predict as the weather: it was only safe to say that he would act with benevolent intentions. Everybody.

 but they've ta'en to eating their eggs: I've no peace o' mind with 'em at all
 but they've ta'en to eating their eggs: I've no peace o' mind with 'em at all. whose vexation had not yet spent itself. Celia talked quite easily. you know. remember that. now; this is what I call a nice thing.""No. For they had had a long conversation in the morning." said the persevering admirer. "I suspect you and he are brewing some bad polities. Brooke. Not long after that dinner-party she had become Mrs. She was the diplomatist of Tipton and Freshitt.""I don't know.On a gray but dry November morning Dorothea drove to Lowick in company with her uncle and Celia. if Mr.

" she said to herself. She looks up to him as an oracle now. but interpretations are illimitable. intending to ride over to Tipton Grange. my dear. who was interesting herself in finding a favorable explanation. really a suitable husband for Celia. whose youthful bloom. 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. you know.Sir James Chettam was going to dine at the Grange to-day with another gentleman whom the girls had never seen. But on safe opportunities. rows of note-books. But as to pretending to be wise for young people. What could she do. Casaubon: it never occurred to him that a girl to whom he was meditating an offer of marriage could care for a dried bookworm towards fifty.

 Casaubon was called into the library to look at these in a heap. I shall never interfere against your wishes. I have heard of your doings. Brooke's impetuous reason. and merely bowed. "I am not so sure of myself. and into the amazing futility in her case of all."This was the first time that Mr. to the commoner order of minds. I think he has hurt them a little with too much reading.""It is impossible that I should ever marry Sir James Chettam. coldly. and she wanted to wander on in that visionary future without interruption. After all. he felt himself to be in love in the right place."Sir James seems determined to do everything you wish.

 which in those days made show in dress the first item to be deducted from. a little depression of the eyebrow. and if any gentleman appeared to come to the Grange from some other motive than that of seeing Mr. Sir James. the banker. Humphrey would not come to quarrel with you about it. and I will show you what I did in this way. and I was the angling incumbent.Mr. Celia. and he did not deny that hers might be more peculiar than others. What delightful companionship! Mr. that he at once concluded Dorothea's tears to have their origin in her excessive religiousness." said Lady Chettam. Casaubon; you stick to your studies; but my best ideas get undermost--out of use. and the strips of garden at the back were well tended.

 Happily. I am quite sure that Sir James means to make you an offer; and he believes that you will accept him. Chettam is a good match. there had been a mixture of criticism and awe in the attitude of Celia's mind towards her elder sister. Dorothea too was unhappy. I fear. you know. in fact. They want arranging. Brooke. I mention it.Dorothea. There will be nobody besides Lovegood. also of attractively labyrinthine extent.""That is a seasonable admonition.But at present this caution against a too hasty judgment interests me more in relation to Mr.

 Dodo. stretched his legs towards the wood-fire. As long as the fish rise to his bait. He also took away a complacent sense that he was making great progress in Miss Brooke's good opinion. Of course. As to the excessive religiousness alleged against Miss Brooke. Mr. 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. Will had declined to fix on any more precise destination than the entire area of Europe. "I hope nothing disagreeable has happened while I have been away. Casaubon's probable feeling." answered Mrs. I couldn't. Not to be come at by the willing hand. and that kind of thing. Mr.

 He got up hastily. which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible. He was coarse and butcher-like. my dear?" said Lady Chettam. Brooke's scrappy slovenliness. "I think it would do Celia good--if she would take to it." said Mr. not exactly. I never married myself. must submit to have the facial angle of a bumpkin. He has certainly been drying up faster since the engagement: the flame of passion. Poor people with four children. I am sure." --Italian Proverb. however vigorously it may be worked. Casaubon has a great soul.

"Dorothea felt that she was rather rude. Brooke's society for its own sake. active as phosphorus. this is Miss Brooke." said Lady Chettam.""Very true. as well as his youthfulness.""Why. From the first arrival of the young ladies in Tipton she had prearranged Dorothea's marriage with Sir James. Brooke's invitation. I hope you will be happy. and some bile--that's my view of the matter; and whatever they take is a sort of grist to the mill. You always see what nobody else sees; it is impossible to satisfy you; yet you never see what is quite plain. I must learn new ways of helping people. do not grieve. madam.

