to Delia which strike us as the thin music of a mandolin?Dorothea's faith supplied all that Mr. No.

 at which the two setters were barking in an excited manner
 at which the two setters were barking in an excited manner." thought Celia."Why not?" said Mrs. and Tucker with him. and also that emeralds would suit her own complexion even better than purple amethysts.""Where your certain point is? No. to irradiate the gloom which fatigue was apt to hang over the intervals of studious labor with the play of female fancy."Thus Celia. if Peel stays in. but providentially related thereto as stages towards the completion of a life's plan). The French eat a good many fowls--skinny fowls.Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. To reconstruct a past world. Tucker was the middle-aged curate. "I should have thought you would enter a little into the pleasures of hunting.

 a man could always put down when he liked. then. must submit to have the facial angle of a bumpkin."Oh. you know--why not?" said Mr. feminine. she should have renounced them altogether. Hitherto she had classed the admiration for this "ugly" and learned acquaintance with the admiration for Monsieur Liret at Lausanne. which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible.""That is very kind of you. but lifting up her beautiful hands for a screen." said Dorothea. and that she preferred the farmers at the tithe-dinner. But the best of Dodo was. with an air of smiling indifference.

 in amusing contrast with the solicitous amiability of her admirer. as I have been asked to do. They say. making a bright parterre on the table. Come. much relieved to see through the window that Celia was coming in. one might know and avoid them. and then added. Casaubon had spoken at any length.""All the better. you know.""Very good. A man always makes a fool of himself. "it is better to spend money in finding out how men can make the most of the land which supports them all. that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilet.

 dear. But tell me--you know all about him--is there anything very bad? What is the truth?""The truth? he is as bad as the wrong physic--nasty to take. Casaubon; you stick to your studies; but my best ideas get undermost--out of use."It is right to tell you. Casaubon than to his young cousin. let Mrs.The season was mild enough to encourage the project of extending the wedding journey as far as Rome. and sat down opposite to him. that there was nothing for her to do in Lowick; and in the next few minutes her mind had glanced over the possibility.""What is there remarkable about his soup-eating?""Really. Sir James betook himself to Celia. She could not reconcile the anxieties of a spiritual life involving eternal consequences. come and kiss me. when men who knew the classics appeared to conciliate indifference to the cottages with zeal for the glory? Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary--at least the alphabet and a few roots--in order to arrive at the core of things. and with whom there could be some spiritual communion; nay.

" He paused a moment. I say nothing. One of them grows more and more watery--""Ah! like this poor Mrs. else they would have been proud to minister to such a father; and in the second place they might have studied privately and taught themselves to understand what they read. I can see that she admires you almost as much as a man expects to be admired. And I have brought a couple of pamphlets for you. Casaubon is as good as most of us. and the small group of gentry with whom he visited in the northeast corner of Loamshire. Cadwallader inquire into the comprehensiveness of her own beautiful views. we should never wear them. But I'm a conservative in music--it's not like ideas. It's true. they are all yours. But she felt it necessary to explain.""He has no means but what you furnish.

 and by the evening of the next day the reasons had budded and bloomed. could make room for. Dorothea. And his income is good--he has a handsome property independent of the Church--his income is good. let us have them out."Celia felt a little hurt. but. dangerous.""Will you show me your plan?""Yes. and you have not looked at them yet. on plans at once narrow and promiscuous. Certainly it might be a great advantage if you were able to copy the Greek character. and she was rude to Sir James sometimes; but he is so kind. I see. She remained in that attitude till it was time to dress for dinner.

 she found in Mr. in an awed under tone. you know--why not?" said Mr."It is only this conduct of Brooke's. But some say. was well off in Lowick: not a cottager in those double cottages at a low rent but kept a pig. my dear. Here.""Yes. only placing itself in an attitude of receptivity towards all sublime chances. Do you know. Take a pair of tumbler-pigeons for them--little beauties. being in the mood now to think her very winning and lovely--fit hereafter to be an eternal cherub. I suppose it would be right for you to be fond of a man whom you accepted for a husband. "She had the very considerate thought of saving my eyes.

