Scenes of Clerical Life . Janet's recovery from her craving for drink is not harmonised with her deeper spiritual repentance. The examples of these varieties of expression given below have been taken almost at haphazard from Scenes of Clerical Life, and no attempt will be made, easy though it would be, to multiply them from this or later works. But they may be regarded as sufficiently illustrating a feature in the imaginative writings of George Eliot which must be acknowledged to be one of their most distinctive characteristics. Note 83 .
Animals are most agreeable friends.
She is surely not called Amelia without intention. George Eliot, as has been pointed out, was a reader of both Fielding and Thackeray.