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The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1892
- Pages
- Pages 250
Portland is a rock of white stone tied to Dorset by a bar of shingle, and the families who quarry it have been marrying each other for centuries. Jocelyn Pierston leaves it for London and a sculptor's name, and carries away not the trade but a haunting: the Well-Beloved, a spirit of ideal loveliness that will not stay in one woman's body, that slips from a face he has worshipped to a stranger's across a room without asking his leave.
The Juno of that day was the Witch of Endor of this.
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