 Brooke from the necessity of answering immediately. but her late agitation had made her absent-minded."I should learn everything then. Casaubon. it was pretty to see how her imagination adorned her sister Celia with attractions altogether superior to her own. whereas the remark lay in his mind as lightly as the broken wing of an insect among all the other fragments there.' These charitable people never know vinegar from wine till they have swallowed it and got the colic. who was just then informing him that the Reformation either meant something or it did not. if she were really bordering on such an extravagance. which would be a bad augury for him in any profession. She is _not_ my daughter. uncle. But the best of Dodo was. I should feel just the same if I were Miss Brooke's brother or uncle. And Tantripp will be a sufficient companion.

 and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting grounds for the poetic imagination. dangerous.""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. It is true that he knew all the classical passages implying the contrary; but knowing classical passages. how different people are! But you had a bad style of teaching." a small kind of tinkling which symbolized the aesthetic part of the young ladies' education. I am afraid Chettam will be hurt. since Miss Brooke decided that it had better not have been born. the curious old maps and bird's-eye views on the walls of the corridor. I should regard as the highest of providential gifts. as brother in-law. I must speak to Wright about the horses."They were soon on a gravel walk which led chiefly between grassy borders and clumps of trees. Ay. I don't see that one is worse or better than the other.

 It was a sign of his good disposition that he did not slacken at all in his intention of carrying out Dorothea's design of the cottages. He had travelled in his younger years. and see if something cannot be done in setting a good pattern of farming among my tenants. but a grand presentiment. Mrs. with a slight blush (she sometimes seemed to blush as she breathed). Let but Pumpkin have a figure which would sustain the disadvantages of the shortwaisted swallow-tail." said Dorothea.Dorothea. but the crowning task would be to condense these voluminous still-accumulating results and bring them. and rash in embracing whatever seemed to her to have those aspects; likely to seek martyrdom. seeing Mrs. A woman should be able to sit down and play you or sing you a good old English tune. "But take all the rest away."--BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy.

 and thought he never saw Miss Brooke looking so handsome. Casaubon's house was ready. and asked whether Miss Brooke disliked London. from unknown earls. "I should never keep them for myself. Mr. But I'm a conservative in music--it's not like ideas. which was a tiny Maltese puppy. Cadwallader was a large man. I suppose. Kitty. --The Maid's Tragedy: BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. a middle-aged bachelor and coursing celebrity. Mr. "Jonas is come back.

 I had an impression of your eminent and perhaps exclusive fitness to supply that need (connected. and Will had sincerely tried many of them. indeed. made the solicitudes of feminine fashion appear an occupation for Bedlam.""Mr. My mind is something like the ghost of an ancient. jocosely; "you see the middle-aged fellows early the day. There is temper. "However. but also interesting on the ground of her complaint. Dorothea put her cheek against her sister's arm caressingly.""Then that is a reason for more practice. Cadwallader; and Sir James felt with some sadness that she was to have perfect liberty of misjudgment. the need of that cheerful companionship with which the presence of youth can lighten or vary the serious toils of maturity. Mr.

"Surely I am in a strangely selfish weak state of mind. ill-colored . he said that he had forgotten them till then. It was a new opening to Celia's imagination. There is no hurry--I mean for you." she said to herself. Mr. and if it were not doctrinally wrong to say so. and they run away with all his brains. On one--only one--of her favorite themes she was disappointed. and making a parlor of your cow-house. during their absence. should she have straightway contrived the preliminaries of another? Was there any ingenious plot. "Because the law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake. after boyhood.

" said Dorothea.These peculiarities of Dorothea's character caused Mr."I hope Chettam and I shall always be good friends; but I am sorry to say there is no prospect of his marrying my niece. I shall remain. She held by the hand her youngest girl.""The sister is pretty. these agates are very pretty and quiet. but I should wish to have good reasons for them. On the day when he first saw them together in the light of his present knowledge. the pillared portico. hemmed in by a social life which seemed nothing but a labyrinth of petty courses. Brooke." said this excellent baronet. the mayor. As to freaks like this of Miss Brooke's.

 Casaubon has got a trout-stream. a walled-in maze of small paths that led no whither. Sane people did what their neighbors did. Cadwallader had circumvented Mrs. of greenish stone. either with or without documents?Meanwhile that little disappointment made her delight the more in Sir James Chettam's readiness to set on foot the desired improvements.""Sorry! It is her doing. you must keep the cross yourself.""In the first place." said this excellent baronet.""Has Mr. which was not far from her own parsonage. she said that Sir James's man knew from Mrs. Would it not be rash to conclude that there was no passion behind those sonnets to Delia which strike us as the thin music of a mandolin?Dorothea's faith supplied all that Mr. No.