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<v Speaker 1>Chapter seventy seven, Middle March. This is a LibriVox recording.

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<v Speaker 1>March by George Eliot, chapter seventy seven. And thus thy

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<v Speaker 1>fall hath left a kind of blot to mark the

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<v Speaker 1>full fraught man and best endued with some suspicion Henry

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<v Speaker 1>the fifth. The next day, Lydgate had to go to

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<v Speaker 1>Brassing and told Rosamond that he should be away until

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<v Speaker 1>the evening of late. She had never gone beyond her

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<v Speaker 1>own house and garden except church, and wants to see

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<v Speaker 1>her Papa, to whom she said, if Tashus goes away,

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<v Speaker 1>you will help us to move, will you not, Papa?

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<v Speaker 1>I suppose we shall have very little money. I'm sure

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<v Speaker 1>I hope some one will help us. And mister Vincey

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<v Speaker 1>had said, yes, child, I don't mind a hundred or two.

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<v Speaker 1>I can see the end of that. With these exceptions,

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<v Speaker 1>she had sat at home in languid melancholy and suspense,

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<v Speaker 1>fixing her mind on will Ladislaw's coming as the one

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<v Speaker 1>point of hope and interest, and associating this with some

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<v Speaker 1>new urgency on Lydgate's to make immediate arrangements for leaving

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<v Speaker 1>Middlemarch and going to London, till she felt assured that

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<v Speaker 1>the coming would be a potent cause of the going,

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<v Speaker 1>without at all seeing how this way of establishing sequence

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<v Speaker 1>is too common to be fairly regarded as a peculiar

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<v Speaker 1>folly in Rosamond. And it is precisely this sort of

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<v Speaker 1>sequence which causes the greatest shock when it is sundered.

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<v Speaker 1>For to see how an effect may be produced is

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<v Speaker 1>often to see possible missings and checks. But to see

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<v Speaker 1>nothing except the desirable cause, and close upon it the

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<v Speaker 1>desirable effect rids us of doubt and makes our minds

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<v Speaker 1>strongly intuitive. That was the process going on in poor Rosamond,

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<v Speaker 1>while she arranged all objects around her with the same

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<v Speaker 1>nicety as ever, only with more slowness, or sat down

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<v Speaker 1>to the piano, meaning to play, and insisting, yet lingering

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<v Speaker 1>on the music stool, with her white fingers suspended on

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<v Speaker 1>the wooden front, and looking before her in dreamy enery.

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<v Speaker 1>Her melancholy had become so marked that Lydgate felt a

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<v Speaker 1>strange timidity before it as a perpetual, silent reproach, and

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<v Speaker 1>the strong man, mastered by his keen sensibilities towards this fair,

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<v Speaker 1>fragile creature whose life he seemed somehow to have bruised,

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<v Speaker 1>shrank from her look, and sometimes started at her approach,

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<v Speaker 1>fear of her and fear for her, rushing in only

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<v Speaker 1>the more forcibly after it had been momentarily expelled by exasperation.

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<v Speaker 1>But this morning Rosamond descended from her room upstairs, where

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<v Speaker 1>she sometimes sat the whole day while Lydgate was out

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<v Speaker 1>equipped for a walk in the town. She had a

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<v Speaker 1>letter to post, a letter addressed to mister Ladislaw and

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<v Speaker 1>written with charming discretion, but intended to hasten his arrival

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<v Speaker 1>by hint of trouble. The servant maid, their sole house servant,

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<v Speaker 1>now noticed her coming downstairs in her walking dress, and thought,

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<v Speaker 1>there never did anybody look so pretty and bonnet poor thing. Meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 1>Dorothea's mind was filled with her project of going to Rosamond,

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<v Speaker 1>and with the many thoughts, both of the past and

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<v Speaker 1>the probable future, which gathered around the idea of that

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<v Speaker 1>visit until yesterday, when Lydgate had opened to her a

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<v Speaker 1>glimpse of some trouble in his married life. The image

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<v Speaker 1>of missus Lydgate had always been associated for her with

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<v Speaker 1>that of Will Laddislaw, even in her most uneasy moments,

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<v Speaker 1>even when she had been agitated by Missus Cadwalider's painfully

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<v Speaker 1>graphic report of gossip, her effort, nay, her strongest impulsive prompting,

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<v Speaker 1>had been towards the vindication of Will from any sullying surmises.

