{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Dorothea, dear, if you don’t mind—if you are not very busy—suppose we looked at mamma’s jewels to-day, and divided them? It is exactly six months to-day since uncle gave them to you, and you have not looked at them yet.", "pos": 15031}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "What a wonderful little almanac you are, Celia! Is it six calendar or six lunar months?", "pos": 15572}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "It is the last day of September now, and it was the first of April when uncle gave them to you. You know, he said that he had forgotten them till then. I believe you have never thought of them since you locked them up in the cabinet here.", "pos": 15662}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Well, dear, we should never wear them, you know.", "pos": 15903}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I think, dear, we are wanting in respect to mamma’s memory, to put them by and take no notice of them. And, necklaces are quite usual now; and Madame Poincon, who was stricter in some things even than you are, used to wear ornaments. And Christians generally—surely there are women in heaven now who wore jewels.", "pos": 16141}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You would like to wear them? Of course, then, let us have them out. Why did you not tell me before? But the keys, the keys!", "pos": 16621}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "They are here,", "pos": 17014}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Pray open the large drawer of the cabinet and get out the jewel-box.", "pos": 17111}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "There, Celia! you can wear that with your Indian muslin. But this cross you must wear with your dark dresses.", "pos": 17796}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "O Dodo, you must keep the cross yourself.", "pos": 17953}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, no, dear, no,", "pos": 17997}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Yes, indeed you must; it would suit you—in your black dress, now. You might wear that.", "pos": 18079}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Not for the world, not for the world. A cross is the last thing I would wear as a trinket.", "pos": 18195}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Then you will think it wicked in me to wear it,", "pos": 18317}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, dear, no. Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.", "pos": 18389}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "But you might like to keep it for mamma’s sake.", "pos": 18521}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, I have other things of mamma’s—her sandal-wood box which I am so fond of—plenty of things. In fact, they are all yours, dear. We need discuss them no longer. There—take away your property.", "pos": 18571}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "But how can I wear ornaments if you, who are the elder sister, will never wear them?", "pos": 18962}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Nay, Celia, that is too much to ask, that I should wear trinkets to keep you in countenance. If I were to put on such a necklace as that, I should feel as if I had been pirouetting. The world would go round with me, and I should not know how to walk.", "pos": 19049}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "It would be a little tight for your neck; something to lie down and hang would suit you better,", "pos": 19353}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "How very beautiful these gems are! It is strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate one, like scent. I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St. John. They look like fragments of heaven. I think that emerald is more beautiful than any of them.", "pos": 19755}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "And there is a bracelet to match it. We did not notice this at first.", "pos": 20124}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "They are lovely,", "pos": 20210}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "You would like those, Dorothea. You must keep that ring and bracelet—if nothing else. But see, these agates are very pretty and quiet.", "pos": 20495}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes! I will keep these—this ring and bracelet. Yet what miserable men find such things, and work at them, and sell them! Yes, dear, I will keep these. But take all the rest away, and the casket.", "pos": 20823}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Shall you wear them in company?", "pos": 21435}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Perhaps. I cannot tell to what level I may sink.", "pos": 21826}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Here, Kitty, come and look at my plan; I shall think I am a great architect, if I have not got incompatible stairs and fireplaces.", "pos": 23010}
{"speaker": "Don Quixote", "text": "Dime; no ves aquel caballero que hacia nosotros viene sobre un caballo rucio rodado que trae puesto en la cabeza un yelmo de oro?", "pos": 23574}
{"speaker": "Sancho", "text": "Lo que veo y columbro, no es sino un hombre sobre un as no pardo como el mio, que trae sobre la cabeza una cosa que relumbra.", "pos": 23706}
{"speaker": "Don Quixote", "text": "Pues ese es el yelmo de Mambrino. Seest thou not yon cavalier who cometh toward us on a dapple-gray steed, and weareth a golden helmet?", "pos": 23854}
{"speaker": "Sancho", "text": "What I see, is nothing but a man on a gray ass like my own, who carries something shiny on his head.", "pos": 24025}
{"speaker": "Don Quixote", "text": "Just so, and that resplendent object is the helmet of Mambrino.", "pos": 24147}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Sir Humphry Davy? Well, now, Sir Humphry Davy; I dined with him years ago at Cartwright’s, and Wordsworth was there too—the poet Wordsworth, you know. Now there was something singular. I was at Cambridge when Wordsworth was there, and I never met him—and I dined with him twenty years afterwards at Cartwright’s. There’s an oddity in things, now. But Davy was there: he was a poet too. Or, as I may say, Wordsworth was poet one, and Davy was poet two. That was true in every sense, you know.", "pos": 24238}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I am reading the Agricultural Chemistry, because I am going to take one of the farms into my own hands, and see if something cannot be done in setting a good pattern of farming among my tenants. Do you approve of that, Miss Brooke?", "pos": 25466}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "A great mistake, Chettam, going into electrifying your land and that kind of thing, and making a parlor of your cow-house. It won’t do. I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone. No, no—see that your tenants don’t sell their straw, and that kind of thing; and give them draining-tiles, you know. 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.", "pos": 25731}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Surely, it is better to spend money in finding out how men can make the most of the land which supports them all, than in keeping dogs and horses only to gallop over it. It is not a sin to make yourself poor in performing experiments for the good of all.", "pos": 26264}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Young ladies don’t understand political economy, you know. I remember when we were all reading Adam Smith. There is a book, now. I took in all the new ideas at one time—human perfectibility, now. But some say, history moves in circles; and that may be very well argued; I have argued it myself. The fact is, human reason may carry you a little too far—over the hedge, in fact. It carried me a good way at one time; but I saw it would not do. I pulled up; I pulled up in time. But not too hard. I have always been in favor of a little theory: we must have Thought; else we shall be landed back in the dark ages. But talking of books, there is Southey’s ‘Peninsular War.’ I am reading that of a morning. You know Southey?", "pos": 26880}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "No. I have little leisure for such literature just now. I have been using up my eyesight on old characters lately; the fact is, I want a reader for my evenings; but I am fastidious in voices, and I cannot endure listening to an imperfect reader. It is a misfortune, in some senses: I feed too much on the inward sources; I live too much with the dead. My mind is something like the ghost of an ancient, wandering about the world and trying mentally to construct it as it used to be, in spite of ruin and confusing changes. But I find it necessary to use the utmost caution about my eyesight.", "pos": 27651}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "But you are fond of riding, Miss Brooke. I should have thought you would enter a little into the pleasures of hunting. I wish you would let me send over a chestnut horse for you to try. It has been trained for a lady. I saw you on Saturday cantering over the hill on a nag not worthy of you. My groom shall bring Corydon for you every day, if you will only mention the time.", "pos": 29282}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Thank you, you are very good. I mean to give up riding. I shall not ride any more,", "pos": 29712}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "No, that is too hard. Your sister is given to self-mortification, is she not?", "pos": 29964}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I think she is. She likes giving up.", "pos": 30172}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "If that were true, Celia, my giving-up would be self-indulgence, not self-mortification. But there may be good reasons for choosing not to do what is very agreeable,", "pos": 30361}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Exactly. You give up from some high, generous motive.", "pos": 30672}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, indeed, not exactly. I did not say that of myself,", "pos": 30746}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "I made a great study of theology at one time. I know something of all schools. I knew Wilberforce in his best days. Do you know Wilberforce?", "pos": 31469}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "No.", "pos": 31696}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, Wilberforce was perhaps not enough of a thinker; but if I went into Parliament, as I have been asked to do, I should sit on the independent bench, as Wilberforce did, and work at philanthropy. Yes, but I have documents. I began a long while ago to collect documents. They want arranging, but when a question has struck me, I have written to somebody and got an answer. I have documents at my back. But now, how do you arrange your documents?", "pos": 31702}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "In pigeon-holes partly,", "pos": 32252}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Ah, pigeon-holes will not do. I have tried pigeon-holes, but everything gets mixed in pigeon-holes: I never know whether a paper is in A or Z.", "pos": 32335}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I wish you would let me sort your papers for you, uncle. I would letter them all, and then make a list of subjects under each letter.", "pos": 32480}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "You have an excellent secretary at hand, you perceive.", "pos": 32695}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "No, no. I cannot let young ladies meddle with my documents. Young ladies are too flighty.", "pos": 32752}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "How very ugly Mr. Casaubon is!", "pos": 33223}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Celia! He is one of the most distinguished-looking men I ever saw. He is remarkably like the portrait of Locke. He has the same deep eye-sockets.", "pos": 33256}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Had Locke those two white moles with hairs on them?", "pos": 33404}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh, I dare say! when people of a certain sort looked at him,", "pos": 33458}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Mr. Casaubon is so sallow.", "pos": 33559}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "All the better. I suppose you admire a man with the complexion of a cochon de lait.", "pos": 33588}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Dodo!", "pos": 33674}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Why should I make it before the occasion came? It is a good comparison: the match is perfect. It is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilet, and never see the great soul in a man’s face.", "pos": 33781}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Has Mr. Casaubon a great soul?", "pos": 34142}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes, I believe he has,", "pos": 34222}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "He talks very little,", "pos": 34372}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "There is no one for him to talk to.", "pos": 34407}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "What shall we do?", "pos": 35649}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Let me hope that you will rescind that resolution about the horse, Miss Brooke,", "pos": 36643}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am aware of it. I think it would do Celia good—if she would take to it.", "pos": 36811}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "But you are such a perfect horsewoman.", "pos": 36912}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Excuse me; I have had very little practice, and I should be easily thrown.", "pos": 36953}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Then that is a reason for more practice. Every lady ought to be a perfect horsewoman, that she may accompany her husband.", "pos": 37030}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You see how widely we differ, Sir James. I have made up my mind that I ought not to be a perfect horsewoman, and so I should never correspond to your pattern of a lady.", "pos": 37154}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I should like to know your reasons for this cruel resolution. It is not possible that you should think horsemanship wrong.", "pos": 37503}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It is quite possible that I should think it wrong for me.", "pos": 37628}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Oh, why?", "pos": 37688}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "We must not inquire too curiously into motives. Miss Brooke knows that they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.", "pos": 37823}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Certainly. Miss Brooke shall not be urged to tell reasons she would rather be silent upon. I am sure her reasons would do her honor.", "pos": 38715}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "He thinks with me, or rather, he thinks a whole world of which my thought is but a poor twopenny mirror. And his feelings too, his whole experience—what a lake compared with my little pool!", "pos": 43313}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Look here—here is all about Greece. Rhamnus, the ruins of Rhamnus—you are a great Grecian, now. I don’t know whether you have given much study to the topography. I spent no end of time in making out these things—Helicon, now. Here, now!—‘We started the next morning for Parnassus, the double-peaked Parnassus.’ All this volume is about Greece, you know,", "pos": 44838}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I should learn everything then. It would be my duty to study that I might help him the better in his great works. There would be nothing trivial about our lives. Every-day things with us would mean the greatest things. It would be like marrying Pascal. I should learn to see the truth by the same light as great men have seen it by. And then I should know what to do, when I got older: I should see how it was possible to lead a grand life here—now—in England. I don’t feel sure about doing good in any way now: everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don’t know;—unless it were building good cottages—there can be no doubt about that. Oh, I hope I should be able to get the people well housed in Lowick! I will draw plenty of plans while I have time.", "pos": 52282}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "How delightful to meet you, Miss Brooke. It has hastened the pleasure I was looking forward to.", "pos": 53746}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I have brought a little petitioner, or rather, I have brought him to see if he will be approved before his petition is offered.", "pos": 54764}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It is painful to me to see these creatures that are bred merely as pets,", "pos": 55012}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Oh, why?", "pos": 55201}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I believe all the petting that is given them does not make them happy. They are too helpless: their lives are too frail. A weasel or a mouse that gets its own living is more interesting. I like to think that the animals about us have souls something like our own, and either carry on their own little affairs or can be companions to us, like Monk here. Those creatures are parasitic.", "pos": 55251}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I am so glad I know that you do not like them. I should never keep them for myself, but ladies usually are fond of these Maltese dogs. Here, John, take this dog, will you?", "pos": 55637}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You must not judge of Celia’s feeling from mine. I think she likes these small pets. She had a tiny terrier once, which she was very fond of. It made me unhappy, because I was afraid of treading on it. I am rather short-sighted.", "pos": 56038}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "You have your own opinion about everything, Miss Brooke, and it is always a good opinion. Do you know, I envy you that,", "pos": 56269}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I don’t quite understand what you mean.", "pos": 56532}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Your power of forming an opinion. I can form an opinion of persons. I know when I like people. But about other matters, do you know, I have often a difficulty in deciding. One hears very sensible things said on opposite sides.", "pos": 56574}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Or that seem sensible. Perhaps we don’t always discriminate between sense and nonsense.", "pos": 56803}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Exactly. But you seem to have the power of discrimination.", "pos": 56933}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "On the contrary, I am often unable to decide. But that is from ignorance. The right conclusion is there all the same, though I am unable to see it.", "pos": 57012}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I think there are few who would see it more readily. Do you know, Lovegood was telling me yesterday that you had the best notion in the world of a plan for cottages—quite wonderful for a young lady, he thought. You had a real genus, to use his expression. He said you wanted Mr. Brooke to build a new set of cottages, but he seemed to think it hardly probable that your uncle would consent. Do you know, that is one of the things I wish to do—I mean, on my own estate. I should be so glad to carry out that plan of yours, if you would let me see it. Of course, it is sinking money; that is why people object to it. Laborers can never pay rent to make it answer. But, after all, it is worth doing.", "pos": 57162}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Worth doing! yes, indeed. 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. Life in cottages might be happier than ours, if they were real houses fit for human beings from whom we expect duties and affections.", "pos": 57861}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Will you show me your plan?", "pos": 58251}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes, certainly. I dare say it is very faulty. But I have been examining all the plans for cottages in Loudon’s book, and picked out what seem the best things. Oh what a happiness it would be to set the pattern about here! I think instead of Lazarus at the gate, we should put the pigsty cottages outside the park-gate.", "pos": 58281}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "He thinks that Dodo cares about him, and she only cares about her plans. Yet I am not certain that she would refuse him if she thought he would let her manage everything and carry out all her notions. And how very uncomfortable Sir James would be! I cannot bear notions.", "pos": 59416}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Exactly,", "pos": 63921}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Sir James seems determined to do everything you wish,", "pos": 64933}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "He is a good creature, and more sensible than any one would imagine,", "pos": 65072}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "You mean that he appears silly.", "pos": 65175}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, no,", "pos": 65209}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I should think none but disagreeable people do,", "pos": 65355}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "O Kitty, you are a wonderful creature! Of course people need not be always talking well. Only one tells the quality of their minds when they try to talk well.", "pos": 65542}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "You mean that Sir James tries and fails.", "pos": 65927}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I was speaking generally. Why do you catechise me about Sir James? It is not the object of his life to please me.", "pos": 65970}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Now, Dodo, can you really believe that?", "pos": 66086}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Certainly. He thinks of me as a future sister—that is all.", "pos": 66128}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Pray do not make that mistake any longer, Dodo. When Tantripp was brushing my hair the other day, she said that Sir James’s man knew from Mrs. Cadwallader’s maid that Sir James was to marry the eldest Miss Brooke.", "pos": 66402}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "How can you let Tantripp talk such gossip to you, Celia?", "pos": 66618}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I see no harm at all in Tantripp’s talking to me. It is better to hear what people say. You see what mistakes you make by taking up notions. I am quite sure that Sir James means to make you an offer; and he believes that you will accept him, especially since you have been so pleased with him about the plans. And uncle too—I know he expects it. Every one can see that Sir James is very much in love with you.", "pos": 66870}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "How could he expect it? I have never agreed with him about anything but the cottages: I was barely polite to him before. Fond of him, Celia! How can you choose such odious expressions?", "pos": 67562}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Dear me, Dorothea, I suppose it would be right for you to be fond of a man whom you accepted for a husband.", "pos": 67938}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It is offensive to me to say that Sir James could think I was fond of him. Besides, it is not the right word for the feeling I must have towards the man I would accept as a husband.", "pos": 68048}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Well, I am sorry for Sir James. I thought it right to tell you, because you went on as you always do, never looking just where you are, and treading in the wrong place. You always see what nobody else sees; it is impossible to satisfy you; yet you never see what is quite plain. That’s your way, Dodo.", "pos": 68232}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It is very painful. I can have no more to do with the cottages. I must be uncivil to him. I must tell him I will have nothing to do with them. It is very painful.", "pos": 68753}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Wait a little. Think about it. You know he is going away for a day or two to see his sister. There will be nobody besides Lovegood. Poor Dodo. It is very hard: it is your favorite fad to draw plans.", "pos": 68987}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Fad to draw plans! Do you think I only care about my fellow-creatures’ houses in that childish way? I may well make mistakes. How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?", "pos": 69261}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, my dears,", "pos": 70523}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "No, uncle, we have been to Freshitt to look at the cottages. We thought you would have been at home to lunch.", "pos": 70654}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "I came by Lowick to lunch—you didn’t know I came by Lowick. And I have brought a couple of pamphlets for you, Dorothea—in the library, you know; they lie on the table in the library.", "pos": 70780}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "I came back by Lowick, you know. I lunched there and saw Casaubon’s library, and that kind of thing. There’s a sharp air, driving. Won’t you sit down, my dear? You look cold.", "pos": 72225}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "What news have you brought about the sheep-stealer, uncle?", "pos": 73255}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "What, poor Bunch?—well, it seems we can’t get him off—he is to be hanged. Hanged, you know. Poor Romilly! he would have helped us. I knew Romilly. Casaubon didn’t know Romilly. He is a little buried in books, you know, Casaubon is.", "pos": 73316}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "When a man has great studies and is writing a great work, he must of course give up seeing much of the world. How can he go about making acquaintances?", "pos": 73649}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "That’s true. But a man mopes, you know. I have always been a bachelor too, but I have that sort of disposition that I never moped; it was my way to go about everywhere and take in everything. I never moped: but I can see that Casaubon does, you know. He wants a companion—a companion, you know.", "pos": 73803}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It would be a great honor to any one to be his companion,", "pos": 74100}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "You like him, eh? Well, now, I’ve known Casaubon ten years, ever since he came to Lowick. But I never got anything out of him—any ideas, you know. However, he is a tiptop man and may be a bishop—that kind of thing, you know, if Peel stays in. And he has a very high opinion of you, my dear. The fact is, he has a very high opinion indeed of you. And he speaks uncommonly well—does Casaubon. He has deferred to me, you not being of age. In short, I have promised to speak to you, though I told him I thought there was not much chance. I was bound to tell him that. I said, my niece is very young, and that kind of thing. But I didn’t think it necessary to go into everything. However, the long and the short of it is, that he has asked my permission to make you an offer of marriage—of marriage, you know. I thought it better to tell you, my dear. I thought it better to tell you, my dear.", "pos": 74190}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Thank you, uncle. I am very grateful to Mr. Casaubon. If he makes me an offer, I shall accept him. I admire and honor him more than any man I ever saw.", "pos": 75576}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Ah? … Well! He is a good match in some respects. But now, Chettam is a good match. And our land lies together. I shall never interfere against your wishes, my dear. People should have their own way in marriage, and that sort of thing—up to a certain point, you know. I have always said that, up to a certain point. I wish you to marry well; and I have good reason to believe that Chettam wishes to marry you. I mention it, you know.", "pos": 75842}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It is impossible that I should ever marry Sir James Chettam. If he thinks of marrying me, he has made a great mistake.", "pos": 76277}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "That is it, you see. One never knows. I should have thought Chettam was just the sort of man a woman would like, now.", "pos": 76415}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Pray do not mention him in that light again, uncle,", "pos": 76535}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, but Casaubon, now. There is no hurry—I mean for you. It’s true, every year will tell upon him. He is over five-and-forty, you know. I should say a good seven-and-twenty years older than you. To be sure,—if you like learning and standing, and that sort of thing, we can’t have everything. And his income is good—he has a handsome property independent of the Church—his income is good. Still he is not young, and I must not conceal from you, my dear, that I think his health is not over-strong. I know nothing else against him.", "pos": 76872}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I should not wish to have a husband very near my own age. I should wish to have a husband who was above me in judgment and in all knowledge.", "pos": 77406}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Ah?—I thought you had more of your own opinion than most girls. I thought you liked your own opinion—liked it, you know.", "pos": 77620}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I cannot imagine myself living without some opinions, but I should wish to have good reasons for them, and a wise man could help me to see which opinions had the best foundation, and would help me to live according to them.", "pos": 77743}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Very true. You couldn’t put the thing better—couldn’t put it better, beforehand, you know. But there are oddities in things. Life isn’t cast in a mould—not cut out by rule and line, and that sort of thing. I never married myself, and it will be the better for you and yours. The fact is, I never loved any one well enough to put myself into a noose for them. It is a noose, you know. Temper, now. There is temper. And a husband likes to be master.", "pos": 77969}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I know that I must expect trials, uncle. Marriage is a state of higher duties. I never thought of it as mere personal ease,", "pos": 78534}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, you are not fond of show, a great establishment, balls, dinners, that kind of thing. I can see that Casaubon’s ways might suit you better than Chettam’s. And you shall do as you like, my dear. I would not hinder Casaubon; I said so at once; for there is no knowing how anything may turn out. You have not the same tastes as every young lady; and a clergyman and scholar—who may be a bishop—that kind of thing—may suit you better than Chettam. Chettam is a good fellow, a good sound-hearted fellow, you know; but he doesn’t go much into ideas. I did, when I was his age. But Casaubon’s eyes, now. I think he has hurt them a little with too much reading.", "pos": 78680}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I should be all the happier, uncle, the more room there was for me to help him,", "pos": 79341}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "You have quite made up your mind, I see. Well, my dear, the fact is, I have a letter for you in my pocket. There is not too much hurry, my dear. Think about it, you know.", "pos": 79448}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Have you thought enough about this, my dear?", "pos": 86821}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "There was no need to think long, uncle. I know of nothing to make me vacillate. If I changed my mind, it must be because of something important and entirely new to me.", "pos": 86885}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Ah!—then you have accepted him? Then Chettam has no chance? Has Chettam offended you—offended you, you know? What is it you don’t like in Chettam?", "pos": 87055}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "There is nothing that I like in him. I mean in the light of a husband. He is very kind, I think—really very good about the cottages. A well-meaning man.", "pos": 87204}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "But you must have a scholar, and that sort of thing? Well, it lies a little in our family. I had it myself—that love of knowledge, and going into everything—a little too much—it took me too far; though that sort of thing doesn’t often run in the female-line; or it runs underground like the rivers in Greece, you know—it comes out in the sons. Clever sons, clever mothers. I went a good deal into that, at one time. However, my dear, I have always said that people should do as they like in these things, up to a certain point. I couldn’t, as your guardian, have consented to a bad match. But Casaubon stands well: his position is good. I am afraid Chettam will be hurt, though, and Mrs. Cadwallader will blame me.", "pos": 87549}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Celia, dear, come and kiss me,", "pos": 89624}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Don’t sit up, Dodo, you are so pale to-night: go to bed soon,", "pos": 89867}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, dear, I am very, very happy,", "pos": 89994}
