Middlemarch - 25

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CHAPTER XXV.  “Love seeketh not itself to please,    Nor for itself hath any careBut for another gives its ease    And builds a heaven in hell’s despair.. . . . . . .Love seeketh only self to please,    To bind another to its delight,Joys in another’s loss of ease,    And builds a hell in heaven’s despite.”—W. BLAKE: Songs of Experience. Fred Vincy wanted to arrive at Stone Court when Mary could not expect him, and when his uncle was not downstairs: in that case she might be sitting alone in the wainscoted parlor. He left his horse