Chapter 27
Opens the chapter with the pier-glass image; introduced as a parable supplied by 'an eminent philosopher among my friends.' Applied to Rosamond.
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From Middlemarch by George Eliot
Eliot's famous metaphor for egoism: scratches on a polished surface appear to arrange themselves in concentric circles around any candle.
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