[…] the choicest of his friends,
Such as would blush to talk such serious follies,
Or back such bellied commendations […]
He did nothing, as yet, which was really the reverse ; he did not make her his evident object, —it seems to me that this is always a high and delicate test of gentlemanhood, — and yet, to me, who felt an underpulse in all these things, there was a plain perception, that as it had been she from whom he went away, it was to her now that he was come back.
She too must shimmer through the gloom o' the grave, / Come and confront me— […] / Striking me dumb, and helping her to speak, / Tell her own story her own way, and turn / My plausibility to nothingness!
Meaningful discriminations on the basis of age (pedophobia ), genetics (incestophobia ), species (zoophobia ) and yes, sex (homophobia )