{"speaker": "butler", "text": "Jonas is come back, sir, and has brought this letter.", "pos": 90231}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Casaubon, my dear: he will be here to dinner; he didn’t wait to write more—didn’t wait, you know.", "pos": 90356}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Is any one else coming to dine besides Mr. Casaubon?", "pos": 93653}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Not that I know of.", "pos": 93708}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I hope there is some one else. Then I shall not hear him eat his soup so.", "pos": 93730}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "What is there remarkable about his soup-eating?", "pos": 93806}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Really, Dodo, can’t you hear how he scrapes his spoon? And he always blinks before he speaks. I don’t know whether Locke blinked, but I’m sure I am sorry for those who sat opposite to him if he did.", "pos": 93856}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Celia, pray don’t make any more observations of that kind.", "pos": 94057}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Why not? They are quite true,", "pos": 94158}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Many things are true which only the commonest minds observe.", "pos": 94291}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Then I think the commonest minds must be rather useful. I think it is a pity Mr. Casaubon’s mother had not a commoner mind: she might have taught him better.", "pos": 94354}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It is right to tell you, Celia, that I am engaged to marry Mr. Casaubon.", "pos": 94700}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Oh, Dodo, I hope you will be happy. It is quite decided, then? And uncle knows?", "pos": 95072}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I have accepted Mr. Casaubon’s offer. My uncle brought me the letter that contained it; he knew about it beforehand.", "pos": 95352}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I beg your pardon, if I have said anything to hurt you, Dodo,", "pos": 95471}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Never mind, Kitty, do not grieve. We should never admire the same people. I often offend in something of the same way; I am apt to speak too strongly of those who don’t please me.", "pos": 95784}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "My dear young lady—Miss Brooke—Dorothea! this is a happiness greater than I had ever imagined to be in reserve for me. That I should ever meet with a mind and person so rich in the mingled graces which could render marriage desirable, was far indeed from my conception. You have all—nay, more than all—those qualities which I have ever regarded as the characteristic excellences of womanhood. The great charm of your sex is its capability of an ardent self-sacrificing affection, and herein we see its fitness to round and complete the existence of our own. Hitherto I have known few pleasures save of the severer kind: my satisfactions have been those of the solitary student. I have been little disposed to gather flowers that would wither in my hand, but now I shall pluck them with eagerness, to place them in your bosom.", "pos": 96789}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am very ignorant—you will quite wonder at my ignorance. I have so many thoughts that may be quite mistaken; and now I shall be able to tell them all to you, and ask you about them. But. I will not trouble you too much; only when you are inclined to listen to me. You must often be weary with the pursuit of subjects in your own track. I shall gain enough if you will take me with you there.", "pos": 98227}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "How should I be able now to persevere in any path without your companionship?", "pos": 98711}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "How do you do? Well, Mrs. Fitchett, how are your fowls laying now?", "pos": 100407}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Fitchett", "text": "Pretty well for laying, madam, but they’ve ta’en to eating their eggs: I’ve no peace o’ mind with ’em at all.", "pos": 100785}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Oh, the cannibals! Better sell them cheap at once. What will you sell them a couple? One can’t eat fowls of a bad character at a high price.", "pos": 100897}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Fitchett", "text": "Well, madam, half-a-crown: I couldn’t let ’em go, not under.", "pos": 101040}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Half-a-crown, these times! Come now—for the Rector’s chicken-broth on a Sunday. He has consumed all ours that I can spare. You are half paid with the sermon, Mrs. Fitchett, remember that. Take a pair of tumbler-pigeons for them—little beauties. You must come and see them. You have no tumblers among your pigeons.", "pos": 101103}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Fitchett", "text": "Well, madam, Master Fitchett shall go and see ’em after work. He’s very hot on new sorts; to oblige you.", "pos": 101419}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Oblige me! It will be the best bargain he ever made. A pair of church pigeons for a couple of wicked Spanish fowls that eat their own eggs! Don’t you and Fitchett boast too much, that is all!", "pos": 101526}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Fitchett", "text": "Surely, surely!", "pos": 101855}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "I see you have had our Lowick Cicero here. I suspect you and he are brewing some bad polities, else you would not be seeing so much of the lively man. I shall inform against you: remember you are both suspicious characters since you took Peel’s side about the Catholic Bill. I shall tell everybody that you are going to put up for Middlemarch on the Whig side when old Pinkerton resigns, and that Casaubon is going to help you in an underhand manner: going to bribe the voters with pamphlets, and throw open the public-houses to distribute them. Come, confess!", "pos": 102936}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Nothing of the sort. Casaubon and I don’t talk politics much. He doesn’t care much about the philanthropic side of things; punishments, and that kind of thing. He only cares about Church questions. That is not my line of action, you know.", "pos": 103607}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Ra-a-ther too much, my friend. I have heard of your doings. Who was it that sold his bit of land to the Papists at Middlemarch? I believe you bought it on purpose. You are a perfect Guy Faux. See if you are not burnt in effigy this 5th of November coming. Humphrey would not come to quarrel with you about it, so I am come.", "pos": 103953}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Very good. I was prepared to be persecuted for not persecuting—not persecuting, you know.", "pos": 104279}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "There you go! That is a piece of clap-trap you have got ready for the hustings. Now, do not let them lure you to the hustings, my dear Mr. Brooke. A man always makes a fool of himself, speechifying: there’s no excuse but being on the right side, so that you can ask a blessing on your humming and hawing. You will lose yourself, I forewarn you. You will make a Saturday pie of all parties’ opinions, and be pelted by everybody.", "pos": 104371}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "That is what I expect, you know, what I expect as an independent man. As to the Whigs, a man who goes with the thinkers is not likely to be hooked on by any party. He may go with them up to a certain point—up to a certain point, you know. But that is what you ladies never understand.", "pos": 104801}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Where your certain point is? No. 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 never letting his friends know his address. ‘Nobody knows where Brooke will be—there’s no counting on Brooke’—that is what people say of you, to be quite frank. Now, do turn respectable. How will you like going to Sessions with everybody looking shy on you, and you with a bad conscience and an empty pocket?", "pos": 105173}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "I don’t pretend to argue with a lady on politics. Your sex are not thinkers, you know—varium et mutabile semper—that kind of thing. You don’t know Virgil. I knew I was going to say, poor Stoddart, you know. That was what he said. You ladies are always against an independent attitude—a man’s caring for nothing but truth, and that sort of thing. And there is no part of the county where opinion is narrower than it is here—I don’t mean to throw stones, you know, but somebody is wanted to take the independent line; and if I don’t take it, who will?", "pos": 105634}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Who? Why, any upstart who has got neither blood nor position. People of standing should consume their independent nonsense at home, not hawk it about. And you! who are going to marry your niece, as good as your daughter, to one of our best men. Sir James would be cruelly annoyed: it will be too hard on him if you turn round now and make yourself a Whig sign-board.", "pos": 106500}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "I hope Chettam and I shall always be good friends; but I am sorry to say there is no prospect of his marrying my niece,", "pos": 107361}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Why not? It is hardly a fortnight since you and I were talking about it.", "pos": 107566}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "My niece has chosen another suitor—has chosen him, you know. I have had nothing to do with it. I should have preferred Chettam; and I should have said Chettam was the man any girl would have chosen. But there is no accounting for these things. Your sex is capricious, you know.", "pos": 107697}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Why, whom do you mean to say that you are going to let her marry?", "pos": 107977}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "By the way, I must speak to Wright about the horses,", "pos": 108316}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "My dear child, what is this?—this about your sister’s engagement?", "pos": 108405}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "She is engaged to marry Mr. Casaubon,", "pos": 108495}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "This is frightful. How long has it been going on?", "pos": 108673}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I only knew of it yesterday. They are to be married in six weeks.", "pos": 108725}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Well, my dear, I wish you joy of your brother-in-law.", "pos": 108793}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I am so sorry for Dorothea.", "pos": 108849}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Sorry! It is her doing, I suppose.", "pos": 108879}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Yes; she says Mr. Casaubon has a great soul.", "pos": 108916}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "With all my heart.", "pos": 108963}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Oh, Mrs. Cadwallader, I don’t think it can be nice to marry a man with a great soul.", "pos": 108984}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Well, my dear, take warning. You know the look of one now; when the next comes and wants to marry you, don’t you accept him.", "pos": 109071}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I’m sure I never should.", "pos": 109198}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "No; one such in a family is enough. So your sister never cared about Sir James Chettam? What would you have said to him for a brother-in-law?", "pos": 109225}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I should have liked that very much. I am sure he would have been a good husband. Only. I don’t think he would have suited Dorothea.", "pos": 109369}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Not high-flown enough?", "pos": 109587}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Dodo is very strict. She thinks so much about everything, and is so particular about what one says. Sir James never seemed to please her.", "pos": 109612}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "She must have encouraged him, I am sure. That is not very creditable.", "pos": 109752}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Please don’t be angry with Dodo; she does not see things. She thought so much about the cottages, and she was rude to Sir James sometimes; but he is so kind, he never noticed it.", "pos": 109824}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Well. I must go straight to Sir James and break this to him. He will have brought his mother back by this time, and I must call. Your uncle will never tell him. We are all disappointed, my dear. Young people should think of their families in marrying. I set a bad example—married a poor clergyman, and made myself a pitiable object among the De Bracys—obliged to get my coals by stratagem, and pray to heaven for my salad oil. However, Casaubon has money enough; I must do him that justice. As to his blood, I suppose the family quarterings are three cuttle-fish sable, and a commentator rampant. By the bye, before I go, my dear, I must speak to your Mrs. Carter about pastry. I want to send my young cook to learn of her. Poor people with four children, like us, you know, can’t afford to keep a good cook. I have no doubt Mrs. Carter will oblige me. Sir James’s cook is a perfect dragon. However,", "pos": 110005}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "I have a great shock for you; I hope you are not so far gone in love as you pretended to be. I do believe Brooke is going to expose himself after all. I accused him of meaning to stand for Middlemarch on the Liberal side, and he looked silly and never denied it—talked about the independent line, and the usual nonsense.", "pos": 111727}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Is that all?", "pos": 112199}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Why, 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?", "pos": 112245}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "He might be dissuaded, I should think. He would not like the expense.", "pos": 112429}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "That is what I told him. He is vulnerable to reason there—always a few grains of common-sense in an ounce of miserliness. Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it’s the safe side for madness to dip on. And there must be a little crack in the Brooke family, else we should not see what we are to see.", "pos": 112501}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "What? Brooke standing for Middlemarch?", "pos": 112818}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Worse than that. I really feel a little responsible. I always told you Miss Brooke would be such a fine match. I knew there was a great deal of nonsense in her—a flighty sort of Methodistical stuff. But these things wear out of girls. However, I am taken by surprise for once.", "pos": 112859}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "What do you mean, Mrs. Cadwallader? What has happened to Miss Brooke? Pray speak out.", "pos": 113138}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Very well. She is engaged to be married. Engaged to Casaubon.", "pos": 113466}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Casaubon?", "pos": 113907}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Even so. You know my errand now.", "pos": 113919}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Good God! It is horrible! He is no better than a mummy!", "pos": 113954}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "She says, he is a great soul.—A great bladder for dried peas to rattle in!", "pos": 114101}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "What business has an old bachelor like that to marry? He has one foot in the grave.", "pos": 114201}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "He means to draw it out again, I suppose.", "pos": 114305}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Brooke ought not to allow it: he should insist on its being put off till she is of age. She would think better of it then. What is a guardian for?", "pos": 114349}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "As if you could ever squeeze a resolution out of Brooke!", "pos": 114498}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Cadwallader might talk to him.", "pos": 114557}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Not he! Humphrey finds everybody charming. I never can get him to abuse Casaubon. He will even speak well of the bishop, though I tell him it is unnatural in a beneficed clergyman; what can one do with a husband who attends so little to the decencies? I hide it as well as I can by abusing everybody myself. Come, come, cheer up! you are well rid of Miss Brooke, a girl who would have been requiring you to see the stars by daylight. Between ourselves, little Celia is worth two of her, and likely after all to be the better match. For this marriage to Casaubon is as good as going to a nunnery.", "pos": 114590}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Oh, on my own account—it is for Miss Brooke’s sake I think her friends should try to use their influence.", "pos": 115188}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Well, Humphrey doesn’t know yet. But when I tell him, you may depend on it he will say, ‘Why not? Casaubon is a good fellow—and young—young enough.’ These charitable people never know vinegar from wine till they have swallowed it and got the colic. However, if I were a man I should prefer Celia, especially when Dorothea was gone. The truth is, you have been courting one and have won the other. I can see that she admires you almost as much as a man expects to be admired. If it were any one but me who said so, you might think it exaggeration. Good-by!", "pos": 115296}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "I throw her over: there was a chance, if she had married Sir James, of her becoming a sane, sensible woman. He would never have contradicted her, and when a woman is not contradicted, she has no motive for obstinacy in her absurdities. But now I wish her joy of her hair shirt.", "pos": 120780}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, nothing!", "pos": 123792}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Could I not be preparing myself now to be more useful? could I not learn to read Latin and Greek aloud to you, as Milton’s daughters did to their father, without understanding what they read?", "pos": 125582}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I fear that would be wearisome to you, and, indeed, if I remember rightly, the young women you have mentioned regarded that exercise in unknown tongues as a ground for rebellion against the poet.", "pos": 125845}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes; but in the first place they were very naughty girls, else they would have been proud to minister to such a father; and in the second place they might have studied privately and taught themselves to understand what they read, and then it would have been interesting. I hope you don’t expect me to be naughty and stupid?", "pos": 126073}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I expect you to be all that an exquisite young lady can be in every possible relation of life. Certainly it might be a great advantage if you were able to copy the Greek character, and to that end it were well to begin with a little reading.", "pos": 126398}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, but now, Casaubon, such deep studies, classics, mathematics, that kind of thing, are too taxing for a woman—too taxing, you know.", "pos": 128725}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Dorothea is learning to read the characters simply. She had the very considerate thought of saving my eyes.", "pos": 128863}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Ah, well, without understanding, you know—that may not be so bad. But there is a lightness about the feminine mind—a touch and go—music, the fine arts, that kind of thing—they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know. A woman should be able to sit down and play you or sing you a good old English tune. That is what I like; though I have heard most things—been at the opera in Vienna: Gluck, Mozart, everything of that sort. But I’m a conservative in music—it’s not like ideas, you know. I stick to the good old tunes.", "pos": 129016}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Mr. Casaubon is not fond of the piano, and I am very glad he is not. He says there is only an old harpsichord at Lowick, and it is covered with books.", "pos": 129581}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Ah, there you are behind Celia, my dear. Celia, now, plays very prettily, and is always ready to play. However, since Casaubon does not like it, you are all right. But it’s a pity you should not have little recreations of that sort, Casaubon: the bow always strung—that kind of thing, you know—will not do.", "pos": 130103}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears teased with measured noises. A tune much iterated has the ridiculous effect of making the words in my mind perform a sort of minuet to keep time—an effect hardly tolerable, I imagine, after boyhood. As to the grander forms of music, worthy to accompany solemn celebrations, and even to serve as an educating influence according to the ancient conception, I say nothing, for with these we are not immediately concerned.", "pos": 130412}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No; but music of that sort I should enjoy. When we were coming home from Lausanne my uncle took us to hear the great organ at Freiberg, and it made me sob.", "pos": 130924}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "That kind of thing is not healthy, my dear. Casaubon, she will be in your hands now: you must teach my niece to take things more quietly, eh, Dorothea? It is wonderful, though, it is wonderful that she should have liked him. However, the match is good. I should have been travelling out of my brief to have hindered it, let Mrs. Cadwallader say what she will. He is pretty certain to be a bishop, is Casaubon. That was a very seasonable pamphlet of his on the Catholic Question:—a deanery at least. They owe him a deanery.", "pos": 131099}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Well, how are you? Sorry I missed you before. Is there anything particular? You look vexed.", "pos": 135299}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "It is only this conduct of Brooke’s. I really think somebody should speak to him.", "pos": 135584}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "What? meaning to stand? I hardly think he means it. But where’s the harm, if he likes it? Any one who objects to Whiggery should be glad when the Whigs don’t put up the strongest fellow. They won’t overturn the Constitution with our friend Brooke’s head for a battering ram.", "pos": 135668}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Oh, I don’t mean that. I mean this marriage. I mean his letting that blooming young girl marry Casaubon.", "pos": 136044}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "What is the matter with Casaubon? I see no harm in him—if the girl likes him.", "pos": 136318}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "She is too young to know what she likes. Her guardian ought to interfere. He ought not to allow the thing to be done in this headlong manner. I wonder a man like you, Cadwallader—a man with daughters, can look at the affair with indifference: and with such a heart as yours! Do think seriously about it.", "pos": 136398}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "I am not joking; I am as serious as possible. You are as bad as Elinor. She has been wanting me to go and lecture Brooke; and I have reminded her that her friends had a very poor opinion of the match she made when she married me.", "pos": 136704}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "But look at Casaubon. He must be fifty, and I don’t believe he could ever have been much more than the shadow of a man. Look at his legs!", "pos": 136993}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Confound you handsome young fellows! you think of having it all your own way in the world. You don’t understand women. They don’t admire you half so much as you admire yourselves. Elinor used to tell her sisters that she married me for my ugliness—it was so various and amusing that it had quite conquered her prudence.", "pos": 137164}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "You! it was easy enough for a woman to love you. But this is no question of beauty. I don’t like Casaubon.", "pos": 137486}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Why? what do you know against him?", "pos": 137684}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Now, Cadwallader, has he got any heart?", "pos": 138033}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Well, yes. I don’t mean of the melting sort, but a sound kernel, that you may be sure of. He is very good to his poor relations: pensions several of the women, and is educating a young fellow at a good deal of expense. Casaubon acts up to his sense of justice. His mother’s sister made a bad match—a Pole, I think—lost herself—at any rate was disowned by her family. If it had not been for that, Casaubon would not have had so much money by half. I believe he went himself to find out his cousins, and see what he could do for them. Every man would not ring so well as that, if you tried his metal. You would, Chettam; but not every man.", "pos": 138075}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I don’t know. I am not so sure of myself. That was a right thing for Casaubon to do. But a man may wish to do what is right, and yet be a sort of parchment code. A woman may not be happy with him. And I think when a girl is so young as Miss Brooke is, her friends ought to interfere a little to hinder her from doing anything foolish. You laugh, because you fancy I have some feeling on my own account. But upon my honor, it is not that. I should feel just the same if I were Miss Brooke’s brother or uncle.", "pos": 138715}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Well, but what should you do?", "pos": 139291}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I should say that the marriage must not be decided on until she was of age. And depend upon it, in that case, it would never come off. I wish you saw it as I do—I wish you would talk to Brooke about it.", "pos": 139323}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "I hear what you are talking about. But you will make no impression on Humphrey. As long as the fish rise to his bait, everybody is what he ought to be. Bless you, Casaubon has got a trout-stream, and does not care about fishing in it himself: could there be a better fellow?", "pos": 139759}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Well, there is something in that. It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.", "pos": 140053}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "But seriously, don’t you think the Rector might do some good by speaking?", "pos": 140197}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Oh, I told you beforehand what he would say. I have done what I could: I wash my hands of the marriage.", "pos": 140332}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "In the first place, it would be nonsensical to expect that I could convince Brooke, and make him act accordingly. Brooke is a very good fellow, but pulpy; he will run into any mould, but he won’t keep shape.", "pos": 140533}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "He might keep shape long enough to defer the marriage.", "pos": 140743}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "But, my dear Chettam, why should I use my influence to Casaubon’s disadvantage, unless I were much surer than I am that I should be acting for the advantage of Miss Brooke? I know no harm of Casaubon. I don’t care about his Xisuthrus and Fee-fo-fum and the rest; but then he doesn’t care about my fishing-tackle. As to the line he took on the Catholic Question, that was unexpected; but he has always been civil to me, and I don’t see why I should spoil his sport. For anything I can tell, Miss Brooke may be happier with him than she would be with any other man.", "pos": 140816}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Humphrey! I have no patience with you. You know you would rather dine under the hedge than with Casaubon alone. You have nothing to say to each other.", "pos": 141382}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "What has that to do with Miss Brooke’s marrying him? She does not do it for my amusement.", "pos": 141535}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "He has got no good red blood in his body.", "pos": 141627}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.", "pos": 141687}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Why does he not bring out his book, instead of marrying,", "pos": 141804}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Oh, he dreams footnotes, and they run away with all his brains. They say, when he was a little boy, he made an abstract of ‘Hop o’ my Thumb,’ and he has been making abstracts ever since. Ugh! And that is the man Humphrey goes on saying that a woman may be happy with.", "pos": 141961}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Well, he is what Miss Brooke likes. I don’t profess to understand every young lady’s taste.", "pos": 142231}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "But if she were your own daughter?", "pos": 142344}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "That would be a different affair. She is not my daughter, and I don’t feel called upon to interfere. Casaubon is as good as most of us. He is a scholarly clergyman, and creditable to the cloth. Some Radical fellow speechifying at Middlemarch said Casaubon was the learned straw-chopping incumbent, and Freke was the brick-and-mortar incumbent, and I was the angling incumbent. And upon my word, I don’t see that one is worse or better than the other.", "pos": 142397}
