" Dorothea on her side had immediately formed a plan of relieving Lydgate from his obligation to Bulstrode, which she felt sure was a part, though small, of the galling pressure he had to bear.
I have had a severe galling to begin with: that will make the small rubs seem easy.
Under the first galling pressure of foreseen difficulties, and the first perception that his marriage, if it were not to be a yoked loneliness, must be a state of effort to go on loving without too much care about being loved, he had once or twice tried a dose of opium.
" It is a terrible moment in young lives when the closeness of love's bond has turned to this power of galling.
This could hardly have been more galling to any disposition than to Lydgate's, with his intense pride—his dislike of asking a favor or being under an obligation to any one.
Thus Eustace was produced, and sulky he certainly looked; for though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
