George Eliot, Middlemarch

ISBN: 9780243313396 出版年：2016 页码：77 David Daiches Forgotten Books

The author seems emotionally committed here, yet the ugly duckling analogy and such a phrase as 'its own oary-footed kind' still keep up a suspicion of irony, while the phrase 'foundress of nothing' could be read equally as compassionate or deflating.