[The Tragic Comedians by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Tragic Comedians CHAPTER V 9/24
This young man's responsive spirit acted on her as the discovery of specifics for restoring soundness to the frame excites the brilliant empiric: he would slay us with benevolent soul to show the miracle of our revival.
Worship provokes the mortal goddess to a manifestation of her powers; and really the devotee is full half to blame. She had latterly been thinking of Alvan's rejection of the part of centaur; and his phrase, the quadruped man, breathed meaning.
He was to gain her lawfully after dominating her utterly.
That was right, but it levelled imagination.
There is in the sentimental kingdom of Love a form of reasoning, by which a lady of romantic notions who is dominated utterly, will ask herself why she should be gained lawfully: and she is moved to do so by the consideration that if the latter, no necessity can exist for the former: and the reverse.
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