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the two children forgot everything else in the sense that they had one father and one sorrow.
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“the two children forgot everything else in the sense that they had one father and one sorrow.”

George Eliot

Source
The Mill on the Floss
Date
1860
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Shared grief temporarily overrides conflict between Tom and Maggie, revealing their sibling bond through the experience of loving and fearing for the same father.

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The Mill on the Floss, Book III, Project Gutenberg #6688. Narrator commentary while Tom and Maggie sit beside their father.

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Narrator commentary on Tom and Maggie beside their father.

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