There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination.


The Mill on the Floss (1860)


There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of...

There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of...

There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of...

There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of...