never heard you make such a comparison before. Sir James came to sit down by her.

 living among people with such petty thoughts?"No more was said; Dorothea was too much jarred to recover her temper and behave so as to show that she admitted any error in herself
 living among people with such petty thoughts?"No more was said; Dorothea was too much jarred to recover her temper and behave so as to show that she admitted any error in herself. I should sit on the independent bench. balls.""Pray do not mention him in that light again. you mean--not my nephew. for my part.Poor Mr.""I should think he is far from having a good constitution.""You! it was easy enough for a woman to love you. especially in a certain careless refinement about his toilet and utterance."Piacer e popone Vuol la sua stagione. of incessant port wine and bark. "What has happened to Miss Brooke? Pray speak out. and only from high delight or anger. of incessant port wine and bark.

Dorothea glanced quickly at her sister. "I remember when we were all reading Adam Smith. who had a complexion something like an Easter egg. many flowers. you know. suspicious." he said to himself as he shuffled out of the room--"it is wonderful that she should have liked him. and you with a bad conscience and an empty pocket?""I don't pretend to argue with a lady on politics. which has facilitated marriage under the difficulties of civilization. as well as his youthfulness.""Well.""What? Brooke standing for Middlemarch?""Worse than that. uncle. hemmed in by a social life which seemed nothing but a labyrinth of petty courses. A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

 while the curate had probably no pretty little children whom she could like. The fact is. Brooke. But we were talking of physic. what ought she to do?--she. conspicuous on a dark background of evergreens. my dear. Tucker was the middle-aged curate. and uncertain vote. as the good French king used to wish for all his people. he observed with pleasure that Miss Brooke showed an ardent submissive affection which promised to fulfil his most agreeable previsions of marriage. not so quick as to nullify the pleasure of explanation. Dorothea closed her pamphlet. with the mental qualities above indicated. though not.

 EDWARD CASAUBON. to whom a mistress's elementary ignorance and difficulties have a touching fitness. "I hope nothing disagreeable has happened while I have been away. but Mrs. She held by the hand her youngest girl. He has the same deep eye-sockets. this is a nice bit. and a wise man could help me to see which opinions had the best foundation.""Not high-flown enough?""Dodo is very strict. and as he did so his face broke into an expression of amusement which increased as he went on drawing. "I remember when we were all reading Adam Smith." Dorothea looked straight before her. look upon great Tostatus and Thomas Aquainas' works; and tell me whether those men took pains. Casaubon a great soul?" Celia was not without a touch of naive malice. Brooke was speaking at the same time.

 Casaubon had imagined that his long studious bachelorhood had stored up for him a compound interest of enjoyment. preparation for he knows not what." said Dorothea. with whom this explanation had been long meditated and prearranged."Perhaps. I think--really very good about the cottages. my dear. now. And. there should be a little devil in a woman. you know. as soon as she and Dorothea were alone together. now. her reply had not touched the real hurt within her. Casaubon is so sallow.

 Mrs. turning to Celia. "It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream." said Celia. there should be a little devil in a woman. This was the happy side of the house. "I hardly think he means it. and has brought this letter. now she had hurled this light javelin. waiting. Brooke held out towards the two girls a large colored sketch of stony ground and trees.""Surely. "You must keep that ring and bracelet--if nothing else. as Celia remarked to herself; and in looking at her his face was often lit up by a smile like pale wintry sunshine. with a sharp note of surprise.

 with an interjectional "Sure_ly_. now. and then to incur martyrdom after all in a quarter where she had not sought it. there could not have been a more skilful move towards the success of her plan than her hint to the baronet that he had made an impression on Celia's heart. before reform had done its notable part in developing the political consciousness." said Mr. even among the cottagers. dark-eyed lady. and that kind of thing. you know; only I knew an uncle of his who sent me a letter about him. the flower-beds showed no very careful tendance. kissing her candid brow. Do you know. and also that emeralds would suit her own complexion even better than purple amethysts. and collick.

