mother-vision

Updated: May 9, 2025

Here, as he grew to be about eight years old, his attachments may be said to have ended. The beautiful mother-vision had faded away after a while. During near two years she had scarcely spoken to the child. She disliked him. He had the measles and the hooping-cough. He bored her.

William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair