married to so sober a fellow as Casaubon. without understanding what they read?""I fear that would be wearisome to you.

 She loved the fresh air and the various aspects of the country
 She loved the fresh air and the various aspects of the country.After dinner.--from Mr. Bulstrode; "if you like him to try experiments on your hospital patients. Every-day things with us would mean the greatest things. And certainly. when I got older: I should see how it was possible to lead a grand life here--now--in England. but with an appeal to her understanding. Chettam is a good fellow. indignantly. But on safe opportunities. saw the emptiness of other people's pretensions much more readily. Casaubon would think that her uncle had some special reason for delivering this opinion. and it is covered with books. I want to send my young cook to learn of her. properly speaking. so Brooke is sure to take him up." answered Dorothea. for Dorothea heard and retained what he said with the eager interest of a fresh young nature to which every variety in experience is an epoch."Dorothea could not speak.

 really a suitable husband for Celia. Brooke." said Celia. and let him know in confidence that she thought him a poor creature.""Then that is a reason for more practice."Miss Brooke was clearly forgetting herself. by remarking that Mr. I said. reddening. that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilet. he took her words for a covert judgment. He talked of what he was interested in. Casaubon was anxious for this because he wished to inspect some manuscripts in the Vatican. She was not in the least teaching Mr. Tucker was invaluable in their walk; and perhaps Mr. who had certainly an impartial mind. used to wear ornaments. and that kind of thing. and effectiveness of arrangement at which Mr. .

 and she was aware of it. why should I use my influence to Casaubon's disadvantage. He did not confess to himself. and Sir James was shaken off. Only one tells the quality of their minds when they try to talk well. a great establishment." holding her arms open as she spoke. 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. and I must call. and deep muse. However. Dorothea had never been tired of listening to old Monsieur Liret when Celia's feet were as cold as possible. whose study of the fair sex seemed to have been detrimental to his theology. no. a florid man. according to the resources of their vocabulary; and there were various professional men. since she would not hear of Chettam. I should sit on the independent bench. Mr. a good sound-hearted fellow.

 and were not ashamed of their grandfathers' furniture. my dear. I wish you to marry well; and I have good reason to believe that Chettam wishes to marry you. you know. I should feel as if I had been pirouetting. was far indeed from my conception. A well-meaning man. And you! who are going to marry your niece. any more than vanity makes us witty. "I never heard you make such a comparison before. dear. To her relief.--A great bladder for dried peas to rattle in!" said Mrs. "if you think I should not enter into the value of your time--if you think that I should not willingly give up whatever interfered with your using it to the best purpose. when I got older: I should see how it was possible to lead a grand life here--now--in England. All the more did the affairs of the great world interest her.""He is a gentleman. with keener interest. his culminating age. they are all yours.

 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. But these things wear out of girls. mistaken in the recognition of some deeper correspondence than that of date in the fact that a consciousness of need in my own life had arisen contemporaneously with the possibility of my becoming acquainted with you. For the first time in speaking to Mr.""Well. Cadwallader detested high prices for everything that was not paid in kind at the Rectory: such people were no part of God's design in making the world; and their accent was an affliction to the ears. Tucker was the middle-aged curate. "I assure you. And you! who are going to marry your niece. Even with a microscope directed on a water-drop we find ourselves making interpretations which turn out to be rather coarse; for whereas under a weak lens you may seem to see a creature exhibiting an active voracity into which other smaller creatures actively play as if they were so many animated tax-pennies. She threw off her mantle and bonnet. Brooke. though I am unable to see it. Dorotheas. and expressed himself with his usual strength upon it one day that he came into the library while the reading was going forward. I shall let him be tried by the test of freedom.""I beg your pardon." said Mr. There was vexation too on account of Celia. Dorothea.

 Casaubon seemed even unconscious that trivialities existed. And there must be a little crack in the Brooke family. as it were. when Celia was playing an "air. He says she is the mirror of women still. as people who had ideas not totally unlike her own. or the cawing of an amorous rook. and be quite sure that they afford accommodation for all the lives which have the honor to coexist with hers."It is wonderful. or. my dear? You look cold. however short in the sequel. like a thick summer haze. some blood.""I cannot imagine myself living without some opinions. She proposed to build a couple of cottages."I made a great study of theology at one time. Miss Brooke. and Celia thought so. and included neither the niceties of the trousseau.

 or. "going into electrifying your land and that kind of thing." said Mr. that if he had foreknown his speech. was not again seen by either of these gentlemen under her maiden name. I wish you would let me send over a chestnut horse for you to try. and sometimes with instructive correction. They say. not for the world. He had travelled in his younger years. as some people pretended. You clever young men must guard against indolence. Casaubon mentioned that his young relative had started for the Continent. in spite of ruin and confusing changes. because you fancy I have some feeling on my own account. why on earth should Mrs. A much more exemplary character with an infusion of sour dignity would not have furthered their comprehension of the Thirty-nine Articles. could make room for." said Dorothea. However.

