asked, at any 
 period of Mrs. Amos Barton's life, if she sketched or played the piano. 
 You would even perhaps have been rather scandalized if she had 
 descended from the serene dignity' of heing. to the assiduous unrest of 
 doing. Amos Barton. 
 
 226 
 
July 27. 
 
 July 28. 
 
 i^'harlotte Conlay, 1768. 
 
 fS^/S/Cu (h^^ChuJl, /S&¥, 
 
 227 
 
July 29. 
 
 It is a pretty surprise when one visits an elderly couple, to see a little 
 
 figure enter in a white frock, with a blonde head as smooth as satin, 
 
 round blue eyes, and a cheek like an apple-blossom. A toddling little 
 
 girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar 
 
 people understand each other. 
 
 Jankt's Repentance. 
 
 July 30. 
 
 The thirtieth of July was come. Nature seems to make a pause just 
 
 then -^ all the loveliest flowers are gone ; the sweet time of early growth 
 
 and vague hopes is past ; and yet the time of liarvest and ingathering is 
 
 not come, and we tremble at the possible storms that may ruiu the 
 
 precious fruit in the moment of Its ripeness. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 228 
 
July 29. 
 
 July 30. 
 
 22ry 
 
July 31. 
 
 Mrs. Garth was not without her criticism on other women, being 
 more accurate!}' instructed than most matrons in Middlemarch, and — 
 wliere is the blameless woman ? — apt to be a little severe toward her own 
 sex, which in her opinion was framed to he entirely subordinate. On 
 the other liand, she was disproportionatel}' indulgent towards the failings 
 of men, and was often heard to sa^' that these were natural. 
 
 MiDDLKMARCH. 
 
 230 
 
July 31. 
 Mrs. Sarah Alden Ripley, 1793. 
 
 231 
 
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. "Who can quit young 
 lives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know 
 what befellthem in after years? For the fragment of a life, however 
 typical, is not the sample of an even web ; promises may not be kept, 
 and an ai'dent outset may be followed by declension ; latent powers may 
 find their long-waited opportunity ; a past error may urge a grand 
 retrieval. 
 
 MlDDI.EMAKCH. 
 
 232 
 
But now the Red Deeps had the charm for Maggie, which any broken 
 ground, any mimic rock and ravine have for the eyes that rest habituall}' 
 on the level ; especiallj' in summer, when she could sit on a grassy hol- 
 low nndi-r the shadow of a branching ash, stooping aslant from the steep 
 above her, and listen to the hum of insects, like tiniest bells on the gar- 
 ment of Silence, or see the sunlight piercing the distant boughs, as if to 
 chase and drive home the truant heavenly blue of the wild hyacinths. 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 233 
 
August 1. 
 
 Solitude in any wide scene impressed her with an undefined feeling of 
 
 immeasurable existence aloof from her, in the midst of which she was 
 
 helplessl}^ incapable of asserting herself. The little astronomy taught 
 
 her at school used sometimes to set her imagination at work in a way 
 
 that made her tremble. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 August 2. 
 
 Paikt us an angel if you can, with a floating violet robe, and a face 
 
 paled b}' the celestial light ; paint us yet oftener a Madonna, turning her 
 
 mild face upward, and opening her arms to welcome the divine gloiy ; 
 
 but do not impose on us any esthetic rules which shall banish from the 
 
 region of Art those old women scraping carrots with their work-worn 
 
 hands. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 234 
 
August 1. 
 Maria Mitchel, 1818. 
 
 August 2. 
 
 23o 
 
August 3. 
 
 We may not make this world a paradise 
 
 By walking it together hand in hand 
 
 With eyes that meeting feed a double strength, 
 
 We must be only joined by pains divine 
 
 Of spirits blent in mutual memories. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy, 
 
 August 4. 
 
 O, I am sick at heart. The e3'e of day, 
 The insistent summer sun, seemed pitiless, 
 Shining in all the barren crevices 
 Of weary life, leaving no shade, no dark, 
 Where I ma}- dream that hidden waters lie. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy-. 
 
 23fi 
 
August 3. 
 
 Arabella Stuart, 1577. 
 
 T tuJl(^ (3- ^^-^XU^-^Jv^JL I $"^0 
 
 August 4. 
 
 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 1802. 
 
 ^^Ic^^ Jlu/.^i^ •Xs-y^e— 
 
 2? 7 
 
August 5. 
 
 The inhabitants of Raveloe were not severely regular in their church- 
 going, and perhaps there was not a person in the parish who would not 
 have held that to go to church every Sunday in the calendar would have 
 shown a greedy desire to stand well with Heaven, and get an undue 
 advantage over their neighbors. 
 
 Silas Marker. 
 
 August 6. 
 
 Women who are never bitter and resentful are often the most querulous ; 
 
 and if Solomon was as wise as he is reputed to be, I feel sure that when 
 
 he compared a contentious woman to a continual dropping on a very 
 
 rain}- day, he had not a vixen in his eye. Depend upon it, he meant a 
 
 good creature, who had no joy but in the happiness of the loved ones 
 
 whom she contributed to make uncomfortable, putting by all the tidbits 
 
 for them, and spending nothing on herself. 
 
 Adaim Bede. 
 
 238 
 
August 5. 
 
 August 6. 
 
 239 
 
August 7. 
 
 I SHOULD think his countenance is pleasant indeed ! And him a gentle- 
 man born an 's got a mother like a picter. It's snmmat like to see such 
 a man as that i' the desk of a Sunday ! As I say to Poyser, it 's like 
 looking at a full crop of wheat, or a pasture with a fine dairy of cows in 
 it ; it makes you think the world's comfortable like. 
 
 AvAM Bedk. 
 
 August S. 
 
 She was in all respects a woman of scrupulous conscience, so eager 
 
 for duties, that life seemed to offer them too scantil}' unless she rose at 
 
 half-past four, though this threw a scarcity of work over the more 
 
 advanced hours of the morning, which it was a constant problem to 
 
 remove. 
 
 Silas Marner. 
 
 240 
 
August 7. 
 
 August 8. 
 
 241 
 
August 9. 
 
 For high device is still the highest force ; 
 
 And he who holds the secret of the wheel, 
 
 May riiake the rivers do what work he would. 
 
 "With thoughts impalpable we clutch men's souls, 
 
 "Weaken the joints of armies, make them fl}' 
 
 Like dust and leaves before the viewless winds. 
 
 Tell me what's mirrored in the tiger's heart, 
 
 I'll rule that too. 
 
 Thk Spanish Gvpsv, 
 
 August 10. 
 
 Strange, that some of us, witli quick, alternate vision, see beyond our 
 infatuations, and, even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide 
 plane where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCir. 
 
 242 
 
August 9. 
 
 August 10. 
 
 243 
 
August 11. 
 
 My work is mine, 
 
 And, heresy or not, if my hand slacked, 
 
 I should rob God — since he is fullest good. _ 
 
 Steadivarius. 
 
 But emotion, I fear, is irrational ; it insists on caring for individuals ; 
 it absolutely refuses to adopt the quantitive view of human anguish, and 
 to admit that thirteen happ}- lives are a set-off against twelve miserable 
 lives, which leaves a clear balance on the side of satisfaction. This is 
 the inherent imbecility of feeling. Janet's KEPENTA^-CE. 
 
 August 12. 
 
 Scotch tunes go on with the same tiling over and over again, and 
 
 never come to a reasonable end. Anj'body 'ud think the Scotch tunes 
 
 had always been asking a question of somebody as deaf as old Taft, and 
 
 had never got an answer yet. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 244 
 
August 11. 
 
 Mrs. M. B Piatt, 1836. 
 
 O^f^t^c* tr"' /i^**>e>f>^ . 6 4 
 
 August 12, 
 
 245 
 
August 13. 
 
 Mirah's was the sort of voice that gives the impression of being meant 
 like a bird's wooing for an audience near and beloved. 
 
 Whose life was much checkered by resistance to her depreciation as a 
 girl. 
 
 MlODLEMARCH. 
 
 August 14. 
 
 He is n't one o' them gentle folks as go to cry at waterin'-places when 
 their wives die ; he 's got summat else to do. He looks fine and sharp 
 after the paiish — he does. He was at me to know what I did of a Sun- 
 day, as I didn't come to church. But I told him I was upo' the travel 
 three parts of the Sundays, an' then J 'm so used to bein' on my legs, I 
 can't sit on end ; " an lors," says I, " a packman can do wi' small 'lowance 
 o' church ; it tastes strong," says I ; "' there 's no call to lay it on thick." 
 
 The Mill on thk Floss. 
 
 246 
 
August 13. 
 Lucy Stone Black well, 1818. 
 
 August 14. 
 
 247 
 
August 15. 
 
 Mr. Irwine had taken off his l)oots and put on slippers before he 
 
 came up stairs. Whoever remembers how many things he declined to 
 
 do even for himself, rather than have the trouble of putting on or taking 
 
 off his boots, will not think this last detail insignificant. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 August 16. 
 
 The middle-aged, who have lived through their strongest emotions, 
 but are yet in the time when memory is still half passionate and not 
 merely contemplative, should surel}' be a sort of natural priesthood, 
 whom life has disciplined and consecrated to be the refuge and rescue of 
 early stumblers and victims of self-despair. 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 248 
 
August 15. 
 
 August 16. 
 
 249 
 
August 17. 
 
 The dowry of in}' daughter is to be 
 Chief woman of her people. 
 
 This sweetest virgin reared 
 As ganlen flowers to give the sordid world 
 Glimpses of perfection. 
 
