Sylvander and Clarinda —— The Love Letters of Robert Burns and Agnes M'lehose

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ISBN: 9781330669495 出版年：2016 页码：253 Robert Burns Forgotten Books

No. Had that been indeed the beginning, the end would have been quite other than it is. Rather did their story begin twenty-eight years before, with the birth of this man and this 'woman who came toward each other from such difierent social spheres, trailing not clouds of glory but the rags of sordid experience and ruined hope. Life had already marred them both — and for all that is to follow, let the first stone be cast by the one who is near enough divinity to make into holy stigmata the scars of his own sin and folly. Only, a stone would never come from such a hand.