Our tenderness

Our tenderness and self-renunciation seem strong when our egoism has had its day- when, after our mean striving for a triumph that is to be another's loss, the triumph comes suddenly, and we shudder at it, because it is held out by the chll hand of death.

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Published by the George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, 2025. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org

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Ainooson, Olivia