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ever.
Truewhen the grace _is_ gone; but surely not from herin any real sense
had it gone--and would she notin the deep knowledge of herself which comes with revelation to the world
have felt that passionately? There are accusations of ourselves which indeed arraign ourselvesyet leave us
our best pride. To menot the error which made her prey to penitence was Mildred Tresham's "fall but those
crude cries of shame.
We take refuge in her immaturity
and in the blighting influence of her brother--that prig of prigs
that
monomaniac of family pride and conventional morality[90:1] Thorold
Earl Tresham; but not thus can we
solace ourselves for Browning's failure. What a girl he might have given us in Mildred
had he listened only to
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and
Lud! But
not yet in full possession of that self
he set up as an ideal the ideal of others
trying dutifully to
see it as they see it
denying dutifully his deepest instinct; and
thus apostate
piled insincerity on insincerity
until at last no truth is anywhere
and we read on with growing alienation as each figure loses all of such
reality as it ever had
and even Gwendolen
the golden creature"--his own dauntles