{"speaker": "1_st Gent_", "text": "An ancient land in ancient oracles Is called “law-thirsty”: all the struggle there Was after order and a perfect rule. Pray, where lie such lands now? . . .", "pos": 144520}
{"speaker": "2_d Gent_", "text": "Why, where they lay of old—in human souls.", "pos": 144686}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Oh dear! I am sure Freshitt Hall would have been pleasanter than this.", "pos": 146885}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Now, my dear Dorothea, I wish you to favor me by pointing out which room you would like to have as your boudoir,", "pos": 149234}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It is very kind of you to think of that, but I assure you I would rather have all those matters decided for me. I shall be much happier to take everything as it is—just as you have been used to have it, or as you will yourself choose it to be. I have no motive for wishing anything else.", "pos": 149466}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Oh, Dodo, will you not have the bow-windowed room up-stairs?", "pos": 149773}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Yes, this would be a pretty room with some new hangings, sofas, and that sort of thing. A little bare now.", "pos": 150414}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, uncle. Pray do not speak of altering anything. There are so many other things in the world that want altering—I like to take these things as they are. And you like them as they are, don’t you? Perhaps this was your mother’s room when she was young.", "pos": 150542}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "It was,", "pos": 150861}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "This is your mother. It is like the tiny one you brought me; only, I should think, a better portrait. And this one opposite, who is this?", "pos": 150912}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Her elder sister. They were, like you and your sister, the only two children of their parents, who hang above them, you see.", "pos": 151120}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "The sister is pretty,", "pos": 151247}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It is a peculiar face. Those deep gray eyes rather near together—and the delicate irregular nose with a sort of ripple in it—and all the powdered curls hanging backward. Altogether it seems to me peculiar rather than pretty. There is not even a family likeness between her and your mother.", "pos": 151487}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "No. And they were not alike in their lot.", "pos": 151813}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You did not mention her to me,", "pos": 151857}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "My aunt made an unfortunate marriage. I never saw her.", "pos": 151905}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Shall we not walk in the garden now?", "pos": 152224}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "And you would like to see the church, you know. It is a droll little church. And the village. It all lies in a nut-shell. By the way, it will suit you, Dorothea; for the cottages are like a row of alms-houses—little gardens, gilly-flowers, that sort of thing.", "pos": 152278}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes, please. I should like to see all that.", "pos": 152559}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Do you know, Dorothea, I saw some one quite young coming up one of the walks.", "pos": 153251}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Is that astonishing, Celia?", "pos": 153331}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "There may be a young gardener, you know—why not? I told Casaubon he should change his gardener.", "pos": 153361}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "No, not a gardener, a gentleman with a sketch-book. He had light-brown curls. I only saw his back. But he was quite young.", "pos": 153478}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "The curate’s son, perhaps. Ah, there is Casaubon again, and Tucker with him. He is going to introduce Tucker. You don’t know Tucker yet.", "pos": 153617}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Your farmers leave some barley for the women to glean, I see. The poor folks here might have a fowl in their pot, as the good French king used to wish for all his people. The French eat a good many fowls—skinny fowls, you know.", "pos": 155331}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I think it was a very cheap wish of his. Are kings such monsters that a wish like that must be reckoned a royal virtue?", "pos": 155561}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "And if he wished them a skinny fowl, that would not be nice. But perhaps he wished them to have fat fowls.", "pos": 155713}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Yes, but the word has dropped out of the text, or perhaps was subauditum; that is, present in the king’s mind, but not uttered,", "pos": 155836}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "You seem a little sad, Dorothea. I trust you are pleased with what you have seen.", "pos": 156980}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am feeling something which is perhaps foolish and wrong, almost wishing that the people wanted more to be done for them here. I have known so few ways of making my life good for anything. Of course, my notions of usefulness must be narrow. I must learn new ways of helping people.", "pos": 157064}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Doubtless. Each position has its corresponding duties. Yours, I trust, as the mistress of Lowick, will not leave any yearning unfulfilled.", "pos": 157394}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Indeed, I believe that. Do not suppose that I am sad.", "pos": 157556}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "That is well. But, if you are not tired, we will take another way to the house than that by which we came.", "pos": 157640}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Who is that youngster, Casaubon?", "pos": 158108}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "That is a young relative of mine, a second cousin: the grandson, in fact, of the lady whose portrait you have been noticing, my aunt Julia. Dorothea, let me introduce to you my cousin, Mr. Ladislaw. Will, this is Miss Brooke.", "pos": 158195}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "You are an artist, I see,", "pos": 159137}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No, I only sketch a little. There is nothing fit to be seen there,", "pos": 159258}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Oh, come, this is a nice bit, now. I did a little in this way myself at one time, you know. Look here, now; this is what I call a nice thing, done with what we used to call brio.", "pos": 159399}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am no judge of these things. You know, uncle, I never see the beauty of those pictures which you say are so much praised. They are a language I do not understand. 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.", "pos": 159685}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Bless me, now, how different people are! But you had a bad style of teaching, you know—else this is just the thing for girls—sketching, fine art and so on. But you took to drawing plans; you don’t understand morbidezza, and that kind of thing. You will come to my house, I hope, and I will show you what I did in this way,", "pos": 160215}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "We will turn over my Italian engravings together. I have no end of those things, that I have laid by for years. One gets rusty in this part of the country, you know. Not you, Casaubon; you stick to your studies; but my best ideas get undermost—out of use, you know. You clever young men must guard against indolence. I was too indolent, you know: else I might have been anywhere at one time.", "pos": 161351}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "That is a seasonable admonition, but now we will pass on to the house, lest the young ladies should be tired of standing.", "pos": 161780}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "What is your nephew going to do with himself, Casaubon?", "pos": 162583}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "My cousin, you mean—not my nephew.", "pos": 162675}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Yes, yes, cousin. But in the way of a career, you know.", "pos": 162712}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "The answer to that question is painfully doubtful. On leaving Rugby he declined to go to an English university, where I would gladly have placed him, and chose what I must consider the anomalous course of studying at Heidelberg. And now he wants to go abroad again, without any special object, save the vague purpose of what he calls culture, preparation for he knows not what. He declines to choose a profession.", "pos": 162770}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "He has no means but what you furnish, I suppose.", "pos": 163186}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I have always given him and his friends reason to understand that I would furnish in moderation what was necessary for providing him with a scholarly education, and launching him respectably. I am therefore bound to fulfil the expectation so raised,", "pos": 163237}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "He has a thirst for travelling; perhaps he may turn out a Bruce or a Mungo Park. I had a notion of that myself at one time.", "pos": 163620}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "No, he has no bent towards exploration, or the enlargement of our geognosis: that would be a special purpose which I could recognize with some approbation, though without felicitating him on a career which so often ends in premature and violent death. But so far is he from having any desire for a more accurate knowledge of the earth’s surface, that he said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting grounds for the poetic imagination.", "pos": 163765}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, there is something in that, you know,", "pos": 164283}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "It is, I fear, nothing more than a part of his general inaccuracy and indisposition to thoroughness of all kinds, which would be a bad augury for him in any profession, civil or sacred, even were he so far submissive to ordinary rule as to choose one.", "pos": 164383}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Perhaps he has conscientious scruples founded on his own unfitness. Because the law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People’s lives and fortunes depend on them.", "pos": 164637}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "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 to that kind of acquirement which is needful instrumentally, but is not charming or immediately inviting to self-indulgent taste. I have insisted to him on what Aristotle has stated with admirable brevity, that for the achievement of any work regarded as an end there must be a prior exercise of many energies or acquired facilities of a secondary order, demanding patience. I have pointed to my own manuscript volumes, which represent the toil of years preparatory to a work not yet accomplished. But in vain. To careful reasoning of this kind he replies by calling himself Pegasus, and every form of prescribed work ‘harness.’", "pos": 164927}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, you know, he may turn out a Byron, a Chatterton, a Churchill—that sort of thing—there’s no telling. Shall you let him go to Italy, or wherever else he wants to go?", "pos": 165807}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Yes; I have agreed to furnish him with moderate supplies for a year or so; he asks no more. I shall let him be tried by the test of freedom.", "pos": 165998}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "That is very kind of you. It is noble. After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.", "pos": 166141}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I suppose it is being engaged to be married that has made you think patience good,", "pos": 166456}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You mean that I am very impatient, Celia.", "pos": 166630}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Yes; when people don’t do and say just what you like.", "pos": 166674}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I still regret that your sister is not to accompany us. You will have many lonely hours, Dorothea, for I shall be constrained to make the utmost use of my time during our stay in Rome, and I should feel more at liberty if you had a companion.", "pos": 176785}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You must have misunderstood me very much, 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.", "pos": 177311}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "That is very amiable in you, my dear Dorothea, but if you had a lady as your companion, I could put you both under the care of a cicerone, and we could thus achieve two purposes in the same space of time.", "pos": 177536}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I beg you will not refer to this again. Pray do not be anxious about me. I shall have so much to think of when I am alone. And Tantripp will be a sufficient companion, just to take care of me. I could not bear to have Celia: she would be miserable.", "pos": 177809}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Surely I am in a strangely selfish weak state of mind. How can I have a husband who is so much above me without knowing that he needs me less than I need him?", "pos": 178835}
{"speaker": "Mr. Standish", "text": "A fine woman, Miss Brooke! an uncommonly fine woman, by God!", "pos": 181073}
{"speaker": "Mr. Chichely", "text": "Yes, but not my style of woman: I like a woman who lays herself out a little more to please us. There should be a little filigree about a woman—something of the coquette. A man likes a sort of challenge. The more of a dead set she makes at you the better.", "pos": 181758}
{"speaker": "Mr. Standish", "text": "There’s some truth in that. And, by God, it’s usually the way with them. I suppose it answers some wise ends: Providence made them so, eh, Bulstrode?", "pos": 182016}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I should be disposed to refer coquetry to another source. I should rather refer it to the devil.", "pos": 182212}
{"speaker": "Mr. Chichely", "text": "Ay, to be sure, there should be a little devil in a woman. And I like them blond, with a certain gait, and a swan neck. Between ourselves, the mayor’s daughter is more to my taste than Miss Brooke or Miss Celia either. If I were a marrying man I should choose Miss Vincy before either of them.", "pos": 182333}
{"speaker": "Mr. Standish", "text": "Well, make up, make up, you see the middle-aged fellows carry the day.", "pos": 182727}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "Where can all the strength of those medicines go, my dear?", "pos": 183896}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "It strengthens the disease. Everything depends on the constitution: some people make fat, some blood, and some bile—that’s my view of the matter; and whatever they take is a sort of grist to the mill.", "pos": 184081}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "Then she ought to take medicines that would reduce—reduce the disease, you know, if you are right, my dear. And I think what you say is reasonable.", "pos": 184363}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Certainly it is reasonable. You have two sorts of potatoes, fed on the same soil. One of them grows more and more watery—", "pos": 184513}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "Ah! like this poor Mrs. Renfrew—that is what I think. Dropsy! There is no swelling yet—it is inward. I should say she ought to take drying medicines, shouldn’t you?—or a dry hot-air bath. Many things might be tried, of a drying nature.", "pos": 184637}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Let her try a certain person’s pamphlets. He does not want drying.", "pos": 184875}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "Who, my dear?", "pos": 185013}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "The bridegroom—Casaubon. He has certainly been drying up faster since the engagement: the flame of passion, I suppose.", "pos": 185122}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "I should think he is far from having a good constitution. And then his studies—so very dry, as you say.", "pos": 185243}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Really, by the side of Sir James, he looks like a death’s head skinned over for the occasion. Mark my words: in a year from this time that girl will hate him. She looks up to him as an oracle now, and by-and-by she will be at the other extreme. All flightiness!", "pos": 185401}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "How very shocking! I fear she is headstrong. But tell me—you know all about him—is there anything very bad? What is the truth?", "pos": 185665}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "The truth? he is as bad as the wrong physic—nasty to take, and sure to disagree.", "pos": 185794}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "There could not be anything worse than that. However, James will hear nothing against Miss Brooke. He says she is the mirror of women still.", "pos": 185877}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "That is a generous make-believe of his. Depend upon it, he likes little Celia better, and she appreciates him. I hope you like my little Celia?", "pos": 186166}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "Certainly; she is fonder of geraniums, and seems more docile, though not so fine a figure. But we were talking of physic. Tell me about this new young surgeon, Mr. Lydgate. I am told he is wonderfully clever: he certainly looks it—a fine brow indeed.", "pos": 186312}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "He is a gentleman. I heard him talking to Humphrey. He talks well.", "pos": 186565}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "Yes. Mr. Brooke says he is one of the Lydgates of Northumberland, really well connected. One does not expect it in a practitioner of that kind. For my own part, I like a medical man more on a footing with the servants; they are often all the cleverer. I assure you I found poor Hicks’s judgment unfailing; I never knew him wrong. He was coarse and butcher-like, but he knew my constitution. It was a loss to me his going off so suddenly. Dear me, what a very animated conversation Miss Brooke seems to be having with this Mr. Lydgate!", "pos": 186634}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "She is talking cottages and hospitals with him. I believe he is a sort of philanthropist, so Brooke is sure to take him up.", "pos": 187171}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "James, bring Mr. Lydgate and introduce him to me. I want to test him.", "pos": 187373}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I think so", "pos": 188339}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "I am quite pleased with your protege,", "pos": 188481}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "My protege?—dear me!—who is that?", "pos": 188563}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "This young Lydgate, the new doctor. He seems to me to understand his profession admirably.", "pos": 188616}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Oh, Lydgate! he is not my protege, you know; only I knew an uncle of his who sent me a letter about him. However, I think he is likely to be first-rate—has studied in Paris, knew Broussais; has ideas, you know—wants to raise the profession. Lydgate has lots of ideas, quite new, about ventilation and diet, that sort of thing,", "pos": 188709}
{"speaker": "Mr. Standish", "text": "Hang it, do you think that is quite sound?—upsetting the old treatment, which has made Englishmen what they are?", "pos": 189157}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Medical knowledge is at a low ebb among us. I, for my part, hail the advent of Mr. Lydgate. I hope to find good reason for confiding the new hospital to his management.", "pos": 189291}
{"speaker": "Mr. Standish", "text": "That is all very fine, if you like him to try experiments on your hospital patients, and kill a few people for charity I have no objection. But I am not going to hand money out of my purse to have experiments tried on me. I like treatment that has been tested a little.", "pos": 189542}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, you know, Standish, every dose you take is an experiment-an experiment, you know,", "pos": 189873}
{"speaker": "Mr. Standish", "text": "Oh, if you talk in that sense!", "pos": 190008}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "I should be glad of any treatment that would cure me without reducing me to a skeleton, like poor Grainger. It’s an uncommonly dangerous thing to be left without any padding against the shafts of disease, as somebody said,—and I think it a very good expression myself.", "pos": 190161}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Knock at Mr. Fred’s door again, Pritchard, and tell him it has struck half-past ten.", "pos": 201212}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Mamma, when Fred comes down I wish you would not let him have red herrings. I cannot bear the smell of them all over the house at this hour of the morning.", "pos": 201564}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Oh, my dear, you are so hard on your brothers! It is the only fault I have to find with you. You are the sweetest temper in the world, but you are so tetchy with your brothers.", "pos": 201739}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Not tetchy, mamma: you never hear me speak in an unladylike way.", "pos": 201918}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Well, but you want to deny them things.", "pos": 201985}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Brothers are so unpleasant.", "pos": 202027}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Oh, my dear, you must allow for young men. Be thankful if they have good hearts. A woman must learn to put up with little things. You will be married some day.", "pos": 202057}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Not to any one who is like Fred.", "pos": 202219}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Don’t decry your own brother, my dear. Few young men have less against them, although he couldn’t take his degree—I’m sure I can’t understand why, for he seems to me most clever. And you know yourself he was thought equal to the best society at college. So particular as you are, my dear, I wonder you are not glad to have such a gentlemanly young man for a brother. You are always finding fault with Bob because he is not Fred.", "pos": 202254}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Oh no, mamma, only because he is Bob.", "pos": 202685}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Well, my dear, you will not find any Middlemarch young man who has not something against him.", "pos": 202725}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "But", "pos": 202821}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "So it seems, my love, for you have as good as refused the pick of them; and if there’s better to be had, I’m sure there’s no girl better deserves it.", "pos": 203042}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Excuse me, mamma—I wish you would not say, ‘the pick of them.’", "pos": 203194}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Why, what else are they?", "pos": 203259}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I mean, mamma, it is rather a vulgar expression.", "pos": 203286}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Very likely, my dear; I never was a good speaker. What should I say?", "pos": 203337}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "The best of them.", "pos": 203408}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Why, that seems just as plain and common. If I had had time to think, I should have said, ‘the most superior young men.’ But with your education you must know.", "pos": 203428}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "What must Rosy know, mother?", "pos": 203590}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Whether it’s right to say ‘superior young men,’", "pos": 203833}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Oh, there are so many superior teas and sugars now. Superior is getting to be shopkeepers’ slang.", "pos": 203918}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Are you beginning to dislike slang, then?", "pos": 204018}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Only the wrong sort. All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.", "pos": 204096}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "There is correct English: that is not slang.", "pos": 204167}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.", "pos": 204214}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "You will say anything, Fred, to gain your point.", "pos": 204357}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Well, tell me whether it is slang or poetry to call an ox a leg-plaiter.", "pos": 204408}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Of course you can call it poetry if you like.", "pos": 204483}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Aha, Miss Rosy, you don’t know Homer from slang. I shall invent a new game; I shall write bits of slang and poetry on slips, and give them to you to separate.", "pos": 204531}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Dear me, how amusing it is to hear young people talk!", "pos": 204692}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Have you got nothing else for my breakfast, Pritchard? Eggs, no! Bring me a grilled bone.", "pos": 204791}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Really, Fred, if you must have hot things for breakfast, I wish you would come down earlier. You can get up at six o’clock to go out hunting; I cannot understand why you find it so difficult to get up on other mornings.", "pos": 205203}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "That is your want of understanding, Rosy. I can get up to go hunting because I like it.", "pos": 205425}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "What would you think of me if I came down two hours after every one else and ordered grilled bone?", "pos": 205515}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I should think you were an uncommonly fast young lady,", "pos": 205616}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I cannot see why brothers are to make themselves disagreeable, any more than sisters.", "pos": 205728}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I don’t make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions.", "pos": 205816}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I think it describes the smell of grilled bone.", "pos": 205950}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Not at all. It describes a sensation in your little nose associated with certain finicking notions which are the classics of Mrs. Lemon’s school. Look at my mother; you don’t see her objecting to everything except what she does herself. She is my notion of a pleasant woman.", "pos": 206000}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Bless you both, my dears, and don’t quarrel. Come, Fred, tell us all about the new doctor. How is your uncle pleased with him?", "pos": 206277}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Pretty well, I think. He asks Lydgate all sorts of questions and then screws up his face while he hears the answers, as if they were pinching his toes. That’s his way. Ah, here comes my grilled bone.", "pos": 206451}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "But how came you to stay out so late, my dear? You only said you were going to your uncle’s.", "pos": 206653}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Oh, I dined at Plymdale’s. We had whist. Lydgate was there too.", "pos": 206748}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "And what do you think of him? He is very gentlemanly, I suppose. They say he is of excellent family—his relations quite county people.", "pos": 206814}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Yes. There was a Lydgate at John’s who spent no end of money. I find this man is a second cousin of his. But rich men may have very poor devils for second cousins.", "pos": 206951}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "It always makes a difference, though, to be of good family,", "pos": 207130}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "I thought it was odd his name was Tertius, but of course it’s a name in the family. But now, tell us exactly what sort of man he is.", "pos": 207658}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Oh, tallish, dark, clever—talks well—rather a prig, I think.", "pos": 207825}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I never can make out what you mean by a prig.", "pos": 207888}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "A fellow who wants to show that he has opinions.", "pos": 207951}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Why, my dear, doctors must have opinions. What are they there for else?", "pos": 208002}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Yes, mother, the opinions they are paid for. But a prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.", "pos": 208095}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I suppose Mary Garth admires Mr. Lydgate,", "pos": 208217}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Really, I can’t say. If you are jealous of her, go oftener to Stone Court yourself and eclipse her.", "pos": 208309}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I wish you would not be so vulgar, Fred. If you have finished, pray ring the bell.", "pos": 208552}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "It is true, though—what your brother says, Rosamond. It is a thousand pities you haven’t patience to go and see your uncle more, so proud of you as he is, and wanted you to live with him. There’s no knowing what he might have done for you as well as for Fred. God knows, I’m fond of having you at home with me, but I can part with my children for their good. And now it stands to reason that your uncle Featherstone will do something for Mary Garth.", "pos": 208637}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Mary Garth can bear being at Stone Court, because she likes that better than being a governess. I would rather not have anything left to me if I must earn it by enduring much of my uncle’s cough and his ugly relations.", "pos": 209149}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "He can’t be long for this world, my dear; I wouldn’t hasten his end, but what with asthma and that inward complaint, let us hope there is something better for him in another. And I have no ill-will towards Mary Garth, but there’s justice to be thought of. And Mr. Featherstone’s first wife brought him no money, as my sister did. Her nieces and nephews can’t have so much claim as my sister’s. And I must say I think Mary Garth a dreadful plain girl—more fit for a governess.", "pos": 209408}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Every one would not agree with you there, mother,", "pos": 209886}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Well, my dear, if she had some fortune left her,—a man marries his wife’s relations, and the Garths are so poor, and live in such a small way. But I shall leave you to your studies, my dear; for I must go and do some shopping.", "pos": 210034}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Fred’s studies are not very deep, he is only reading a novel.", "pos": 210263}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Well, well, by-and-by he’ll go to his Latin and things. There’s a fire in the smoking-room on purpose. It’s your father’s wish, you know—Fred, my dear—and I always tell him you will be good, and go to college again to take your degree.", "pos": 210367}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I suppose you are not going out riding to-day?", "pos": 210725}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "No; why?", "pos": 210834}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Papa says I may have the chestnut to ride now.", "pos": 210845}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "You can go with me to-morrow, if you like. Only I am going to Stone Court, remember.", "pos": 210894}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I want to ride so much, it is indifferent to me where we go.", "pos": 210981}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Oh, I say, Rosy, if you are going to the piano, let me come and play some airs with you.", "pos": 211110}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Pray do not ask me this morning.", "pos": 211250}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Why not this morning?", "pos": 211285}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Really, Fred, I wish you would leave off playing the flute. A man looks very silly playing the flute. And you play so out of tune.", "pos": 211309}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "When next any one makes love to you, Miss Rosamond, I will tell him how obliging you are.", "pos": 211442}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Why should you expect me to oblige you by hearing you play the flute, any more than I should expect you to oblige me by not playing it?", "pos": 211534}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "And why should you expect me to take you out riding?", "pos": 211672}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "What are you driving at there?", "pos": 215632}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Tchah! you said nothing o’ the sort. You said somebody had made free with my name.", "pos": 216481}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "And no more than can be proved, if what everybody says is true. My brother Solomon tells me it’s the talk up and down in Middlemarch how unsteady young Vincy is, and has been forever gambling at billiards since home he came.", "pos": 216566}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Nonsense! What’s a game at billiards? It’s a good gentlemanly game; and young Vincy is not a clodhopper. If your son John took to billiards, now, he’d make a fool of himself.", "pos": 216793}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "Your nephew John never took to billiards or any other game, brother, and is far from losing hundreds of pounds, which, if what everybody says is true, must be found somewhere else than out of Mr. Vincy the father’s pocket. For they say he’s been losing money for years, though nobody would think so, to see him go coursing and keeping open house as they do. And I’ve heard say Mr. Bulstrode condemns Mrs. Vincy beyond anything for her flightiness, and spoiling her children so.", "pos": 216970}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "What’s Bulstrode to me? I don’t bank with him.", "pos": 217450}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "Well, Mrs. Bulstrode is Mr. Vincy’s own sister, and they do say that Mr. Vincy mostly trades on the Bank money; and you may see yourself, brother, when a woman past forty has pink strings always flying, and that light way of laughing at everything, it’s very unbecoming. But indulging your children is one thing, and finding money to pay their debts is another. And it’s openly said that young Vincy has raised money on his expectations. I don’t say what expectations. Miss Garth hears me, and is welcome to tell again. I know young people hang together.", "pos": 217498}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "No, thank you, Mrs. Waule. I dislike hearing scandal too much to wish to repeat it.", "pos": 218055}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "And who pretends to say Fred Vincy hasn’t got expectations? Such a fine, spirited fellow is like enough to have ’em.", "pos": 218374}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "Whether or no, brother, it is naturally painful to me and my brother Solomon to hear your name made free with, and your complaint being such as may carry you off sudden, and people who are no more Featherstones than the Merry-Andrew at the fair, openly reckoning on your property coming to them. And me your own sister, and Solomon your own brother! And if that’s to be it, what has it pleased the Almighty to make families for?", "pos": 218651}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Come, out with it, Jane! You mean to say, Fred Vincy has been getting somebody to advance him money on what he says he knows about my will, eh?", "pos": 219133}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "I never said so, brother It was told me by my brother Solomon last night when he called coming from market to give me advice about the old wheat, me being a widow, and my son John only three-and-twenty, though steady beyond anything. And he had it from most undeniable authority, and not one, but many.", "pos": 219320}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Stuff and nonsense! I don’t believe a word of it. It’s all a got-up story. Go to the window, missy; I thought I heard a horse. See if the doctor’s coming.", "pos": 219683}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "Not got up by me, brother, nor yet by Solomon, who, whatever else he may be—and I don’t deny he has oddities—has made his will and parted his property equal between such kin as he’s friends with; though, for my part, I think there are times when some should be considered more than others. But Solomon makes it no secret what he means to do.", "pos": 219840}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "The more fool he!", "pos": 220184}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "How do you do, miss?", "pos": 220610}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Heyday, miss! you have a fine color. Where’s Fred?", "pos": 220758}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Seeing about the horses. He will be in presently.", "pos": 220830}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Sit down, sit down. Mrs. Waule, you’d better go.", "pos": 220882}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "Brother, I hope the new doctor will be able to do something for you. Solomon says there’s great talk of his cleverness. I’m sure it’s my wish you should be spared. And there’s none more ready to nurse you than your own sister and your own nieces, if you’d only say the word. There’s Rebecca, and Joanna, and Elizabeth, you know.", "pos": 221422}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Ay, ay, I remember—you’ll see I’ve remembered ’em all—all dark and ugly. They’d need have some money, eh? There never was any beauty in the women of our family; but the Featherstones have always had some money, and the Waules too. Waule had money too. A warm man was Waule. Ay, ay; money’s a good egg; and if you’ve got money to leave behind you, lay it in a warm nest. Good-by, Mrs. Waule.", "pos": 221753}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "You two misses go away. I want to speak to Fred.", "pos": 223328}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Come into my room, Rosamond, you will not mind the cold for a little while,", "pos": 223404}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "So, sir, you’ve been paying ten per cent for money which you’ve promised to pay off by mortgaging my land when I’m dead and gone, eh? You put my life at a twelvemonth, say. But I can alter my will yet.", "pos": 224383}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I don’t know what you refer to, sir. I have certainly never borrowed any money on such an insecurity. Please do explain.", "pos": 224862}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "No, sir, it’s you must explain. I can alter my will yet, let me tell you. I’m of sound mind—can reckon compound interest in my head, and remember every fool’s name as well as I could twenty years ago. What the deuce? I’m under eighty. I say, you must contradict this story.", "pos": 224985}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I have contradicted it, sir. But I contradict it again. The story is a silly lie.", "pos": 225261}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Nonsense! you must bring dockiments. It comes from authority.", "pos": 225636}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Name the authority, and make him name the man of whom I borrowed the money, and then I can disprove the story.", "pos": 225700}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "It’s pretty good authority, I think—a man who knows most of what goes on in Middlemarch. It’s that fine, religious, charitable uncle o’ yours. Come now!", "pos": 225813}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Mr. Bulstrode?", "pos": 226047}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Who else, eh?", "pos": 226064}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Then the story has grown into this lie out of some sermonizing words he may have let fall about me. Do they pretend that he named the man who lent me the money?", "pos": 226080}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "If there is such a man, depend upon it Bulstrode knows him. But, supposing you only tried to get the money lent, and didn’t get it—Bulstrode ’ud know that too. You bring me a writing from Bulstrode to say he doesn’t believe you’ve ever promised to pay your debts out o’ my land. Come now!", "pos": 226243}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "You must be joking, sir. Mr. Bulstrode, like other men, believes scores of things that are not true, and he has a prejudice against me. I could easily get him to write that he knew no facts in proof of the report you speak of, though it might lead to unpleasantness. But I could hardly ask him to write down what he believes or does not believe about me. That is hardly a thing for a gentleman to ask.", "pos": 226722}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Ay, I know what you mean. You’d sooner offend me than Bulstrode. And what’s he?—he’s got no land hereabout that ever I heard tell of. A speckilating fellow! He may come down any day, when the devil leaves off backing him. And that’s what his religion means: he wants God A’mighty to come in. That’s nonsense! There’s one thing I made out pretty clear when I used to go to church—and it’s this: God A’mighty sticks to the land. He promises land, and He gives land, and He makes chaps rich with corn and cattle. But you take the other side. You like Bulstrode and speckilation better than Featherstone and land.", "pos": 227248}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I beg your pardon, sir. I like neither Bulstrode nor speculation.", "pos": 227860}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Well, well, you can do without me, that’s pretty clear. You neither want a bit of land to make a squire of you instead of a starving parson, nor a lift of a hundred pound by the way. It’s all one to me. I can make five codicils if I like, and I shall keep my bank-notes for a nest-egg. It’s all one to me.", "pos": 228073}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I am not ungrateful, sir. I never meant to show disregard for any kind intentions you might have towards me. On the contrary.", "pos": 228705}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Very good. Then prove it. You bring me a letter from Bulstrode saying he doesn’t believe you’ve been cracking and promising to pay your debts out o’ my land, and then, if there’s any scrape you’ve got into, we’ll see if I can’t back you a bit. Come now! That’s a bargain. Here, give me your arm. I’ll try and walk round the room.", "pos": 228833}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Read me the names o’ the books. Come now! you’re a college man. What did missy want with more books? What must you be bringing her more books for?", "pos": 229787}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "They amuse her, sir. She is very fond of reading.", "pos": 229964}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "A little too fond. She was for reading when she sat with me. But I put a stop to that. She’s got the newspaper to read out loud. That’s enough for one day, I should think. I can’t abide to see her reading to herself. You mind and not bring her any more books, do you hear?", "pos": 230016}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Yes, sir, I hear.", "pos": 230328}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Ring the bell. I want missy to come down.", "pos": 230449}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "What a brown patch I am by the side of you, Rosy! You are the most unbecoming companion.", "pos": 233243}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Oh no! No one thinks of your appearance, you are so sensible and useful, Mary. Beauty is of very little consequence in reality,", "pos": 233334}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "You mean my beauty,", "pos": 233580}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "What have you been doing lately?", "pos": 233715}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I? Oh, minding the house—pouring out syrup—pretending to be amiable and contented—learning to have a bad opinion of everybody.", "pos": 233750}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "It is a wretched life for you.", "pos": 233879}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "No. I think my life is pleasanter than your Miss Morgan’s.", "pos": 233912}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Yes; but Miss Morgan is so uninteresting, and not young.", "pos": 234026}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "She is interesting to herself, I suppose; and I am not at all sure that everything gets easier as one gets older.", "pos": 234085}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "No, one wonders what such people do, without any prospect. To be sure, there is religion as a support. But, it is very different with you, Mary. You may have an offer.", "pos": 234201}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Has any one told you he means to make me one?", "pos": 234425}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Of course not. I mean, there is a gentleman who may fall in love with you, seeing you almost every day.", "pos": 234473}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Does that always make people fall in love? it seems to me quite as often a reason for detesting each other.", "pos": 234673}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Not when they are interesting and agreeable. I hear that Mr. Lydgate is both.", "pos": 234811}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Oh, Mr. Lydgate! You want to know something about him,", "pos": 234891}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Merely, how you like him.", "pos": 235067}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "There is no question of liking at present. My liking always wants some little kindness to kindle it. I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me.", "pos": 235095}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Is he so haughty? You know that he is of good family?", "pos": 235284}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "No; he did not give that as a reason.", "pos": 235387}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Mary! you are the oddest girl. But what sort of looking man is he? Describe him to me.", "pos": 235427}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "How can one describe a man? I can give you an inventory: heavy eyebrows, dark eyes, a straight nose, thick dark hair, large solid white hands—and—let me see—oh, an exquisite cambric pocket-handkerchief. But you will see him. You know this is about the time of his visits.", "pos": 235515}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I rather like a haughty manner. I cannot endure a rattling young man.", "pos": 235840}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I did not tell you that Mr. Lydgate was haughty; but il y en a pour tous les goûts, as little Mamselle used to say, and if any girl can choose the particular sort of conceit she would like, I should think it is you, Rosy.", "pos": 235912}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Haughtiness is not conceit; I call Fred conceited.", "pos": 236136}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I wish no one said any worse of him. He should be more careful. Mrs. Waule has been telling uncle that Fred is very unsteady.", "pos": 236189}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Oh, Fred is horrid!", "pos": 236596}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "What do you mean by horrid?", "pos": 236710}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "He is so idle, and makes papa so angry, and says he will not take orders.", "pos": 236740}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I think Fred is quite right.", "pos": 236816}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "How can you say he is quite right, Mary? I thought you had more sense of religion.", "pos": 236847}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "He is not fit to be a clergyman.", "pos": 236932}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "But he ought to be fit.", "pos": 236967}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Well, then, he is not what he ought to be. I know some other people who are in the same case.", "pos": 236993}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "But no one approves of them. I should not like to marry a clergyman; but there must be clergymen.", "pos": 237089}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "It does not follow that Fred must be one.", "pos": 237189}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "But when papa has been at the expense of educating him for it! And only suppose, if he should have no fortune left him?", "pos": 237233}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I can suppose that very well,", "pos": 237355}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Then I wonder you can defend Fred,", "pos": 237405}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I don’t defend him. I would defend any parish from having him for a clergyman.", "pos": 237486}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "But of course if he were a clergyman, he must be different.", "pos": 237590}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Yes, he would be a great hypocrite; and he is not that yet.", "pos": 237652}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "It is of no use saying anything to you, Mary. You always take Fred’s part.", "pos": 237714}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Why should I not take his part? He would take mine. He is the only person who takes the least trouble to oblige me.", "pos": 237791}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "You make me feel very uncomfortable, Mary. I would not tell mamma for the world.", "pos": 237935}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "What would you not tell her?", "pos": 238062}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Pray do not go into a rage, Mary,", "pos": 238113}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "If your mamma is afraid that Fred will make me an offer, tell her that I would not marry him if he asked me. But he is not going to do so, that I am aware. He certainly never has asked me.", "pos": 238180}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Mary, you are always so violent.", "pos": 238371}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "And you are always so exasperating.", "pos": 238406}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I? What can you blame me for?", "pos": 238444}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Oh, blameless people are always the most exasperating. There is the bell—I think we must go down.", "pos": 238476}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I did not mean to quarrel,", "pos": 238576}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?", "pos": 238640}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Am I to repeat what you have said?", "pos": 238764}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Just as you please. I never say what I am afraid of having repeated. But let us go down.", "pos": 238801}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Miss Rosy has been singing me a song—you’ve nothing to say against that, eh, doctor? I like it better than your physic.", "pos": 240496}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "That has made me forget how the time was going. Fred, we must really go.", "pos": 240643}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Very good,", "pos": 240895}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Miss Vincy is a musician?", "pos": 241002}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "The best in Middlemarch, I’ll be bound, let the next be who she will. Eh, Fred? Speak up for your sister.", "pos": 241341}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I’m afraid I’m out of court, sir. My evidence would be good for nothing.", "pos": 241474}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Middlemarch has not a very high standard, uncle,", "pos": 241549}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Rosy, did Mary tell you that Mrs. Waule had said anything about me?", "pos": 247737}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Yes, indeed, she did.", "pos": 247807}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "What?", "pos": 247831}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "That you were very unsteady.", "pos": 247839}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Was that all?", "pos": 247870}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I should think that was enough, Fred.", "pos": 247886}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "You are sure she said no more?", "pos": 247926}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Mary mentioned nothing else. But really, Fred, I think you ought to be ashamed.", "pos": 247959}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Oh, fudge! Don’t lecture me. What did Mary say about it?", "pos": 248041}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I am not obliged to tell you. You care so very much what Mary says, and you are too rude to allow me to speak.", "pos": 248100}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Of course I care what Mary says. She is the best girl I know.", "pos": 248213}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I should never have thought she was a girl to fall in love with.", "pos": 248277}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "How do you know what men would fall in love with? Girls never know.", "pos": 248344}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "At least, Fred, let me advise you not to fall in love with her, for she says she would not marry you if you asked her.", "pos": 248414}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "She might have waited till I did ask her.", "pos": 248535}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I knew it would nettle you, Fred.", "pos": 248579}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Not at all. She would not have said so if you had not provoked her.", "pos": 248615}
{"speaker": "1st Gent.", "text": "How class your man?—as better than the most, Or, seeming better, worse beneath that cloak? As saint or knave, pilgrim or hypocrite?", "pos": 248926}
