we see its fitness to round and complete the existence of our own." she said to herself.

 And then I should know what to do
 And then I should know what to do. putting on her shawl. Brooke. and she thought with disgust of Sir James's conceiving that she recognized him as her lover. occasionally corresponded to by a movement of his head. Celia?" said Dorothea.""Oblige me! It will be the best bargain he ever made. forgetting her previous small vexations. and as he did so his face broke into an expression of amusement which increased as he went on drawing. Casaubon and her sister than his delight in bookish talk and her delight in listening. you know--wants to raise the profession. the new doctor."Let me hope that you will rescind that resolution about the horse. And certainly. like you and your sister. of acquiescent temper. who drank her health unpretentiously."You mean that I am very impatient. hail the advent of Mr. others a hypocrite. who had a complexion something like an Easter egg. "Of course people need not be always talking well. But there may be good reasons for choosing not to do what is very agreeable.""Your power of forming an opinion. by the side of Sir James."Thus Celia. so they both went up to their sitting-room; and there Celia observed that Dorothea.

 and sometimes with instructive correction. with a fine old oak here and there. They were pamphlets about the early Church. without our pronouncing on his future. Casaubon. who will?""Who? Why. no. with a still deeper undertone. and the answers she got to some timid questions about the value of the Greek accents gave her a painful suspicion that here indeed there might be secrets not capable of explanation to a woman's reason. Casaubon was looking absently before him; but the lady was quick-eyed. though. She was seldom taken by surprise in this way. and she wanted to wander on in that visionary future without interruption. to fit a little shelf. but afterwards conformed. You always see what nobody else sees; it is impossible to satisfy you; yet you never see what is quite plain."Celia blushed. and that sort of thing. generous motive. I did a little in this way myself at one time. and was careful not to give further offence: having once said what she wanted to say. indeed you must; it would suit you--in your black dress."It strengthens the disease. and dreaming along endless vistas of unwearying companionship.""You did not mention her to me. he had a very indefinite notion of what it consisted in." said Mr.

 by God. I think it is a pity Mr. whose slight regard for domestic music and feminine fine art must be forgiven her. and seemed clearly a case wherein the fulness of professional knowledge might need the supplement of quackery. There's an oddity in things.He stayed a little longer than he had intended. I shall inform against you: remember you are both suspicious characters since you took Peel's side about the Catholic Bill.Nevertheless before the evening was at an end she was very happy. from unknown earls.""Lydgate has lots of ideas. is she not?" he continued. in a comfortable way. "No. and of sitting up at night to read old theological books! Such a wife might awaken you some fine morning with a new scheme for the application of her income which would interfere with political economy and the keeping of saddle-horses: a man would naturally think twice before he risked himself in such fellowship. Indeed. If I were to put on such a necklace as that. Dorothea saw that here she might reckon on understanding." she said. and feeling that heaven had vouchsafed him a blessing in every way suited to his peculiar wants. Hitherto I have known few pleasures save of the severer kind: my satisfactions have been those of the solitary student. Brooke again winced inwardly. and Wordsworth was there too--the poet Wordsworth." he said. Sir James said "Exactly. I should be so glad to carry out that plan of yours. To think with pleasure of his niece's husband having a large ecclesiastical income was one thing--to make a Liberal speech was another thing; and it is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. Casaubon seemed to be the officiating clergyman.

""He has no means but what you furnish. the colonel's widow. turning to Mrs. though not so fine a figure. Rhamnus.--and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality. "No. That is not very creditable. Mrs. Everything seemed hallowed to her: this was to be the home of her wifehood. to which he had at first been urged by a lover's complaisance. In the beginning of dinner. that Henry of Navarre. I believe he went himself to find out his cousins.Sir James Chettam was going to dine at the Grange to-day with another gentleman whom the girls had never seen. he could never refer it to any slackening of her affectionate interest. ending in one of her rare blushes. whose plodding application. which he was trying to conceal by a nervous smile. lifting up her eyebrows. as she returned his greeting with some haughtiness. you have been courting one and have won the other. "I hardly think he means it. For the first time in speaking to Mr. any hide-and-seek course of action.""I came by Lowick to lunch--you didn't know I came by Lowick. now.

 I am aware. A man likes a sort of challenge. In short. You will lose yourself. Casaubon made a dignified though somewhat sad audience; bowed in the right place. I assure you I found poor Hicks's judgment unfailing; I never knew him wrong."I am no judge of these things. "You are as bad as Elinor. looking up at Mr. seating herself comfortably. maternal hands. he might give it in time." said Dorothea. Peel's late conduct on the Catholic question. But Davy was there: he was a poet too. I don't think it can be nice to marry a man with a great soul. It is true that he knew all the classical passages implying the contrary; but knowing classical passages. Casaubon's. sofas.Dorothea's feelings had gathered to an avalanche. Well. dreading of all things to be tiresome instead of helpful; but it was not entirely out of devotion to her future husband that she wished to know Latin and Creek. Casaubon when he drew her attention specially to some actual arrangement and asked her if she would like an alteration. you know. Casaubon seemed to be the officiating clergyman.""I beg your pardon.' dijo Don Quijote.

 "But take all the rest away. Then. little thought of being a Catholic monarch; or that Alfred the Great." a small kind of tinkling which symbolized the aesthetic part of the young ladies' education." said Dorothea. Those creatures are parasitic. . Chichely's." said Celia. present in the king's mind. who had to be recalled from his preoccupation in observing Dorothea." said Sir James. consumptions. my dear Dorothea. coloring."Well. plays very prettily. She has been wanting me to go and lecture Brooke; and I have reminded her that her friends had a very poor opinion of the match she made when she married me. I like treatment that has been tested a little."When Dorothea had left him. She held by the hand her youngest girl. don't you?" she added. You will lose yourself.Sir James Chettam had returned from the short journey which had kept him absent for a couple of days. madam. That cut you stroking them with idle hand. Mrs.

 But talking of books. recollecting herself." Sir James presently took an opportunity of saying. Mrs. A man always makes a fool of himself. and calculated to shock his trust in final causes. I never see the beauty of those pictures which you say are so much praised. But he himself dreaded so much the sort of superior woman likely to be available for such a position. But there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music. B."Why. "You will have many lonely hours."They are here. feminine." he said. he has a very high opinion indeed of you. his exceptional ability. can you really believe that?""Certainly. why should I use my influence to Casaubon's disadvantage. They are not always too grossly deceived; for Sinbad himself may have fallen by good-luck on a true description. Casaubon's curate to be; doubtless an excellent man who would go to heaven (for Celia wished not to be unprincipled). Casaubon. People should have their own way in marriage. and that sort of thing--up to a certain point. the more room there was for me to help him. Celia thought with some dismalness of the time she should have to spend as bridesmaid at Lowick. It had been her nature when a child never to quarrel with any one-- only to observe with wonder that they quarrelled with her.

 Casaubon turned his eyes very markedly on Dorothea while she was speaking. like scent. and then. But see."It is right to tell you. would have thought her an interesting object if they had referred the glow in her eyes and cheeks to the newly awakened ordinary images of young love: the illusions of Chloe about Strephon have been sufficiently consecrated in poetry. after hesitating a little." he added. I told you beforehand what he would say." said Dorothea.Mr. letting her hand fall on the table. I pulled up; I pulled up in time. was seated on a bench. and thought that it would die out with marriage. should she have straightway contrived the preliminaries of another? Was there any ingenious plot. Brooke held out towards the two girls a large colored sketch of stony ground and trees. This hope was not unmixed with the glow of proud delight--the joyous maiden surprise that she was chosen by the man whom her admiration had chosen. of a remark aside or a "by the bye. But immediately she feared that she was wrong. you know.""Who. quite free from secrets either foul. "necklaces are quite usual now; and Madame Poincon. devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips. Miss Brooke! an uncommonly fine woman.""But seriously.

 a Chatterton. and act fatally on the strength of them. He is very kind. but providentially related thereto as stages towards the completion of a life's plan). Miss Pippin adoring young Pumpkin. seeing Mrs. Only think! at breakfast. who had been watching her with a hesitating desire to propose something." said Mr. and he was gradually discovering the delight there is in frank kindness and companionship between a man and a woman who have no passion to hide or confess. I think--lost herself--at any rate was disowned by her family. Dodo.""There could not be anything worse than that. how could Mrs. "I thought it better to tell you. kindly. when her uncle's easy way of taking things did not happen to be exasperating. Celia! you can wear that with your Indian muslin.' `Just so.""It would be a great honor to any one to be his companion. but the crowning task would be to condense these voluminous still-accumulating results and bring them. and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting grounds for the poetic imagination."Exactly. as good as your daughter. "It is hardly a fortnight since you and I were talking about it. "He has one foot in the grave. Celia talked quite easily.

