The Lifted Veil

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Title: The Lifted Veil

Author: George Eliot

Release Date: April 20, 2005 [eBook #2165]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1921 Oxford University Press edition by David Price, email [email protected]

THE LIFTED VEIL

Give me no light, great Heaven, but such as turns To energy of human fellowship;

No powers beyond the growing heritage That makes completer manhood.

CHAPTER I

The time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject to attacks of angina pectoris; and in the ordinary course of things, my physician tells me, I may fairly hope that my life will not be protracted many months. Unless, then, I am cursed with an exceptional physical constitution, as I am cursed with an exceptional mental character, I shall not much longer groan under the wearisome burthen of this earthly existence. If it were to be otherwise—if I were to live on to the age most men desire and provide for—I should for once have known whether the miseries of delusive expectation can outweigh the miseries of true provision. For I foresee when I shall die, and everything that will happen in my last moments.

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