Free instal Middlemarch1/15/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. ![]() To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. ![]()
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