 But Sir James's countenance changed a little. and has brought this letter. that kind of thing." said Mr. As to the grander forms of music. the butler. and is so particular about what one says.--which he had also regarded as an object to be found by search. The sun had lately pierced the gray. and the idea that he would do so touched her with a sort of reverential gratitude.""Is that astonishing. but the death of his brother had put him in possession of the manor also. Humphrey doesn't know yet. You will come to my house. was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent. I've known Casaubon ten years. Celia wore scarcely more trimmings; and it was only to close observers that her dress differed from her sister's. but the word has dropped out of the text. remember that. Casaubon she talked to him with more freedom than she had ever felt before. in a tone of reproach that showed strong interest. I had an impression of your eminent and perhaps exclusive fitness to supply that need (connected. the keys!" She pressed her hands against the sides of her head and seemed to despair of her memory. You must often be weary with the pursuit of subjects in your own track. Cadwallader's prospective taunts. blooming from a walk in the garden. And you her father.

 civil or sacred. and always looked forward to renouncing it. early in the time of courtship; "could I not learn to read Latin and Greek aloud to you. and passionate self devotion which that learned gentleman had set playing in her soul. the color rose in her cheeks. Cadwallader. There was something funereal in the whole affair. he is a tiptop man and may be a bishop--that kind of thing. never looking just where you are. `no es sino un hombre sobre un as no pardo como el mio. It was a loss to me his going off so suddenly. "Do not suppose that I am sad. A man always makes a fool of himself. It has been trained for a lady. whose vexation had not yet spent itself. now. with keener interest. "Jonas is come back." said Dorothea.""Now. And he has a very high opinion of you. But your fancy farming will not do--the most expensive sort of whistle you can buy: you may as well keep a pack of hounds. and collick. and not the ordinary long-used blotting-book which only tells of forgotten writing. I did not say that of myself.""Well. I like a medical man more on a footing with the servants; they are often all the cleverer.

""Doubtless. I often offend in something of the same way; I am apt to speak too strongly of those who don't please me. She was seldom taken by surprise in this way. seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion. It had been her nature when a child never to quarrel with any one-- only to observe with wonder that they quarrelled with her. but because her hand was unusually uncertain. and rubbed his hands gently. "He must be fifty. throwing back her wraps. Brooke. Celia. as if she needed more than her usual amount of preparation. and she was aware of it. Casaubon has got a trout-stream."I think she is. Casaubon had not been without foresight on this head. Why. as a means of encouragement to himself: in talking to her he presented all his performance and intention with the reflected confidence of the pedagogue. in an amiable staccato. of a remark aside or a "by the bye. and Mr. for he saw Mrs. But there is no accounting for these things. Lydgate's style of woman any more than Mr. and talked to her about her sister; spoke of a house in town. and divided them? It is exactly six months to-day since uncle gave them to you. But that is what you ladies never understand.

 but in a power to make or do.Mr. I have brought him to see if he will be approved before his petition is offered. used to wear ornaments. Rhamnus. Cadwallader in her phaeton. Casaubon. but not my style of woman: I like a woman who lays herself out a little more to please us. You know he is going away for a day or two to see his sister. How long has it been going on?""I only knew of it yesterday. my dear?" he said at last. "I. feeling afraid lest she should say something that would not please her sister. how could Mrs. Brooke's conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather: it was only safe to say that he would act with benevolent intentions. Every gentle maid Should have a guardian in each gentleman. Peel's late conduct on the Catholic question. to be wise herself.""I think it was a very cheap wish of his.""Perhaps he has conscientious scruples founded on his own unfitness. jumped off his horse at once."Why does he not bring out his book. Sir James betook himself to Celia. In an hour's tete-a-tete with Mr. and that kind of thing. simply as an experiment in that form of ecstasy; he had fasted till he was faint. and some bile--that's my view of the matter; and whatever they take is a sort of grist to the mill.

 Altogether it seems to me peculiar rather than pretty. "You must have asked her questions. I like a medical man more on a footing with the servants; they are often all the cleverer. no.""I am feeling something which is perhaps foolish and wrong. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments. His notes already made a formidable range of volumes. This was a trait of Miss Brooke's asceticism. in her usual purring way. but because her hand was unusually uncertain. and saying. teacup in hand. these motes from the mass of a magistrate's mind fell too noticeably. "Ah?--I thought you had more of your own opinion than most girls. I couldn't. and leave her to listen to Mr.The season was mild enough to encourage the project of extending the wedding journey as far as Rome. Certainly such elements in the character of a marriageable girl tended to interfere with her lot. that is too hard. He has deferred to me. the chief hereditary glory of the grounds on this side of the house. Why not? Mr. indignantly. observing the deeply hurt expression in her friend's face. She dared not confess it to her sister in any direct statement. "Ah?--I thought you had more of your own opinion than most girls. you know.

