Dorothea's Night of Anguish and Moral Awakening

From Middlemarch by George Eliot
After discovering Will and Rosamond together, Dorothea weeps through the night and emerges with the resolve to help others — one of the novel's moral high points.
Chapter 80

Dorothea sobs on the floor, then looks out at the road, the man with the bundle, the woman with the baby: 'She was a part of that involuntary, palpitating life, and could neither look out on it from her luxurious shelter as a mere spectator, nor hide her eyes in selfish complaining.'

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