up-wellings

Updated: June 17, 2025

Strange up-wellings of feelings long trampled on and suppressed momentary awakenings of conscience, of repentance, of regret sharp realisations of an envy that was no longer ignoble but moral, softer thoughts of George, the suffocating, unwilling recognition of what love meant in another woman's life these messengers and forerunners of diviner things passed and repassed through the spaces of Letty's soul as she lay white and passive under Marcella's yearning look.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Sir George Tressady — Volume II