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<v Speaker 1>And when in her meeting with him afterwards, she had

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<v Speaker 1>at first interpreted his words as a probable allusion to

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<v Speaker 1>a feeling towards missus Lydgate which he was determined to

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<v Speaker 1>cut himself off from indulging. She had a quick, sad,

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<v Speaker 1>excusing vision of the charm there might be in his

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<v Speaker 1>constant opportunities of companionship without fair creature, who most likely

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<v Speaker 1>shared his other tastes, as she evidently did his delight

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<v Speaker 1>in music. But there had followed his parting words, the

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<v Speaker 1>few passionate words in which he had implied that she

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<v Speaker 1>herself was the object of whom his love held him

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<v Speaker 1>in dread, that it was his love for her only

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<v Speaker 1>which he was resolved not to declare, but to carry

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<v Speaker 1>away into banishment. From the time of that parting, Dorothea

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<v Speaker 1>believing in Will's love for her, believing with a proud

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<v Speaker 1>delight in his delicate sense of honor and his determination

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<v Speaker 1>that no one should impeach him. Justly felt her heart

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<v Speaker 1>quite at rest as to the regard he might have

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<v Speaker 1>for missus Lydgate. She was sure that the regard was blameless.

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<v Speaker 1>There are natures in which, if they love us, we

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<v Speaker 1>are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

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<v Speaker 1>They bind us over to rectitude and purity by their

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<v Speaker 1>pure belief about us, and our sins become that worst

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<v Speaker 1>kind of sacrilege, which tears down the invisible altar of trust.

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<v Speaker 1>If you are not good, none is good. Those little

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<v Speaker 1>words may give a terrific meaning to responsibility, may hold

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<v Speaker 1>a vitary intensity for remorse. Dorothea's nature was of that kind.

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<v Speaker 1>Her own passionate fault lay along the easily counted open

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<v Speaker 1>channels of her ardent character. And while she was full

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<v Speaker 1>of pity for the visible mistakes of others, she had

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<v Speaker 1>not yet any material within her experience for subtle constructions

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<v Speaker 1>and suspicions of hidden wrong. But that simplicity of hers

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<v Speaker 1>holding up an ideal for others in her believing conception

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<v Speaker 1>of them was one of the great powers of her womanhood,

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<v Speaker 1>and it had from the first acting strongly on Will Ladislaw.

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<v Speaker 1>He felt when he parted from her that the brief

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<v Speaker 1>words by which he had tried to convey to her

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<v Speaker 1>his feeling about herself and the division which her fortune

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<v Speaker 1>made between them, would only profit by their brevity. When

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<v Speaker 1>Dorothea had to interpret them, he felt that in her

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<v Speaker 1>mind he had found his highest estimate, and he was

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<v Speaker 1>right there. In the months since their parting, Dorothea had

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<v Speaker 1>felt a delicious, though sad repose in their relation to

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<v Speaker 1>each other, as one which was inwardly whole and without blemish.

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<v Speaker 1>She had an active force of antagonism within her. When

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<v Speaker 1>the antagonism turned on the defense either of plans or

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<v Speaker 1>persons that she were leaved in, and the wrongs which

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<v Speaker 1>she felt that Will had received from her husband, and

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<v Speaker 1>the external conditions which to others were grounds for slighting him,

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<v Speaker 1>only gave the more tenacity to her affection and admiring judgment.

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<v Speaker 1>And now, with the disclosures about Bulstrode had come another

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<v Speaker 1>fact affecting Will's social position, which roused afresh Dorothea's inward

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<v Speaker 1>resistance to what was said about him in that part

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<v Speaker 1>of her world which lay within park Pallings. Young Ladislaw

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<v Speaker 1>the grandson of a thieving jew pawnbroker, was a phrase

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<v Speaker 1>which had entered emphatically into the dialogs about the bolsterode

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<v Speaker 1>business at Lowick, Tipton and Freshett, and was a worse

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<v Speaker 1>kind of placard on poor Will's back than the Italian

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<v Speaker 1>with white mice upright, Sir James Chettam was convinced that

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<v Speaker 1>his own satisfaction was righteous when he thought with some

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<v Speaker 1>complacency that here was an added league to that mountainous

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<v Speaker 1>distance between Ladislaw and Dorothea, which enabled him to dismiss

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<v Speaker 1>any anxiety in that direction as too absurd. And perhaps

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<v Speaker 1>there had been some pleasure in pointing mister Brooke's attention

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<v Speaker 1>to this ugly bit of Ladislaw's genealogy as a fresh

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<v Speaker 1>candle for him to see his own folly by. Dorothea

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<v Speaker 1>had observed the animus with which Will's part in the

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<v Speaker 1>painful story had been recalled more than once, but she

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<v Speaker 1>had uttered no word, being checked now as she had

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<v Speaker 1>not been formerly in speaking of Will, by the consciousness

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<v Speaker 1>of the deeper relation between them which must always remain

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<v Speaker 1>in consecrated secrecy. But her silence shrouded her resistant emotion

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<v Speaker 1>into a more thorough glow. And this misfortune in Will's lot,

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<v Speaker 1>which it seemed others were wishing to fling at his

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<v Speaker 1>back as an opprobrium, only gave something more of enthusiasm

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<v Speaker 1>to her clinging thought. She entertained no visions of their

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<v Speaker 1>ever coming into nearer union, and yet she had taken

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<v Speaker 1>no posture of renunciation. She had accepted her whole relation

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<v Speaker 1>to Will very simple as part of her marriage sorrows,

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<v Speaker 1>and would have thought it very sinful in her to

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<v Speaker 1>keep up an inward wail, because she was not completely happy,

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<v Speaker 1>being rather disposed to dwell on the superfluities of her lot.

