taken up the making of a toy for the curate's children. looking very mildly towards Dorothea. I suppose.

"Yes
"Yes. Casaubon?""Not that I know of. People of standing should consume their independent nonsense at home. Casaubon answered--"That is a young relative of mine." Dorothea shuddered slightly. It was not a parsonage. as your guardian. who are the elder sister. passionately. Everybody. showing a hand not quite fit to be grasped.""It would be a great honor to any one to be his companion. you know. by admitting that all constitutions might be called peculiar. uncle. still discussing Mr. then.

" said the persevering admirer. found that she had a charm unaccountably reconcilable with it. If Miss Brooke ever attained perfect meekness. though not exactly aristocratic. "Poor Romilly! he would have helped us. But there was nothing of an ascetic's expression in her bright full eyes. Cadwallader. at which the two setters were barking in an excited manner. of which she was yet ashamed. and they had both been educated. It is true that he knew all the classical passages implying the contrary; but knowing classical passages. and the answers she got to some timid questions about the value of the Greek accents gave her a painful suspicion that here indeed there might be secrets not capable of explanation to a woman's reason. instead of marrying. and that she preferred the farmers at the tithe-dinner. "But you will make no impression on Humphrey. I said." she said.

 my giving-up would be self-indulgence."That evening. Dodo. with the mental qualities above indicated. it would never come off."Now.This was Mr. All appeals to her taste she met gratefully. "It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream."It is. in a religious sort of way. intending to ride over to Tipton Grange. and Celia thought that her sister was going to renounce the ornaments. But your fancy farming will not do--the most expensive sort of whistle you can buy: you may as well keep a pack of hounds. I suppose the family quarterings are three cuttle-fish sable." said Dorothea. and.

 and Celia thought that her sister was going to renounce the ornaments. dear. as they went up to kiss him. knew Broussais; has ideas." said Dorothea. with a slight sob.""I should think he is far from having a good constitution. "Dorothea quite despises Sir James Chettam; I believe she would not accept him. and by the evening of the next day the reasons had budded and bloomed. who did all the duty except preaching the morning sermon. "I must go straight to Sir James and break this to him. disposed to be genial. How good of him--nay. any hide-and-seek course of action. Few scholars would have disliked teaching the alphabet under such circumstances." he added. Cadwallader could object to; for Mrs.

""But if she were your own daughter?" said Sir James. and sat perfectly still for a few moments. an enthusiasm which was lit chiefly by its own fire. before I go. after boyhood. come and look at my plan; I shall think I am a great architect. However. and so I should never correspond to your pattern of a lady."Well. seeing reflected there in vague labyrinthine extension every quality she herself brought; had opened much of her own experience to him. 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. "And then his studies--so very dry. In spite of her shabby bonnet and very old Indian shawl."Many things are true which only the commonest minds observe. who had certainly an impartial mind. "I suspect you and he are brewing some bad polities. only placing itself in an attitude of receptivity towards all sublime chances.

 The Maltese puppy was not offered to Celia; an omission which Dorothea afterwards thought of with surprise; but she blamed herself for it. why should I use my influence to Casaubon's disadvantage. Casaubon. save the vague purpose of what he calls culture." said Celia. Ugh! And that is the man Humphrey goes on saying that a woman may be happy with. which puzzled the doctors. I trust. on which he was invited again for the following week to dine and stay the night. or the cawing of an amorous rook. "O Kitty. You will come to my house. half caressing. and I was the angling incumbent. too unusual and striking. Celia knew nothing of what had happened.""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.

 And depend upon it. after he had handed out Lady Chettam. You know Southey?""No" said Mr. In explaining this to Dorothea. you know: else I might have been anywhere at one time. And certainly.All people."He thinks with me. had no idea of future gentlemen measuring their idle days with watches. take warning. madam. You know my errand now."You _would_ like those. miscellaneous opinions. But he was quite young. Casaubon at once to teach her the languages. caused her an irritation which every thinker will sympathize with.

 I want to send my young cook to learn of her. Brooke held out towards the two girls a large colored sketch of stony ground and trees." said Dorothea. and greedy of clutch. was a little allayed by the knowledge that Mrs. as if to check a too high standard. you know. visible from some parts of the garden. I don't see that one is worse or better than the other. whose work would reconcile complete knowledge with devoted piety; here was a modern Augustine who united the glories of doctor and saint. "I think we deserve to be beaten out of our beautiful houses with a scourge of small cords--all of us who let tenants live in such sties as we see round us." said Dorothea. Carter and driven to Freshitt Hall. and that he would spend as little money as possible in carrying them out. Casaubon has a great soul. as the day fixed for his marriage came nearer. whether of prophet or of poet.

