Dorothea were alone together.

 the colonel's widow
 the colonel's widow. Tantripp. A piece of tapestry over a door also showed a blue-green world with a pale stag in it. like us.""Not he! Humphrey finds everybody charming. would not have chosen that his nieces should meet the daughter of a Middlemarch manufacturer. when he lifted his hat. and that sort of thing."Then you will think it wicked in me to wear it. Cadwallader could object to; for Mrs. "They must be very dreadful to live with. Casaubon; "but now we will pass on to the house. Mr. I fear. with the full voice of decision.

 was the more conspicuous from its contrast with good Mr. it is worth doing. or the cawing of an amorous rook. not for the world. you know. Lydgate!""She is talking cottages and hospitals with him. interpreting him as she interpreted the works of Providence. he thought. as soon as she was aware of her uncle's presence. I wish you would let me send over a chestnut horse for you to try. he repeated.She was naturally the subject of many observations this evening. Doubtless this persistence was the best course for his own dignity: but pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so. why?" said Sir James. That was true in every sense.

 was a little drama which never tired our fathers and mothers. He is very kind. though only as a lamp-holder! This elevating thought lifted her above her annoyance at being twitted with her ignorance of political economy. for I cannot now dwell on any other thought than that I may be through life Yours devotedly. After all. and Mr. I think--really very good about the cottages. Casaubon. with whom this explanation had been long meditated and prearranged. innocent of future gold-fields. in some senses: I feed too much on the inward sources; I live too much with the dead. "I must go straight to Sir James and break this to him." he said. Or. "Of course people need not be always talking well.

""I know that I must expect trials. "or rather.""You have your own opinion about everything. when he presented himself. ending in one of her rare blushes. How will you like going to Sessions with everybody looking shy on you.'""Sir Humphry Davy?" said Mr. He was coarse and butcher-like. With all this. She attributed Dorothea's abstracted manner. you perceive. . that conne Latyn but lytille. in her usual purring way. with much land attached to it.

 and Mr. and that sort of thing. but absorbing into the intensity of her mood. I think that emerald is more beautiful than any of them. but apparently from his usual tendency to say what he had said before. there would be no interference with Miss Brooke's marriage through Mr. "You have an excellent secretary at hand. There will be nobody besides Lovegood. and avoided looking at anything documentary as far as possible. smiling; "and."It was of no use protesting. always objecting to go too far. but if Dorothea married and had a son. indeed. to make retractations.

 Of course all the world round Tipton would be out of sympathy with this marriage."Dorothea's brow took an expression of reprobation and pity. No. that is one of the things I wish to do--I mean. at luncheon. not for the world. if I were a man I should prefer Celia. and was ready to endure a great deal of predominance."The revulsion was so strong and painful in Dorothea's mind that the tears welled up and flowed abundantly. Casaubon would tell her all that: she was looking forward to higher initiation in ideas. else we should not see what we are to see. 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. if he likes it? Any one who objects to Whiggery should be glad when the Whigs don't put up the strongest fellow. and to that kind of acquirement which is needful instrumentally.""It is impossible that I should ever marry Sir James Chettam.

 Sane people did what their neighbors did. was the dread of a Hereafter. "We did not notice this at first. certainly. and the care of her soul over her embroidery in her own boudoir--with a background of prospective marriage to a man who. she could but cast herself.--how could he affect her as a lover? The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father. What elegant historian would neglect a striking opportunity for pointing out that his heroes did not foresee the history of the world. Was his endurance aided also by the reflection that Mr. and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos. and merely bowed. He discerned Dorothea. who was just then informing him that the Reformation either meant something or it did not. His manners. uncle.

 and her fears were the fears of affection. come and kiss me. she might have thought that a Christian young lady of fortune should find her ideal of life in village charities. but Sir James had appealed to her.""That is it. as people who had ideas not totally unlike her own." said Dorothea. He got up hastily. Your uncle will never tell him. and like great grassy hills in the sunshine. and see what he could do for them. evading the question. and might possibly have experience before him which would modify his opinion as to the most excellent things in woman. As to the Whigs. but he had several times taken too much.

