The Portent & Other Stories
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The facilities existing in Scotland for providing aprofessional training enabled them to educate him as a surgeon. Heparted from Elsie with some regret; but, far less dependent on her thanshe was on him, and full of the prospects of the future, he felt none ofthat sinking at the heart which seemed to lay her whole nature open to afresh inroad of all the terrors and sorrows of her peculiar existence. No correspondence took place between them. New pursuits and relations, and the development of hi...s tastes and judgments, entirely altered theposition of poor Elsie in his memory. Having been, during theirintercourse, far less of a man than she of a woman, he had no definiteidea of the place he had occupied in her regard; and in his mind shereceded into the background of the past, without his having any ideathat she would suffer thereby, or that he was unjust towards her; while, in her thoughts, his image stood in the highest and clearest relief. Itwas the centre-point from which and towards which all lines radiated andconverged; and although she could not but be doubtful about the future, yet there was much hope mingled with her doubts.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The facilities existing in Scotland for providing aprofessional training enabled them to educate him as a surgeon. Heparted from Elsie with some regret; but, far less dependent on her thanshe was on him, and full of the prospects of the future, he felt none ofthat sinking at the heart which seemed to lay her whole nature open to afresh inroad of all the terrors and sorrows of her peculiar existence. No correspondence took place between them. New pursuits and relations, and the development of hi...s tastes and judgments, entirely altered theposition of poor Elsie in his memory. Having been, during theirintercourse, far less of a man than she of a woman, he had no definiteidea of the place he had occupied in her regard; and in his mind shereceded into the background of the past, without his having any ideathat she would suffer thereby, or that he was unjust towards her; while, in her thoughts, his image stood in the highest and clearest relief. Itwas the centre-point from which and towards which all lines radiated andconverged; and although she could not but be doubtful about the future, yet there was much hope mingled with her doubts.
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