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| George Eliot (1819-1880) wrote "The Lifted Veil" in the style of a Gothic tale, which puts it in marked contrast to her other writings. |
"On that evening the veil which had shrouded Bertha's soul from me -- had made me find in her alone among my fellow beings the blessed possibility of mystery, and doubt, and expectation -- was first withdrawn. Perhaps it was the first day since the beginning of my passion for her, in which that passion was completely neutralised by the presence of an absorbing feeling of another kind."
--George Eliot, "The Lifted Veil," page 180 in Great Conversations 6