 Tin: Spanish Gvpsy. 
 
 August IS. 
 
 The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is con- 
 scious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse 
 one. Even a dog feels a difference in their presence. The man may be 
 no better able than the dog to explain the influence the more refined 
 
 beauty has on him, but he feels it. 
 
 Adam Bkde. 
 
 260 
 
August 17. 
 
 The Duchess of Kent, Mother cf Qiioen Victoria, 1786. 
 
 August 18. 
 
 231 
 
August 19. 
 
 A FACE, not seraphic any longer ; thoroughl}- terrestrial and manly ; 
 
 but still of a kind to raise belief in human dignity which can afford to 
 
 acknowledge poor relations. And often the grand meanings of faces, as 
 
 well as of written words may lie ehiefl}^ in the impressions of those who 
 
 look on them. 
 
 Danikl Dekonda. 
 
 August 20. 
 
 She sung with a sul)dued but searching pathos, which had that essen- 
 tial of perfect singing, tlie making one oblivions of art and manner, and 
 
 only possessing one witli tlie song. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 252 
 
August 19. 
 
 August 20. 
 
 Christine Nilsson, 1843. 
 
 258 
 
August 21. 
 
 He is no longer in his spring-tide ; but having been always busy, he 
 
 has been obliged to use his own impressions as if they were deliberate 
 
 opinions, and to range himself on the corresponding side in ignorance of 
 
 mind that he commits himself to. 
 
 TiiEOPHRASTUS Sucn. 
 
 August 22. 
 
 We must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some 
 of these cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only 
 a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a 
 touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agon}'. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 2.-)4 
 
August 21, 
 
 August 22. 
 
 255 
 
August 23. 
 
 The instances are scattered but thinly over tlie galleries of Europe in 
 which the fortune or selection even of the chief masters has given to art 
 a face at once young, grand and beautiful, wliere, if there is any melan- 
 choly, it is no feeble passivity, but enters into the foreshadowed capability 
 
 of heroism. 
 
 Daniel Dekunda. 
 
 August 24. 
 
 The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, 
 
 bringing with it a sense of added strenyth ; we can no more wish to 
 
 return to a narrower s^'mpathy, than a painter or a musician can wish to 
 
 return to his cruder manner, or a philosopher to his less complete 
 
 formula. 
 
 AoAM Bede. 
 
 256 
 
August 23. 
 
 August 24. 
 Countess of Huntington, 1707. 
 
 257 
 
August 25. 
 
 Mr. Ely never got into a warm discussion ; he suggested what might 
 be thouglit, but rarely said wliat he thought himself; he never let either 
 men or women see tliat lie was laughing at them, and he never gave an}'- 
 one an opportunity- of laughing at him. In one thing onl3' he was inju- 
 dicious. He parted his dark, wav}' hair down tlie middle ; and as his 
 head was rather flat, that style of coiffure was not advantageous to him. 
 
 Amos Bahton. 
 
 August 26. 
 
 The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its 
 
 subtle relations to our own past ; no wonder tbo secret escapes the 
 
 nns3-mpathizing observer, who might as well put on his spectacles to 
 
 discern odors. 
 
 Adam Bepe. 
 
 258 
 
August 25. 
 
 August 26. 
 
 25'J 
 
August 2/. 
 
 No man believes that mai\y-textured knowledge and skill can come 
 late and of a sudden ; yet many will not stick at believing that happiness 
 can come at any da}^ and hour solely by a new disposition of events ; 
 though there is nought less capable of a magical production than a mortal's 
 happiness, which is mainly a complex of habitual relations and disposi- 
 tions not to be wrought b^' news from foreign parts, or any whirling of 
 fortune's wheel, for one on whose brow Time has written legibly. 
 
 Felix Holt, 
 
 August 28. 
 
 For her reliance, in her smallest words and deeds, on a divine 
 
 guidance, always issued in that finest woman's tact, which proceeds 
 
 from acute and ready sympathy. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 260 
 
August 27. 
 
 August 28. 
 
 Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes 1831. 
 
 2(11 
 
August 29. 
 
 Besides, she objected Avitli a sort of physical repulsion, to being 
 directly made love to. With all her imaginative delight in being adored, 
 there was a certain fierceness of maidenhood in her. 
 
 D.vNii:i. Dp:ronua. 
 
 — ^i° — 
 
 You daring modesty ! You slnink no more 
 From gazing men than from the gazing tlovpers 
 That, dreaming sunshine, open as you pass. 
 
 Till': Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 August 30. 
 
 But in Dorothea's mind there was a current into which all thouglit and 
 feeling were apt, sooner or later, to tiow — the reaching forward of the 
 whole consciousness towards the fullest truth, the least partial good. 
 
 MlI)I»LEAIAK':H. 
 
 c^^ 
 
 A FACE wliich liad the look of habitual, meditative abstraction from 
 objects of mere personal vanity or desire, which is the peculiar stamp of 
 
 culture. 
 
 Fklix Holt. 
 262 
 
August 29. 
 Hypatia, about 385 A. D. 
 
 August 30. 
 Elizabeth Stuart Pbelps, 1844. 
 
 2C3 
 
August 31, 
 
 I SHOULD never have been happy in any profession that did not call 
 forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm con- 
 tact with ni}' neighbors. There is nothing like the medical profession 
 for that : one can haA'e the exclusive scientific life that touches the dis- 
 tance, and befriend the old fogies in the parish, too. 
 
 MlDDLEAIAUCn. 
 
 2CA 
 
August 31. 
 Dr. Maiy Jacolti. 
 
 2C,i 
 
It must be sad to outlive aught we love, 
 
 80 I shall grieve a little for these da^-s 
 
 Of poor, unwed Fcdalma. Oh, thej' are sweet. 
 
 And none will come just like them. Perhaps the wind 
 
 Wails so in winter for the summer's dead. 
 
 And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries 
 
 For what has been and is not. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 266 
 
The sunshine was on the fields ; the early autumn sunshine which we 
 should know was not summer's, even if there were no touches of 3'ellow 
 on the lime and chestnut ; the Sunday sunshine, too, whicli has moi'e 
 than autumnal calmness for the working-man ; the morning sunshine, 
 which still leaves the dew-crystals on the fine gossamer webs in the 
 shadow of the bushy hedge rows. 
 
September 1. 
 
 Interpreting all things largel}', like a mind prepossessed with high 
 belief. 
 
 EOMOLA. 
 
 Her person suited diamonds, and made them look as if the}' were 
 
 worth some of the money given for them. 
 
 Daxikl Deronda. 
 
 September 2. 
 
 With hand and arm that pla}' upon the tool 
 As willing!}' as any singing bird 
 Sets him to sing his morning roundelay, 
 Because he likes to sing, and likes the song. 
 
 StUADINARIUSo 
 
 208 
 
September 1. 
 Lady Blcssington, 1790; Lydia H. Slgournry, 1791. 
 
 September 2. 
 
 Miss Anne Whitney. 
 
 2C>'J 
 
Septemeer 3.- 
 
 HowivER, I am not denyin' that women are foolish ; God Ahnight}' 
 made 'em to match the men. 
 
 It 's the flesh and blood folks are made on as makes the difference. 
 
 Some cheeses are made o' skimmed milk, and some o' new milk, and it's 
 
 no matter what j'ou call 'em, 3-ou may know which is which by the look 
 
 and smell. 
 
 Adam Bkde. 
 
 September 4. 
 
 But the fuller nature desires to be an agent, to create and not merel}' 
 
 to look on. Strong love hungers to bless, and not merel}' to behold 
 
 blessing. 
 
 Daniel Deuonda. 
 
 The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no histor}'. 
 
 The Mill ox the Floss. 
 
 270 
 
September 3. 
 
 September 4. 
 Phcjebe Cary, 1824. 
 
 271 
 
September 5. 
 
 The bucolic character at Ha3'slope, you perceive, was not of the 
 
 entire!}' genial, merry, broad-grinning sort apparently observed in most 
 
 districts visited by artists. The mild radiance of a smile was a rare 
 
 sight on a field-laborer's face, and there was seldom any gradation 
 
 between bovine gravity and a laugh. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 September 6. 
 
 Overworked Mrs. Dagle}' — a thin, worn woman, from whose life 
 pleasure had so entirely vanished that she had not even any Sunday 
 clothes which could give her satisfaction in preparing for church — had 
 already had a misunderstanding with her husband since he had come 
 home, and was in low spirits, expecting the worst. 
 
 MlDDLE^IAKCH, 
 
 272 
 
September 5. 
 
 September 6. 
 
September 7. 
 
 I HAVE breathed my soul ; 
 I lie here now the remnant of that whole, 
 The embers of a life, a lonely pain ; 
 As far off rivers to my thirst were vain, 
 So of my mighty years nought comes to me again. 
 
 The Legend of Jhbal. 
 
 September 8. 
 
 For Adam, though j'ou see him quite master of himself, working hard 
 and delighting in his work after his inborn, inalienable nature, had not 
 outlived his sorrow — had not felt it slip from him as a temporary bur- 
 den, and leave him the same man again. Do any of us? God forbid. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 274 
 
September 7. 
 Queen Elizabeth, of England, 1533. 
 
 September S. 
 
September 9. 
 
 I'll tell 3-011 what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is 
 public opinion — the ruling belief in society about what is right and 
 what is wrong, what is honorable and what is shameful. 
 
 Fklix Holt. 
 
 September 10. 
 
