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He had really a movement of anger against her at that moment…Joy came first, in spite of the threatening train behind it…They were parted all the same, but—Dorothea drew a deep breath and felt her strength return—she could think of him unrestrainedly. At that moment the parting was easy to bear: the first sense of loving and being loved excluded sorrow. It was as if some hard icy pressure had melted, and her consciousness had room to expand: her past was come back to her with larger interpretation.

West Indies

The West Indies are the islands that separate the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, modern day Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos. Slave labor had been used in the West Indies for close to two hundred years, but around the time of North and South things had started to change

Alhambra, Spain

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2.  In North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Alhambra, Spain is mentioned in Chapter XII Morning Calls. Fanny and Margaret are talking about places they long to see and Fanny mentions London and Abraham is a place that Fanny would love to see.

Mr. Bulstrode As A “Late-Comer” To Middlemarch

Look at this narrative from Mrs. Bulstrode on her husband’s supposed origin:

“Mr. Bulstrode’s narrative occasionally gave of his early bent towards religion, his inclination to be a preacher, and his association with missionary and philanthropic efforts. She believed in him as an excellent man whose piety carried a peculiar eminence in belonging to a layman, whose influence had turned her own mind toward seriousness, and whose share of perishable good had been the means of raising her own position.” (613)

 

Cromer, UK

Image of Cromer from the beach

2. In Chapter XLIX, Margaret and her Aunt Shaw take a vacation to Cromer. At that location, Margaret finds a curative, meditative place that starts to bring her out of a stupor. The seaside atmosphere gave her a place to construct her thoughts, and she seemed to become more self-conscious of who she was because of it.

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