This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... is another transformation, and once more he divines its meaning. The girl has been forced to learn the toorapidly-turned-over pages of life. Already she has arrived at a very sombre page. The man who loves her follows at a short distance until she reaches her home. When he returns to his own quarters he is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... is another transformation, and once more he divines its meaning. The girl has been forced to learn the toorapidly-turned-over pages of life. Already she has arrived at a very sombre page. The man who loves her follows at a short distance until she reaches her home. When he returns to his own quarters he is whispering to himself, " She is lost." His scrutiny, the actual scrutiny of Turgenev, into the very soul of this girl allows him no deception. He is sorry for her, but mixed with his sorrow there is a certain arid pleasure difficult to analyse. It is as though he were glad that this girl who had been so listlessly detached from his love and his pain should have found something at last which she must share with him. But there is another transformation which is very soon forced upon the Superfluous Man. The bitter farce of love is over; the Prince Charming has returned to the capital; busy tongues are loosened against him at last. The defeated rival whose jealousy had been ridiculed is now an ac cepted hero in the little provincial town. Liza's parents receive him again on the old familiar footing, but there is an abyss between the girl and himself. Ever so long ago--a few weeks ago--he had watched the child trembling unconsciously into womanhood. Afterwards he had watched the woman expanding unconsciously through the generosity of love. In each of these transformations there had been a natural ripening, harmonious and unstrained as the breaking into life of spring and the passing of spring into summer. But now there was something new in this too-well-loved face. Something had come into her life through which her youth had already shrivelled. Sorrow had hardened her into self-consciousness, had hardened her especially in the defence of her...
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