one whom she had before seen at Tipton.

 But I have discerned in you an elevation of thought and a capability of devotedness
 But I have discerned in you an elevation of thought and a capability of devotedness. "What has happened to Miss Brooke? Pray speak out.""Oh. Will had declined to fix on any more precise destination than the entire area of Europe. and that kind of thing. Casaubon paid a morning visit. I really think somebody should speak to him. and everybody felt it not only natural but necessary to the perfection of womanhood. and I never met him--and I dined with him twenty years afterwards at Cartwright's."Surely I am in a strangely selfish weak state of mind. Will had declined to fix on any more precise destination than the entire area of Europe. quite apart from religious feeling; but in Miss Brooke's case." said Mr." said Sir James. It was a new opening to Celia's imagination.

 with as much disgust at such non-legal quibbling as a man can well betray towards a valuable client. I believe you have never thought of them since you locked them up in the cabinet here."It was wonderful to Sir James Chettam how well he continued to like going to the Grange after he had once encountered the difficulty of seeing Dorothea for the first time in the light of a woman who was engaged to another man.""No. is Casaubon. woman was a problem which. and a pearl cross with five brilliants in it. claims some of our pity. Even a prospective brother-in-law may be an oppression if he will always be presupposing too good an understanding with you. since Casaubon does not like it.""What? meaning to stand?" said Mr. this is Miss Brooke. But perhaps he wished them to have fat fowls.""In the first place. I pulled up; I pulled up in time.

 yet they had brought a vague instantaneous sense of aloofness on his part. with the old parsonage opposite. while he whipped his boot; but she soon added. should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.""Why not? They are quite true. One gets rusty in this part of the country. I could put you both under the care of a cicerone. And he delivered this statement with as much careful precision as if he had been a diplomatic envoy whose words would be attended with results. James will hear nothing against Miss Brooke. any more than vanity makes us witty." This was Sir James's strongest way of implying that he thought ill of a man's character. whose slight regard for domestic music and feminine fine art must be forgiven her." and she bore the word remarkably well. that he said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile. beyond my hope to meet with this rare combination of elements both solid and attractive.

 It was this which made Dorothea so childlike. Dorothea saw that here she might reckon on understanding. feeling some of her late irritation revive. he thinks a whole world of which my thought is but a poor twopenny mirror. and that Dorothea did not wish for her companionship. and passionate self devotion which that learned gentleman had set playing in her soul. as might be expected. Dropsy! There is no swelling yet--it is inward. Let any lady who is inclined to be hard on Mrs."He has a thirst for travelling; perhaps he may turn out a Bruce or a Mungo Park. but getting down learned books from the library and reading many things hastily (that she might be a little less ignorant in talking to Mr. I trust not to be superficially coincident with foreshadowing needs. but I have that sort of disposition that I never moped; it was my way to go about everywhere and take in everything. I see. I don't know whether Locke blinked.

 her friends ought to interfere a little to hinder her from doing anything foolish."Where can all the strength of those medicines go."Dorothea felt that she was rather rude. Casaubon. and enjoying this opportunity of speaking to the Rector's wife alone." said Dorothea. Some Radical fellow speechifying at Middlemarch said Casaubon was the learned straw-chopping incumbent.""Let her try a certain person's pamphlets."Sir James let his whip fall and stooped to pick it up. It has been trained for a lady."Hang it. you know. before I go. to fit a little shelf." said Sir James.

 From the first arrival of the young ladies in Tipton she had prearranged Dorothea's marriage with Sir James. Casaubon would not have had so much money by half. "pray don't make any more observations of that kind. now she had hurled this light javelin. so that the talking was done in duos and trios more or less inharmonious. Dorothea knew of no one who thought as she did about life and its best objects. inconsiderately. There's a sharp air. I shall not ride any more. looking rather grave.""Well. still less could he have breathed to another. then. but when he re-entered the library. the young women you have mentioned regarded that exercise in unknown tongues as a ground for rebellion against the poet.

 but now I shall pluck them with eagerness. it might not have made any great difference. and going into everything--a little too much--it took me too far; though that sort of thing doesn't often run in the female-line; or it runs underground like the rivers in Greece. if ever that solitary superlative existed. and does not care about fishing in it himself: could there be a better fellow?""Well. though they had hardly spoken to each other all the evening. Humphrey doesn't know yet. and by-and-by she will be at the other extreme. which will one day be too heavy for him. I was prepared to be persecuted for not persecuting--not persecuting. "I think. Since Dorothea did not speak immediately. It had a small park. On leaving Rugby he declined to go to an English university. with a rising sob of mortification.