{"speaker": "2d Gent.", "text": "Nay, tell me how you class your wealth of books The drifted relics of all time. As well sort them at once by size and livery: Vellum, tall copies, and the common calf Will hardly cover more diversity Than all your labels cunningly devised To class your unread authors.", "pos": 249067}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I shall be exceedingly obliged if you will look in on me here occasionally, Mr. Lydgate. If, as I dare to hope, I have the privilege of finding you a valuable coadjutor in the interesting matter of hospital management, there will be many questions which we shall need to discuss in private. As to the new hospital, which is nearly finished, I shall consider what you have said about the advantages of the special destination for fevers. The decision will rest with me, for though Lord Medlicote has given the land and timber for the building, he is not disposed to give his personal attention to the object.", "pos": 251469}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "There are few things better worth the pains in a provincial town like this,", "pos": 252123}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I shall rejoice to furnish your zeal with fuller opportunities. I mean, by confiding to you the superintendence of my new hospital, should a maturer knowledge favor that issue, for I am determined that so great an object shall not be shackled by our two physicians. Indeed, I am encouraged to consider your advent to this town as a gracious indication that a more manifest blessing is now to be awarded to my efforts, which have hitherto been much withstood. With regard to the old infirmary, we have gained the initial point—I mean your election. And now I hope you will not shrink from incurring a certain amount of jealousy and dislike from your professional brethren by presenting yourself as a reformer.", "pos": 253438}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I will not profess bravery, but I acknowledge a good deal of pleasure in fighting, and I should not care for my profession, if I did not believe that better methods were to be found and enforced there as well as everywhere else.", "pos": 254175}
{"speaker": "the banker", "text": "The standard of that profession is low in Middlemarch, my dear sir. I mean in knowledge and skill; not in social status, for our medical men are most of them connected with respectable townspeople here. My own imperfect health has induced me to give some attention to those palliative resources which the divine mercy has placed within our reach. I have consulted eminent men in the metropolis, and I am painfully aware of the backwardness under which medical treatment labors in our provincial districts.", "pos": 254431}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Yes;—with our present medical rules and education, one must be satisfied now and then to meet with a fair practitioner. As to all the higher questions which determine the starting-point of a diagnosis—as to the philosophy of medical evidence—any glimmering of these can only come from a scientific culture of which country practitioners have usually no more notion than the man in the moon.", "pos": 254958}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I am aware, that the peculiar bias of medical ability is towards material means. Nevertheless, Mr. Lydgate, I hope we shall not vary in sentiment as to a measure in which you are not likely to be actively concerned, but in which your sympathetic concurrence may be an aid to me. You recognize, I hope; the existence of spiritual interests in your patients?", "pos": 255611}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Certainly I do. But those words are apt to cover different meanings to different minds.", "pos": 255981}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Precisely. And on such subjects wrong teaching is as fatal as no teaching. Now a point which I have much at heart to secure is a new regulation as to clerical attendance at the old infirmary. The building stands in Mr. Farebrother’s parish. You know Mr. Farebrother?", "pos": 256071}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I have seen him. He gave me his vote. I must call to thank him. He seems a very bright pleasant little fellow. And I understand he is a naturalist.", "pos": 256340}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Mr. Farebrother, my dear sir, is a man deeply painful to contemplate. I suppose there is not a clergyman in this country who has greater talents.", "pos": 256490}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I have not yet been pained by finding any excessive talent in Middlemarch,", "pos": 256682}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "What I desire, is that Mr. Farebrother’s attendance at the hospital should be superseded by the appointment of a chaplain—of Mr. Tyke, in fact—and that no other spiritual aid should be called in.", "pos": 256782}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "As a medical man I could have no opinion on such a point unless I knew Mr. Tyke, and even then I should require to know the cases in which he was applied.", "pos": 257035}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Of course you cannot enter fully into the merits of this measure at present. But the subject is likely to be referred to the medical board of the infirmary, and what I trust I may ask of you is, that in virtue of the cooperation between us which I now look forward to, you will not, so far as you are concerned, be influenced by my opponents in this matter.", "pos": 257246}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I hope I shall have nothing to do with clerical disputes. The path I have chosen is to work well in my own profession.", "pos": 257673}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "My responsibility, Mr. Lydgate, is of a broader kind. With me, indeed, this question is one of sacred accountableness; whereas with my opponents, I have good reason to say that it is an occasion for gratifying a spirit of worldly opposition. But I shall not therefore drop one iota of my convictions, or cease to identify myself with that truth which an evil generation hates. I have devoted myself to this object of hospital-improvement, but I will boldly confess to you, Mr. Lydgate, that I should have no interest in hospitals if I believed that nothing more was concerned therein than the cure of mortal diseases. I have another ground of action, and in the face of persecution I will not conceal it.", "pos": 257810}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "There we certainly differ,", "pos": 258605}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "I cannot persuade you to adopt my regimen, Vincy? No, no; I’ve no opinion of that system. Life wants padding. However, what I came here to talk about was a little affair of my young scapegrace, Fred’s.", "pos": 259348}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "That is a subject on which you and I are likely to take quite as different views as on diet, Vincy.", "pos": 259676}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "I hope not this time. The fact is, it’s about a whim of old Featherstone’s. Somebody has been cooking up a story out of spite, and telling it to the old man, to try to set him against Fred. He’s very fond of Fred, and is likely to do something handsome for him; indeed he has as good as told Fred that he means to leave him his land, and that makes other people jealous.", "pos": 259778}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Vincy, I must repeat, that you will not get any concurrence from me as to the course you have pursued with your eldest son. It was entirely from worldly vanity that you destined him for the Church: with a family of three sons and four daughters, you were not warranted in devoting money to an expensive education which has succeeded in nothing but in giving him extravagant idle habits. You are now reaping the consequences.", "pos": 260198}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "As to that, Bulstrode, it’s no use going back. I’m not one of your pattern men, and I don’t pretend to be. I couldn’t foresee everything in the trade; there wasn’t a finer business in Middlemarch than ours, and the lad was clever. My poor brother was in the Church, and would have done well—had got preferment already, but that stomach fever took him off: else he might have been a dean by this time. I think I was justified in what I tried to do for Fred. If you come to religion, it seems to me a man shouldn’t want to carve out his meat to an ounce beforehand:—one must trust a little to Providence and be generous. It’s a good British feeling to try and raise your family a little: in my opinion, it’s a father’s duty to give his sons a fine chance.", "pos": 261329}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I don’t wish to act otherwise than as your best friend, Vincy, when I say that what you have been uttering just now is one mass of worldliness and inconsistent folly.", "pos": 262085}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Very well. I never professed to be anything but worldly; and, what’s more, I don’t see anybody else who is not worldly. I suppose you don’t conduct business on what you call unworldly principles. The only difference I see is that one worldliness is a little bit honester than another.", "pos": 262254}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "This kind of discussion is unfruitful, Vincy. You had some more particular business.", "pos": 262592}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Yes, yes. The long and short of it is, somebody has told old Featherstone, giving you as the authority, that Fred has been borrowing or trying to borrow money on the prospect of his land. Of course you never said any such nonsense. But the old fellow will insist on it that Fred should bring him a denial in your handwriting; that is, just a bit of a note saying you don’t believe a word of such stuff, either of his having borrowed or tried to borrow in such a fool’s way. I suppose you can have no objection to do that.", "pos": 262801}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Pardon me. I have an objection. I am by no means sure that your son, in his recklessness and ignorance—I will use no severer word—has not tried to raise money by holding out his future prospects, or even that some one may not have been foolish enough to supply him on so vague a presumption: there is plenty of such lax money-lending as of other folly in the world.", "pos": 263325}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "But Fred gives me his honor that he has never borrowed money on the pretence of any understanding about his uncle’s land. He is not a liar. I don’t want to make him better than he is. I have blown him up well—nobody can say I wink at what he does. But he is not a liar. And I should have thought—but I may be wrong—that there was no religion to hinder a man from believing the best of a young fellow, when you don’t know worse. It seems to me it would be a poor sort of religion to put a spoke in his wheel by refusing to say you don’t believe such harm of him as you’ve got no good reason to believe.", "pos": 263693}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I am not at all sure that I should be befriending your son by smoothing his way to the future possession of Featherstone’s property. I cannot regard wealth as a blessing to those who use it simply as a harvest for this world. You do not like to hear these things, Vincy, but on this occasion I feel called upon to tell you that I have no motive for furthering such a disposition of property as that which you refer to. I do not shrink from saying that it will not tend to your son’s eternal welfare or to the glory of God. Why then should you expect me to pen this kind of affidavit, which has no object but to keep up a foolish partiality and secure a foolish bequest?", "pos": 264297}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "If you mean to hinder everybody from having money but saints and evangelists, you must give up some profitable partnerships, that’s all I can say. It may be for the glory of God, but it is not for the glory of the Middlemarch trade, that Plymdale’s house uses those blue and green dyes it gets from the Brassing manufactory; they rot the silk, that’s all I know about it. Perhaps if other people knew so much of the profit went to the glory of God, they might like it better. But I don’t mind so much about that—I could get up a pretty row, if I chose.", "pos": 264969}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "You pain me very much by speaking in this way, Vincy. I do not expect you to understand my grounds of action—it is not an easy thing even to thread a path for principles in the intricacies of the world—still less to make the thread clear for the careless and the scoffing. You must remember, if you please, that I stretch my tolerance towards you as my wife’s brother, and that it little becomes you to complain of me as withholding material help towards the worldly position of your family. I must remind you that it is not your own prudence or judgment that has enabled you to keep your place in the trade.", "pos": 265610}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Very likely not; but you have been no loser by my trade yet. And when you married Harriet, I don’t see how you could expect that our families should not hang by the same nail. If you’ve changed your mind, and want my family to come down in the world, you’d better say so. I’ve never changed; I’m a plain Churchman now, just as I used to be before doctrines came up. I take the world as I find it, in trade and everything else. I’m contented to be no worse than my neighbors. But if you want us to come down in the world, say so. I shall know better what to do then.", "pos": 266221}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "You talk unreasonably. Shall you come down in the world for want of this letter about your son?", "pos": 266893}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Well, whether or not, I consider it very unhandsome of you to refuse it. Such doings may be lined with religion, but outside they have a nasty, dog-in-the-manger look. You might as well slander Fred: it comes pretty near to it when you refuse to say you didn’t set a slander going. It’s this sort of thing—this tyrannical spirit, wanting to play bishop and banker everywhere—it’s this sort of thing makes a man’s name stink.", "pos": 266991}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Vincy, if you insist on quarrelling with me, it will be exceedingly painful to Harriet as well as myself,", "pos": 267418}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "I don’t want to quarrel. It’s for my interest—and perhaps for yours too—that we should be friends. I bear you no grudge; I think no worse of you than I do of other people. A man who half starves himself, and goes the length in family prayers, and so on, that you do, believes in his religion whatever it may be: you could turn over your capital just as fast with cursing and swearing:—plenty of fellows do. You like to be master, there’s no denying that; you must be first chop in heaven, else you won’t like it much. But you’re my sister’s husband, and we ought to stick together; and if I know Harriet, she’ll consider it your fault if we quarrel because you strain at a gnat in this way, and refuse to do Fred a good turn. And I don’t mean to say I shall bear it well. I consider it unhandsome.", "pos": 267600}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I will reflect a little, Vincy. I will mention the subject to Harriet. I shall probably send you a letter.", "pos": 269316}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Very well. As soon as you can, please. I hope it will all be settled before I see you to-morrow.", "pos": 269425}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Under the circumstances I will not decline to state my conviction that your son Frederic has not obtained any advance of money on bequests promised by Mr. Featherstone and that considering the nature of such a proceeding, it is unreasonable to presume that a young man of sense and character would attempt it As to my own concern with any report of such a nature, I distinctly affirm that I never made any statement to the effect that your son had borrowed money on any property that might accrue to him on Mr. Featherstone’s demise you don’t suppose I believe a thing because Bulstrode writes it out fine, eh?", "pos": 270541}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "You wished to have the letter, sir. I should think it very likely that Mr. Bulstrode’s denial is as good as the authority which told you what he denies.", "pos": 271692}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Every bit. I never said I believed either one or the other. And now what d’ you expect?", "pos": 271847}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I expect nothing, sir. I came to bring you the letter. If you like I will bid you good morning.", "pos": 272038}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Not yet, not yet. Ring the bell; I want missy to come. Tell missy to come! What business had she to go away? Why couldn’t you sit still here till I told you to go? I want my waistcoat now. I told you always to put it on the bed.", "pos": 272207}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Allow me.", "pos": 273240}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Let it alone! You bring it, missy, and lay it down here. Now you go away again till I call you. You expect I am going to give you a little fortune, eh?", "pos": 273252}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Not at all, sir. You were good enough to speak of making me a present the other day, else, of course, I should not have thought of the matter.", "pos": 273922}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I am very much obliged to you, sir,", "pos": 275173}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Come, don’t you think it worth your while to count ’em? You take money like a lord; I suppose you lose it like one.", "pos": 275350}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I thought I was not to look a gift-horse in the mouth, sir. But I shall be very happy to count them.", "pos": 275468}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "It is very handsome of you, sir.", "pos": 276107}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "I should think it is. I should think it handsome.", "pos": 276142}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I assure you, sir, I am very grateful,", "pos": 276383}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "So you ought to be. You want to cut a figure in the world, and I reckon Peter Featherstone is the only one you’ve got to trust to.", "pos": 276481}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Yes, indeed: I was not born to very splendid chances. Few men have been more cramped than I have been. It really seems a little too bad to have to ride a broken-winded hunter, and see men, who, are not half such good judges as yourself, able to throw away any amount of money on buying bad bargains.", "pos": 276815}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Well, you can buy yourself a fine hunter now. Eighty pound is enough for that, I reckon—and you’ll have twenty pound over to get yourself out of any little scrape,", "pos": 277219}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "You are very good, sir,", "pos": 277428}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Ay, rather a better uncle than your fine uncle Bulstrode. You won’t get much out of his spekilations, I think. He’s got a pretty strong string round your father’s leg, by what I hear, eh?", "pos": 277530}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "My father never tells me anything about his affairs, sir.", "pos": 277720}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Well, he shows some sense there. But other people find ’em out without his telling. He’ll never have much to leave you: he’ll most-like die without a will—he’s the sort of man to do it—let ’em make him mayor of Middlemarch as much as they like. But you won’t get much by his dying without a will, though you are the eldest son.", "pos": 277780}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Shall I destroy this letter of Mr. Bulstrode’s, sir?", "pos": 278249}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Ay, ay, I don’t want it. It’s worth no money to me.", "pos": 278373}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Am I wanted up-stairs?", "pos": 279125}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "No; I am only dismissed, because Simmons is gone up. May I stay here a little, Mary, or shall I bore you?", "pos": 279189}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Pray sit down, you will not be so heavy a bore as Mr. John Waule, who was here yesterday, and he sat down without asking my leave.", "pos": 279491}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.", "pos": 279637}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl’s life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her, and to whom she is grateful. I should have thought that I, at least, might have been safe from all that. I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.", "pos": 279684}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Confound John Waule! I did not mean to make you angry. I didn’t know you had any reason for being grateful to me. I forgot what a great service you think it if any one snuffs a candle for you.", "pos": 280202}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Oh, I am not angry, except with the ways of the world. I do like to be spoken to as if I had common-sense. I really often feel as if I could understand a little more than I ever hear even from young gentlemen who have been to college.", "pos": 280508}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I don’t care how merry you are at my expense this morning. I thought you looked so sad when you came up-stairs. It is a shame you should stay here to be bullied in that way.", "pos": 280850}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Oh, I have an easy life—by comparison. I have tried being a teacher, and I am not fit for that: my mind is too fond of wandering on its own way. I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it. Everything here I can do as well as any one else could; perhaps better than some—Rosy, for example. Though she is just the sort of beautiful creature that is imprisoned with ogres in fairy tales.", "pos": 281039}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Rosy!", "pos": 281484}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Come, Fred! you have no right to be so critical.", "pos": 281548}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Do you mean anything particular—just now?", "pos": 281626}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "No, I mean something general—always.", "pos": 281670}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Oh, that I am idle and extravagant. Well, I am not fit to be a poor man. I should not have made a bad fellow if I had been rich.", "pos": 281709}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "You would have done your duty in that state of life to which it has not pleased God to call you,", "pos": 281840}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Well, I couldn’t do my duty as a clergyman, any more than you could do yours as a governess. You ought to have a little fellow-feeling there, Mary.", "pos": 281960}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I never said you ought to be a clergyman. There are other sorts of work. It seems to me very miserable not to resolve on some course and act accordingly.", "pos": 282110}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "So I could, if— If you were sure you should not have a fortune? I did not say that. You want to quarrel with me. It is too bad of you to be guided by what other people say about me.", "pos": 282266}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "How can I want to quarrel with you? I should be quarrelling with all my new books. However naughty you may be to other people, you are good to me.", "pos": 282518}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Because I like you better than any one else. But I know you despise me.", "pos": 282713}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Yes, I do—a little,", "pos": 282787}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "You would admire a stupendous fellow, who would have wise opinions about everything.", "pos": 282843}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Yes, I should.", "pos": 282930}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I suppose a woman is never in love with any one she has always known—ever since she can remember; as a man often is. It is always some new fellow who strikes a girl.", "pos": 283167}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Let me see. I must go back on my experience. There is Juliet—she seems an example of what you say. But then Ophelia had probably known Hamlet a long while; and Brenda Troil—she had known Mordaunt Merton ever since they were children; but then he seems to have been an estimable young man; and Minna was still more deeply in love with Cleveland, who was a stranger. Waverley was new to Flora MacIvor; but then she did not fall in love with him. And there are Olivia and Sophia Primrose, and Corinne—they may be said to have fallen in love with new men. Altogether, my experience is rather mixed.", "pos": 283335}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "When a man is not loved, it is no use for him to say that he could be a better fellow—could do anything—I mean, if he were sure of being loved in return.", "pos": 284399}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Not of the least use in the world for him to say he could be better. Might, could, would—they are contemptible auxiliaries.", "pos": 284555}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I don’t see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.", "pos": 284681}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I think the goodness should come before he expects that.", "pos": 284777}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "You know better, Mary. Women don’t love men for their goodness.", "pos": 284836}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Perhaps not. But if they love them, they never think them bad.", "pos": 284902}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "It is hardly fair to say I am bad.", "pos": 284967}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I said nothing at all about you.", "pos": 285004}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I never shall be good for anything, Mary, if you will not say that you love me—if you will not promise to marry me—I mean, when I am able to marry.", "pos": 285039}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "If I did love you, I would not marry you: I would certainly not promise ever to marry you.", "pos": 285189}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I think that is quite wicked, Mary. If you love me, you ought to promise to marry me.", "pos": 285282}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "On the contrary, I think it would be wicked in me to marry you even if I did love you.", "pos": 285370}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "You mean, just as I am, without any means of maintaining a wife. Of course: I am but three-and-twenty.", "pos": 285459}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "In that last point you will alter. But I am not so sure of any other alteration. My father says an idle man ought not to exist, much less, be married.", "pos": 285564}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Then I am to blow my brains out?", "pos": 285717}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "No; on the whole I should think you would do better to pass your examination. I have heard Mr. Farebrother say it is disgracefully easy.", "pos": 285752}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "That is all very fine. Anything is easy to him. Not that cleverness has anything to do with it. I am ten times cleverer than many men who pass.", "pos": 285891}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Dear me! that accounts for the curates like Mr. Crowse. Divide your cleverness by ten, and the quotient—dear me!—is able to take a degree. But that only shows you are ten times more idle than the others.", "pos": 286037}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Well, if I did pass, you would not want me to go into the Church?", "pos": 286287}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "That is not the question—what I want you to do. You have a conscience of your own, I suppose. There! there is Mr. Lydgate. I must go and tell my uncle.", "pos": 286355}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Mary, if you will not give me some encouragement, I shall get worse instead of better.", "pos": 286509}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I will not give you any encouragement. Your friends would dislike it, and so would mine. My father would think it a disgrace to me if I accepted a man who got into debt, and would not work! Fred, you have always been so good, so generous to me. I am not ungrateful. But never speak to me in that way again.", "pos": 286641}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Very well,", "pos": 287070}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A great historian, as he insisted on calling himself, who had the happiness to be dead a hundred and twenty years ago, and so to take his place among the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under, glories in his copious remarks and digressions as the least imitable part of his work, and especially in those initial chapters to the successive books of his history, where he seems to bring his armchair to the proscenium and chat with us in all the lusty ease of his fine English.", "pos": 288658}
{"speaker": "Laure", "text": "You have come all the way from Paris to find me? Are all Englishmen like that?", "pos": 316894}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I came because I could not live without trying to see you. You are lonely; I love you; I want you to consent to be my wife; I will wait, but I want you to promise that you will marry me—no one else.", "pos": 317136}
{"speaker": "Laure", "text": "I will tell you something. My foot really slipped.", "pos": 317497}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I know, I know. It was a fatal accident—a dreadful stroke of calamity that bound me to you the more.", "pos": 317606}