 There is no compensation for the woman that feels that the chief rela- 
 tion of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her 
 crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered 
 itself to her, and tlien forever passed her by. Romola. 
 
 ^iSo 
 
 On solitary souls, the universe 
 
 Looks down inhospitable ; the human heart 
 
 Finds nowhere shelter but in human kind. 
 
 Tni<: Spanish Gypsy. 
 27(; 
 
September 9. 
 
 September 10. 
 
September 1 1, 
 
 No life would have been possible to Dorothea which was not lilled with 
 emotion, and she had now a life filled also with beneficent activity which 
 she had not the doubtful pains of discovering and marking out for 
 herself. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCH. 
 
 September 12. 
 
 The Miss Linnets were in that temperate zone of old raaidism, when 
 
 a woman will not say but that if a man of suitable yeais an(] character 
 
 were to offer himself, she miglit be induced to tread the remainder of 
 
 life's vale in company with him. 
 
 Janet's Hepextaxck. 
 
 278 
 
September 11. 
 Sarah Franklin Bacbe, 1714. 
 
 September 12. 
 
 279 
 
September 13. 
 
 He was alwa3's prone to believe that be could make moncA- liy the pur- 
 chase of a horse which turned out badly — though this, ]\Iary observed, 
 was of course the fault of the horse, not't)f Fred's judgment. 
 
 MiDDLKMARCH. 
 
 c^^ 
 
 I HAVE a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate in reversion, 
 
 if one can keep from the temptation of turning it into certainty, which 
 
 may spoil all. 
 
 Danikl Drkoxda. 
 
 September 14. 
 
 Mr. Ham dealt a1)ly in books in ihe same way that he would have 
 dealt in tins of meat and other commodities — without knowledge or 
 responsibilit}' as to the proportion of rottenness or nourishment they 
 might contain. Damel T)ki;oxi>a. 
 
 Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth 
 
 Draw lots with meaner hopes ; heroic breasts 
 
 Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence. 
 
 MlDDLK.ArAHCH. 
 
 280 
 
September 13. 
 
 7k<w.«. Uno^ Zi^^yjtu^ 1^^"^- 
 
 September 14. 
 
 2^;i 
 
September 15. 
 
 I SING for love of song and that renown 
 
 Which is the spreading act, the world-wide share 
 
 Of good that I was born with. 
 
 AHMGART. 
 
 o«»= 
 
 However slight the terrestial intercourse between Dante and Beatrice, 
 or Petrarch and Laura, time changes the proportion of things, and in 
 later daj's it is preferable to have fewer sonnets and more conversation. 
 
 MlDDLKMAUCH. 
 
 September 16. 
 
 But that simplicity of hers, holding up an ideal for others in her 
 believing conception of them, was one of the great powers of her woman- 
 hood. He felt that his brief words would only profit by their brevity 
 when Dorothea had to interpret them. He felt that in her mind he had 
 found his highest estimate. 
 
 MiDDLEMAKCn. 
 
 282 
 
September 15. 
 Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, 1824. 
 
 September 16. 
 
 2SP> 
 
September 17.' 
 
 But he also made up his muid that his life was not to be pauperized 
 
 because he had had to renounce one sort of joy ; rather he had begun 
 
 life again with a new counting-up of the treasures that remained to him, 
 
 and he had even felt a release of power such as may come from ceasing 
 
 to be afraid of your own neck. 
 
 Daniel Dehonoa. 
 
 September IS. 
 Hev a dog, Miss — I can't give you Mumps, 'cause he'd break his 
 lieart to go away from me, but there 's a pup — if you didn't mind about 
 it not bein' thoroughbred. She means more scMise wi' her bark nor half 
 the chaps can put into their talk from breakfast to sundown. There 's 
 one chap carries pots — a poor, low trade as any on the road — he says, 
 ''Why Toby 's naught but a mongrel — there 's naught to look at in her." 
 But I says to him, " Wh}' what are you yoursen but a mongrel? There 
 wasn't much pickin' o' ?/o?tr feythcr and mother, to look at you." Not but 
 what I like a bit o' breed myself, but I can't abide to see one cur grinnin' 
 at another. ^^^ The Mill ox the Floss. 
 
September 17. 
 
 September 18. 
 
 285 
 
September 19. 
 
 She 's sure to have a word to say as 'il help us to set things ou their 
 right end. 
 
 She saves a little pepper to sprinkle over her talk — that's the reason 
 
 why she never puts too much into her pies. 
 
 Silas Marner. 
 
 September 20. 
 
 With some even admirable persons one is never quite sure of any 
 
 particular being included under a general head, A proWncial physician, 
 
 it is said, once ordering a lady patient not to eat salad, was asked 
 
 pleadingly by the affectionate husband whether she might eat lettuce, or 
 
 cresses, or radishes. 
 
 Theopiirastus Stjch. 
 
 286 
 
September 19. 
 Abagail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), 1830. 
 
 SEPTEMBeR 20. 
 
 287 
 
SEx'^tember 21, 
 
 I THINK there are stores laid up in our Imman nature, that our under- 
 standings can make no complete inventory of. Certain strains of music 
 pfFect me strangely — I can never hear them without changing my whole 
 attitude of mind for a time, and if the effect would last, I might be 
 
 capable of heroisms. 
 
 Thf. Mill ox iuk Floss. 
 
 September 22. 
 
 O, MY dear, when you have a clergyman in your family, you must 
 accommodate your tastes ; I did that very early. When I married 
 Humphrey, I made up ray mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking 
 the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and to the begin- 
 ning, because I couldn't have the end without them. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCH. 
 
 288 
 
September 21. 
 
 September 22. 
 
 289 
 
September 23. 
 
 Oh, pleasure has cramped dwelling in our souls, 
 
 And V hen full Being comes must cull on ^.ain 
 
 To lend it liberal space. Armgart. 
 
 She felt the intensity of life which seems to tx-anscend both grief and 
 joy- in which the mind seems to itself akin to elder forces that wrought 
 out existence before the birth of pleasure and pain. 
 
 ROMOLA. 
 
 September 24. 
 
 I 'vE known husbands who 've laid plans for tormenting their wives 
 when the}- 're underground — tying up their money and hindering them 
 from marrying again. Not that I should ever wish to marry again ; I 
 think one husband in one's life is enough in all conscience — but it's 
 aggravating to be tied up in that way 
 
 Janet's Repentanck. 
 
September 23. 
 
 September 24. 
 
 291 
 
September 25. 
 
 She was not coldh" clever, but adorably simple and full of feeling. 
 She was an angel beguiled. It would be a unique delight to wait and 
 watch for the melodious fragments ia which her heart and soul came 
 forth so directly and ingenuously. The ^Eolian harp again came to his 
 mind. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCH. 
 
 September 26. 
 
 By opinions you mean men's thoughts about great subjects, and by 
 taste 3'ou mean their thoughts about small ones ; dress, behavior, 
 amusements, ornaments. Felix Holt. 
 
 o|^ 
 
 You thought to hide things from her — sat upon your secret and looked 
 innocent, and all the while she knew b}' the corner of 3'onr c^'e that it 
 was exactly fi\e pounds ten you were sitting on ! As well turn Ihe ke}' 
 to keep out the damp. Daniel Deuoxda. 
 
 202 
 
September 25. 
 
 Mrs. Felicia Ilcmans, 1794. 
 
 September 26. 
 
 298 
 
Septembek 27. 
 
 That was a time of color, when the sunlight fell on glancing steel and 
 
 floating banners, a time of adventure and fierce struggle — nay, of living 
 
 religious art and religious enthusiasm ; for were not cathedrals built in 
 
 those days, and did not great emperors leave their western palaces to die 
 
 beneath the infidel's strongholds in the sacred East? Therefore it is that 
 
 these Rhine castles thrill me with a sense of poetry ; they belong to the 
 
 grand histoi ic life of humanity, and raise up for me the vision of an 
 
 epoch. 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 September 28. 
 
 Man thinks 
 Brutes have no wisdom, since they know not his ; 
 Can he divine their world ? 
 
 O, THEY have long tradition and swift speech, 
 Can tell with touches and sharp darting cries 
 Whole histories of timid races taught 
 To breathe in terror by red-handed man. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 294 
 
September 27. 
 
 September 28. 
 
 Mrs. Caroline Earle White, 1833. 
 
 29.- 
 
September 29. 
 
 For what is love itself for the one we love best? — an infolding of 
 immeasurable cares, which yet are better than any joys outside our love. 
 
 Daniel Dkhonda. 
 
 The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult — 
 whether that of a shrimp-pool or of deeper waters — which afterwards 
 subsides into cheerful peace. 
 
 MiDDLEMAKCU. 
 
 September 30. 
 
 Yet these commonplace people — many of them — bear a conscience, 
 and have felt the sublime prompting to do the painful right ; they have their 
 unspoken sorrows, and their sacred joys ; their hearts have perhaps gone 
 out towards their first-born, and they have mourned over the irreclaim- 
 able dead. Nay, is there not a pathos in their very insignificance — in 
 our comparison of their dim and narrow existence with the gloriouc pos- 
 sibilities of that human nature which they share. 
 
 Amos Bahton. 
 
 296 
 
September 29. 
 
 Septembei^ 30. 
 
 297 
 
In the checkered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled 
 as in the golden age ; fruit and blossom hang together ; in the same 
 moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled ; one tends the 
 green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our 
 lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself 
 gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 208 
 
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first 
 
 love, so fev,- about our hilcr love? Are their first poems tlie best? or are 
 
 not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger 
 
 experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The bo3''s flute-like voice 
 
 has its own spring charm ; but the man should yield a richer, deeper 
 
 music. 
 