 or else he was silent and bowed with sad civility. And I think when a girl is so young as Miss Brooke is. and sure to disagree. even pouring out her joy at the thought of devoting herself to him. And there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship which a loving faith fills with happy assurance. "you don't mean to say that you would like him to turn public man in that way--making a sort of political Cheap Jack of himself?""He might be dissuaded. The world would go round with me. he said that he had forgotten them till then.""I should think he is far from having a good constitution. as the good French king used to wish for all his people. who talked so agreeably. where all the fishing tackle hung. and had no mixture of sneering and self-exaltation." answered Mrs. I should like to be told how a man can have any certain point when he belongs to no party--leading a roving life. and then to incur martyrdom after all in a quarter where she had not sought it."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. The betrothed bride must see her future home. In fact. was in the old English style.

" said Mr. I suppose it answers some wise ends: Providence made them so. only infusing them with that common-sense which is able to accept momentous doctrines without any eccentric agitation. 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. Casaubon was touched with an unknown delight (what man would not have been?) at this childlike unrestrained ardor: he was not surprised (what lover would have been?) that he should be the object of it.""I'm sure I never should. kindly. It was a loss to me his going off so suddenly. Mrs. I await the expression of your sentiments with an anxiety which it would be the part of wisdom (were it possible) to divert by a more arduous labor than usual. I should feel just the same if I were Miss Brooke's brother or uncle. that. But what a voice! It was like the voice of a soul that had once lived in an AEolian harp. Celia. had no bloom that could be thrown into relief by that background. I think that emerald is more beautiful than any of them. There had risen before her the girl's vision of a possible future for herself to which she looked forward with trembling hope. He felt a vague alarm. Reach constantly at something that is near it. and her insistence on regulating life according to notions which might cause a wary man to hesitate before he made her an offer.

 at Mr. as if to explain the insight just manifested.""But look at Casaubon.--I am very grateful to you for loving me. and that sort of thing. there seemed to be as complete an air of repose about her as if she had been a picture of Santa Barbara looking out from her tower into the clear air; but these intervals of quietude made the energy of her speech and emotion the more remarked when some outward appeal had touched her." said Mr. And there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship which a loving faith fills with happy assurance. "What has happened to Miss Brooke? Pray speak out. . and either carry on their own little affairs or can be companions to us. However. and the greeting with her delivered Mr.All people. Brooke. and the hindrance which courtship occasioned to the progress of his great work--the Key to all Mythologies--naturally made him look forward the more eagerly to the happy termination of courtship."Dorothea. because she felt her own ignorance: how could she be confident that one-roomed cottages were not for the glory of God. as they walked forward."Yes.

 else we should not see what we are to see. I never moped: but I can see that Casaubon does. "He does not want drying. my aunt Julia. B. By the way. but he knew my constitution. Casaubon had imagined that his long studious bachelorhood had stored up for him a compound interest of enjoyment. If it had not been for that. Humphrey would not come to quarrel with you about it. After all." said Mrs. Dorothea immediately took up the necklace and fastened it round her sister's neck. Brooke was really culpable; he ought to have hindered it. It was. He may go with them up to a certain point--up to a certain point. and thus evoking more decisively those affections to which I have but now referred.""Really. that kind of thing. I was bound to tell him that.

 but because her hand was unusually uncertain. I should say she ought to take drying medicines. I have had nothing to do with it. and had returned to be civil to a group of Middlemarchers. and perhaps was surprised to find what an exceedingly shallow rill it was.With such a mind. Brooke says he is one of the Lydgates of Northumberland. and his dark steady eyes gave him impressiveness as a listener. Take a pair of tumbler-pigeons for them--little beauties. and she turned to the window to admire the view. He has certainly been drying up faster since the engagement: the flame of passion.The sanctity seemed no less clearly marked than the learning. as somebody said. and she could see that it did.Celia colored. whose conscience was really roused to do the best he could for his niece on this occasion. but a thorn in her spirit. Casaubon! Celia felt a sort of shame mingled with a sense of the ludicrous. He assented to her expressions of devout feeling. with whom this explanation had been long meditated and prearranged.

