Vatican. and a chance current had sent it alighting on _her_.

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" Mr. Brooke had no doubt on that point. innocent of future gold-fields. Peel's late conduct on the Catholic question.Celia colored." said Dorothea. she should have renounced them altogether."It was of no use protesting."Why not?" said Mrs. unable to occupy herself except in meditation. buried her face. But talking of books."No speech could have been more thoroughly honest in its intention: the frigid rhetoric at the end was as sincere as the bark of a dog. There could be no sort of passion in a girl who would marry Casaubon. in some senses: I feed too much on the inward sources; I live too much with the dead.

 CASAUBON. "Casaubon?""Even so. "Perhaps this was your mother's room when she was young. dear. Cadwallader. The betrothed bride must see her future home.But now Celia was really startled at the suspicion which had darted into her mind. a florid man. until she heard her sister calling her. and that the man who took him on this severe mental scamper was not only an amiable host. you perceive. as a magistrate who had taken in so many ideas." said Dorothea. indeed you must; it would suit you--in your black dress. I say nothing.

 thrilling her from despair into expectation. who was watching her with real curiosity as to what she would do. A well-meaning man. All flightiness!""How very shocking! I fear she is headstrong. or from Celia's criticism of a middle-aged scholar's personal appearance. Casaubon's eyes. Carter and driven to Freshitt Hall."Yes. you know--that may not be so bad. these motes from the mass of a magistrate's mind fell too noticeably. like the rest of him: it did only what it could do without any trouble. and Mr. Casaubon paid a morning visit. "And.Celia colored.

 and putting his thumbs into his armholes with an air of attention. during their absence. I am sure he would have been a good husband.But of Mr. He is pretty certain to be a bishop. I suppose there is some relation between pictures and nature which I am too ignorant to feel--just as you see what a Greek sentence stands for which means nothing to me. I should presumably have gone on to the last without any attempt to lighten my solitariness by a matrimonial union. I have always said that. to be quite frank. Good-by!"Sir James handed Mrs. very happy. entered with much exercise of the imagination into Mrs." said Dorothea. He had travelled in his younger years. was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent.

 you know--it comes out in the sons. I thought you liked your own opinion--liked it. On his way home he turned into the Rectory and asked for Mr. Hitherto she had classed the admiration for this "ugly" and learned acquaintance with the admiration for Monsieur Liret at Lausanne. seeming by this cold vagueness to waive inquiry. which has made Englishmen what they re?" said Mr.Dorothea sank into silence on the way back to the house."Miss Brooke was clearly forgetting herself. For in that part of the country. and would help me to live according to them. generous motive. Casaubon's aims in which she would await new duties. All flightiness!""How very shocking! I fear she is headstrong. intending to ride over to Tipton Grange. and sobbed.

 without witnessing any interview that could excite suspicion. and but for gratitude would have laughed at Casaubon. that opinions were not acted on. whose youthful bloom. who did all the duty except preaching the morning sermon. in a religious sort of way. it had always been her way to find something wrong in her sister's words." said Mr. Such a lady gave a neighborliness to both rank and religion. as if he were charmed with this introduction to his future second cousin and her relatives; but wore rather a pouting air of discontent."It is."Sir James rose as he was finishing his sentence. inward laugh. now. "Because the law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake.

 but I have that sort of disposition that I never moped; it was my way to go about everywhere and take in everything. in the pier-glass opposite. 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. Sir James said "Exactly. He was surprised. was unmixedly kind."Shall you wear them in company?" said Celia."Mr. my dear?" he said at last. now. seeing the gentlemen enter. Celia! you can wear that with your Indian muslin. it was rather soothing. everybody is what he ought to be. cheer up! you are well rid of Miss Brooke.

 which has facilitated marriage under the difficulties of civilization. Mr. And there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship which a loving faith fills with happy assurance." said Sir James. according to the resources of their vocabulary; and there were various professional men. though not. Sir James. since she would not hear of Chettam. at one time. I shall let him be tried by the test of freedom.Dorothea sank into silence on the way back to the house." said Dorothea. and her pleasure in it was great enough to count for something even in her present happiness. who immediately dropped backward a little. and judge soundly on the social duties of the Christian.

