Esther looked at him with an expression that would have been a smile if it had not been infinitely dreary and absent; then she said, simply and finally:
"But George, I don't love you, I love him."


Ch. X, the last lines of the novel - Esther: A Novel (1884)


Esther looked at him with an expression that would have been a smile if it had not been infinitely dreary and absent; then she said, simply and...

Esther looked at him with an expression that would have been a smile if it had not been infinitely dreary and absent; then she said, simply and...

Esther looked at him with an expression that would have been a smile if it had not been infinitely dreary and absent; then she said, simply and...

Esther looked at him with an expression that would have been a smile if it had not been infinitely dreary and absent; then she said, simply and...