George Eliot: Middlemarch

BOOK IV. THREE LOVE PROBLEMS.
42. CHAPTER XLII. (continued)

"Come, my dear, come. You are young, and need not to extend your life by watching."

When the kind quiet melancholy of that speech fell on Dorothea's ears, she felt something like the thankfulness that might well up in us if we had narrowly escaped hurting a lamed creature. She put her hand into her husband's, and they went along the broad corridor together.

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