 ADA^r Bede. 
 
 290 
 
October 1 . 
 
 It's like the night and the morning, and the sleeping and the waking, 
 
 and the rain and the harvest — one goes and the other comes, and we 
 
 know nothing how nor where. We may strive and scrat and fend, but 
 
 it's little we can do arter all — the big tilings come and go wi' no 
 
 striving o* our'n — they do — that they do. 
 
 Silas Marxer. 
 
 October 2. 
 
 '• Happen 3'ou 'd like Mumps for company, Miss. He 's rare company 
 — Mumps is ; he knows iverything, an' makes no bother about it. If I 
 tell him, he '11 lie before you an' watch you — as still — just as lie watches 
 my pack. You'd better let me leave him a bit ; he '11 get fond on you. 
 Lovs, it's a tine thing to hev a dumb brute fond on you ; it'll stick to 
 you, an' make no jaw." 
 
 " Yes, do leave him please," said Maggie — "I think I should like to 
 
 have Mumps for a friend." 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 300 
 
October 1. 
 
 October 2. 
 
 301 
 
October 3. 
 
 It mayn't be good luck to be a woman, but one begins with it from a 
 
 baby : one gets used to it. And I shouldn't like to be a man — to cough 
 
 so loud, and stand straddling about on a wet day, and be so wasteful 
 
 with meat and drink. They're a coarse lot, I think. 
 
 Felix Holt. 
 
 October 4. 
 
 Miss Pratt was an old maid, but that is a no more definite descrip- 
 tion than if I had said she was in the autumn of life. Was it autumn 
 when the orchards are fragrant with apples, or autumn when the last 3'el- 
 
 low leaves are fluttering in the chill breeze? 
 
 Janet's Repentance. 
 
 302 
 
October 3. 
 
 October 4. 
 
 303 
 
October 5. 
 
 Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would 
 become like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a dowry. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCH. 
 
 She was intensely of the feminine type, A'^erging neither toward the 
 
 saint nor the angel. 
 
 Felix Holt. 
 
 October 6. 
 
 Armgart. — I was blind 
 
 With too much happiness ; true vision comes 
 Only, it seems, with sorrow. Were there one 
 This inbment near me, suffering what I feel, 
 And needing me for comfort in her pang — 
 Then it were worth the while to live : not else. 
 
 Walpdrger. — One — near 3'ou — why, they throng ! You hardly stir 
 But 3'our act touches them. We touch afar. 
 
 AUMGAKT. 
 30 1 
 
October 5. 
 
 October 6. 
 
 SOh 
 
October 7. 
 
 "We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being 
 a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of 
 the world as well as ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings so 
 much pain with it that we can onlj' tell it from pain by its being what we 
 would choose before everything else, because our soul sees it is good. 
 
 ROMOLA. 
 
 October 8. 
 
 O THE anguish of the thouglit, that we can never atone to our dead 
 
 for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned 
 
 to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to 
 
 that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest 
 
 thing God had given to us to kuov,'. 
 
 Amos Barton. 
 
 30G 
 
October 7. 
 
 October S. 
 
 .•?07 
 
October 9. 
 
 'T IS rare delight ; I would not change my skill 
 To be the Emperor Avith bungling hands, 
 And lose my work, which comes as natural 
 As self at waking. 
 
 Sti.'auivakhs. 
 
 October lO. 
 
 " Well," said Craig, " I like a cleverish woman — a w^oman o' sperrit 
 — a managing woman." 
 
 " You are out there, Craig," said Bartle. " You don't value your peas 
 for their roots, or 3'our carrots for their flowers. Now, that 's the way 
 A'ou should choose women : their cleverness '11 never come to much ; but 
 they make excellent simpletons, ripe and strong-flavored," 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 30S 
 
October 9. 
 Harriet Hosmer, 1830. 
 
 October 10. 
 
 309 
 
October 11. 
 
 We are apt to bo kinder to the brutes that love iis than to the women 
 that love us. Is it because the l)rutes are dumb? 
 
 AiJAAi Bi:i>K,. 
 
 In many of our neighbors' lives there is much not only of error and 
 lapse, but of a certain ex(|nisite goodness which can never be spoken — 
 only divined by each of us, according to the inward instruction of our 
 own i)rivac3". 
 
 October 12. 
 
 We must be patient with the inevitable mako-shift of our human 
 
 thinking, whether in its sum total or in the separate minds that have 
 
 made the sum. Columbus had some impressions about himself which we 
 
 call superstitions, and used some arguments which we disapprove ; but he 
 
 had also some true physical conceptions, and he had the passionate 
 
 patience of genius to make them tell on mankind. 
 
 Daniel Deuonda. 
 
 310 
 
October 11. 
 
 October 12. 
 
 ;!ii 
 
October 13. 
 The fruit trees wore their studded coronal, 
 Earth and her children were at festival, 
 Glowing as with one heart and one consent, 
 Thought, love, trees, rocks, in swift, warm radiance blent. 
 
 Thk Le(;k.\d of Juijal. 
 
 There is a fine presence ahoiit Mr. Harold. I remember 30U used to 
 say there was some people you would always know were in the room, 
 though they stood round a corner, and others you might never see till 
 3'ou were against them. Felix Holt. 
 
 October 14. 
 
 To rob words of half their meaning, while they retain their dignity as 
 
 qualifications, is like allowing to men who have lost half their faculties, 
 
 the same high and perilous command which they won in tlieir time of 
 
 vigor. 
 
 Thkopukastus SL'CH. 
 
 312 
 
October 13. 
 
 October 14. 
 
 313 
 
October 15. 
 
 One of those benignant, lovely souls who, without astonishing the 
 public and posterit}', made a happy difference in the lives close around 
 them, and in this way lift the average of earthly joy. 
 
 Theophrastus Such. 
 
 Ever in his soul 
 That larger justice which makes gratitude 
 Triumped above resentment. 'T is the mark 
 Of regal natures, with the wider life, 
 
 And fuller capability of joy. Daniel Deronda. 
 
 October 16. 
 
 Freshening life's dusty road with babbling rills 
 Of wit and song, living 'mid harnessed men 
 With limbs ungalled by armor, ready so 
 To soothe them weary and to cheer them sad. 
 
 The Spaxish Gypsy. 
 
 il4 
 
October 15. 
 Mrs. Inclibakl, 1753. 
 
 October 16. 
 Helen Hunt Jackson. 
 
October 1' 
 
 When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through man}- of 
 our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be 
 a cheapening of our lives. And we can set a watch over our affections 
 and our constancy as we can over other treasures. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCH. 
 
 October IS. 
 
 You can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in 
 
 3'ou, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl. To have a pattern 
 
 cut out, this is what you must be ; this is what you are wanted for. A 
 
 woman's heart must be of such a size, and no larger, else it nuist be 
 
 pressed small like Chinese feet. Her happiness is to be made as cakes 
 
 are, by a fixed receipt. 
 
 D.A^'iEL Deroxda. 
 
 UG 
 
October l7 
 
 October 18. 
 
 317 
 
October 19. 
 
 It would be a poor result of all our anguish aud wrestling, if we won 
 nothing but our old selves 'at the end of it — if we could return to the 
 samebUnd loves, tlie same self-confident blame, the same light thoughts 
 of human suffering, the same frivolous gossip over blighted lives, the 
 same feeble sense of that unknown toward which we have sent forth irre- 
 pressible cries in our loneliness. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 October 20. 
 
 Even mucli stronger mortals than Fred Vine}- hold half their rectitude 
 in the mind of the being they love best. " The theatre of all m}' actions 
 is fallen," said an antique personage when his chief friend was dead ; 
 and they are fortunate who get a theatre where the audience demands 
 their best. 
 
 MU5DLEMARCTI. 
 
 318 
 
0.:.T>)-JER 19. 
 
 October 20. 
 
 319 
 
October 21. 
 
 Yes, yes; it's rather too bad when these great singers marry them- 
 selves into silence before they have a crack in tlieir voices. And the 
 husband is a public robber. I lemember Leroux saving a man might as 
 well take down a peal of church bells and carry them off to the steppes. 
 
 Danikl Deuonda. 
 
 October 22. 
 
 I.S it no offence 
 To wish the eagle may find repose 
 As feebler wings do, in a quiet nest? 
 Or, has the taste of fame already turned 
 The woman to a ]Muse? Armgart. 
 
 It is very pleasant to see some people turn round ; pleasant as a sud- 
 den rush of warm air in winter, or the flash of firelight in the chill dusk. 
 
 Adaji Bede. 
 320 
 
October 21. 
 
 Jenny liind Goldschinidt, 1«24. 
 
 October 22. 
 
 Annie Louise Cary (Mr.s. Raymond). 
 
 321 
 
October 23. 
 
 In transactions between fellow-men it is well to consider a little what 
 
 is fair and kind toward the person immediately concerned, before we spit 
 
 and roast him on behalf of the next century but one. On the whole, and 
 
 in the vast majorit}' of instances, the action b}' which we can do the 
 
 best for future ages is of the -sort which has a certain beneficence and 
 
 grace for contemporaries. 
 
 Theopiirastus Such. 
 
 October 24. 
 
 But his endurance was mingled with a self-discontent which, if we 
 know how to be candid, we shall confess to make more than half our 
 bitterness under grievances, wife or husband included. It alvva3S remains 
 true that if we had been greater circumstance would have been less 
 strong against us. 
 
