[ Eliot / The Lifted Veil ]
George Eliot (1819 - 1880) was the pen name of English novelist, short story writer, journalist, and poet Mary Anne Evans, one of the most prominent Victorian writers. This work is Eliot's only departure from Victorian realism.
In Chapter 2 of this novel — a tale of extra-sensory perception and fate, with a dash of horror — occurs the following, the work's only mention of Newfoundlands.
One mild morning in the beginning of November, it happened that I was standing outside the portico patting lazy old Cæsar, a Newfoundland almost blind with age, the only dog that ever took any notice of me — for the very dogs shunned me, and fawned on the happier people about me. . . .