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concerned with or related to the future
- In the matter of wills, personal qualities were subordinate to the great fundamental fact of blood; and to be determined in the distribution of your property by caprice, and not make your legacies bear a direct ratio to degrees of kinship, was a prospective disgrace that would have embittered her life.1.13 — Book 1 Chapter 13 — Mr. Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein.... (71% in)
- And Tom was very unhappy; he felt the humiliation as well as the prospective hardships of his lot with all the keenness of a proud nature; and with all his resolute dutifulness toward his father there mingled an irrepressible indignation against him which gave misfortune the less endurable aspect of a wrong.3.5 — Book 3 Chapter 5 — Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster (3% in)
- The tone of Stephen's letter, which he had read, and the actual relations of all the persons concerned, forced upon him powerfully the idea of an ultimate marriage between Stephen and Maggie as the least evil; and the impossibility of their proximity in St. Ogg's on any other supposition, until after years of separation, threw an insurmountable prospective difficulty over Maggie's stay there.7.2 — Book 7 Chapter 2 — St. Ogg's Passes Judgment (88% in)
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