 MiODLEMAKCH. 
 
October 23. 
 
 October 24. 
 
 323 
 
October 25. 
 
 The sadder illusion lay with Harold Transom, who was trusting in his 
 own skill to shai)e the success of his own morrows, ignorant of what 
 many yesterda3s had determined for him beforehand. 
 
 Felix Holt. 
 
 1st Gent. — Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves. 
 2d Gent. — Ay, truly : but I think it is the world 
 That brings the iron. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCH. 
 
 October 26. 
 
 For Mrs. Renfrew, the Colonel's widow, was not only unexception- 
 able in point of breeding, but also interesting on the ground of her com- 
 l)laint, which puzzled the doctors, anC seemed clearly a case wherein the 
 the fulness of professional knowledge might need the supplement of 
 quackery. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCH. 
 
 324 
 
OCTOBEK 25. 
 
 October 26. 
 
 325 
 
October 27. 
 
 Ingenious philosophers tell 3'ou that the great work of the steam- 
 engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them ; it only 
 creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in. Even idleness is eager 
 now — eager for amusement, prone to excursion trains, art museums, 
 periodical literature, and exciting novels ; prone even to scientific 
 theorizing and cursory peeps through microscopes. 
 
 Adam Bedk. 
 
 October 2S. 
 
 1 HAVE spoken to as rough, ignorant people as can be found in the 
 
 villages about Snowfield — men that look very hard and wild ; but they 
 
 never said an uncivil word to me, and often thanked me kindly as they 
 
 made way for me to pass through the midst of them. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 326 
 
October 27. 
 
 October 28. 
 
 Anna Dickinson, 1842. 
 
 327 
 
October 29. 
 
 Ah yes ! all preciousness 
 To mortal hearts is guarded by a fear ; 
 All love fears loss, and most that loss supreme, 
 Its own perfection, — seeing, feeling change 
 From high to lower, dearer to less dear. 
 
 TiiK Spanish Gypsy 
 
 October 30. 
 
 I AM not glad with that mean vanit}' 
 Which knows no good beyond its appetite 
 Full feasting npon praise ! I am only glad. 
 Being praised for what I know is worth the praise ; 
 Glad of the proof that I myself have part 
 In what I worship ! 
 
 I accept the peril. 
 I choose to walk high with sublimer dread 
 Rather than crawl in safety. And besides, 
 I am an at tist as 3'ou are a noble ; 
 I ought to bear the burthen of my rank. AuMCiAirr. 
 
 328 
 
October 29. 
 
 October 30. 
 Adelaide Anne Proctor, 182.5; Angelica Kaufman, 1741. 
 
 Oxw-U^ i>(A-rOuUJu, (lidijjjucn>.<L Oa^<4^ S'f. 
 
 ^29 
 
October 31. 
 
 Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of 
 autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm, majestic statues, or Bee- 
 thoven symphonies, all bring with them the consciousness that they are 
 mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty ; 
 our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence ; 
 our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in 
 
 the sense of divine mystery. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 330 
 
October 31. 
 
 381 
 
The crane, with outspread wing, that heads the file, 
 Pauses not, feels no backward impulses : 
 Behind it summer was, and is no more ; 
 Before it lies the summer it will reach 
 Or fall in the mid-ocean. And you no less 
 Must feel the force sublime of growing life. 
 New thoughts are urgent as the growth of wings ; 
 The widening vision is imperious. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 332 
 
And then the tiled roof of cottage and homestead, of the long cow- 
 shed where generations of the milky motliers ha^e stood patiently, of the 
 broad-shouldered barns where the old-fasliioned flail once made resonant 
 music, while the watch-dog barked at the timidly venturesome fowls 
 making pecking raids on the outflying grain — the roofs that have looked 
 out from among the elms and walnut trees, or beside the yearly group 
 of hay and corn stacks, or below the square stone steeple, gathering their 
 gray or ochre-tinted lichens, and their olive-green mosses under all min- 
 istries — let us praise the sober harmonies the}^ give to our landscape. 
 
 TnKopHiiA.sTUs Such. 
 
November l, 
 
 For Mrs. Hackit regulated her costume by the calendar, and brought 
 out her furs on the first of November, whatever might be the tempera- 
 ture. She was not a woman weakly to accommodate herself to shilly- 
 shally proceedings. If the season didn't know what it ought to do, Mrs. 
 
 Hackit did. 
 
 Amos Bakton. 
 
 November 2. 
 
 Life is a various mother ; now she dons 
 
 Her plumes and briUiants, climbs the marble staij-s 
 
 With head aloft, nor ever turns her e^'es 
 
 On lackeys who attend her ; now she dwells 
 
 Grim-clad, up darksome alleys, breathes hot gin, 
 
 And screams in pauper riot. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 — i^^ — 
 
 She 's cut out o' different stuff from most women ; I saw that long ago. 
 She 's never eas}' but when she 's helping somebody. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
November 1, 
 
 November 2. 
 Maria Antoinette, 1755; Harriet McEv.en Kimball. 
 
 3ol 
 
November 3. 
 
 It was as necessary to her mind to have an opinion on all topics, not 
 
 exclusively masculine, that had come under her notice, as for her to have 
 
 a precisely marked place for ever}^ article of her personal property ; and 
 
 her opinions were always principles to be unwaveriugl}- acted on. They 
 
 were firm, not because of their basis, but because she held them with a 
 
 tenacity inseparable from her mental action. 
 
 Silas Marnek. 
 
 November 4. 
 
 The l:)est augur}^ of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks 
 it the finest in the world. 
 
 But I fancy it is so with most work when a man goes into it with a 
 will. Brewitt, the blacksmith, said to me, the other day, that his 
 'prentice liad no mind to his trade ; " and j-et, sir," said Brewitt, " what 
 would a young fellow have if he does'nt hke the blacksmithing?" 
 
 Daniel Dehonda. 
 336 
 
November o. 
 
 November 4. 
 
November 5. 
 
 Tito and Romola never jarred, never remonstrated with each other. 
 The\' were too hopelessly alienated in their inner life ever to have that 
 contest which is an effort towards agreement. ... In the first ardor 
 of her self-conquest, Romola had made many timid efforts towards the 
 return of a franlc relation between them. But to her such a relation 
 could onh' come by open speech about their differences. 
 
 KOMOLA. 
 
 November 6. 
 
 By desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know 
 what it is, and cannot do what we would, we are a part of the divine 
 power against evil — widening the skirts of light, and making the 
 
 MiDDLEMARCH. 
 
 338 
 
November 5. 
 
 November 6. 
 
 3:5<) 
 
November 7. 
 
 I NEVER said a woman should make a black patch of herself against 
 the background. It 's a shame for a woman with 3'oar hair and shoulders 
 to run into such nonsense — leave it to women who are not worth paint- 
 ing. What ! the most holy Virgin herself has always been dressed well ; 
 that 's the doctrine of the Church. 
 
 KOMOLA. 
 
 November 8. 
 
 For an enthusiastic spirit to meet continually the fixed indifference of 
 men familiar with the object of his enthusiasm is the acceptance of a slow 
 mart3'rdom, beside which the fate of a missionary tomahawked without 
 any considerate rejection of his doctrines seems hardly worth}' of com- 
 passion. 
 
 Daxiei, Dkuoxda. 
 
 ;uo 
 
November 7. 
 
 November S. 
 
 :ui 
 
November 9. 
 
 We in our wedded life shall know no loss, 
 
 We shall new-date our ^-ears. What went before 
 
 Will be the time of promise, shadows, dreams ; 
 
 But this, full revelation of great love. 
 
 For rivers blent take in a broader heaven. 
 
 And we shall blend our souls. 
 
 The Spanish Gytsy. 
 
 November 10. 
 
 The struggle of mind attending a conscious error had awakened some- 
 thing like a new soul, which had better, but also worse, possibilities than 
 her former poise of crude self-confidence. Among the forces she had 
 begun to dread was something within her which troubled satisfaction. 
 
 Daniel Dehoxda. 
 
 ,'U2 
 
November 9. 
 
 November 10. 
 
 343 
 
November 11. 
 
 What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that 
 they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on 
 each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one 
 with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the 
 last parting? 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 November 12. 
 The prevarications and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambi- 
 tiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches 
 that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightl}' as mere trimmiiio;s 
 when once the actious have become a lie. Silas Marxkk. 
 
 When a woman feels purely and nobly, that order of hers which 
 
 breaks through formulas too vigorously urged on her by daily practical 
 
 needs, makes one of her most precious influences ; she is the added 
 
 impulse that shatters the stiffening crust of cautious experience. 
 
 Fioux Holt. 
 ■AU 
 
November 11. 
 Mrs. Abagail Adams, 1744 (O. S). 
 
 November 12. 
 Mrs. Amelia Opie, 1767; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1816. 
 
 345 
 
November 13. 
 
 In the wonderful mixtures of our nature, there is a feeling distinct 
 from that exclusive passionate love of which some men and women (by 
 no means all) are capable, whicli yet is not the same with friendship, nor 
 with a merely benevolent regard, whether admiring or compassionate. 
 
 Daniel Dekonda. 
 
 November 14. 
 
 So Eppie was reared without punishment, the burden of her misdeeds 
 being borne vicariously by Father Silas. The stone hut was made a soft 
 nest for her, lined with downy patience ; and also in the world that lay 
 beyond the stone hut for her, she knew nothing of frowns and denials. 
 
 Silas Marner. 
 