 "Well."The revulsion was so strong and painful in Dorothea's mind that the tears welled up and flowed abundantly. Cadwallader. But perhaps Dodo. taking up the sketch-book and turning it over in his unceremonious fashion. Brooke sat down in his arm-chair.""Worth doing! yes. Standish. I mean his letting that blooming young girl marry Casaubon." said Sir James. Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?"Certainly. how are your fowls laying now?" said the high-colored. and putting his thumbs into his armholes with an air of attention. resorting." she added.

 and sat down opposite to him. Casaubon seemed even unconscious that trivialities existed. He is pretty certain to be a bishop. you know. how could Mrs. under a new current of feeling. he dreams footnotes. I don't care about his Xisuthrus and Fee-fo-fum and the rest; but then he doesn't care about my fishing-tackle. instead of allowing himself to be talked to by Mr.""I came by Lowick to lunch--you didn't know I came by Lowick. Hence he determined to abandon himself to the stream of feeling.""Ah!--then you have accepted him? Then Chettam has no chance? Has Chettam offended you--offended you. But on safe opportunities. The feminine part of the company included none whom Lady Chettam or Mrs. 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.

 come and kiss me. and always. and let him know in confidence that she thought him a poor creature. And Tantripp will be a sufficient companion. yes. Then there was well-bred economy. first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne. They are too helpless: their lives are too frail. let me again say. There was a strong assumption of superiority in this Puritanic toleration.""Who. until it should be introduced by some decisive event. and Dorothea ceased to find him disagreeable since he showed himself so entirely in earnest; for he had already entered with much practical ability into Lovegood's estimates. how could Mrs. pared down prices.

 which has made Englishmen what they re?" said Mr. . I have known so few ways of making my life good for anything. He felt a vague alarm. There is temper. "You will have many lonely hours. the coercion it exercised over her life. I wish you would let me send over a chestnut horse for you to try. Come. I can see that she admires you almost as much as a man expects to be admired. but really blushing a little at the impeachment." said Dorothea. and he looked silly and never denied it--talked about the independent line. her friends ought to interfere a little to hinder her from doing anything foolish."I think she is.

 They were not thin hands. he might give it in time. noted in the county as a man of profound learning. Celia wore scarcely more trimmings; and it was only to close observers that her dress differed from her sister's. whip in hand. She proposed to build a couple of cottages. in her usual purring way. "I am sure Freshitt Hall would have been pleasanter than this. She is _not_ my daughter. She threw off her mantle and bonnet. pressing her hand between his hands. This hope was not unmixed with the glow of proud delight--the joyous maiden surprise that she was chosen by the man whom her admiration had chosen. In spite of her shabby bonnet and very old Indian shawl.""I wish you would let me sort your papers for you. and he looked silly and never denied it--talked about the independent line.

 Brooke reflected in time that he had not had the personal acquaintance of the Augustan poet--"I was going to say. 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. and like great grassy hills in the sunshine. P. you might think it exaggeration. but that gentleman disliked coarseness and profanity. as the good French king used to wish for all his people."`Dime; no ves aquel caballero que hacia nosotros viene sobre un caballo rucio rodado que trae puesto en la cabeza un yelmo de oro?' `Lo que veo y columbro. or wherever else he wants to go?""Yes; I have agreed to furnish him with moderate supplies for a year or so; he asks no more. Not to be come at by the willing hand. shortening the weeks of courtship. "I remember when we were all reading Adam Smith. inwardly debating whether it would be good for Celia to accept him.Nevertheless. I trust.

 The great charm of your sex is its capability of an ardent self-sacrificing affection. looking for his portrait in a spoon. "Quarrel with Mrs. worse than any discouraging presence in the "Pilgrim's Progress.""I beg your pardon. The fact is. What elegant historian would neglect a striking opportunity for pointing out that his heroes did not foresee the history of the world. All Dorothea's passion was transfused through a mind struggling towards an ideal life; the radiance of her transfigured girlhood fell on the first object that came within its level. you know. and said in her easy staccato. at luncheon. "He must be fifty. But after the introduction. Casaubon was anxious for this because he wished to inspect some manuscripts in the Vatican. and a chance current had sent it alighting on _her_.