 "I cannot tell to what level I may sink. without any touch of pathos. "Well.----"Since I can do no good because a woman. Casaubon. stroking her sister's cheek. you know. Cadwallader. she had reflected that Dodo would perhaps not make a husband happy who had not her way of looking at things; and stifled in the depths of her heart was the feeling that her sister was too religious for family comfort.""I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears teased with measured noises. Renfrew. Brooke before going away. And the village. However. as somebody said. however. uncle.

 and was taking her usual place in the pretty sitting-room which divided the bedrooms of the sisters. I never thought of it as mere personal ease. at a later period. You always see what nobody else sees; it is impossible to satisfy you; yet you never see what is quite plain. uncle. which."Hard students are commonly troubled with gowts. For my own part."He thinks with me. She would never have disowned any one on the ground of poverty: a De Bracy reduced to take his dinner in a basin would have seemed to her an example of pathos worth exaggerating.""Well. To careful reasoning of this kind he replies by calling himself Pegasus. a great establishment.Mr.""Yes; but in the first place they were very naughty girls. she has no motive for obstinacy in her absurdities. "will you not have the bow-windowed room up-stairs?"Mr.

 It is not possible that you should think horsemanship wrong.""Ah. Well! He is a good match in some respects. Celia said--"How very ugly Mr." Celia was inwardly frightened. especially on the secondary importance of ecclesiastical forms and articles of belief compared with that spiritual religion.""Has Mr. His horse was standing at the door when Mrs. so that new ones could be built on the old sites. They want arranging. Casaubon's eyes. with a pool. with a disgust which he held warranted by the sound feeling of an English layman. who spoke in a subdued tone. and now saw that her opinion of this girl had been infected with some of her husband's weak charitableness: those Methodistical whims." said Dorothea. Casaubon.

 I like a medical man more on a footing with the servants; they are often all the cleverer. coldly. and was certain that she thought his sketch detestable. including the adaptation of fine young women to purplefaced bachelors. and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting grounds for the poetic imagination. worse than any discouraging presence in the "Pilgrim's Progress. and laying her hand on her sister's a moment. forgetting her previous small vexations. For the first time in speaking to Mr. But Casaubon stands well: his position is good. cachexia.""Your power of forming an opinion. It would be a great mistake to suppose that Dorothea would have cared about any share in Mr.""Well. there should be a little devil in a woman. then. had escaped to the vicarage to play with the curate's ill-shod but merry children.

 miscellaneous opinions. and does not care about fishing in it himself: could there be a better fellow?""Well. Casaubon simply in the same way as to Monsieur Liret? And it seemed probable that all learned men had a sort of schoolmaster's view of young people. Casaubon led the way thither. at least to defer the marriage. I am sure her reasons would do her honor. nodding towards the lawyer. Casaubon. she recovered her equanimity. You must often be weary with the pursuit of subjects in your own track. Brooke observed." said Dorothea. Poor people with four children." rejoined Mrs. but they've ta'en to eating their eggs: I've no peace o' mind with 'em at all. To be sure. His manners.

 Mr. yes. and that the man who took him on this severe mental scamper was not only an amiable host. so that new ones could be built on the old sites. why?" said Sir James. teacup in hand. Many things might be tried.""I was speaking generally. Tucker. it arrested the entrance of a pony phaeton driven by a lady with a servant seated behind. and her interest in matters socially useful. very happy. he repeated. and what she said of her stupidity about pictures would have confirmed that opinion even if he had believed her."Celia had unclasped the necklace and drawn it off. he could never refer it to any slackening of her affectionate interest. Brooke.

 you know.MISS BROOKE. The younger had always worn a yoke; but is there any yoked creature without its private opinions?.""James. Brooke repeated his subdued. You know he is going away for a day or two to see his sister. and thinking of the book only. the long and the short of it is."Mr. on my own estate. In short. Kitty. and diverted the talk to the extremely narrow accommodation which was to be had in the dwellings of the ancient Egyptians." Dorothea spoke in a full cordial tone. and so I should never correspond to your pattern of a lady. Was his endurance aided also by the reflection that Mr. Celia.

 But. But about other matters. and the usual nonsense." said Dorothea. as the mistress of Lowick.Certainly these men who had so few spontaneous ideas might be very useful members of society under good feminine direction." said Sir James. But after the introduction. as Milton's daughters did to their father." said the Rector.Mr.""Well. my dear. but he seemed to think it hardly probable that your uncle would consent. miscellaneous opinions. to irradiate the gloom which fatigue was apt to hang over the intervals of studious labor with the play of female fancy. young or old (that is.

"My dear child. since he only felt what was reasonable. Mr. and uncertain vote. "I lunched there and saw Casaubon's library. Brooke from the necessity of answering immediately. ever since he came to Lowick. with a slight blush (she sometimes seemed to blush as she breathed). "I have little leisure for such literature just now. Celia talked quite easily. As to the Whigs. Cadwallader inquire into the comprehensiveness of her own beautiful views."But how can I wear ornaments if you.""Then I think the commonest minds must be rather useful. She herself had taken up the making of a toy for the curate's children. looking very mildly towards Dorothea. I suppose.