 346 
 
November 13. 
 Lady Caroline Lanil), 178.5. 
 
 November 14. 
 
November 15. 
 
 A WIDOW at fift3'-five whose satisfaction liad been largol}' drawn from 
 what she thinks of her own person, and what she believes others think of 
 it, requires a great fund of imagination to keep her spirits buo3'ant. 
 
 llOJIOLA. 
 
 November 16. 
 
 Much of our lives is spent in marring our own inlluence and turning 
 other's belief in us into a wide!}- concluding unbelief, which the}' call 
 knowledge of the world, while it is reall}' disappointment in ou or me. 
 
 Daniki. ])ki;<^xda. 
 
 Let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation ; it 
 multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners 
 sure to go wrong. 
 
 MiDDLEMARCn. 
 
 US 
 
November 15, 
 
 NovEMBER 16. 
 
 349 
 
November 17. 
 
 I HATE that talk o' people, as if there was a way o' making amends 
 
 for everything. They'd more need be brought to see as the wrong the}'^ 
 
 do can never be altered. When a man 's spoiled his fellow-ereature's 
 
 life, he 's no right to comfort himself with thinking good ma}' come out 
 
 of it. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 November IS. 
 
 No man has too much talent to be a musician. Most men have too 
 little. A ci'eative artist is no more a mere musician than a great states- 
 man is a mere politician. We help to rule the nations and make the age 
 as much as any other public men. A man who speaks effectively through 
 music is compelled to something more difficult than parliamentary 
 
 eloquence. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 850 
 
November 17. 
 
 November 18. 
 
 351 
 
November 19. 
 
 FcR the moment, Will's admiration was accompanied with a chill 
 sense of remoteness. A man is seldom ashamed of feeling that he can- 
 not love a woman so well when he sees a certain greatness in her, 
 — Nature having intended greatness for men. But Nature has some- 
 times made sad oversights in carrying out her intentions. 
 
 MiDDLE.MAKClI. 
 
 Ndvember 20. 
 
 Op natures you call ro3'al, who can live 
 
 In mere mock knowledge of their fellows' woe, 
 
 Thinking their smiles may heal it. 
 
 ARMG.iRT. 
 
 And it is of the nature of vanil}- and arrogance, if unchecked, to 
 become cruel and self-justifying. There are fierce beasts within. 
 
 Theophrastus Such. 
 362 
 
November 19. 
 
 November 20. 
 Catherine de Medicis, 1519. 
 
 853 
 
November 21. 
 
 Say, why, I say as some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on 
 
 strikiu', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there 's summat 
 
 wrong i' their own inside. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 November 22. 
 
 How will yon know the pitch of that great bell 
 
 Too large for you to stir ? Let but a flute 
 
 Phiy 'neath the fine-mixed metal; listen close 
 
 Till the right note flows forth i\ silvery rill, 
 
 Then shall the huge bell tremble — then the mass 
 
 With myriad waves concurrent shall respond 
 
 In low, soft unison. Middlemarch. 
 
 For what is fame 
 But the benignant strength of One, transformed ^ 
 To joy of Many.? Tributes, plaudits come 
 As necessary breathing of sucli joy. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 354 
 
November 21. 
 
 November 22. 
 
 George Eliot, 1820. 
 
 356 
 
November 23- 
 
 What he felt was a profound sensibility to a cry from the depths of 
 another soul ; and accompanying that, the summons to be receptive 
 instead of supercilious!}' prejudging. Receptiveness is a rare and mas- 
 sive power, like fortitude ; and this state of mind gave Deronda's face 
 its utmost expression of calm, benignant force. 
 
 Daniel Dekonda. 
 
 November 24. 
 
 Life never seems so clear and easy as when the heart is beating faster 
 at the sight of some generous, self-risking deed. We feel no doubt, 
 then, what is the highest prize the soul can win. 
 
 ROMOLA. 
 
 356 
 
November 23. 
 
 November 24. 
 Grace Darling, 1815. 
 
 357 
 
November 25. 
 
 We perhaps never detect how much of our social demeanor is made 
 up of artificial airs, until we see a person who is at once beautiful and 
 simple ; without the beauty, we are apt to call simplicit}^ awkwardness. 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 November 26. 
 
 It is hard to sa}' how much we could forgive ourselves if we were 
 secure from judgment by another whose opinion is the breathing-medium 
 of all our joy ; who brings to us with close pressure and immediate 
 sequence that judgment of the Invisible and Universal which self-flattery 
 and the world's tolerance would easily melt and disperse. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 358 
 
November 25. 
 
 November 26. 
 
 359 
 
November 27. 
 
 I AM an artist by my birth, 
 By the same warrant that I am a woman ; 
 Nay, in the added rarer gift I see 
 Supreme vocation : If a conflict comes, 
 Perish — no, not the woman, but the joys 
 Which men make narrow by their narrowness. 
 
 Armgaht. 
 
 November 28. 
 
 Sorrow and joy have each their peculiar narrowness ; and a religious 
 enthusiasm like Savonarola's, which ultimately blesses mankind by 
 giving the soul a strong propulsion towards sympathy with pain, indig- 
 nation against wrong, and the subjugation of sensual desire, must always 
 incur the reproacli of a great negation. 
 
 llOMOLA. 
 
 360 
 
NOVEMHER 27. 
 Frances Ann Kemble, 1809. 
 
 November 28. 
 
 361 
 
November 29. 
 
 It is really surprising that young ladies should not be thought com- 
 petent to the sarae curriculum as young gentlemen — I observe tliat their 
 
 powers of sarcasm are quite equal. 
 
 Janet's Kepentance. 
 
 So that if she came into the room on a rain}' day when everyone else 
 
 was flaccid, and the use of things in general was not apparent to them, 
 
 there seemed to be a sudden , sufficient reason for keeping up the forms 
 
 of life. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 November 30. 
 
 The pathos of his country's lot pierced the youthful soul of Massini, 
 
 because, like Dante's, his blood was fraught with the kinship of Italian 
 
 greatness, his imagination filled with a majestic past that wrought itself 
 
 into a majestic future. 
 
 Theophrastus Such. 
 
 362 
 
November 29. 
 
 Louisa May Alcott, 1832. 
 
 } 
 
 November 3d. 
 
 o(J3 
 
For if it be true that Nature at certain moments seems charged with a 
 presentiment of one individual lot, must it not also be true that she 
 se^s unmindful, unconscious of another? For there is no hour that 
 has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that 
 does not bring new sickness to desolation, as well as new forces to 
 genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots arc so different, 
 what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great 
 crisis of our lives? We are children of a large family and must learn, 
 as such children do, not to expect that our hurts will be made much of — 
 to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the 
 
 more. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 864 
 
But old Christmas smiled as he laid this cruel-seeming spell on the 
 out-door world, for he meant to light up home with new brightness, to 
 deepen all the richness of in-door color, and give a keener edge of delight 
 to the warm fragrance of food ; he meant to prepare a sweet imprisonment 
 that would strengthen the primitive fellowship of kindred. His kindness 
 fell but hardly on the homeless — fell but hardly on the homes where the 
 hearth was not very warm, and where the food had little fragrance. But 
 the fine old season meant well ; and if he has not learnt the secret how 
 to bless men impartially, it is because his father, Time, with ever-unre- 
 lenting purpose, still hides that secret in his own might}', slow-beating 
 
 heart. 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 365 
 
December 1. 
 
 You will make rank seem natural, as kind 
 As eagles' plumage, or the lion's might — 
 A crown upon your brow would seem God-made. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 December 2. 
 
 I SHARE with you this sense of oppressive narrowness, but it is neces- 
 sar}' that we should feel it, if we care to understand how it has acted on 
 3'oung natures in many generations, that in the onward tendency of 
 human things have risen above the mental level of the generation before 
 them, to which they have nevertheless been tied by the strongest fibres 
 of their hearts. The sulfering, whether of martyr or victim, which 
 belongs to every historical advance of mankind, is represented in this 
 way in every town, and by hundreds of obscure hearths. 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 3G0 
 
December 1. 
 Alexandra, Princess of Wales, 1844. 
 
 December 2. 
 
 367 
 
December 3. 
 
 That childish world where our two spirits mingled 
 Like scents from vtirj'ing roses that remain 
 One sweetness, nor can evermore be singled. 
 Yet the twin habit of that early time 
 Lingered for long about the heart and tongue ; 
 We had been natives of one happ}' clime, 
 And its dear accent to our utterance clung. 
 
 But were another childhood world m}^ share 
 I would be born a little sister there. 
 
 Brother and Sister. 
 
 December 4. 
 
 Is it any weakness, pray, to be wrought on by exquisite music ? to feel 
 its wondrous harmonies searching the subtlest windings of your soul? 
 If not, then neither is it a weakness to be so wrought upon by the 
 exquisite curves of a woman's cheek and neck and arms, by the liquid 
 depths of her searching eyes, or the sweet, childish pout of lier lips. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 368 
 
December 3. 
 Mary Lamb, 1767. 
 
 December 4. 
 Madame I? ccamier, 1777. 
 
 369 
 
December 5. 
 
 There's no pleasure i' living, if 3-01; 're to be corked up for iver, and 
 
 only dribble 3'our mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel. I shan't 
 
 repent saying what I think, if I live to be as old as th' old squire ; and 
 
 there's little likelihoods — for it seems as if them as aren't wanted here 
 
 are the only folks as are n't wanted i' the other world. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 December 6. 
 