{"speaker": "Laure", "text": "I meant to do it.", "pos": 317791}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "There was a secret, then. He was brutal to you: you hated him.", "pos": 317940}
{"speaker": "Laure", "text": "No! he wearied me; he was too fond: he would live in Paris, and not in my country; that was not agreeable to me.", "pos": 318041}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Great God! And you planned to murder him?", "pos": 318156}
{"speaker": "Laure", "text": "I did not plan: it came to me in the play—I meant to do it. You are a good young man. But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.", "pos": 318238}
{"speaker": "Mr. Chichely", "text": "What line shall you take, then?", "pos": 322925}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Oh, I’m precious glad I’m not one of the Directors now. I shall vote for referring the matter to the Directors and the Medical Board together. I shall roll some of my responsibility on your shoulders, Doctor. You medical gentlemen must consult which sort of black draught you will prescribe, eh, Mr. Lydgate?", "pos": 323032}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I know little of either, but in general, appointments are apt to be made too much a question of personal liking. The fittest man for a particular post is not always the best fellow or the most agreeable. Sometimes, if you wanted to get a reform, your only way would be to pension off the good fellows whom everybody is fond of, and put them out of the question.", "pos": 323464}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "if he could have his way, he would not put disagreeable fellows anywhere.", "pos": 324702}
{"speaker": "Mr. Chichely", "text": "Hang your reforms! There’s no greater humbug in the world. You never hear of a reform, but it means some trick to put in new men. I hope you are not one of the ‘Lancet’s’ men, Mr. Lydgate—wanting to take the coronership out of the hands of the legal profession: your words appear to point that way.", "pos": 324777}
{"speaker": "Dr. Sprague", "text": "I disapprove of Wakley, no man more: he is an ill-intentioned fellow, who would sacrifice the respectability of the profession, which everybody knows depends on the London Colleges, for the sake of getting some notoriety for himself. There are men who don’t mind about being kicked blue if they can only get talked about. But Wakley is right sometimes. I could mention one or two points in which Wakley is in the right.", "pos": 325099}
{"speaker": "Mr. Chichely", "text": "Oh, well. I blame no man for standing up in favor of his own cloth; but, coming to argument, I should like to know how a coroner is to judge of evidence if he has not had a legal training?", "pos": 325579}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "In my opinion, legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge of another kind. People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice. No man can judge what is good evidence on any particular subject, unless he knows that subject well. A lawyer is no better than an old woman at a post-mortem examination. How is he to know the action of a poison? You might as well say that scanning verse will teach you to scan the potato crops.", "pos": 325790}
{"speaker": "Mr. Chichely", "text": "You are aware, I suppose, that it is not the coroner’s business to conduct the post-mortem, but only to take the evidence of the medical witness?", "pos": 326311}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Who is often almost as ignorant as the coroner himself. Questions of medical jurisprudence ought not to be left to the chance of decent knowledge in a medical witness, and the coroner ought not to be a man who will believe that strychnine will destroy the coats of the stomach if an ignorant practitioner happens to tell him so. Don’t you agree with me, Dr. Sprague?", "pos": 326495}
{"speaker": "the Doctor", "text": "To a certain extent—with regard to populous districts, and in the metropolis. But I hope it will be long before this part of the country loses the services of my friend Chichely, even though it might get the best man in our profession to succeed him. I am sure Vincy will agree with me.", "pos": 327009}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Yes, yes, give me a coroner who is a good coursing man. And in my opinion, you’re safest with a lawyer. Nobody can know everything. Most things are ‘visitation of God.’ And as to poisoning, why, what you want to know is the law. Come, shall we join the ladies?", "pos": 327317}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "You have studied music, probably?", "pos": 329388}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No, I know the notes of many birds, and I know many melodies by ear; but the music that I don’t know at all, and have no notion about, delights me—affects me. How stupid the world is that it does not make more use of such a pleasure within its reach!", "pos": 329439}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Yes, and you will find Middlemarch very tuneless. There are hardly any good musicians. I only know two gentlemen who sing at all well.", "pos": 329692}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I suppose it is the fashion to sing comic songs in a rhythmic way, leaving you to fancy the tune—very much as if it were tapped on a drum?", "pos": 329829}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Ah, you have heard Mr. Bowyer. But we are speaking very ill of our neighbors.", "pos": 329970}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "You will let me hear some music to-night, I hope.", "pos": 330649}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I will let you hear my attempts, if you like. Papa is sure to insist on my singing. But I shall tremble before you, who have heard the best singers in Paris. I have heard very little: I have only once been to London. But our organist at St. Peter’s is a good musician, and I go on studying with him.", "pos": 330701}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Tell me what you saw in London.", "pos": 331020}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Very little. A few of the ordinary sights, such as raw country girls are always taken to.", "pos": 331054}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Do you call yourself a raw country girl?", "pos": 331229}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I assure you my mind is raw. I pass at Middlemarch. I am not afraid of talking to our old neighbors. But I am really afraid of you.", "pos": 331688}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "An accomplished woman almost always knows more than we men, though her knowledge is of a different sort. I am sure you could teach me a thousand things—as an exquisite bird could teach a bear if there were any common language between them. Happily, there is a common language between women and men, and so the bears can get taught.", "pos": 331846}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Ah, there is Fred beginning to strum! I must go and hinder him from jarring all your nerves. Fred, pray defer your practising till to-morrow; you will make Mr. Lydgate ill. He has an ear. You perceive, the bears will not always be taught.", "pos": 332180}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Now then, Rosy! Some good rousing tunes first.", "pos": 332872}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I can’t let you off, you know, because I have some beetles to show you. We collectors feel an interest in every new man till he has seen all we have to show him. Come now, let us be serious! Mr. Lydgate? not play? Ah! you are too young and light for this kind of thing.", "pos": 336164}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "You will not like us at Middlemarch, I feel sure. We are very stupid, and you have been used to something quite different.", "pos": 337293}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I suppose all country towns are pretty much alike. But I have noticed that one always believes one’s own town to be more stupid than any other. I have made up my mind to take Middlemarch as it comes, and shall be much obliged if the town will take me in the same way. I have certainly found some charms in it which are much greater than I had expected.", "pos": 337467}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "You mean the rides towards Tipton and Lowick; every one is pleased with those,", "pos": 337838}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No, I mean something much nearer to me.", "pos": 337951}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Do you care about dancing at all? I am not quite sure whether clever men ever dance.", "pos": 338047}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I would dance with you if you would allow me.", "pos": 338134}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Oh! I was only going to say that we sometimes have dancing, and I wanted to know whether you would feel insulted if you were asked to come.", "pos": 338182}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Not on the condition I mentioned.", "pos": 338374}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "If I had not taken that turn when I was a lad. I might have got into some stupid draught-horse work or other, and lived always in blinkers. I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbors. There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogies in the parish too. It is rather harder for a clergyman: Farebrother seems to be an anomaly.", "pos": 344063}
{"speaker": "Elderly Gentlemen", "text": "The best girl in the world! He will be a happy fellow who gets her!", "pos": 348842}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "My mother is like old George the Third, she objects to metaphysics.", "pos": 353572}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "I object to what is wrong, Camden. I say, keep hold of a few plain truths, and make everything square with them. When I was young, Mr. Lydgate, there never was any question about right and wrong. We knew our catechism, and that was enough; we learned our creed and our duty. Every respectable Church person had the same opinions. But now, if you speak out of the Prayer-book itself, you are liable to be contradicted.", "pos": 353660}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "That makes rather a pleasant time of it for those who like to maintain their own point,", "pos": 354080}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "But my mother always gives way,", "pos": 354184}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "No, no, Camden, you must not lead Mr. Lydgate into a mistake about me. I shall never show that disrespect to my parents, to give up what they taught me. Any one may see what comes of turning. If you change once, why not twenty times?", "pos": 354241}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "A man might see good arguments for changing once, and not see them for changing again,", "pos": 354477}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "Excuse me there. If you go upon arguments, they are never wanting, when a man has no constancy of mind. My father never changed, and he preached plain moral sermons without arguments, and was a good man—few better. When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery-book. That’s my opinion, and I think anybody’s stomach will bear me out.", "pos": 354615}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "About the dinner certainly, mother,", "pos": 355013}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "It is the same thing, the dinner or the man. I am nearly seventy, Mr. Lydgate, and I go upon experience. I am not likely to follow new lights, though there are plenty of them here as elsewhere. I say, they came in with the mixed stuffs that will neither wash nor wear. It was not so in my youth: a Churchman was a Churchman, and a clergyman, you might be pretty sure, was a gentleman, if nothing else. But now he may be no better than a Dissenter, and want to push aside my son on pretence of doctrine. But whoever may wish to push him aside, I am proud to say, Mr. Lydgate, that he will compare with any preacher in this kingdom, not to speak of this town, which is but a low standard to go by; at least, to my thinking, for I was born and bred at Exeter.", "pos": 355073}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "A mother is never partial. What do you think Tyke’s mother says about him?", "pos": 355832}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "Ah, poor creature! what indeed? She says the truth to herself, depend upon it.", "pos": 355942}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "And what is the truth? I am curious to know.", "pos": 356126}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Oh, nothing bad at all. He is a zealous fellow: not very learned, and not very wise, I think—because I don’t agree with him.", "pos": 356189}
{"speaker": "Miss Winifred", "text": "Why, Camden! Griffin and his wife told me only to-day, that Mr. Tyke said they should have no more coals if they came to hear you preach.", "pos": 356340}
{"speaker": "Miss Noble", "text": "Oh poor things! poor things!", "pos": 356678}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "That is because they are not my parishioners. And I don’t think my sermons are worth a load of coals to them.", "pos": 356807}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "Mr. Lydgate, you don’t know my son: he always undervalues himself. I tell him he is undervaluing the God who made him, and made him a most excellent preacher.", "pos": 356919}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "That must be a hint for me to take Mr. Lydgate away to my study, mother. I promised to show you my collection, shall we go?", "pos": 357134}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "My mother is not used to my having visitors who can take any interest in my hobbies. Men of your profession don’t generally smoke. Nor of mine either, properly, I suppose. You will hear that pipe alleged against me by Bulstrode and Company. They don’t know how pleased the devil would be if I gave it up.", "pos": 358018}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I understand. You are of an excitable temper and want a sedative. I am heavier, and should get idle with it. I should rush into idleness, and stagnate there with all my might.", "pos": 358571}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "And you mean to give it all to your work. I am some ten or twelve years older than you, and have come to a compromise. I feed a weakness or two lest they should get clamorous. See. I fancy I have made an exhaustive study of the entomology of this district. I am going on both with the fauna and flora; but I have at least done my insects well. We are singularly rich in orthoptera: I don’t know whether—Ah! you have got hold of that glass jar—you are looking into that instead of my drawers. You don’t really care about these things?", "pos": 358749}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Not by the side of this lovely anencephalous monster. I have never had time to give myself much to natural history. I was early bitten with an interest in structure, and it is what lies most directly in my profession. I have no hobby besides. I have the sea to swim in there.", "pos": 359339}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Ah! you are a happy fellow. You don’t know what it is to want spiritual tobacco—bad emendations of old texts, or small items about a variety of Aphis Brassicae, with the well-known signature of Philomicron, for the ‘Twaddler’s Magazine;’ or a learned treatise on the entomology of the Pentateuch, including all the insects not mentioned, but probably met with by the Israelites in their passage through the desert; with a monograph on the Ant, as treated by Solomon, showing the harmony of the Book of Proverbs with the results of modern research. You don’t mind my fumigating you?", "pos": 359617}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I have not yet told you that I have the advantage of you, Mr. Lydgate, and know you better than you know me. You remember Trawley who shared your apartment at Paris for some time? I was a correspondent of his, and he told me a good deal about you. I was not quite sure when you first came that you were the same man. I was very glad when I found that you were. Only I don’t forget that you have not had the like prologue about me.", "pos": 361068}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "By the way, what has become of Trawley? I have quite lost sight of him. He was hot on the French social systems, and talked of going to the Backwoods to found a sort of Pythagorean community. Is he gone?", "pos": 361580}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Not at all. He is practising at a German bath, and has married a rich patient.", "pos": 361797}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Then my notions wear the best, so far. He would have it, the medical profession was an inevitable system of humbug. I said, the fault was in the men—men who truckle to lies and folly. Instead of preaching against humbug outside the walls, it might be better to set up a disinfecting apparatus within. In short—I am reporting my own conversation—you may be sure I had all the good sense on my side.", "pos": 361877}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Your scheme is a good deal more difficult to carry out than the Pythagorean community, though. You have not only got the old Adam in yourself against you, but you have got all those descendants of the original Adam who form the society around you. You see, I have paid twelve or thirteen years more than you for my knowledge of difficulties. But you are eying that glass vase again. Do you want to make an exchange? You shall not have it without a fair barter.", "pos": 362322}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I have some sea-mice—fine specimens—in spirits. And I will throw in Robert Brown’s new thing—‘Microscopic Observations on the Pollen of Plants’—if you don’t happen to have it already.", "pos": 362839}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Why, seeing how you long for the monster, I might ask a higher price. Suppose I ask you to look through my drawers and agree with me about all my new species? That would be good discipline, you know, for a young doctor who has to please his patients in Middlemarch. You must learn to be bored, remember. However, you shall have the monster on your own terms.", "pos": 363025}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Don’t you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody’s nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor? The shortest way is to make your value felt, so that people must put up with you whether you flatter them or not.", "pos": 363533}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "With all my heart. But then you must be sure of having the value, and you must keep yourself independent. Very few men can do that. Either you slip out of service altogether, and become good for nothing, or you wear the harness and draw a good deal where your yoke-fellows pull you. But do look at these delicate orthoptera!", "pos": 363943}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Apropos of what you said about wearing harness. I made up my mind some time ago to do with as little of it as possible. That was why I determined not to try anything in London, for a good many years at least. I didn’t like what I saw when I was studying there—so much empty bigwiggism, and obstructive trickery. In the country, people have less pretension to knowledge, and are less of companions, but for that reason they affect one’s amour-propre less: one makes less bad blood, and can follow one’s own course more quietly.", "pos": 364399}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Yes—well—you have got a good start; you are in the right profession, the work you feel yourself most fit for. Some people miss that, and repent too late. But you must not be too sure of keeping your independence.", "pos": 364970}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "You mean of family ties?", "pos": 365185}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Not altogether. Of course they make many things more difficult. But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent. There’s a parishioner of mine—a fine fellow, but who would hardly have pulled through as he has done without his wife. Do you know the Garths? I think they were not Peacock’s patients.", "pos": 365295}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No; but there is a Miss Garth at old Featherstone’s, at Lowick.", "pos": 365639}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Their daughter: an excellent girl.", "pos": 365705}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "She is very quiet—I have hardly noticed her.", "pos": 365742}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "She has taken notice of you, though, depend upon it.", "pos": 365789}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I don’t understand,", "pos": 365844}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Oh, she gauges everybody. I prepared her for confirmation—she is a favorite of mine. But we Middlemarchers are not so tame as you take us to be. We have our intrigues and our parties. I am a party man, for example, and Bulstrode is another. If you vote for me you will offend Bulstrode.", "pos": 365913}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "What is there against Bulstrode?", "pos": 366430}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I did not say there was anything against him except that. If you vote against him you will make him your enemy.", "pos": 366493}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I don’t know that I need mind about that, but he seems to have good ideas about hospitals, and he spends large sums on useful public objects. He might help me a good deal in carrying out my ideas. As to his religious notions—why, as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic. I look for the man who will bring the arsenic, and don’t mind about his incantations.", "pos": 366607}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Very good. But then you must not offend your arsenic-man. You will not offend me, you know. I don’t translate my own convenience into other people’s duties. I am opposed to Bulstrode in many ways. I don’t like the set he belongs to: they are a narrow ignorant set, and do more to make their neighbors uncomfortable than to make them better. Their system is a sort of worldly-spiritual cliqueism: they really look on the rest of mankind as a doomed carcass which is to nourish them for heaven. But. I don’t say that Bulstrode’s new hospital is a bad thing; and as to his wanting to oust me from the old one—why, if he thinks me a mischievous fellow, he is only returning a compliment. And I am not a model clergyman—only a decent makeshift.", "pos": 367070}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "What reason does Bulstrode give for superseding you?", "pos": 368137}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "That I don’t teach his opinions—which he calls spiritual religion; and that I have no time to spare. Both statements are true. But then I could make time, and I should be glad of the forty pounds. That is the plain fact of the case. But let us dismiss it. I only wanted to tell you that if you vote for your arsenic-man, you are not to cut me in consequence. I can’t spare you. You are a sort of circumnavigator come to settle among us, and will keep up my belief in the antipodes. Now tell me all about them in Paris.", "pos": 368192}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.", "pos": 368728}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Confound their petty politics!", "pos": 372468}
{"speaker": "Dr. Sprague", "text": "I go for Farebrother. A salary, with all my heart. But why take it from the Vicar? He has none too much—has to insure his life, besides keeping house, and doing a vicar’s charities. Put forty pounds in his pocket and you’ll do no harm. He’s a good fellow, is Farebrother, with as little of the parson about him as will serve to carry orders.", "pos": 383595}
{"speaker": "Mr. Powderell", "text": "Ho, ho! Doctor, we must let you have your say. But what we have to consider is not anybody’s income—it’s the souls of the poor sick people He is a real Gospel preacher, is Mr. Tyke. I should vote against my conscience if I voted against Mr. Tyke—I should indeed.", "pos": 383939}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hackbutt", "text": "Mr. Tyke’s opponents have not asked any one to vote against his conscience, I believe. But in my judgment it behoves us, as Directors, to consider whether we will regard it as our whole business to carry out propositions emanating from a single quarter. Will any member of the committee aver that he would have entertained the idea of displacing the gentleman who has always discharged the function of chaplain here, if it had not been suggested to him by parties whose disposition it is to regard every institution of this town as a machinery for carrying out their own views? I tax no man’s motives: let them lie between himself and a higher Power; but I do say, that there are influences at work here which are incompatible with genuine independence, and that a crawling servility is usually dictated by circumstances which gentlemen so conducting themselves could not afford either morally or financially to avow. I myself am a layman, but I have given no inconsiderable attention to the divisions in the Church and—", "pos": 384419}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "Oh, damn the divisions! We have nothing to do with them here. Farebrother has been doing the work—what there was—without pay, and if pay is to be given, it should be given to him. I call it a confounded job to take the thing away from Farebrother.", "pos": 385601}
{"speaker": "Mr. Plymdale", "text": "I think it would be as well for gentlemen not to give their remarks a personal bearing. I shall vote for the appointment of Mr. Tyke, but I should not have known, if Mr. Hackbutt hadn’t hinted it, that I was a Servile Crawler.", "pos": 385989}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hackbutt", "text": "I disclaim any personalities. I expressly said, if I may be allowed to repeat, or even to conclude what I was about to say—", "pos": 386239}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "Ah, here’s Minchin! Come, Doctor, I must have you on the right side, eh?", "pos": 386365}
{"speaker": "Dr. Minchin", "text": "I hope so, at whatever cost to my feelings.", "pos": 386585}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "If there’s any feeling here, it should be feeling for the man who is turned out, I think,", "pos": 386693}
{"speaker": "Dr. Minchin", "text": "I confess I have feelings on the other side also. I have a divided esteem. I consider Mr. Tyke an exemplary man—none more so—and I believe him to be proposed from unimpeachable motives. I, for my part, wish that I could give him my vote. But I am constrained to take a view of the case which gives the preponderance to Mr. Farebrother’s claims. He is an amiable man, an able preacher, and has been longer among us.", "pos": 386808}
{"speaker": "Mr. Larcher", "text": "You don’t set up Farebrother as a pattern of what a clergyman ought to be, I hope. I have no ill-will towards him, but I think we owe something to the public, not to speak of anything higher, in these appointments. In my opinion Farebrother is too lax for a clergyman. I don’t wish to bring up particulars against him; but he will make a little attendance here go as far as he can.", "pos": 387352}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "And a devilish deal better than too much. Sick people can’t bear so much praying and preaching. And that methodistical sort of religion is bad for the spirits—bad for the inside, eh?", "pos": 387799}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "any public question, you know. I am a good deal occupied as a magistrate, and in the collection of documentary evidence, but I regard my time as being at the disposal of the public—and, in short, my friends have convinced me that a chaplain with a salary—a salary, you know—is a very good thing, and I am happy to be able to come here and vote for the appointment of Mr. Tyke, who, I understand, is an unexceptionable man, apostolic and eloquent and everything of that kind—and I am the last man to withhold my vote—under the circumstances, you know.", "pos": 389598}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "You don’t seem to know that one of the worthiest men we have has been doing duty as chaplain here for years without pay, and that Mr. Tyke is proposed to supersede him.", "pos": 390405}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Mr. Brooke has been fully informed of Mr. Farebrother’s character and position.", "pos": 390621}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "By his enemies,", "pos": 390703}
{"speaker": "Mr. Thesiger", "text": "I trust there is no personal hostility concerned here,", "pos": 390745}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "I’ll swear there is, though,", "pos": 390821}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Gentlemen, the merits of the question may be very briefly stated, and if any one present doubts that every gentleman who is about to give his vote has not been fully informed, I can now recapitulate the considerations that should weigh on either side.", "pos": 390873}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "I don’t see the good of that. I suppose we all know whom we mean to vote for. Any man who wants to do justice does not wait till the last minute to hear both sides of the question. I have no time to lose, and I propose that the matter be put to the vote at once.", "pos": 391168}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I perceive that the votes are equally divided at present. There is a casting-vote still to be given. It is yours, Mr. Lydgate: will you be good enough to write?", "pos": 391654}
