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Quotation from Middlemarch by George Eliot
“he had once or twice tried a dose of opium. But he had no hereditary constitutional craving after such transient escapes from the hauntings of misery.”
Middlemarch, Book VII, Chapter LXVI (Project Gutenberg text)
Confirming Farebrother's suspicion that Lydgate, under the strain of debt and an unhappy marriage, has taken an opiate.
Citation: "he had once or twice tried a dose of opium. But he had no hereditary constitutional craving after such transient escapes from the hauntings of misery." — George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book VII, Chapter LXVI (Project Gutenberg text). (id middlemarch-q6)
Portrait: George Eliot, por François D'Albert Durade, replica by François D’Albert Durade (1804–1886), Public domain.