 So, if I live or die to serve mj' friend 
 'T is for my love — 't is for my friend alone, 
 And not for any rate that friendship bears 
 In heaven or on earth. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 — .^^ — 
 
 For effective magic is transcendant nature ; and who shall measure 
 the subtlety of those touches which convey the quality of soul as well 
 as body. 
 
 MiDULEMAUCH. 
 
 370 
 
December 5. 
 
 December 6. 
 Caroline Bowles SoTitbcy, 17S6. 
 
 37] 
 
December 7. 
 
 The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer 
 
 which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the 
 
 limitations of our own weakness, and an invocation of all good to enter 
 
 and abide with us ; or else a self-oblivious lifting up of gladness that 
 
 such good exists. 
 
 Daniel Deronda. 
 
 December 8. 
 Was she beautiful or not beautiful? and what was the form and expres- 
 sion which gave the dynamic quality to her glance? Was the good or 
 the evil genius dominant in those beams? Probably the evil ; else why 
 was the effect that of unrest rather than of undisturbed charm? 
 
 — cft.^§; — Daniel Deronda. 
 
 Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other 
 behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at 
 the same hearth are often the farthest off from the deep human soul 
 within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good. Janet's Repentance. 
 
 Her finely touched spirit had still its fino issues, though they were not 
 widely visible. Middlemakcii. 
 
December 7. 
 
 ay/e^ /Yt^^^^ccx^^^^ ^-^y^2^^^t?-ert:^ ^ 
 
 December 8. 
 Lady Ann Barnard, 1750; Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542. 
 
 873 
 
December 9. 
 
 The refuge 3'ou are needing from personal trouble is the higher, the 
 
 religious life, which holds an enthusiasm for something more than our 
 
 own appetites and vanities. The few may find themselves in it by an 
 
 elevation of feeling ;"but for us who have to strugi^le for our wisdom, the 
 
 higher life must be a region ia which the affections are clad with 
 
 knowledge. 
 
 Daniel Deroxda. 
 
 Decembeh 10. 
 
 I HAVE usually found that it is the rather dull person who appears to 
 be disgusted with his contemporaries because they are not always 
 strikingly original, and to satisfy whom the party at a countr}' house 
 should have included the prophet Isaiah, Plato, Francis Bacon, and 
 
 Voltaire. 
 
 Theopiirastus Such. 
 
 374 
 
December 9. 
 
 December 10. 
 
 375 
 
December 11. 
 
 It is right and meet that there should be an abundant utterance of 
 good, sound common places. Part of an agreeable talker's charm is that 
 he lets them fall continually with no more than due emphasis. Giving a 
 pleasant voice to what we are all well assured of, makes a sort of whole- 
 some air for more special and dubious remark to move in. 
 
 TiiEOPHKASTus Sucn. 
 
 December 12. 
 
 " Ah ! I often think it 's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babbies," said 
 
 Mrs. Poyser; "they are satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're 
 
 looking at. It 's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore 
 
 they go to sleep. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 376 
 
December 11. 
 
 December 12. 
 
 377 
 
December 13. 
 
 Then Memniy disclosed her face divine 
 That like tlie calm nocturnal lights doth shine 
 Within the soul, and shows the sacred graves, 
 And shows the presence that no sinilight craves, 
 No space, no warmth, but moves among their all. 
 
 The Legend ov Jubal. 
 
 December 14. 
 
 Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them ; they can 
 
 be injured by us, they can be wounded ; they know all our penitence, all 
 
 our aching sense that their place is empty ; all the kisses we bestow on 
 
 the smallest relic of their presence. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 378 
 
December 13. 
 
 December 14. 
 
 ;i7ii 
 
December 15. 
 
 The doctor's estimate was apt to rise and fall with entries in the day- 
 book ; and I have known Mr. Pilgrim discover the most unexpected vir- 
 tues in a patient seized with a promising illness. Gradually, however, 
 as his patients became convalescent, his view of their characters became 
 more dispassionate ; when they could relish mutton-chops, he began to 
 admit they had foibles, and by the time they had swallowed theii- last 
 dose of tonic, he was alive to their most inexcusable faults. 
 
 Janet's IIepentancr. 
 
 December 16. 
 
 Peaceful authorship ! living In the air of fields and downs, and not in the 
 thrice-breathod Ijreath of criticism — bringinii no Dantesque leanness; rather, 
 assisting nutrition by complacency, and perhaps givinn' a more suffiisive sense of 
 achievement than the production of a whole Divina Coramedia. 
 
 Daniel Dekonda. 
 
 And what is a portrait of a woman? Your painting and plastic are poor stuff, 
 after all. They perturb and dull conceptions instead of raising them. Language 
 is a finer medium, gives a fuller image. After all, the true seeing is within ; and 
 ptiintiug stares at you witii an insistent impei'fection. This woman whom yon 
 have just seen, for example : How would you print her voice, pray? But her 
 voice is much diviner tliiin anything you have seen of her. 
 
 MlDDLKMARCU. 
 
 3S0 
 
December 15. 
 
 December 16. 
 
 Mary Russell Mitford, 1750; Jane Austun, 177o. 
 
 381 
 
December 17. 
 
 We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. 
 That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not 
 yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our 
 frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feel- 
 ing of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow 
 and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of tlie roar which lies 
 on the other side of silence. 
 
 MiDDLEMAKCH. 
 
 December 18. 
 
 The worst of miseries 
 
 Is when a nature framed for noblest things 
 
 Condemns itself in youth to petty joys 
 
 And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life 
 
 Gasping from out the shallows. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 
 382 
 
December 17. 
 
 December IS. 
 
 Queen Christina, of Sweden^ 1G26. 
 
 ^^ i. , f Cc ^iuLx-cj»- ^r^c.^:^ 
 
 ?,s;] 
 
December 19. 
 
 I, TOO, rest ill faith 
 That mail's perfection is the crowiiiug flower, 
 Toward which the urgent sap in life's great tree 
 Is pressing- — seen in puny blossoms now, 
 But in the world's great morrows to expand 
 With broadest petal and with deepest glow. 
 
 A Minor Pkopiiet. 
 
 SixGS God-taught such marrow-thrilling tales 
 As seem the very voice of dying Spring, 
 A flute-like wail that mourns the blossoms 
 And sinks, and is not, like their fragrant breath, 
 With line transition on the trembling air. 
 
 The Spaxisii Gypsy. 
 
 December 20. 
 
 How long is it? — onl}' two centuries since a vessel carried over the 
 ocean the beginning of the great North American nation. The people 
 grew like meeting waters. They were various in habit and sect. There 
 came a time, a century ago, when they needed a polit}', and there were 
 heroes of peace among them. What had they to form a polity with, but 
 memories of Europe, corrected by the vision of a better? 
 
 DaXIKL DKnONDA. 
 
 .•;.s4 
 
December 19. 
 Mary A. Livcnnore, 1821 ; Eiuilj' Broiiti', 1819 
 
 December 20. 
 
 .•'.85 
 
December 21. 
 
 Much quotation of any sort, even in English, is bad. It tends to 
 
 choke ordinary remarlv. One xjouldn't carrj' on life comfortably without 
 
 a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we 
 
 can put it ourselves. 
 
 Danief. Deuoxda. 
 
 December 22. 
 
 A >rixD consciously, energetically moving with the larger march of human 
 destinies, but not the less full of conscience and tender heart for the footsteps 
 that tread near and need a leaning place. 
 
 Daniel Deroxda. 
 
 Whex ray Father comes, 
 He breathes into my soul his generous hope, — 
 By his own greatness making life seem great. 
 
 The life we choose 
 Breathes high, and sees a full-arched firmament. 
 Our deeds shall speak like rock-liewn messages, 
 Teaching great purpose to the distant time. 
 
 The Spanish Gypsy. 
 38G 
 
December 2 j 
 
 December 22. 
 Francos Power Cobb, 1822; Sara Coleridge, 1S02 ; Anna H. Jiidson, 1787. 
 
 ;ss7 
 
December 23. 
 
 And poor, aged, fretful Lisbeth, without grasping any distinct idea, 
 
 without going through any course of religious emotions, felt a vague 
 
 sense of goodness and love, and of something right lying underneath 
 
 and beyond all this sorrowing life. 
 
 Adam Bede. 
 
 December 24. 
 
 I NEVER cheat anybody- as doesn't want to cheat me, Miss — lors, I'm 
 
 a honest cliap, I am ; onl^- I must bev a bit o' sport, an' now I don't go 
 
 wi' the feiTcts, I 've got no varmint to come over but them haggling 
 
 women. But I '11 leave off that trick wi' m}' big thumb if you don't 
 
 think well on me for it, Miss — but it 'ud be a pit}', it would — I 
 
 couldn't find another trick so good — and what 'ud be the use having a 
 
 big thumb ? 
 
 The Mill on the Floss. 
 
 38S 
 
December 23. 
 
 December 24. 
 
 r)80 
 
December 25. 
 
 Those green boughs, the hymn and anthem never heard but at Christ- 
 mas — even the Athenasian Creed, which was discriminated from the 
 others only as being larger and of exceptional AMrtue, since it was only 
 had on rare occasions — brought a vague, exulting sense, for which the 
 grown men could as little have found words as the children, that some- 
 tliing great and mysterious had been done for them in keaven above, and 
 
 in earth below. 
 
 S1LA8 Makner. 
 
 December 26. 
 
 Plow the great planet glows, and looks at me. 
 
 And seems to pierce me with his effluence ! 
 
 AVere he a living God, these rays that stir 
 
 In me the pulse of wonder were in him 
 
 Fulness of knowledge. 
 