{"speaker": "Mr. Wrench", "text": "The thing is settled now. We all know how Mr. Lydgate will vote.", "pos": 391893}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "You seem to speak with some peculiar meaning, sir. It may be offensive to others. But I shall not desist from voting with him on that account.", "pos": 391987}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "The world has been too strong for me, I know. But then I am not a mighty man—I shall never be a man of renown. The choice of Hercules is a pretty fable; but Prodicus makes it easy work for the hero, as if the first resolves were enough. Another story says that he came to hold the distaff, and at last wore the Nessus shirt. I suppose one good resolve might keep a man right if everybody else’s resolve helped him.", "pos": 393801}
{"speaker": "German", "text": "Come here, quick! else she will have changed her pose.", "pos": 396134}
{"speaker": "German", "text": "There lies antique beauty, not corpse-like even in death, but arrested in the complete contentment of its sensuous perfection: and here stands beauty in its breathing life, with the consciousness of Christian centuries in its bosom. But she should be dressed as a nun; I think she looks almost what you call a Quaker; I would dress her as a nun in my picture. However, she is married; I saw her wedding-ring on that wonderful left hand, otherwise I should have thought the sallow Geistlicher was her father. I saw him parting from her a good while ago, and just now I found her in that magnificent pose. Only think! he is perhaps rich, and would like to have her portrait taken. Ah! it is no use looking after her—there she goes! Let us follow her home!", "pos": 397530}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No, no,", "pos": 398286}
{"speaker": "German", "text": "What! the Geistlicher? He looks more like an uncle—a more useful sort of relation.", "pos": 398588}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "He is not my uncle. I tell you he is my second cousin,", "pos": 398673}
{"speaker": "German", "text": "Schön, schön. Don’t be snappish. You are not angry with me for thinking Mrs. Second-Cousin the most perfect young Madonna I ever saw?", "pos": 398767}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Angry? nonsense. I have only seen her once before, for a couple of minutes, when my cousin introduced her to me, just before I left England. They were not married then. I didn’t know they were coming to Rome.", "pos": 398903}
{"speaker": "Naumann", "text": "But you will go to see them now—you will find out what they have for an address—since you know the name. Shall we go to the post? And you could speak about the portrait.", "pos": 399113}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Confound you, Naumann! I don’t know what I shall do. I am not so brazen as you.", "pos": 399285}
{"speaker": "Naumann", "text": "Bah! that is because you are dilettantish and amateurish. If you were an artist, you would think of Mistress Second-Cousin as antique form animated by Christian sentiment—a sort of Christian Antigone—sensuous force controlled by spiritual passion.", "pos": 399367}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Yes, and that your painting her was the chief outcome of her existence—the divinity passing into higher completeness and all but exhausted in the act of covering your bit of canvas. I am amateurish if you like: I do not think that all the universe is straining towards the obscure significance of your pictures.", "pos": 399617}
{"speaker": "Naumann", "text": "But it is, my dear!—so far as it is straining through me, Adolf Naumann: that stands firm. See now! My existence presupposes the existence of the whole universe—does it not? and my function is to paint—and as a painter I have a conception which is altogether genialisch, of your great-aunt or second grandmother as a subject for a picture; therefore, the universe is straining towards that picture through that particular hook or claw which it puts forth in the shape of me—not true?", "pos": 399931}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "But how if another claw in the shape of me is straining to thwart it?—the case is a little less simple then.", "pos": 400573}
{"speaker": "Naumann", "text": "Not at all: the result of the struggle is the same thing—picture or no picture—logically. Come now, my friend—you will help?", "pos": 400684}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No; nonsense, Naumann! English ladies are not at everybody’s service as models. And you want to express too much with your painting. You would only have made a better or worse portrait with a background which every connoisseur would give a different reason for or against. And what is a portrait of a woman? Your painting and Plastik are poor stuff after all. They perturb and dull conceptions instead of raising them. Language is a finer medium.", "pos": 400951}
{"speaker": "Naumann", "text": "Yes, for those who can’t paint. There you have perfect right. I did not recommend you to paint, my friend.", "pos": 401400}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for being vague. After all, the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection. I feel that especially about representations of women. As if a woman were a mere colored superficies! You must wait for movement and tone. There is a difference in their very breathing: they change from moment to moment.—This woman whom you have just seen, for example: how would you paint her voice, pray? But her voice is much diviner than anything you have seen of her.", "pos": 401643}
{"speaker": "Naumann", "text": "I see, I see. You are jealous. No man must presume to think that he can paint your ideal. This is serious, my friend! Your great-aunt! ‘Der Neffe als Onkel’ in a tragic sense—ungeheuer!", "pos": 402187}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "You and I shall quarrel, Naumann, if you call that lady my aunt again.", "pos": 402375}
{"speaker": "Naumann", "text": "How is she to be called then?", "pos": 402448}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Mrs. Casaubon.", "pos": 402480}
{"speaker": "Naumann", "text": "Good. Suppose I get acquainted with her in spite of you, and find that she very much wishes to be painted?", "pos": 402497}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Yes, suppose!", "pos": 402606}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Does this interest you, Dorothea? Shall we stay a little longer? I am ready to stay if you wish it. Should you like to go to the Farnesina, Dorothea? It contains celebrated frescos designed or painted by Raphael, which most persons think it worth while to visit.", "pos": 414636}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "But do you care about them?", "pos": 414966}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "They are, I believe, highly esteemed. Some of them represent the fable of Cupid and Psyche, which is probably the romantic invention of a literary period, and cannot, I think, be reckoned as a genuine mythical product. But if you like these wall-paintings we can easily drive thither; and you will then, I think, have seen the chief works of Raphael, any of which it were a pity to omit in a visit to Rome. He is the painter who has been held to combine the most complete grace of form with sublimity of expression. Such at least I have gathered to be the opinion of cognoscenti.", "pos": 415028}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "My dear Dorothea, we must now think of all that is yet left undone, as a preliminary to our departure. I would fain have returned home earlier that we might have been at Lowick for the Christmas; but my inquiries here have been protracted beyond their anticipated period. I trust, however, that the time here has not been passed unpleasantly to you. Among the sights of Europe, that of Rome has ever been held one of the most striking and in some respects edifying. I well remember that I considered it an epoch in my life when I visited it for the first time; after the fall of Napoleon, an event which opened the Continent to travellers. Indeed I think it is one among several cities to which an extreme hyperbole has been applied—‘See Rome and die:’ but in your case I would propose an emendation and say, See Rome as a bride, and live henceforth as a happy wife.", "pos": 419245}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I hope you are thoroughly satisfied with our stay—I mean, with the result so far as your studies are concerned,", "pos": 420466}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Yes. I have been led farther than I had foreseen, and various subjects for annotation have presented themselves which, though I have no direct need of them, I could not pretermit. The task, notwithstanding the assistance of my amanuensis, has been a somewhat laborious one, but your society has happily prevented me from that too continuous prosecution of thought beyond the hours of study which has been the snare of my solitary life.", "pos": 420660}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am very glad that my presence has made any difference to you. I hope when we get to Lowick, I shall be more useful to you, and be able to enter a little more into what interests you.", "pos": 421191}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Doubtless, my dear. The notes I have here made will want sifting, and you can, if you please, extract them under my direction.", "pos": 421601}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "And all your notes. All those rows of volumes—will you not now do what you used to speak of?—will you not make up your mind what part of them you will use, and begin to write the book which will make your vast knowledge useful to the world? I will write to your dictation, or I will copy and extract what you tell me: I can be of no other use.", "pos": 421770}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "My love, you may rely upon me for knowing the times and the seasons, adapted to the different stages of a work which is not to be measured by the facile conjectures of ignorant onlookers. It had been easy for me to gain a temporary effect by a mirage of baseless opinion; but it is ever the trial of the scrupulous explorer to be saluted with the impatient scorn of chatterers who attempt only the smallest achievements, being indeed equipped for no other. And it were well if all such could be admonished to discriminate judgments of which the true subject-matter lies entirely beyond their reach, from those of which the elements may be compassed by a narrow and superficial survey.", "pos": 424328}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "My judgment was a very superficial one—such as I am capable of forming. You showed me the rows of notebooks—you have often spoken of them—you have often said that they wanted digesting. But I never heard you speak of the writing that is to be published. Those were very simple facts, and my judgment went no farther. I only begged you to let me be of some good to you.", "pos": 425621}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Come in. Yes, show him into the salon.", "pos": 429736}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I was not aware that you and Mr. Casaubon were in Rome, until this morning, when I saw you in the Vatican Museum. I knew you at once—but—I mean, that I concluded Mr. Casaubon’s address would be found at the Poste Restante, and I was anxious to pay my respects to him and you as early as possible.", "pos": 431183}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Pray sit down. He is not here now, but he will be glad to hear of you, I am sure. Mr. Casaubon is much engaged; but you will leave your address—will you not?—and he will write to you.", "pos": 431493}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "You are very good. My address is on my card. But if you will allow me I will call again to-morrow at an hour when Mr. Casaubon is likely to be at home.", "pos": 431920}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "He goes to read in the Library of the Vatican every day, and you can hardly see him except by an appointment. Especially now. We are about to leave Rome, and he is very busy. He is usually away almost from breakfast till dinner. But I am sure he will wish you to dine with us.", "pos": 432217}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Something amuses you?", "pos": 433931}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Yes. I am thinking of the sort of figure I cut the first time I saw you, when you annihilated my poor sketch with your criticism.", "pos": 433955}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "My criticism? Surely not. I always feel particularly ignorant about painting.", "pos": 434128}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I suspected you of knowing so much, that you knew how to say just what was most cutting. You said—I dare say you don’t remember it as I do—that the relation of my sketch to nature was quite hidden from you. At least, you implied that.", "pos": 434247}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "That was really my ignorance. I must have said so only because I never could see any beauty in the pictures which my uncle told me all judges thought very fine. And I have gone about with just the same ignorance in Rome. There are comparatively few paintings that I can really enjoy. At first when I enter a room where the walls are covered with frescos, or with rare pictures, I feel a kind of awe—like a child present at great ceremonies where there are grand robes and processions; I feel myself in the presence of some higher life than my own. But when I begin to examine the pictures one by one the life goes out of them, or else is something violent and strange to me. It must be my own dulness. I am seeing so much all at once, and not understanding half of it. That always makes one feel stupid. It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine—something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.", "pos": 434523}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Oh, there is a great deal in the feeling for art which must be acquired. Art is an old language with a great many artificial affected styles, and sometimes the chief pleasure one gets out of knowing them is the mere sense of knowing. I enjoy the art of all sorts here immensely; but I suppose if I could pick my enjoyment to pieces I should find it made up of many different threads. There is something in daubing a little one’s self, and having an idea of the process.", "pos": 435523}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You mean perhaps to be a painter? You mean to make painting your profession? Mr. Casaubon will like to hear that you have chosen a profession.", "pos": 436082}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No, oh no. I have quite made up my mind against it. It is too one-sided a life. I have been seeing a great deal of the German artists here: I travelled from Frankfort with one of them. Some are fine, even brilliant fellows—but I should not like to get into their way of looking at the world entirely from the studio point of view.", "pos": 436278}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "That I can understand. And in Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures. But if you have a genius for painting, would it not be right to take that as a guide? Perhaps you might do better things than these—or different, so that there might not be so many pictures almost all alike in the same place.", "pos": 436644}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "A man must have a very rare genius to make changes of that sort. I am afraid mine would not carry me even to the pitch of doing well what has been done already, at least not so well as to make it worth while. And I should never succeed in anything by dint of drudgery. If things don’t come easily to me I never get them.", "pos": 437105}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I have heard Mr. Casaubon say that he regrets your want of patience,", "pos": 437428}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Yes, I know Mr. Casaubon’s opinion. He and I differ.", "pos": 437591}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Certainly you differ. I did not think of comparing you: such power of persevering devoted labor as Mr. Casaubon’s is not common.", "pos": 437801}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No, indeed. And therefore it is a pity that it should be thrown away, as so much English scholarship is, for want of knowing what is being done by the rest of the world. If Mr. Casaubon read German he would save himself a great deal of trouble.", "pos": 438374}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I do not understand you,", "pos": 438646}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I merely mean, that the Germans have taken the lead in historical inquiries, and they laugh at results which are got by groping about in woods with a pocket-compass while they have made good roads. When I was with Mr. Casaubon I saw that he deafened himself in that direction: it was almost against his will that he read a Latin treatise written by a German. I was very sorry.", "pos": 438710}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I regretted it especially, because of my gratitude and respect towards my cousin. It would not signify so much in a man whose talents and character were less distinguished.", "pos": 440006}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "How I wish I had learned German when I was at Lausanne! There were plenty of German teachers. But now I can be of no use.", "pos": 440360}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Forgive me for speaking so hastily to you this morning. I was wrong. I fear I hurt you and made the day more burdensome.", "pos": 443864}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I am glad that you feel that, my dear,", "pos": 443987}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "But you do forgive me?", "pos": 444164}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "My dear Dorothea—‘who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven nor earth:’—you do not think me worthy to be banished by that severe sentence. You are excited, my dear. And I also am feeling some unpleasant consequences of too much mental disturbance,", "pos": 444394}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I think it is time for us to dress,", "pos": 445511}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Nous câusames longtemps; elle était simple et bonne. Ne sachant pas le mal, elle faisait le bien; Des richesses du coeur elle me fit l’aumône, Et tout en écoutant comme le coeur se donne, Sans oser y penser je lui donnai le mien; Elle emporta ma vie, et n’en sut jamais rien. Will Ladislaw was delightfully agreeable at dinner the next day, and gave no opportunity for Mr. Casaubon to show disapprobation. On the contrary it seemed to Dorothea that Will had a happier way of drawing her husband into conversation and of deferentially listening to him than she had ever observed in any one before. To be sure, the listeners about Tipton were not highly gifted! Will talked a good deal himself, but what he said was thrown in with such rapidity, and with such an unimportant air of saying something by the way, that it seemed a gay little chime after the great bell. If Will was not always perfect, this was certainly one of his good days. He described touches of incident among the poor people in Rome, only to be seen by one who could move about freely; he found himself in agreement with Mr. Casaubon as to the unsound opinions of Middleton concerning the relations of Judaism and Catholicism; and passed easily to a half-enthusiastic half-playful picture of the enjoyment he got out of the very miscellaneousness of Rome, which made the mind flexible with constant comparison, and saved you from seeing the world’s ages as a set of box-like partitions without vital connection. Mr. Casaubon’s studies, Will observed, had always been of too broad a kind for that, and he had perhaps never felt any such sudden effect, but for himself he confessed that Rome had given him quite a new sense of history as a whole: the fragments stimulated his imagination and made him constructive. Then occasionally, but not too often, he appealed to Dorothea, and discussed what she said, as if her sentiment were an item to be considered in the final judgment even of the Madonna di Foligno or the Laocoon. A sense of contributing to form the world’s opinion makes conversation particularly cheerful; and Mr. Casaubon too was not without his pride in his young wife, who spoke better than most women, as indeed he had perceived in choosing her. Since things were going on so pleasantly, Mr. Casaubon’s statement that his labors in the Library would be suspended for a couple of days, and that after a brief renewal he should have no further reason for staying in Rome, encouraged Will to urge that Mrs. Casaubon should not go away without seeing a studio or two. Would not Mr. Casaubon take her? That sort of thing ought not to be missed: it was quite special: it was a form of life that grew like a small fresh vegetation with its population of insects on huge fossils. Will would be happy to conduct them—not to anything wearisome, only to a few examples.", "pos": 446722}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I have been making some oil-sketches under him. I hate copying. I must put something of my own in. Naumann has been painting the Saints drawing the Car of the Church, and I have been making a sketch of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine Driving the Conquered Kings in his Chariot. I am not so ecclesiastical as Naumann, and I sometimes twit him with his excess of meaning. But this time I mean to outdo him in breadth of intention. I take Tamburlaine in his chariot for the tremendous course of the world’s physical history lashing on the harnessed dynasties. In my opinion, that is a good mythical interpretation.", "pos": 450391}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "The sketch must be very grand, if it conveys so much. I should need some explanation even of the meaning you give. Do you intend Tamburlaine to represent earthquakes and volcanoes?", "pos": 451136}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Oh yes, and migrations of races and clearings of forests—and America and the steam-engine. Everything you can imagine!", "pos": 451336}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "What a difficult kind of shorthand! It would require all your knowledge to be able to read it.", "pos": 451480}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I think I would rather feel that painting is beautiful than have to read it as an enigma; but I should learn to understand these pictures sooner than yours with the very wide meaning,", "pos": 452850}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Don’t speak of my painting before Naumann. He will tell you, it is all pfuscherei, which is his most opprobrious word!", "pos": 453069}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Is that true?", "pos": 453203}
{"speaker": "Naumann", "text": "Oh, he does not mean it seriously with painting. His walk must be belles-lettres. That is wi-ide. My friend Ladislaw thinks you will pardon me, sir, if I say that a sketch of your head would be invaluable to me for the St. Thomas Aquinas in my picture there. It is too much to ask; but I so seldom see just what I want—the idealistic in the real.", "pos": 453307}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "You astonish me greatly, sir, but if my poor physiognomy, which I have been accustomed to regard as of the commonest order, can be of any use to you in furnishing some traits for the angelical doctor, I shall feel honored. That is to say, if the operation will not be a lengthy one; and if Mrs. Casaubon will not object to the delay.", "pos": 454095}
{"speaker": "Naumann", "text": "Now if I could lay this by for half an hour and take it up again—come and look, Ladislaw—I think it is perfect so far. Ah—now—if I could but have had more—but you have other engagements—I could not ask it—or even to come again to-morrow.", "pos": 455574}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh, let us stay! We have nothing to do to-day except go about, have we? It would be a pity not to make the head as good as possible.", "pos": 455957}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I am at your service, sir, in the matter. Having given up the interior of my head to idleness, it is as well that the exterior should work in this way.", "pos": 456160}
{"speaker": "Naumann", "text": "You are unspeakably good—now I am happy! Perhaps the beautiful bride, the gracious lady, would not be unwilling to let me fill up the time by trying to make a slight sketch of her—not, of course, as you see, for that picture—only as a single study.", "pos": 456362}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Mrs. Casaubon would oblige him,", "pos": 456923}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Where shall I put myself?", "pos": 456984}
{"speaker": "Naumann", "text": "It is as Santa Clara that I want you to stand—leaning so, with your cheek against your hand—so—looking at that stool, please, so!", "pos": 457238}
{"speaker": "Naumann", "text": "Now, sir, if you can oblige me again; I will release the lady-wife.", "pos": 457918}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Oblige me by letting the subject drop, Naumann. Mrs. Casaubon is not to be talked of as if she were a model,", "pos": 459869}
{"speaker": "Naumann", "text": "Schön! I will talk of my Aquinas. The head is not a bad type, after all. I dare say the great scholastic himself would have been flattered to have his portrait asked for. Nothing like these starchy doctors for vanity! It was as I thought: he cared much less for her portrait than his own.", "pos": 460014}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "He’s a cursed white-blooded pedantic coxcomb,", "pos": 460305}