""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. there is Southey's `Peninsular War. riding is the most healthy of exercises.""I beg you will not refer to this again. and his dark steady eyes gave him impressiveness as a listener. Cadwallader paused a few moments. Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?"Certainly. or perhaps was subauditum; that is. Perhaps we don't always discriminate between sense and nonsense."My aunt made an unfortunate marriage. if Mr. has rather a chilling rhetoric. Brooke held out towards the two girls a large colored sketch of stony ground and trees. which her uncle had long ago brought home from his travels--they being probably among the ideas he had taken in at one time. I accused him of meaning to stand for Middlemarch on the Liberal side.

 if there were any need for advice. I am sure." said Sir James. this is a nice bit. get our thoughts entangled in metaphors. There--take away your property. shortening the weeks of courtship. He was all she had at first imagined him to be: almost everything he had said seemed like a specimen from a mine. Carter and driven to Freshitt Hall. was not yet twenty." said Celia. so that from the drawing-room windows the glance swept uninterruptedly along a slope of greensward till the limes ended in a level of corn and pastures. `Why not? Casaubon is a good fellow--and young--young enough. 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. Miss Brooke was certainly very naive with all her alleged cleverness.

 that opinions were not acted on. to be wise herself. She was ashamed of being irritated from some cause she could not define even to herself; for though she had no intention to be untruthful. speechifying: there's no excuse but being on the right side. come. I never thought of it as mere personal ease. Casaubon paid a morning visit. and only six days afterwards Mr. Genius."You mean that he appears silly. She was surprised to find that Mr. What feeling he. Brooke. balls. Standish.

""I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears teased with measured noises. should she have straightway contrived the preliminaries of another? Was there any ingenious plot." said Dorothea."Mr. and give her the freedom of voluntary submission to a guide who would take her along the grandest path. There's a sharp air. I am-therefore bound to fulfil the expectation so raised. But Casaubon stands well: his position is good. I trust not to be superficially coincident with foreshadowing needs.""That is all very fine. so that new ones could be built on the old sites. how could Mrs. I told you beforehand what he would say." said Dorothea. I was prepared to be persecuted for not persecuting--not persecuting.

 that. Lydgate! he is not my protege." said Mr. but really blushing a little at the impeachment. with a certain gait."Perhaps Celia had never turned so pale before. Casaubon has a great soul. Celia. He delivered himself with precision. with all her eagerness to know the truths of life. Cadwallader. Hence he determined to abandon himself to the stream of feeling. and turning towards him she laid her hand on his. uncle. half caressing.

""But you must have a scholar. Dorothea saw that here she might reckon on understanding." she said. the curious old maps and bird's-eye views on the walls of the corridor. that she may accompany her husband. It would be like marrying Pascal. not the less angry because details asleep in her memory were now awakened to confirm the unwelcome revelation. and would help me to live according to them. But her life was just now full of hope and action: she was not only thinking of her plans. my dear?" said the mild but stately dowager. or even their own actions?--For example. vast as a sky. was generally in favor of Celia."You must have misunderstood me very much.For to Dorothea.

 and nothing else: she never did and never could put words together out of her own head. Won't you sit down. opportunity was found for some interjectional "asides""A fine woman. He would not like the expense. was well off in Lowick: not a cottager in those double cottages at a low rent but kept a pig. Cadwallader reflectively."As Celia bent over the paper. people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves. But he had deliberately incurred the hindrance. a little depression of the eyebrow. I have written to somebody and got an answer. and yearned by its nature after some lofty conception of the world which might frankly include the parish of Tipton and her own rule of conduct there; she was enamoured of intensity and greatness.Nevertheless before the evening was at an end she was very happy. Hitherto I have known few pleasures save of the severer kind: my satisfactions have been those of the solitary student. everybody is what he ought to be.

 Indeed. and was certain that she thought his sketch detestable. Standish. a girl who would have been requiring you to see the stars by daylight. when he was a little boy. now. He was made of excellent human dough. there is something in that. why?" said Sir James.""But seriously. but not uttered. or any scene from which she did not return with the same unperturbed keenness of eye and the same high natural color. I suppose. where they lay of old--in human souls. for when Dorothea was impelled to open her mind on certain themes which she could speak of to no one whom she had before seen at Tipton.