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<v Speaker 1>She could bear that the chief pleasures of her tenderness

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<v Speaker 1>should lie in memory. And the idea of marriage came

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<v Speaker 1>to her solely as a repulsive proposition from some suitor

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<v Speaker 1>of whom she at present knew nothing, but whose merits,

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<v Speaker 1>as seen by her friends, would be a source of

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<v Speaker 1>torment to her. Somebody who will manage your property for you,

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<v Speaker 1>my dear, was mister Brook's attractive suggestion of suitable characteristics.

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<v Speaker 1>I should like to manage it myself, if I knew

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<v Speaker 1>what to do with it, said Dorothea. No, she had

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<v Speaker 1>heard to her declaration that she would never be married again,

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<v Speaker 1>and in the long valley of her life, which looked

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<v Speaker 1>so flat and empty of Waymark's guidance would come as

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<v Speaker 1>she walked along the road and saw her fellow passengers

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<v Speaker 1>by the way. This habitual state of feeling about will

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<v Speaker 1>Ladislaw had been strong in all her waking hours since

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<v Speaker 1>she had proposed to pay a visit to missus Lydgate,

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<v Speaker 1>making a sort of background against which she saw Rosamond's

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<v Speaker 1>figure presented to her without hindrances to her interest and compassion.

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<v Speaker 1>There was evidently some mental separation, some barrier to complete confidence,

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<v Speaker 1>which had arisen between this wife and the husband who

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<v Speaker 1>had yet made her happiness a law to him. That

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<v Speaker 1>was a trouble which no third person must directly touch.

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<v Speaker 1>But Dorothea thought with deep pity of the loneliness which

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<v Speaker 1>must have come upon Rosamond from the suspicions cast on

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<v Speaker 1>her husband, and there would surely be help in the

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<v Speaker 1>manifestation of respect for Lydgate and sympathy with her. I

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<v Speaker 1>shall talk to her about her husband, thought Dorothea as

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<v Speaker 1>she was being driven towards the town, the clear spring morning,

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<v Speaker 1>the scent of the moist earth, the fresh leaves just

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<v Speaker 1>showing their creased up wealth of greenery from out their

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<v Speaker 1>half open sheaths. See which part of the cheerfulness she

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<v Speaker 1>was feeling from a long conversation with mister Farebrother, who

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<v Speaker 1>had joyfully accepted the justifying explanation of Lydgate's conduct. I

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<v Speaker 1>shall take missus Lydgate good news, and perhaps she will

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<v Speaker 1>like to talk to me and make a friend of me.

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<v Speaker 1>Dorothea had another errand in lowick Gate. It was about

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<v Speaker 1>a new fine toned bell for the schoolhouse, and as

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<v Speaker 1>she had to get out of her carriage very near

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<v Speaker 1>to Lydgate's, she walked thither across the street, having told

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<v Speaker 1>the coachman to wait for some packages. The street door

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<v Speaker 1>when it became apparent to her that the lady who

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<v Speaker 1>belonged to it was coming towards her. Is missus Lydgate

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<v Speaker 1>at home? Said Dorothea. I'm not sure, my lady. I

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<v Speaker 1>see if you'll please to walk in, said Martha, a

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<v Speaker 1>little confused on the score of her kitchen apron, but

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<v Speaker 1>collected enough to be sure that ma'am was not the

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<v Speaker 1>right title for this queenly young widow with a carriage

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<v Speaker 1>and pair. Will you please to walk in and I'll

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<v Speaker 1>go and see. Say that I'm missus Casaubon, said Dorothea,

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<v Speaker 1>as Martha moved forward, intending to show her into the

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<v Speaker 1>drawing room and then to go upstairs to see if

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<v Speaker 1>Rosamond had returned from her walk. They crossed the broader

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<v Speaker 1>and Martha, pushing it without looking into the room, waited

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<v Speaker 1>for Missus Casaubon to enter, and then turned away, the

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<v Speaker 1>door having swung open and swung back again without noise.

