E. M. Forster

had braved the journey

Mrs. Herriton replied, "When a man is neither well bred, nor well connected, nor handsome, nor clever, nor rich, even Lilia may discard him in time."

purifies and ennobles

to her dying day

remembered to her dying day

remembered to her dying day

It was a land of facilities, where nothing had to be striven for, and success was indistinguishable from failure.

People turned out to be alive.

but he saw that while deceiving others he had been deceived, and mistaken them for the empty creatures he wanted them to think he was.

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.