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In case anyone who who intends to read Sybil (you should) comes across this it's very spoilery.

I'm not usually into love stories and Morley's unrequited love absolutely isn't healthy but damn does it make him interesting.

Morley is this calm, serious man who feels deeply the plight of the working class and who is utterly morally upstanding: a temperance man and through the entire book a man who is of an absolute conviction of nonviolence, preferring "moral force".

But the way he loves Sybil destroys him. His only two moments of despair and emotional outbreaks are caused by that; the first one in a situation where he has come prepared to use her father's hour of exigency to force an answer to his love from her, which he's kept to himself for years, and with him reacting to her plight and tears but in the worst possible ways, always by pressing her even more. The moment he establishes himself as pretty terrible and has you swaying from oh that's inconsiderate to that's pretty terrible to aw what a good lad still helping her to absolutely horrified.

And now, after the reader worried for what he may use the knowledge he has of the papers her family needs so much, because his initial reaction was very sus, he does it, he follows Hatton's plan, gets the striking workers to break into the De Mowbray's castle, bears all the destruction he's always hated, and when he's surrounded only gives Mik the papers to flee with them and draws his pistol, intending to try and make it but most likely dying. In that situation he's also so desperate to find those papers, and so elated when he does, but this time, instead of being horribly selfish, his love for her makes him unhealthily selfless, causing him to forsake absolutely everything for her, his morals and life

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