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Mr. Lush
Lydia Glasher is Henleigh Grandcourt’s former mistress and the mother of his illegitimate children. Once in a romantic relationship with Grandcourt, Lydia was abandoned when he turned his attention to Gwendolen Harleth. Bitter and desperate, Lydia confronts Gwendolen before the marriage, delivering a letter that reveals Grandcourt’s past cruelty and his neglect of her and their children. Despite her warnings, Gwendolen proceeds with the marriage, leaving Lydia to cope with her continued humiliation and despair. Lydia’s interactions with both Gwendolen and Grandcourt reveal her deep sense of betrayal and her lingering feelings of anger and regret.
Lydia Glasher Quotes in Daniel Deronda
The Daniel Deronda quotes below are all either spoken by Lydia Glasher or refer to Lydia Glasher . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 36
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This unavowed relation of Grandcourt’s—could she have gained some knowledge of it, which caused her to shrink from the match—a shrinking finally overcome by the urgence of poverty? He could recall almost every word she had said to him, and in certain of these words he seemed to discern that she was conscious of having done some wrong—inflicted some injury. His own acute experience made him alive to the form of injury which might affect the unavowed children and their mother. Was Mrs. Grandcourt, under all her determined show of satisfaction, gnawed by a double, a treble-headed grief—self-reproach, disappointment, jealousy?
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Lydia Glasher Quotes in Daniel Deronda
The Daniel Deronda quotes below are all either spoken by Lydia Glasher or refer to Lydia Glasher . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 36
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This unavowed relation of Grandcourt’s—could she have gained some knowledge of it, which caused her to shrink from the match—a shrinking finally overcome by the urgence of poverty? He could recall almost every word she had said to him, and in certain of these words he seemed to discern that she was conscious of having done some wrong—inflicted some injury. His own acute experience made him alive to the form of injury which might affect the unavowed children and their mother. Was Mrs. Grandcourt, under all her determined show of satisfaction, gnawed by a double, a treble-headed grief—self-reproach, disappointment, jealousy?
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