“He tried to remember her as a thin little urchin trailing across the fields with Garrick behind her. But that was no use at all. The urchin was gone forever. It was not beauty she had grown overnight but the appeal of youth, which was beauty in its own right.” GrowthYouthAttractionRoss PoldarkDemelzaDemelza PoldarkUrchin Book:Ross Poldark Source: Ross Poldark
“Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.” KnowsHardEnoughDecisionYouthProveStandardsArbitraryUnyielding Book:Jeremy Poldark: a novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791 Source: Jeremy Poldark: a novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791