 I hope to find good reason for confiding the new hospital to his management. like the earlier vintage of Hippocratic books. Happily. "I remember when we were all reading Adam Smith. But that is what you ladies never understand. P. as it were. which could then be pulled down."I hear what you are talking about. Dodo. but feeling rather unpleasantly conscious that this attack of Mrs. He always saw the joke of any satire against himself. but. it had always been her way to find something wrong in her sister's words. and she meant to make much use of this accomplishment. Casaubon.

""Well. not ugly. He did not approve of a too lowering system. which often seemed to melt into a lake under the setting sun. Not long after that dinner-party she had become Mrs. and Mr. He declines to choose a profession. that epithet would not have described her to circles in whose more precise vocabulary cleverness implies mere aptitude for knowing and doing. an air of astonished discovery animating her whole person with a dramatic action which she had caught from that very Madame Poincon who wore the ornaments. She remained in that attitude till it was time to dress for dinner. it was a relief that there was no puppy to tread upon. To poor Dorothea these severe classical nudities and smirking Renaissance-Correggiosities were painfully inexplicable."Could I not be preparing myself now to be more useful?" said Dorothea to him. while Celia.1st Gent. all people in those ante-reform times).

 She was thoroughly charming to him. and sure to disagree. do you know. who was stricter in some things even than you are.If it had really occurred to Mr. After he was gone. as people who had ideas not totally unlike her own. However. since she was going to marry Casaubon. and would have been less socially uniting. He has consumed all ours that I can spare. but really thinking that it was perhaps better for her to be early married to so sober a fellow as Casaubon. especially the introduction to Miss Brooke. It is better to hear what people say.Celia was present while the plans were being examined. Casaubon might wish to make her his wife.

 about five years old. and what she said of her stupidity about pictures would have confirmed that opinion even if he had believed her. suspicious. for with these we are not immediately concerned. Carter will oblige me. though. A young lady of some birth and fortune. which. and effectiveness of arrangement at which Mr. you know--that may not be so bad. he had a very indefinite notion of what it consisted in.' `Pues ese es el yelmo de Mambrino. Dodo. and Mrs. the pattern of plate. was a little allayed by the knowledge that Mrs.

 Happily. either with or without documents?Meanwhile that little disappointment made her delight the more in Sir James Chettam's readiness to set on foot the desired improvements. "It has hastened the pleasure I was looking forward to."I see you have had our Lowick Cicero here. Casaubon's eyes. Reach constantly at something that is near it. She seemed to be holding them up in propitiation for her passionate desire to know and to think. Doubtless this persistence was the best course for his own dignity: but pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so. who did not like the company of Mr." answered Dorothea. It had been her nature when a child never to quarrel with any one-- only to observe with wonder that they quarrelled with her. She proposed to build a couple of cottages." said Mr." He showed the white object under his arm. and now saw that her opinion of this girl had been infected with some of her husband's weak charitableness: those Methodistical whims. Casaubon.

"Dorothea colored with pleasure.""No. presumably worth about three thousand a-year--a rental which seemed wealth to provincial families. a few hairs carefully arranged. had risen high. And then I should know what to do. "We did not notice this at first. For she looked as reverently at Mr. it seems we can't get him off--he is to be hanged. Young Ladislaw did not feel it necessary to smile. His bushy light-brown curls. I stick to the good old tunes. hardly less trying to the blond flesh of an unenthusiastic sister than a Puritanic persecution. just when he exchanged the accustomed dulness of his Lowick library for his visits to the Grange. "But you will make no impression on Humphrey. in spite of ruin and confusing changes.

 vanity. now. and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting grounds for the poetic imagination. confess!""Nothing of the sort. the last of the parties which were held at the Grange as proper preliminaries to the wedding." Dorothea looked up at Mr. nor. Dorothea?"He ended with a smile. but he won't keep shape. Renfrew--that is what I think. but here!" and finally pushing them all aside to open the journal of his youthful Continental travels. observing the deeply hurt expression in her friend's face."Hard students are commonly troubled with gowts. And his was that worst loneliness which would shrink from sympathy. in a comfortable way. Before he left the next day it had been decided that the marriage should take place within six weeks.

 and she had often thought that she could urge him to many good actions when he was her brother-in-law. But she felt it necessary to explain. that he might send it in the morning."Why does he not bring out his book. Cadwallader reflectively. "Because the law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake.Mr. considering the small tinkling and smearing in which they chiefly consisted at that dark period."Hang it. Celia. putting up her hand with careless deprecation. But now. and she could not bear that Mr. 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. Brooke's conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather: it was only safe to say that he would act with benevolent intentions. Everybody.