 The Sp.\Nisn Gyp.sy. 
 
December 25. 
 
 December 26. 
 Mrs. Mary Somerville, 1780. 
 
 391 
 
December 27. 
 
 For the men are mostlj' so slow, that their thoughts overrun 'em, an' 
 
 they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a 
 
 man's getting ready ; an' when he's out with his speech at last, there's 
 
 little broth to be made on 't. Howiver, I 'm not denyin' the women are 
 
 foolish ; God Almight}^ made 'em to match the men. 
 
 . Adam Bede. 
 
 December 28. 
 
 A 3-earning for some hidden soul of things. 
 Some outward touch complete on inner springs 
 That vaguely moving bred a lonel}^ pain, 
 A want that did but stronger grow with gain 
 Of all good else, as spirits miglit be sad 
 For lack of speech to tell us thev are glad. 
 
 The Legend of Jubal. 
 
 yy2 
 
December 27. 
 
 December 28. 
 
 ;!i.):; 
 
December 29. 
 
 Her full nature, like that river of which Alexander broke the strength, 
 spent itself in channels which had no great name on earth. But the 
 effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diftusive, • 
 
 MiDDLEMAKCH. 
 
 December 30. 
 
 Why could he not make up his mind to the al)sence of children from 
 
 his hearth brightened by such a wife ? I suppose it is the way with all 
 
 men and women who reach middle life without the clear perception that 
 
 life never can be thoroughly joyous ; under the vague dulness of the 
 
 gray hours, dissatisfaction see'ks a definite object, and finds it in the 
 
 privation of an untried good. 
 
 Silas Marxek. 
 
 394 
 
December 29. 
 Susannah AVeslej', 1670. 
 
 December 30. 
 
 395 
 
December 31. 
 
 The fields are hoar}^ with December's frost, 
 
 I, too, am hoary with the chills of age. 
 
 But through the fields and through the untrodden woods 
 
 'Is rest and stillness. 
 
 Felix Holt. 
 
 — =1^ — 
 
 For the growing good of the world is partl}^ dependent on unhistoric 
 
 acts ; and that things are not so ill with 3'ou and me as they might have 
 
 been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life and 
 
 rest in unvisited tombs. 
 
 Mlddleiiakch. 
 
 396 
 
December 31. 
 
 397 
 
O MAT I join the choir invisible 
 
 Of these immortal dead who live again 
 
 In minds made better by their presence ; live 
 
 In pulses stirred to generosity, 
 
 In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn 
 
 For miserable aims that end with self, 
 
 In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, 
 
 And with their mild persistence urge man's search 
 
 To vaster issues. 
 
 George Eliot. 
 
 398 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 Warren, 
 
 Adams, Abagail, . 
 Alcott, Louisa May, 
 Alexandra, Princess of Wales, 
 Anne, Queen of England, . 
 Anthony, Susan, . 
 Antoinette, Maria, 
 Appleton, Mrs. Emily 
 Aspasia, 
 Austen, Jane, 
 Bache, Sarah Franklin, 
 Baillie, Joanna,* . 
 Barbauld, Mrs., . 
 Barnard, Lady Ann, 
 Berry, Miss, . 
 Blackwell, Lucy Stone, 
 Blessington, Lady, 
 Bonheur, Rosa, . 
 Bright-Eyes, 
 Bront6, Charlotte, 
 
 345 
 363 
 367 
 
 41 
 
 51 
 335 
 143 
 
 81 
 381 
 279 
 121 
 187 
 373 
 
 83 
 247 
 269 
 
 89 
 109 
 125 
 
 Bront(?, Emily, 
 
 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 
 
 Brown, Mrs. John, 
 
 Bunsen, Baroness, 
 
 Burney, Fanny, . 
 
 Byron, Lady, 
 
 Carpenter, Mary, . 
 
 Carlyle, Jane Welsh, . 
 
 Cary, Alice, .... 
 
 Gary, Phoebe, 
 
 Catherine II., Empress of Russia 
 
 Child, Lydia Maria, 
 
 Christina, Queen of Sweden, 
 
 Cobbe, Frances Power, 
 
 Coleridge, Sara, . 
 
 Cook, Rose Terry, 
 
 Corday, Charlotte, 
 
 Coutts, Baroness Burdett, . 
 
 Craik, Dinah Muloch,* 
 
 385 
 151 
 117 
 
 71 
 181 
 151 
 105 
 213 
 127 
 271 
 135 
 
 47 
 383 
 387 
 387 
 
 53 
 227 
 127 
 
 29 
 
 399 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 Cushman, Charlotte, . 
 
 223 
 
 Darling, Grace, .... 
 
 357 
 
 Delaney, Mrs., .... 
 
 147 
 
 Dickinson, Anna, 
 
 327 
 
 Dix, Dorothea, .... 
 
 105 
 
 Dodge, Abagail,* .... 
 
 287 
 
 Dora, Sister, .... 
 
 17 
 
 Eliot, George, .... 
 
 355 
 
 Edgeworth, Maria, 
 
 3 
 
 Elizabeth, Queen of England, . 
 
 275 
 
 Eugenia, Empress, 
 
 139 
 
 Fiske, Fidelia, .... 
 
 135 
 
 Fleming, Margery, ..." 
 
 17 
 
 Fry, Mrs. Elizabeth, . 
 
 155 
 
 Fuller, Margaret, 
 
 157 
 
 Garfield, Mrs. Lucretia Randolf, . 
 
 121 
 
 Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, . 
 
 129 
 
 Goldschmidt, Jenny Lind, . 
 
 321 
 
 Gratz, Rebecca, .... 
 
 71 
 
 Gray, Lady Jane, 
 
 175 
 
 Guyon, Madame, 
 
 115 
 
 Hayes, IMrs. Lucy Webb, . 
 
 261 
 
 Hamilton, Gail,* .... 
 
 287 
 
 Heloise,* 
 
 87 
 
 Hemans, ISIrs. Felicia, . 
 
 293 
 
 Herschel, Caroline, 
 
 83 
 
 Hortense, Queen of Holland, 
 
 111 
 
 Hosmer, Harriet, . 
 Howe, Julia Ward, 
 Howett, Mary, 
 Huntington, Countess of, 
 Hypatia,* 
 Inchbald, Mrs., . 
 Ingelow, Jean, 
 Isabella, Queen of Castile, 
 Jackson, Helen Hunt, , 
 Jameson, Mrs., 
 Joan of Arc,* 
 Josephine, Empress, 
 Judson, Mrs. Ann H., . 
 Kaufman, Angelica, 
 Kemble, Frances Ann, . 
 Kent, Duchess of, 
 Kimball, Harriet McEwcn, 
 King, Louisa W., . 
 Klopstock, Mrs. Margaret, 
 Lamb, Lady Caroline, . 
 Lamb, INIary, 
 La Flcche, Suzettc, 
 Landon, Letitia E., 
 Livermore, Mrs. Mary A., 
 Louisa, Queen of Prussia, 
 Louise, Princess, . 
 Lowell, Maria White, . 
 
 400 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 Martlneau, Harriet, 
 
 . 179 
 
 Mary, Queen of Scots, 
 
 . 373 
 
 Medicis, de, Catherine,* 
 
 . 353 
 
 Mitchell, Maria, . • . . 
 
 . 235 
 
 Mitford, Mary Russell, 
 
 . 381 
 
 Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, . 
 
 159 
 
 Moore, Hannah, .... 
 
 37 
 
 Mott, Lucretia, .... 
 
 5 
 
 Nightingale, Florence,* 
 
 143 
 
 Nilsson, Christine, 
 
 253 
 
 Oliphant, Mrs.,* .... 
 
 39 
 
 Opie, Mrs. Amelia, 
 
 345 
 
 Patti, Adelaide, .... 
 
 55 
 
 Patterson, Dorothy Windlow, . 
 
 17 
 
 Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 
 
 149 
 
 Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, . 
 
 263 
 
 Piatt, Mrs. M. B., ... 
 
 , 245 
 
 Procter, Adelaide Anne, 
 
 329 
 
 Rachel, Madame, .... 
 
 63 
 
 RadclifF, Mrs. Anna, . 
 
 209 
 
 Recamier, Madame, . 
 
 369 
 
 Remusat, Madame, 
 
 7 
 
 Ripley, Mrs. Sarah Alden, . 
 
 231 
 
 Roper, Margaret, 
 
 209 
 
 Sand, George, 
 
 201 
 
 Sappho, 
 
 171 
 
 Sarah, Duchess of Marlbprpugh, 
 
 163 
 
 Sevign^, Madame, 
 Sewall, Harriet Winslow, 
 Siddons, Mrs., 
 Sigouney, Lydia H., . 
 Sonierville, Mrs. Mary, 
 Southey, Caroline Bowles, 
 SpofFord, Harriet Prescott, 
 Stael, de, Madame, 
 Stanhope, Lady Hester, 
 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 
 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 
 Stuart, Arabella,* 
 Sutherland, Duchess of, 
 Theresa, Maria, . 
 Thrale, Mrs., 
 Thaxter, Celia, 
 Victoria, Queen of England, 
 Washington, Lady Martha,* 
 Weld, Angelina Grimk6, 
 Wesley, Susannah,* . 
 White, Mrs. Caroline Earle, 
 Whitman, Sarah Helen, 
 Whitney, Miss Anne, . 
 Whitney, Mrs. A. D. T., . 
 Wilhemina, Fredrica Sophia, 
 Willard, Mrs. Emma, . 
 
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