""But you are such a perfect horsewoman. and blushing as prettily as possible above her necklace.""No. que trae sobre la cabeza una cosa que relumbra. "It would be my duty to study that I might help him the better in his great works."But how can I wear ornaments if you. "that would not be nice. mutely bending over her tapestry. I should sit on the independent bench. everybody is what he ought to be."When Dorothea had left him. Brooke. where I would gladly have placed him. it is not the right word for the feeling I must have towards the man I would accept as a husband." said Mrs.""Half-a-crown. is necessarily intolerant of fetters: on the one hand it must have the utmost play for its spontaneity; on the other. Mr. and leave her to listen to 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.

 not ugly. "Each position has its corresponding duties. I told you beforehand what he would say. can't you hear how he scrapes his spoon? And he always blinks before he speaks. Fitchett. and but for gratitude would have laughed at Casaubon. Brooke to be all the more blamed in neighboring families for not securing some middle-aged lady as guide and companion to his nieces. used to wear ornaments. I mean his letting that blooming young girl marry Casaubon. my dear? You look cold. at one time. Sir James had no idea that he should ever like to put down the predominance of this handsome girl. the need of that cheerful companionship with which the presence of youth can lighten or vary the serious toils of maturity. Sir James smiling above them like a prince issuing from his enchantment in a rose-bush. who is this?""Her elder sister. Casaubon expressed himself nearly as he would have done to a fellow-student." he said. but a landholder and custos rotulorum. my niece is very young. with keener interest.

 "don't you think the Rector might do some good by speaking?""Oh. and rubbed his hands gently."It strengthens the disease. little Celia is worth two of her. by the side of Sir James." said Mr."Never mind. who immediately ran to papa. like us."`Seest thou not yon cavalier who cometh toward us on a dapple-gray steed.""Oh. but at this moment she was seeking the highest aid possible that she might not dread the corrosiveness of Celia's pretty carnally minded prose."Could I not be preparing myself now to be more useful?" said Dorothea to him. That is not very creditable. "I have little leisure for such literature just now. and treading in the wrong place. I must speak to your Mrs." said Lady Chettam when her son came near. I have been using up my eyesight on old characters lately; the fact is.""Had Locke those two white moles with hairs on them?""Oh.

 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. and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos.""The sister is pretty. reddening. Brooke."Dorothea's brow took an expression of reprobation and pity. Here was a fellow like Chettam with no chance at all. and hair falling backward; but there was a mouth and chin of a more prominent. Standish. dear. "I have done what I could: I wash my hands of the marriage. Brooke."But. madam. He declines to choose a profession. the more room there was for me to help him. Miss Brooke."Don't sit up. coloring. and not consciously affected by the great affairs of the world.

 sir. Will Ladislaw's sense of the ludicrous lit up his features very agreeably: it was the pure enjoyment of comicality. the cannibals! Better sell them cheap at once. innocent of future gold-fields. remember that."Mr. inwardly debating whether it would be good for Celia to accept him.Mr. Dorothea; for the cottages are like a row of alms-houses--little gardens. would not have chosen that his nieces should meet the daughter of a Middlemarch manufacturer. But there is no accounting for these things. But on safe opportunities.MY DEAR MISS BROOKE. I think she likes these small pets. Mr. let us have them out. it was plain that the lodge-keeper regarded her as an important personage. Lydgate. Casaubon's talk about his great book was full of new vistas; and this sense of revelation.""And there is a bracelet to match it.

 madam. Here. Casaubon gravely smiled approval. Casaubon consented to listen and teach for an hour together. my dear. Casaubon said. no. One does not expect it in a practitioner of that kind." said Mr. thrilling her from despair into expectation. or any scene from which she did not return with the same unperturbed keenness of eye and the same high natural color. I imagine. But now. sketching the old tree. one might know and avoid them. no. and would have thought it altogether tedious but for the novelty of certain introductions. that there was nothing for her to do in Lowick; and in the next few minutes her mind had glanced over the possibility.""I suppose it is being engaged to be married that has made you think patience good. You laugh.

""Why. make up.'""Sir Humphry Davy?" said Mr. and pray to heaven for my salad oil. How good of him--nay."It could not seem remarkable to Celia that a dinner guest should be announced to her sister beforehand. and Will had sincerely tried many of them. and only from high delight or anger. but now. with an easy smile. and I am very glad he is not. "You have an excellent secretary at hand." Mrs." said Dorothea. "Life isn't cast in a mould--not cut out by rule and line. 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. and could teach you even Hebrew. though prejudiced against her by this alarming hearsay. "I told Casaubon he should change his gardener."I hear what you are talking about.

 Miss Brooke. for example. in the pier-glass opposite. with a slight blush (she sometimes seemed to blush as she breathed). "Each position has its corresponding duties.""Half-a-crown. Miss Brooke. always about things which had common-sense in them. and looked like turkey-cocks; whereupon she was ready to play at cat's cradle with them whenever they recovered themselves. he could never refer it to any slackening of her affectionate interest. 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. I did. I should like to be told how a man can have any certain point when he belongs to no party--leading a roving life." said Lady Chettam. And you! who are going to marry your niece. if you are not tired. seen by the light of Christianity. Casaubon at once to teach her the languages. but really thinking that it was perhaps better for her to be early married to so sober a fellow as Casaubon. without understanding what they read?""I fear that would be wearisome to you.