Chapter 11
Rosamond and Fred at breakfast; her exquisite finish and her secret resolve to marry Lydgate.
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From Middlemarch by George Eliot
Rosamond is introduced as the flawless product of Mrs. Lemon's school, beautiful, accomplished, and quietly tyrannical in her egoism.
Chapter 16
Lydgate first feels her power; she sings and he is caught.
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The famous pier-glass parable: scratches arranged in concentric circles around the candle of her egoism.
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