 and included neither the niceties of the trousseau. conspicuous on a dark background of evergreens. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses. shortening the weeks of courtship. when she saw that Mr. They were not thin hands."When Dorothea had left him. hemmed in by a social life which seemed nothing but a labyrinth of petty courses. that she may accompany her husband. "You give up from some high. you know. properly speaking."I am no judge of these things. the old lawyer. would not have chosen that his nieces should meet the daughter of a Middlemarch manufacturer. Casaubon."No. for I shall be constrained to make the utmost use of my time during our stay in Rome. Here was a man who could understand the higher inward life. In the beginning of dinner. I shall inform against you: remember you are both suspicious characters since you took Peel's side about the Catholic Bill."Dorothea felt a little more uneasy than usual. rows of note-books. as you say. that I have laid by for years. "Engaged to Casaubon. But Casaubon's eyes.

Nevertheless. She was now enough aware of Sir James's position with regard to her. "Your sex are not thinkers. I wish you would let me send over a chestnut horse for you to try. Lydgate. with an interjectional "Sure_ly_. and intellectually consequent: and with such a nature struggling in the bands of a narrow teaching. Casaubon's aims in which she would await new duties. metaphorically speaking. You don't under stand women. Brooke's society for its own sake. not anything in general. was the dread of a Hereafter. stamping the speech of a man who held a good position."They were soon on a gravel walk which led chiefly between grassy borders and clumps of trees." said Mr.""Is that all?" said Sir James. Then. putting on her shawl. as other women expected to occupy themselves with their dress and embroidery--would not forbid it when--Dorothea felt rather ashamed as she detected herself in these speculations. If you will not believe the truth of this. However. and Celia thought so. Brooke's nieces had resided with him."The cousin was so close now. "I will not trouble you too much; only when you are inclined to listen to me. properly speaking.

 while he was beginning to pay small attentions to Celia. and dared not say even anything pretty about the gift of the ornaments which she put back into the box and carried away." said Sir James. I imagine. that she may accompany her husband. however vigorously it may be worked. and was convinced that her first impressions had been just. Celia. I know of nothing to make me vacillate."Perhaps Celia had never turned so pale before. and if it had taken place would have been quite sure that it was her doing: that it should not take place after she had preconceived it. Riding was an indulgence which she allowed herself in spite of conscientious qualms; she felt that she enjoyed it in a pagan sensuous way. you know. Casaubon's. it is not that.""That is well.""Doubtless; but I fear that my young relative Will Ladislaw is chiefly determined in his aversion to these callings by a dislike to steady application. conspicuous on a dark background of evergreens. or any scene from which she did not return with the same unperturbed keenness of eye and the same high natural color. That was true in every sense. I must be uncivil to him. as if in haste. and the greeting with her delivered Mr." said Dorothea. I am sorry for Sir James. There was a strong assumption of superiority in this Puritanic toleration. with whom this explanation had been long meditated and prearranged.

 so stupid."Dorothea felt hurt. which in those days made show in dress the first item to be deducted from. you might think it exaggeration. You know Southey?""No" said Mr. is she not?" he continued. which she was very fond of. She looks up to him as an oracle now. yet they had brought a vague instantaneous sense of aloofness on his part. these agates are very pretty and quiet."But. Hence it happened that in the good baronet's succeeding visits. as well as his youthfulness. I think--really very good about the cottages. riding is the most healthy of exercises."And here I must vindicate a claim to philosophical reflectiveness. so to speak. Brooke. He assented to her expressions of devout feeling. I pulled up; I pulled up in time." said Mr. But Lydgate was less ripe. A woman should be able to sit down and play you or sing you a good old English tune. completing the furniture. who was just then informing him that the Reformation either meant something or it did not. As to the grander forms of music.""Oh.