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<v Speaker 1>Dorothea had less of outward vision than usual this morning,

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<v Speaker 1>being filled with images of things as they had been

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<v Speaker 1>and were going to be. She found herself on the

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<v Speaker 1>and advancing unconsciously a step or two beyond the projecting

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<v Speaker 1>of a certainty which filled up all outlines, something which

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<v Speaker 1>Seated with his back toward her on a sofa which

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<v Speaker 1>by which she had entered, she saw will Ladislaw close

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<v Speaker 1>by him, and turned towards him with a flushed tearfulness

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<v Speaker 1>which gave a new brilliancy to her face. Sat Rosamond,

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<v Speaker 1>her bonnet hanging back, while Will, leaning towards her, clasped

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<v Speaker 1>toned fervor. Rosamond, in her agitated absorption, had not noticed

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<v Speaker 1>the silently advancing figure. But when Dorothea, after the first

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<v Speaker 1>immeasurable instant of this vision, moved confusedly backward and found

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<v Speaker 1>herself impeded by some piece of furniture, Rosamond was suddenly

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<v Speaker 1>aware of her presence, and with a spasmodic movement, snatched

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<v Speaker 1>away her hands and rose, looking at Dorothea, who was

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<v Speaker 1>meeting Dorothea's eyes with a new lightning in them, seemed

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<v Speaker 1>changing to marble, but she immediately turned them away from

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<v Speaker 1>him to Rosamond and said, in a firm voice, excuse me, missus, Lydgate.

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<v Speaker 1>The servant did not know that you were here. I

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<v Speaker 1>called to deliver an important letter for mister Lydgate, which

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<v Speaker 1>her retreat, and then, including Rosamond and will in one

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<v Speaker 1>distant glance and bow, she went quickly out of the room,

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<v Speaker 1>meeting in the passage the surprised Martha, who said she

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<v Speaker 1>was sorry the mistress was not at home, and then

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<v Speaker 1>grand people were probably more impatient than others. Dorothea walked

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<v Speaker 1>across the street with her most elastic step and was

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<v Speaker 1>quickly in her carriage again. Drive on to fresh At Hall,

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<v Speaker 1>she said to the coachman, and anyone looking at her

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<v Speaker 1>might have thought that though she was paler than usual,

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<v Speaker 1>she was never animated by a more self possessed energy,

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<v Speaker 1>and that was really her experience. It was as if

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<v Speaker 1>she had drunk a great draft of scorn that stimulated

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<v Speaker 1>her beyond the susceptibility to other feelings. She had seen

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<v Speaker 1>something so far below her belief that her emotions rushed

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<v Speaker 1>back from it and made an excited throng without an object.

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<v Speaker 1>She needed something active to turn her excitement out upon.

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<v Speaker 1>She felt power to walk and work for a day

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<v Speaker 1>without meat or drink, and she would carry out the

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<v Speaker 1>purpose with which she had started in the morning of

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<v Speaker 1>going to Freshet and Tipton to tell Sir James and

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<v Speaker 1>her uncle all that she wished them to know about Lydgate,

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<v Speaker 1>whose married loneliness under his trial now presented itself to

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<v Speaker 1>her with new significance and made her more ardent in

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<v Speaker 1>readiness to be his champion. She had never felt anything

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<v Speaker 1>like this triumphant power of indignation in the struggle of

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<v Speaker 1>her married life, in which there had always been a

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<v Speaker 1>quickly subduing pang, and she took it as a sign

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<v Speaker 1>of new strength. Dodo, how very bright your eyes are,

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<v Speaker 1>said Celia, when Sir James was gone out of the room.

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<v Speaker 1>When you don't see anything you look at, are there anything?

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<v Speaker 1>You are going to do? Something uncomfortable? I know is

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<v Speaker 1>it all about mister Lydgate, or if something else happened?

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<v Speaker 1>Celia had been used to watch her sister with expectation. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>dear great many things have happened, said Dodo in her

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<v Speaker 1>full tones. I wonder what, said Celia, folding her arms

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<v Speaker 1>cozily and leaning forward upon them. Oh, all the troubles

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<v Speaker 1>of all the people on the face of the earth,

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<v Speaker 1>said Dorothea, lifting her arms to the back of her head.

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<v Speaker 1>Dear me, Dodo, you're going to have a scheme for

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<v Speaker 1>said Celia, a little uneasily at this hamlet, like raving bussa.

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<v Speaker 1>James came in again, ready to accompany Dorothea to the grange,

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<v Speaker 1>and she finished her expedition well, not swerving in her

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<v Speaker 1>resolution until she descended at her own door. End of

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<v Speaker 1>chapter seventy seven. Read for LibriVox by Madame Tusk W

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<v Speaker 1>W W dot R L O Walrus dot Sight, sled

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<v Speaker 1>dot com.