They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.

`` I'm a mess '', she said, and suddenly she was alarmed.

He treats her like she was dirt.

He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.

He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.

He had forgotten that she was so pretty.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

she directed all of her mental and physical energy toward achieving this one goal.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

Seeming much relieved, she smiled one of those worth-waiting-for smiles, and I smiled all the way into the bedroom.

He already had that slow pace that comes over the elderly, while she herself had all the signs of one who appreciates the joys of living.

( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

Mary Jane might not be the most intelligent woman, but she was one of the most determined.

With one hand she held her skirt down while she took Jack's extended hand with the other.

At one time she felt impelled to make dances that `` moved all over the stage '', much as Pollock's paintings move violently over the full extent of the canvas.

She could not resist the opportunity `` of showing her superiority in argument over a man '' which she had remarked as one of the `` feminine follies '' of Sara Sullam ; ;

Their afflictions centered on one maddening difficulty: Miriam held up the divorce proceedings that she herself had asked for.

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

Mama said she was one of the prettiest ladies she had ever seen.

Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

In any case, she told Thompson that she saw no reason why he might not see Katie again, `` now that this frank explanation has been made & no one can misunderstand ''.

She regretted what she described as the `` unwarrantable & unnecessary '' check to their friendship and said that she felt that they understood one another perfectly.

She also adopted a new nom-de-plume, the one for which she would become best known: George Eliot.

In the end, the real George Eliot stepped forward: Marian Evans Lewes admitted she was the author.

Eliot spent the next two years editing Lewes's final work Life and Mind for publication, and she found solace with John Walter Cross, a Scottish commission agent whose mother had recently died.

In her 1859 novel Adam Bede, George Eliot refers to this when she makes Jacob Storey say: " He thought it < nowiki ></ nowiki > had only been put to finish off th ' alphabet like ; though ampusand would ha ' done as well, for what he could see.

Scholar Marjorie Perloff had said of Stain that " nlike her contemporaries ( Eliot, Pound, Moore ), she does not give us an image, however fractured, of a carafe on a table ; rather, she forces us to reconsider how language actually constructs the world we know.

Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers such as Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, and artists such as Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and Gilbert Spencer.

Author Marc Eliot wrote that Bisset had an affair with the actor Steve McQueen, which she has not publicly discussed, though she said in a 2007 interview " was sort of manic and yet very hard to know.

George Eliot depicted the abandonment of the character Eppie in Silas Marner ; despite learning her true father at the end of the book, she refuses to leave Silas Marner who raised her.

The couple married in 1860, after which she made her own work in woodcuts and became a close friend of George Eliot.

Jacquetta Jean Frederica Lampson ; she married Peregrine Eliot, 10th Earl of St Germans, and had issue, three sons.

She also went on several camping trips with friends, visiting important sites in the Southwest, and in 1961, she and others, including photographers Eliot Porter and Todd Webb, went on a rafting trip down the Colorado River about Glen Canyon, Utah.

Harriot married firstly in 1726 Richard Eliot, having nine children including Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot and secondly in 1749 to John Hamilton by whom she had a son.

Lazarus began to be more interested in her Jewish ancestry after reading the George Eliot novel, Daniel Deronda, and as she heard of the Russian pogroms that followed the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881.

At the age of 12, she sent some of her poems to T. S. Eliot, who replied with a two-page letter of encouragement.

In 1984 she sang nine songs by Hugo Wolf in the world premiere of Eliot Feld's ballet Adieu, which she again performed in 1987 and 1989 at the Joyce Theater.

Helen is also the object of affection of Eliot Draisen, but all she is interested in is money ; to this end, she tries to get rid of her husband on several occasions and even does her best – along with Barnes – to get the ransom for herself.

") However, she maintained friendships with many other members of London's cultural elite of the time, including T. S. Eliot and H. G.

As a supporter of the poets Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, H. D., T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg and others, she played an important role in the development of modern poetry.

# Lady Rosemary Alexandra Eliot ( 26 February 1919 – 20 April 1963 ) who was thrice married ; firstly 2 September 1939 Edward Christian Frederick Nutting ( 9 Sep 1917-k. a. Middle East Jan 1943 ), by whom she had one daughter Davina ( 1940 – 1976 ); m. 2nd 24 Feb 1945 ( annulled 1949 ) David Frederick Hew Dunn ( b. 1917 ); m. 3rd 22 Dec 1949 Ralph Alexander Rubens ( died 1995 ) by whom she had one daughter Alexandra ( b. 1950 ).