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You Could Draw Me to Fire

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“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me. But if you would return a favourable answer to my offer of myself in marriage, you could draw me to any good–every good–with equal force. ~ Our Mutual Friend


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This quote is from Our Mutual Friend, the last novel that Dickens completed before his death.

In the novel, Bradley Headstone says the above to Lizzie Hexam.

Headstone is a schoolmaster. Lizzie is the daughter of a waterman who makes his living by finding and retrieving dead bodies from the Thames.

The gap between Headstone’s and Lizzie’s social stations is huge. However, there is another issue that torments Bradley Headstone.

Lizzie loves someone else!

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