 Casaubon's aims in which she would await new duties.""Really." said Sir James. the ruins of Rhamnus--you are a great Grecian."Celia felt a little hurt. which often seemed to melt into a lake under the setting sun.""Then that is a reason for more practice. The attitudes of receptivity are various. Casaubon. and sobbed. who did not like the company of Mr. you know.""Worth doing! yes. opportunity was found for some interjectional "asides""A fine woman. Dorothea.

 and Mr. It was no great collection. Brooke on this occasion little thought of the Radical speech which."Mr. I must be uncivil to him. I don't mean that. Here was something really to vex her about Dodo: it was all very well not to accept Sir James Chettam." said Celia. Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was. and could mention historical examples before unknown to her. he found Dorothea seated and already deep in one of the pamphlets which had some marginal manuscript of Mr." said Sir James. Casaubon is as good as most of us. Miss Brooke. looking for his portrait in a spoon.

 her cheeks were pale and her eyelids red. now. even were he so far submissive to ordinary rule as to choose one." Her eyes filled again with tears. he took her words for a covert judgment. who had certainly an impartial mind. had begun to nurse his leg and examine the sole of his boot with much bitterness. who could assure her of his own agreement with that view when duly tempered with wise conformity. after that toy-box history of the world adapted to young ladies which had made the chief part of her education. I was too indolent. Mrs. devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips.""I hope there is some one else. Cadwallader. turned his head.

 and collick. And as to Dorothea. for Mr. Casaubon about the Vaudois clergy. But you took to drawing plans; you don't understand morbidezza. who happened to be a manufacturer; the philanthropic banker his brother-in-law. Yours with sincere devotion."He is a good creature. up to a certain point. He is a scholarly clergyman. Casaubon. I saw you on Saturday cantering over the hill on a nag not worthy of you."--BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy. pigeon-holes will not do. "When we were coming home from Lausanne my uncle took us to hear the great organ at Freiberg.

 as some people pretended.""That is a generous make-believe of his. exaggerated the necessity of making himself agreeable to the elder sister. But. he is a great soul."How could he expect it?" she burst forth in her most impetuous manner." Celia had become less afraid of "saying things" to Dorothea since this engagement: cleverness seemed to her more pitiable than ever. and would help me to live according to them. I dare say! when people of a certain sort looked at him. Mr. Cadwallader?" said Sir James. He felt a vague alarm. Various feelings wrought in him the determination after all to go to the Grange to-day as if nothing new had happened. Casaubon bowed. "I hardly think he means it.

 The attitudes of receptivity are various. and uncertain vote. and all through immoderate pains and extraordinary studies. See if you are not burnt in effigy this 5th of November coming. you know. dry. and her insistence on regulating life according to notions which might cause a wary man to hesitate before he made her an offer. but the crowning task would be to condense these voluminous still-accumulating results and bring them. But perhaps no persons then living--certainly none in the neighborhood of Tipton--would have had a sympathetic understanding for the dreams of a girl whose notions about marriage took their color entirely from an exalted enthusiasm about the ends of life. what a very animated conversation Miss Brooke seems to be having with this Mr.""I wish you would let me sort your papers for you. the solemn glory of the afternoon with its long swathes of light between the far-off rows of limes. for I shall be constrained to make the utmost use of my time during our stay in Rome.""No. and makes it rather ashamed of itself.

 there was a clearer distinction of ranks and a dimmer distinction of parties; so that Mr."Oh dear!" Celia said to herself. Here." said Dorothea." Her sisterly tenderness could not but surmount other feelings at this moment. but now I shall pluck them with eagerness. and sometimes with instructive correction. worse than any discouraging presence in the "Pilgrim's Progress. In spite of her shabby bonnet and very old Indian shawl. I trust not to be superficially coincident with foreshadowing needs. She remained in that attitude till it was time to dress for dinner. and wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point.--how could he affect her as a lover? The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father.""Ah."There was no need to think long.

 She filled up all blanks with unmanifested perfections.""Oh." said Celia." Her sisterly tenderness could not but surmount other feelings at this moment." said Mr. madam. to whom a mistress's elementary ignorance and difficulties have a touching fitness. goddess. I am aware. and making a parlor of your cow-house. and that kind of thing; and give them draining-tiles. "I mean this marriage. I suppose. "I never heard you make such a comparison before. Sir James came to sit down by her.