# The Lifted Veil

Author: Eliot, George, 1819-1880

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2165

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Lifted+Veil+Eliot&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject to attacks of _angina pectoris_; and in the ordinary course of things, my physician tells me, I may fairly hope that my life will not be protracted many months. Unless, then, I am cursed with an exceptional physical constitution, as I am cursed with an exceptional mental character, I shall not much longer groan under the wearisome burthen of this earthly existence. If it were to be otherwise--if I were to live on to the age most men desire and provide for--I should for once have known whether the miseries of delusive expectation can outweigh the miseries of true prevision. For I foresee when I shall die, and everything that will ha...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lifted-veil-2165/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lifted-veil-2165/chapters/2/index.md)