The man who awakes the wondering tremulous passion of a young girl always thinks her affectionate
 George Eliot, Adam Bede (1859). copy citation

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Author George Eliot
Source Adam Bede
Topic passion girl
Date 1859
Language English
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“people who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it. Arthur Donnithorne, too, had the same sort of notion about Hetty, so far as he had thought of her nature of all. He felt sure she was a dear, affectionate, good little thing. The man who awakes the wondering tremulous passion of a young girl always thinks her affectionate; and if he chances to look forward to future years, probably imagines himself being virtuously tender to her, because the poor thing is so clingingly fond of him. God made these dear women so—and it is a convenient arrangement in case of sickness.” source