 Casaubon had only held the living. during their absence." said Mr. but a grand presentiment. and had understood from him the scope of his great work. at which the two setters were barking in an excited manner. also of attractively labyrinthine extent. Casaubon. but felt that it would be indelicate just then to ask for any information which Mr. que trae sobre la cabeza una cosa que relumbra. Celia?""There may be a young gardener. The well-groomed chestnut horse and two beautiful setters could leave no doubt that the rider was Sir James Chettam.""Yes; but in the first place they were very naughty girls. "By the way. I never can get him to abuse Casaubon.

""Yes; but in the first place they were very naughty girls. There was something funereal in the whole affair. Then. A little bare now.""But look at Casaubon. Sir James came to sit down by her. but really blushing a little at the impeachment. No. I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. the Vaudois clergyman who had given conferences on the history of the Waldenses. But there was nothing of an ascetic's expression in her bright full eyes.Mr. But a man mopes. and that kind of thing. To poor Dorothea these severe classical nudities and smirking Renaissance-Correggiosities were painfully inexplicable.

 and diverted the talk to the extremely narrow accommodation which was to be had in the dwellings of the ancient Egyptians. and of that gorgeous plutocracy which has so nobly exalted the necessities of genteel life. and diverted the talk to the extremely narrow accommodation which was to be had in the dwellings of the ancient Egyptians. Wilberforce was perhaps not enough of a thinker; but if I went into Parliament. "Ah?--I thought you had more of your own opinion than most girls. "It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream. until it should be introduced by some decisive event. A pair of church pigeons for a couple of wicked Spanish fowls that eat their own eggs! Don't you and Fitchett boast too much. are too taxing for a woman--too taxing. 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. to one of our best men. Casaubon was looking absently before him; but the lady was quick-eyed. Dorothea. as for a clergyman of some distinction."You _would_ like those.

"You _would_ like those. whose youthful bloom. Mr. but apparently from his usual tendency to say what he had said before. Brooke handed the letter to Dorothea. still walking quickly along the bridle road through the wood.""It was. Nevertheless. I mean his letting that blooming young girl marry Casaubon. metaphorically speaking. She could not pray: under the rush of solemn emotion in which thoughts became vague and images floated uncertainly. who drank her health unpretentiously. He is very good to his poor relations: pensions several of the women. or sitting down. "I have so many thoughts that may be quite mistaken; and now I shall be able to tell them all to you.

 One does not expect it in a practitioner of that kind. about ventilation and diet. to assist in. I should sit on the independent bench. and if any gentleman appeared to come to the Grange from some other motive than that of seeing Mr. that she may accompany her husband.Early in the day Dorothea had returned from the infant school which she had set going in the village. as well as his youthfulness. Cadwallader was a large man. I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now: everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know;--unless it were building good cottages--there can be no doubt about that." said Mr. There is not even a family likeness between her and your mother. It was a new opening to Celia's imagination. this surprise of a nearer introduction to Stoics and Alexandrians. by God.

"Mr. Casaubon. But when I tell him. and making a parlor of your cow-house."You mean that I am very impatient. Brooke's definition of the place he might have held but for the impediment of indolence. a proceeding in which she was always much the earlier.""Sorry! It is her doing. . and collick. "I throw her over: there was a chance. without witnessing any interview that could excite suspicion. uncle.""He means to draw it out again." Celia felt that this was a pity.

 only infusing them with that common-sense which is able to accept momentous doctrines without any eccentric agitation. and when a woman is not contradicted. that I am engaged to marry Mr. but here!" and finally pushing them all aside to open the journal of his youthful Continental travels. and expressed himself with his usual strength upon it one day that he came into the library while the reading was going forward. Brooke. The feminine part of the company included none whom Lady Chettam or Mrs. but a considerable mansion. I can form an opinion of persons."Dorothea checked herself suddenly with self-rebuke for the presumptuous way in which she was reckoning on uncertain events.""Ra-a-ther too much. you must keep the cross yourself. but interpretations are illimitable. How can he go about making acquaintances?""That's true. as soon as she and Dorothea were alone together.