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George Eliot: It was not...

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It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

Source: Daniel Deronda, bk. 1, ch. 7, 1876, of Gwendolen Harleth.
-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880), English novelist; Mary Ann Evans was the foremost woman novelist of her time, e.g., Silas Marner, 1861.


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