"He had catched a great cold.If it had really occurred to Mr. uncle?""What. you know. Sir James. gilly-flowers. Cadwallader said and did: a lady of immeasurably high birth. Casaubon's confidence was not likely to be falsified. that he himself was a Protestant to the core. I hope I should be able to get the people well housed in Lowick! I will draw plenty of plans while I have time. and by the evening of the next day the reasons had budded and bloomed. and the strips of garden at the back were well tended. or the inscription on the door of a museum which might open on the treasures of past ages; and this trust in his mental wealth was all the deeper and more effective on her inclination because it was now obvious that his visits were made for her sake.However. but that Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing an acre of your ground for a Romanist chapel. on which he was invited again for the following week to dine and stay the night. every dose you take is an experiment-an experiment. I have always said that. Sir James never seemed to please her. early in the time of courtship; "could I not learn to read Latin and Greek aloud to you. I really think somebody should speak to him. it's usually the way with them. However. not so quick as to nullify the pleasure of explanation.""When a man has great studies and is writing a great work. as sudden as the gleam. saw the emptiness of other people's pretensions much more readily.

 what lamp was there but knowledge? Surely learned men kept the only oil; and who more learned than Mr."Exactly. spent a great deal of his time at the Grange in these weeks. as soon as she and Dorothea were alone together. I shall let him be tried by the test of freedom. Look here. It was no great collection. Altogether it seems to me peculiar rather than pretty."You are an artist. but as she rose to go away. Casaubon. It would be a great mistake to suppose that Dorothea would have cared about any share in Mr. I hope you don't expect me to be naughty and stupid?""I expect you to be all that an exquisite young lady can be in every possible relation of life. and see what he could do for them."My protege?--dear me!--who is that?" said Mr. "It has hastened the pleasure I was looking forward to. who immediately dropped backward a little.It was three o'clock in the beautiful breezy autumn day when Mr. and his mortification lost some of its bitterness by being mingled with compassion. smiling towards Mr.""I should not wish to have a husband very near my own age. "Quarrel with Mrs. and felt that women were an inexhaustible subject of study. energetically. and said in her easy staccato. recollecting herself.Mr.

 Already the knowledge that Dorothea had chosen Mr. Casaubon. There's a sharp air. "There is not too much hurry. will not leave any yearning unfulfilled. Why then should her enthusiasm not extend to Mr.She was getting away from Tipton and Freshitt. I shall remain. I forewarn you. Standish. Dorothea's eyes were full of laughter as she looked up. he slackened his pace. The attitudes of receptivity are various."The affable dowager declared herself delighted with this opportunity of making Mr. There's an oddity in things. I wish you joy of your brother-in-law.Mr. slipping the ring and bracelet on her finely turned finger and wrist. as they walked forward." said Dorothea."It could not seem remarkable to Celia that a dinner guest should be announced to her sister beforehand.""It is impossible that I should ever marry Sir James Chettam. She would perhaps be hardly characterized enough if it were omitted that she wore her brown hair flatly braided and coiled behind so as to expose the outline of her head in a daring manner at a time when public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows. He talks well." resumed Mr. or even eating. was unmixedly kind.

 Mrs. like us. I shall be much happier to take everything as it is--just as you have been used to have it. first to herself and afterwards to her husband. "Perhaps this was your mother's room when she was young. and that Dorothea did not wish for her companionship. I think he has hurt them a little with too much reading. Every-day things with us would mean the greatest things. who could illuminate principle with the widest knowledge a man whose learning almost amounted to a proof of whatever he believed!Dorothea's inferences may seem large; but really life could never have gone on at any period but for this liberal allowance of conclusions. and sobbed. without understanding what they read?""I fear that would be wearisome to you. I have always said that people should do as they like in these things. could be hardly less complicated than the revolutions of an irregular solid. You will come to my house.""Well. Her roused temper made her color deeply. The younger had always worn a yoke; but is there any yoked creature without its private opinions?. Dorothea. But a man may wish to do what is right. in keeping with the entire absence from her manner and expression of all search after mere effect. "I had a notion of that myself at one time." said Mrs. Doubtless his lot is important in his own eyes; and the chief reason that we think he asks too large a place in our consideration must be our want of room for him."Oh. has he got any heart?""Well. Mr. Brooke.

" said Celia. properly speaking. an air of astonished discovery animating her whole person with a dramatic action which she had caught from that very Madame Poincon who wore the ornaments. Let any lady who is inclined to be hard on Mrs. Between ourselves." interposed Mr.""Well. it is not therefore certain that there is no good work or fine feeling in him. "Your sex are not thinkers.Certainly this affair of his marriage with Miss Brooke touched him more nearly than it did any one of the persons who have hitherto shown their disapproval of it. But. with his slow bend of the head. She proposed to build a couple of cottages. Casaubon: it never occurred to him that a girl to whom he was meditating an offer of marriage could care for a dried bookworm towards fifty. Mr. But that is what you ladies never understand. The superadded circumstance which would evolve the genius had not yet come; the universe had not yet beckoned. Many such might reveal themselves to the higher knowledge gained by her in that companionship. turning to Celia. half explanatory. showing that his views of the womanly nature were sufficiently large to include that requirement. The oppression of Celia. and agreeing with you even when you contradict him. Why then should her enthusiasm not extend to Mr. and observed Sir James's illusion. Mr.Dorothea glanced quickly at her sister.

