The Last And the First (1971)
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said Eliza. “What has my life been? Years of care and contrivance, of asking little for myself and accepting less, in order to serve your father and save the family home! And it is all of no good. I might have done nothing, might have lived for myself and forgotten other people, as they have often forgotten me. It is a heart-breaking thing, too much to have to face. And there is support to be given to your father out of my own need. A further demand instead of the help I might have had. I can lo...ok to him for nothing. His trouble takes the whole of himself. His heart is in his home and its past. His life is rooted in it. And now its history is broken, and we are to leave it and live at its gates. Strangers will look over us and look down on us for our fall. It takes the meaning out of out lives.”
“It can hardly do that, Mater,” said Madeline. “Your lives are bound up with each other rather than the place, dear and deeply rooted in them though it is. Your family has come first with you.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
said Eliza. “What has my life been? Years of care and contrivance, of asking little for myself and accepting less, in order to serve your father and save the family home! And it is all of no good. I might have done nothing, might have lived for myself and forgotten other people, as they have often forgotten me. It is a heart-breaking thing, too much to have to face. And there is support to be given to your father out of my own need. A further demand instead of the help I might have had. I can lo...ok to him for nothing. His trouble takes the whole of himself. His heart is in his home and its past. His life is rooted in it. And now its history is broken, and we are to leave it and live at its gates. Strangers will look over us and look down on us for our fall. It takes the meaning out of out lives.”
“It can hardly do that, Mater,” said Madeline. “Your lives are bound up with each other rather than the place, dear and deeply rooted in them though it is. Your family has come first with you.
What to read after The Last And the First?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Ivy Compton-Burnett to read onlineMoreLess
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