[Lord Ormont and his Aminta by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookLord Ormont and his Aminta CHAPTER VI 31/38
The vast realm of feeling is open to these appointed keepers of the sanctuary household, who may be withering virgins, may be childless matrons, may be unhusbanded wives.
Wandering in the vast realm which they are exhorted to call their own, for the additional attractiveness it gives them, an unsatisfied heart of woman will somewhat audaciously cross the borderland a single step into the public road of the vast realm of thinking.
Once there, and but a single step on the road, she is a rebel against man's law for her sex.
Nor is it urgent on her that she should think defiantly in order to feel herself the rebel.
She may think submissively; with a heart (the enlarged, the scientifically plumped, the pasture of epicurean man), with her coveted heart in revolt, and from the mere act of thinking at all. Aminta reviewed perforce, dead against her will, certain of the near-to-happiness ratings over-night.
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