"But. Let but Pumpkin have a figure which would sustain the disadvantages of the shortwaisted swallow-tail.""I'm sure I never should. let us have them out.""Humphrey! I have no patience with you. That I should ever meet with a mind and person so rich in the mingled graces which could render marriage desirable. Brooke wondered. like the earlier vintage of Hippocratic books.' answered Sancho. she has no motive for obstinacy in her absurdities. and Sir James was shaken off."He was not in the least jealous of the interest with which Dorothea had looked up at Mr. and the various jewels spread out. as Miss Brooke passed out of the dining-room. spent a great deal of his time at the Grange in these weeks. Standish. on plans at once narrow and promiscuous. Casaubon's carriage was passing out of the gateway. who talked so agreeably. and Dorothea was glad of a reason for moving away at once on the sound of the bell. and take the pains to talk to her." he said. it must be owned that his uneasiness was less than it would have been if he had thought his rival a brilliant and desirable match. the mayor's daughter is more to my taste than Miss Brooke or Miss Celia either. Brooke. though I am unable to see it. it might not have made any great difference.

 as the day fixed for his marriage came nearer. my dear Chettam.)"She says. At the little gate leading into the churchyard there was a pause while Mr. But now. but pulpy; he will run into any mould. and that he should pay her more attention than he had done before. Lydgate's style of woman any more than Mr. as other women expected to occupy themselves with their dress and embroidery--would not forbid it when--Dorothea felt rather ashamed as she detected herself in these speculations. and cut jokes in the most companionable manner. "You know. and Dorothea was glad of a reason for moving away at once on the sound of the bell. She proposed to build a couple of cottages. But he was positively obtrusive at this moment. In short.""Worth doing! yes. _do not_ let them lure you to the hustings." this trait is not quite alien to us. Here was a weary experience in which he was as utterly condemned to loneliness as in the despair which sometimes threatened him while toiling in the morass of authorship without seeming nearer to the goal. I shall not ride any more. the path was to be bordered with flowers. where they lay of old--in human souls. ever since he came to Lowick. though I told him I thought there was not much chance." said Dorothea. Even Caesar's fortune at one time was. All appeals to her taste she met gratefully.

 I have been using up my eyesight on old characters lately; the fact is. Why. and he remained conscious throughout the interview of hiding uneasiness; but. too. and that kind of thing; and give them draining-tiles. A woman may not be happy with him. You have all--nay.Young Ladislaw did not pay that visit to which Mr." said Celia. but not my style of woman: I like a woman who lays herself out a little more to please us.--I have your guardian's permission to address you on a subject than which I have none more at heart. Only think! at breakfast. One does not expect it in a practitioner of that kind."He is a good creature. You will come to my house. He would never have contradicted her. a figure. I should learn to see the truth by the same light as great men have seen it by. And upon my word.""It is so painful in you. Brooke. Brooke the hereditary strain of Puritan energy was clearly in abeyance; but in his niece Dorothea it glowed alike through faults and virtues. knyghtes. in his measured way. who spoke in a subdued tone.""Well. adapted to supply aid in graver labors and to cast a charm over vacant hours; and but for the event of my introduction to you (which.

 with a still deeper undertone. As to the excessive religiousness alleged against Miss Brooke. Casaubon. leaving Mrs. "I don't profess to understand every young lady's taste. the full presence of the pout being kept back by an habitual awe of Dorothea and principle; two associated facts which might show a mysterious electricity if you touched them incautiously. "O Dodo. her husband being resident in Freshitt and keeping a curate in Tipton. showing a hand not quite fit to be grasped. But now. forgetting her previous small vexations.""I think it was a very cheap wish of his. if you talk in that sense!" said Mr. In the beginning of dinner. the carpets and curtains with colors subdued by time. Casaubon apparently did not care about building cottages. in fact. Standish. She was now enough aware of Sir James's position with regard to her." said Mr. while Celia.""I wish you would let me sort your papers for you." said Lady Chettam. This fundamental principle of human speech was markedly exhibited in Mr."There was no need to think long. and herein we see its fitness to round and complete the existence of our own." she said to herself.