{"speaker": "Naumann", "text": "It is good they go away soon, my dear. They are spoiling your fine temper.", "pos": 460580}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am so glad you are come. Perhaps you understand all about cameos, and can tell me if these are really good. I wished to have you with us in choosing them, but Mr. Casaubon objected: he thought there was not time. He will finish his work to-morrow, and we shall go away in three days. I have been uneasy about these cameos. Pray sit down and look at them.", "pos": 462418}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I am not particularly knowing, but there can be no great mistake about these little Homeric bits: they are exquisitely neat. And the color is fine: it will just suit you.", "pos": 462777}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh, they are for my sister, who has quite a different complexion. You saw her with me at Lowick: she is light-haired and very pretty—at least I think so. We were never so long away from each other in our lives before. She is a great pet and never was naughty in her life. I found out before I came away that she wanted me to buy her some cameos, and I should be sorry for them not to be good—after their kind.", "pos": 462950}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "You seem not to care about cameos,", "pos": 463406}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, frankly, I don’t think them a great object in life,", "pos": 463543}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I fear you are a heretic about art generally. How is that? I should have expected you to be very sensitive to the beautiful everywhere.", "pos": 463616}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I suppose I am dull about many things. I should like to make life beautiful—I mean everybody’s life. And then all this immense expense of art, that seems somehow to lie outside life and make it no better for the world, pains one. It spoils my enjoyment of anything when I am made to think that most people are shut out from it.", "pos": 463754}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I call that the fanaticism of sympathy. You might say the same of landscape, of poetry, of all refinement. If you carried it out you ought to be miserable in your own goodness, and turn evil that you might have no advantage over others. The best piety is to enjoy—when you can. You are doing the most then to save the earth’s character as an agreeable planet. And enjoyment radiates. It is of no use to try and take care of all the world; that is being taken care of when you feel delight—in art or in anything else. Would you turn all the youth of the world into a tragic chorus, wailing and moralizing over misery? I suspect that you have some false belief in the virtues of misery, and want to make your life a martyrdom.", "pos": 464109}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Indeed you mistake me. I am not a sad, melancholy creature. I am never unhappy long together. I am angry and naughty—not like Celia: I have a great outburst, and then all seems glorious again. I cannot help believing in glorious things in a blind sort of way. I should be quite willing to enjoy the art here, but there is so much that I don’t know the reason of—so much that seems to me a consecration of ugliness rather than beauty. The painting and sculpture may be wonderful, but the feeling is often low and brutal, and sometimes even ridiculous. Here and there I see what takes me at once as noble—something that I might compare with the Alban Mountains or the sunset from the Pincian Hill; but that makes it the greater pity that there is so little of the best kind among all that mass of things over which men have toiled so.", "pos": 465043}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Of course there is always a great deal of poor work: the rarer things want that soil to grow in.", "pos": 465878}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh dear. I see it must be very difficult to do anything good. I have often felt since I have been in Rome that most of our lives would look much uglier and more bungling than the pictures, if they could be put on the wall.", "pos": 465977}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "You are too young—it is an anachronism for you to have such thoughts. You talk as if you had never known any youth. It is monstrous—as if you had had a vision of Hades in your childhood, like the boy in the legend. You have been brought up in some of those horrible notions that choose the sweetest women to devour—like Minotaurs. And now you will go and be shut up in that stone prison at Lowick: you will be buried alive. It makes me savage to think of it! I would rather never have seen you than think of you with such a prospect.", "pos": 466379}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It is very good of you to be anxious about me. It is because you did not like Lowick yourself: you had set your heart on another kind of life. But Lowick is my chosen home. I wanted to ask you again about something you said the other day. Perhaps it was half of it your lively way of speaking: I notice that you like to put things strongly; I myself often exaggerate when I speak hastily.", "pos": 467352}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "What was it? I have a hyperbolical tongue: it catches fire as it goes. I dare say I shall have to retract.", "pos": 468135}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I mean what you said about the necessity of knowing German—I mean, for the subjects that Mr. Casaubon is engaged in. I have been thinking about it; and it seems to me that with Mr. Casaubon’s learning he must have before him the same materials as German scholars—has he not?", "pos": 468316}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Not exactly the same materials. He is not an Orientalist, you know. He does not profess to have more than second-hand knowledge there.", "pos": 468766}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "But there are very valuable books about antiquities which were written a long while ago by scholars who knew nothing about these modern things; and they are still used. Why should Mr. Casaubon’s not be valuable, like theirs?", "pos": 468957}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "That depends on the line of study taken. The subject Mr. Casaubon has chosen is as changing as chemistry: new discoveries are constantly making new points of view. Who wants a system on the basis of the four elements, or a book to refute Paracelsus? Do you not see that it is no use now to be crawling a little way after men of the last century—men like Bryant—and correcting their mistakes?—living in a lumber-room and furbishing up broken-legged theories about Chus and Mizraim?", "pos": 469317}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "How can you bear to speak so lightly? If it were as you say, what could be sadder than so much ardent labor all in vain? I wonder it does not affect you more painfully, if you really think that a man like Mr. Casaubon, of so much goodness, power, and learning, should in any way fail in what has been the labor of his best years.", "pos": 469847}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "You questioned me about the matter of fact, not of feeling. But if you wish to punish me for the fact, I submit. I am not in a position to express my feeling toward Mr. Casaubon: it would be at best a pensioner’s eulogy.", "pos": 470365}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Pray excuse me. I am aware, as you say, that I am in fault in having introduced the subject. Indeed, I am wrong altogether. Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.", "pos": 470601}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I quite agree with you, so much so that I have made up my mind not to run that risk of never attaining a failure. Mr. Casaubon’s generosity has perhaps been dangerous to me, and I mean to renounce the liberty it has given me. I mean to go back to England shortly and work my own way—depend on nobody else than myself.", "pos": 470875}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "That is fine—I respect that feeling. But Mr. Casaubon, I am sure, has never thought of anything in the matter except what was most for your welfare.", "pos": 471242}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "She has obstinacy and pride enough to serve instead of love, now she has married him. I shall not see you again.", "pos": 471435}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh, stay till Mr. Casaubon comes. I am so glad we met in Rome. I wanted to know you.", "pos": 471597}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "And I have made you angry. I have made you think ill of me.", "pos": 471712}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh no. My sister tells me I am always angry with people who do not say just what I like. But I hope I am not given to think ill of them. In the end I am usually obliged to think ill of myself for being so impatient.", "pos": 471787}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Still, you don’t like me; I have made myself an unpleasant thought to you.", "pos": 472005}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Not at all. I like you very much. And I am quite interested to see what you will do. I believe devoutly in a natural difference of vocation. If it were not for that belief, I suppose I should be very narrow—there are so many things, besides painting, that I am quite ignorant of. You would hardly believe how little I have taken in of music and literature, which you know so much of. I wonder what your vocation will turn out to be: perhaps you will be a poet?", "pos": 472082}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "That depends. To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.", "pos": 472794}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "But you leave out the poems. I think they are wanted to complete the poet. I understand what you mean about knowledge passing into feeling, for that seems to be just what I experience. But I am sure I could never produce a poem.", "pos": 473171}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "You are a poem—and that is to be the best part of a poet—what makes up the poet’s consciousness in his best moods,", "pos": 473419}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am very glad to hear it. What very kind things you say to me!", "pos": 473653}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I wish I could ever do anything that would be what you call kind—that I could ever be of the slightest service to you. I fear I shall never have the opportunity.", "pos": 473842}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh yes. It will come; and I shall remember how well you wish me. I quite hoped that we should be friends when I first saw you—because of your relationship to Mr. Casaubon. And there is one thing even now that you can do. Promise me that you will not again, to any one, speak of that subject—I mean about Mr. Casaubon’s writings—I mean in that kind of way. It was I who led to it. It was my fault. But promise me.", "pos": 474030}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Certainly, I will promise you,", "pos": 474965}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Good-by. I have something to tell you about our cousin Mr. Ladislaw, which I think will heighten your opinion of him,", "pos": 475452}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I met him outside, and we made our final adieux, I believe. What is that, my love?", "pos": 476022}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "He has made up his mind to leave off wandering at once, and to give up his dependence on your generosity. He means soon to go back to England, and work his own way. I thought you would consider that a good sign,", "pos": 476373}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Did he mention the precise order of occupation to which he would addict himself?", "pos": 476658}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No. But he said that he felt the danger which lay for him in your generosity. Of course he will write to you about it. Do you not think better of him for his resolve?", "pos": 476741}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I shall await his communication on the subject,", "pos": 476910}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I told him I was sure that the thing you considered in all you did for him was his own welfare. I remembered your goodness in what you said about him when I first saw him at Lowick,", "pos": 476979}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I had a duty towards him. The young man, I confess, is not otherwise an object of interest to me, nor need we, I think, discuss his future course, which it is not ours to determine beyond the limits which I have sufficiently indicated.", "pos": 477213}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your horses of the Sun,", "pos": 477695}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And first-rate whip Apollo!", "pos": 477730}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Whate’er they be, I’ll eat my head,", "pos": 477758}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But I will beat them hollow.", "pos": 477794}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "It was a misfortune, eh, that breaking the horse’s knees? And then, these exchanges, they don’t answer when you have ’cute jockeys to deal with. You’ll be wiser another time, my boy. Good-by,", "pos": 487976}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Fred should turn out and get his living how he could", "pos": 489356}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "go on with that.", "pos": 489608}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bambridge", "text": "You made a bad hand at swapping when you went to anybody but me, Vincy! Why, you never threw your leg across a finer horse than that chestnut, and you gave him for this brute. If you set him cantering, he goes on like twenty sawyers. I never heard but one worse roarer in my life, and that was a roan: it belonged to Pegwell, the corn-factor; he used to drive him in his gig seven years ago, and he wanted me to take him, but I said, 'Thank you, Peg, I don’t deal in wind-instruments.' That was what I said. It went the round of the country, that joke did. But, what the hell! the horse was a penny trumpet to that roarer of yours.", "pos": 499956}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Why, you said just now his was worse than mine,", "pos": 500590}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bambridge", "text": "I said a lie, then. There wasn’t a penny to choose between ’em. Not but what the roan was a better trotter than yours.", "pos": 500678}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I’m quite satisfied with his paces, I know. I say his trot is an uncommonly clean one, eh, Horrock?", "pos": 500942}
{"speaker": "an antique personage", "text": "The theatre of all my actions is fallen,", "pos": 507921}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Now let us go through that once more, ‘Not without regard to the import of the word as conveying unity or plurality of idea’—tell me again what that means, Ben.", "pos": 513808}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "Oh—it means—you must think what you mean. I hate grammar. What’s the use of it?", "pos": 514295}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "To teach you to speak and write correctly, so that you can be understood. Should you like to speak as old Job does?", "pos": 514407}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "Yes, it’s funnier. He says, ‘Yo goo’—that’s just as good as ‘You go.’", "pos": 514567}
{"speaker": "Letty", "text": "But he says, ‘A ship’s in the garden,’ instead of ‘a sheep,’ You might think he meant a ship off the sea.", "pos": 514660}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "No, you mightn’t, if you weren’t silly. How could a ship off the sea come there?", "pos": 514810}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "These things belong only to pronunciation, which is the least part of grammar. That apple-peel is to be eaten by the pigs, Ben; if you eat it, I must give them your piece of pasty. Job has only to speak about very plain things. How do you think you would write or speak about anything more difficult, if you knew no more of grammar than he does? You would use wrong words, and put words in the wrong places, and instead of making people understand you, they would turn away from you as a tiresome person. What would you do then?", "pos": 514905}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "I shouldn’t care, I should leave off,", "pos": 515455}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "I see you are getting tired and stupid, Ben. Come here and tell me the story I told you on Wednesday, about Cincinnatus.", "pos": 515580}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "I know! he was a farmer,", "pos": 515862}
{"speaker": "Letty", "text": "Now, Ben, he was a Roman—let me tell,", "pos": 515899}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "You silly thing, he was a Roman farmer, and he was ploughing.", "pos": 515982}
{"speaker": "Letty", "text": "Yes, but before that—that didn’t come first—people wanted him,", "pos": 516046}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "Well, but you must say what sort of a man he was first. He was a wise man, like my father, and that made the people want his advice. And he was a brave man, and could fight. And so could my father—couldn’t he, mother?", "pos": 516123}
{"speaker": "Letty", "text": "Now, Ben, let me tell the story straight on, as mother told it us. Please, mother, tell Ben not to speak.", "pos": 516359}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Letty, I am ashamed of you. When your brother began, you ought to have waited to see if he could not tell the story. How rude you look, pushing and frowning, as if you wanted to conquer with your elbows! Cincinnatus, I am sure, would have been sorry to see his daughter behave so. Now, Ben.", "pos": 516491}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "Well—oh—well—why, there was a great deal of fighting, and they were all blockheads, and—I can’t tell it just how you told it—but they wanted a man to be captain and king and everything—", "pos": 517055}
{"speaker": "Letty", "text": "Dictator, now,", "pos": 517243}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "Very well, dictator! But that isn’t a good word: he didn’t tell them to write on slates.", "pos": 517342}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Come, come, Ben, you are not so ignorant as that. Hark, there is a knock at the door! Run, Letty, and open it.", "pos": 517461}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "You, Fred, so early in the day? You look quite pale. Has anything happened?", "pos": 518146}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I want to speak to Mr. Garth, and to you also,", "pos": 518224}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Caleb will be in again in a few minutes. He is sure not to be long, because he has some work at his desk that must be done this morning. Do you mind staying with me, while I finish my matters here?", "pos": 518481}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "But we needn’t go on about Cincinnatus, need we?", "pos": 518755}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "No, go out now. But put that whip down. How very mean of you to whip poor old Tortoise! Pray take the whip from him, Fred.", "pos": 518901}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Come, old boy, give it me,", "pos": 519026}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "Will you let me ride on your horse to-day?", "pos": 519088}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Not to-day—another time. I am not riding my own horse.", "pos": 519209}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "Shall you see Mary to-day?", "pos": 519266}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Yes, I think so,", "pos": 519295}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "Tell her to come home soon, and play at forfeits, and make fun.", "pos": 519352}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Enough, enough, Ben! run away,", "pos": 519418}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Are Letty and Ben your only pupils now, Mrs. Garth?", "pos": 519497}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "One—only one. Fanny Hackbutt comes at half past eleven. I am not getting a great income now. I am at a low ebb with pupils. But I have saved my little purse for Alfred’s premium: I have ninety-two pounds. He can go to Mr. Hanmer’s now; he is just at the right age. Young gentlemen who go to college are rather more costly than that. And Caleb thinks that Alfred will turn out a distinguished engineer: he wants to give the boy a good chance. There he is! I hear him coming in. We will go to him in the parlor, shall we?", "pos": 519822}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "What! Fred, my boy! you are here betimes. Is there anything up at home?—anything the matter?", "pos": 520663}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Yes, Mr. Garth, I am come to tell something that I am afraid will give you a bad opinion of me. I am come to tell you and Mrs. Garth that I can’t keep my word. I can’t find the money to meet the bill after all. I have been unfortunate; I have only got these fifty pounds towards the hundred and sixty.", "pos": 520923}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Oh, I didn’t tell you, Susan: I put my name to a bill for Fred; it was for a hundred and sixty pounds. He made sure he could meet it himself.", "pos": 521554}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "I suppose you have asked your father for the rest of the money and he has refused you.", "pos": 521858}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "No, but I know it will be of no use to ask him; and unless it were of use, I should not like to mention Mr. Garth’s name in the matter.", "pos": 521947}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "It has come at an unfortunate time. Christmas upon us—I’m rather hard up just now. You see, I have to cut out everything like a tailor with short measure. What can we do, Susan? I shall want every farthing we have in the bank. It’s a hundred and ten pounds, the deuce take it!", "pos": 522149}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "I must give you the ninety-two pounds that I have put by for Alfred’s premium. And I have no doubt that Mary has twenty pounds saved from her salary by this time. She will advance it.", "pos": 522526}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I shall certainly pay it all, Mrs. Garth—ultimately,", "pos": 523888}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Yes, ultimately. But boys cannot well be apprenticed ultimately: they should be apprenticed at fifteen.", "pos": 523961}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "I was the most in the wrong, Susan. Fred made sure of finding the money. But I’d no business to be fingering bills. I suppose you have looked all round and tried all honest means?", "pos": 524246}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Yes, I have tried everything—I really have. I should have had a hundred and thirty pounds ready but for a misfortune with a horse which I was about to sell. My uncle had given me eighty pounds, and I paid away thirty with my old horse in order to get another which I was going to sell for eighty or more—I meant to go without a horse—but now it has turned out vicious and lamed itself. I wish I and the horses too had been at the devil, before I had brought this on you. There’s no one else I care so much for: you and Mrs. Garth have always been so kind to me. However, it’s no use saying that. You will always think me a rascal now.", "pos": 524543}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "I am disappointed in Fred Vincy. I would not have believed beforehand that he would have drawn you into his debts. I knew he was extravagant, but I did not think that he would be so mean as to hang his risks on his oldest friend, who could the least afford to lose.", "pos": 525414}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "I was a fool, Susan.", "pos": 525701}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "That you were. But I should not have gone to publish it in the market-place. Why should you keep such things from me? It is just so with your buttons: you let them burst off without telling me, and go out with your wristband hanging. If I had only known I might have been ready with some better plan.", "pos": 525724}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "You are sadly cut up, I know, Susan. I can’t abide your losing the money you’ve scraped together for Alfred.", "pos": 526065}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "It is very well that I had scraped it together; and it is you who will have to suffer, for you must teach the boy yourself. You must give up your bad habits. Some men take to drinking, and you have taken to working without pay. You must indulge yourself a little less in that. And you must ride over to Mary, and ask the child what money she has.", "pos": 526216}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Poor Mary! Susan. I’m afraid she may be fond of Fred.", "pos": 526703}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Oh no! She always laughs at him; and he is not likely to think of her in any other than a brotherly way.", "pos": 526802}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Deuce take the bill—I wish it was at Hanover! These things are a sad interruption to business!", "pos": 527013}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Mary. I am a good-for-nothing blackguard.", "pos": 531709}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I should think one of those epithets would do at a time,", "pos": 531765}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I know you will never think well of me any more. You will think me a liar. You will think me dishonest. You will think I didn’t care for you, or your father and mother. You always do make the worst of me, I know.", "pos": 531873}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I cannot deny that I shall think all that of you, Fred, if you give me good reasons. But please to tell me at once what you have done. I would rather know the painful truth than imagine it.", "pos": 532088}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I owed money—a hundred and sixty pounds. I asked your father to put his name to a bill. I thought it would not signify to him. I made sure of paying the money myself, and I have tried as hard as I could. And now, I have been so unlucky—a horse has turned out badly—I can only pay fifty pounds. And I can’t ask my father for the money: he would not give me a farthing. And my uncle gave me a hundred a little while ago. So what can I do? And now your father has no ready money to spare, and your mother will have to pay away her ninety-two pounds that she has saved, and she says your savings must go too. You see what a—", "pos": 532280}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Oh, poor mother, poor father!", "pos": 532903}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I wouldn’t have hurt you for the world, Mary. You can never forgive me.", "pos": 533215}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "What does it matter whether I forgive you? Would that make it any better for my mother to lose the money she has been earning by lessons for four years, that she might send Alfred to Mr. Hanmer’s? Should you think all that pleasant enough if I forgave you?", "pos": 533308}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Say what you like, Mary. I deserve it all.", "pos": 533594}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I don’t want to say anything, and my anger is of no use.", "pos": 533639}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I do care about your mother’s money going. I wanted to ask you, Mary—don’t you think that Mr. Featherstone—if you were to tell him—tell him, I mean, about apprenticing Alfred—would advance the money?", "pos": 533968}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "My family is not fond of begging, Fred. We would rather work for our money. Besides, you say that Mr. Featherstone has lately given you a hundred pounds. He rarely makes presents; he has never made presents to us. I am sure my father will not ask him for anything; and even if I chose to beg of him, it would be of no use.", "pos": 534227}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I am so miserable, Mary—if you knew how miserable I am, you would be sorry for me.", "pos": 534552}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "There are other things to be more sorry for than that. But selfish people always think their own discomfort of more importance than anything else in the world. I see enough of that every day.", "pos": 534637}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "It is hardly fair to call me selfish. If you knew what things other young men do, you would think me a good way off the worst.", "pos": 534831}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I know that people who spend a great deal of money on themselves without knowing how they shall pay, must be selfish. They are always thinking of what they can get for themselves, and not of what other people may lose.", "pos": 534960}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Any man may be unfortunate, Mary, and find himself unable to pay when he meant it. There is not a better man in the world than your father, and yet he got into trouble.", "pos": 535181}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "How dare you make any comparison between my father and you, Fred? He never got into trouble by thinking of his own idle pleasures, but because he was always thinking of the work he was doing for other people. And he has fared hard, and worked hard to make good everybody’s loss.", "pos": 535352}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "And you think that I shall never try to make good anything, Mary. It is not generous to believe the worst of a man. When you have got any power over him, I think you might try and use it to make him better; but that is what you never do. However, I’m going. I shall never speak to you about anything again. I’m very sorry for all the trouble I’ve caused—that’s all.", "pos": 535677}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Oh, Fred, how ill you look! Sit down a moment. Don’t go yet. Let me tell uncle that you are here. He has been wondering that he has not seen you for a whole week.", "pos": 536639}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Say one word, Mary, and I will do anything. Say you will not think the worst of me—will not give me up altogether.", "pos": 537108}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "As if it were any pleasure to me to think ill of you. As if it were not very painful to me to see you an idle frivolous creature. How can you bear to be so contemptible, when others are working and striving, and there are so many things to be done—how can you bear to be fit for nothing in the world that is useful? And with so much good in your disposition, Fred,—you might be worth a great deal.", "pos": 537225}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I will try to be anything you like, Mary, if you will say that you love me.", "pos": 537658}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I should be ashamed to say that I loved a man who must always be hanging on others, and reckoning on what they would do for him. What will you be when you are forty? Like Mr. Bowyer, I suppose—just as idle, living in Mrs. Beck’s front parlor—fat and shabby, hoping somebody will invite you to dinner—spending your morning in learning a comic song—oh no! learning a tune on the flute. I shall tell uncle. You must see him for a moment or two.", "pos": 537736}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "I want to speak to you, Mary.", "pos": 540045}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "I’ve got something to tell you, my dear. No very good news; but then it might be worse.", "pos": 540646}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "About money, father? I think I know what it is.", "pos": 540772}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Ay? how can that be? You see, I’ve been a bit of a fool again, and put my name to a bill, and now it comes to paying; and your mother has got to part with her savings, that’s the worst of it, and even they won’t quite make things even. We wanted a hundred and ten pounds: your mother has ninety-two, and I have none to spare in the bank; and she thinks that you have some savings.", "pos": 540822}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Oh yes; I have more than four-and-twenty pounds. I thought you would come, father, so I put it in my bag. See! beautiful white notes and gold.", "pos": 541205}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Well, but how—we only want eighteen—here, put the rest back, child,—but how did you know about it?", "pos": 541434}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Fred told me this morning.", "pos": 541697}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Ah! Did he come on purpose?", "pos": 541726}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Yes, I think so. He was a good deal distressed.", "pos": 541756}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "I’m afraid Fred is not to be trusted, Mary. He means better than he acts, perhaps. But I should think it a pity for any body’s happiness to be wrapped up in him, and so would your mother.", "pos": 541806}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "And so should I, father,", "pos": 542043}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "I don’t want to pry, my dear. But I was afraid there might be something between you and Fred, and I wanted to caution you. You see, Mary a woman, let her be as good as she may, has got to put up with the life her husband makes for her. Your mother has had to put up with a good deal because of me. Well, well, nobody’s perfect, but what I am thinking of is—what it must be for a wife when she’s never sure of her husband, when he hasn’t got a principle in him to make him more afraid of doing the wrong thing by others than of getting his own toes pinched. That’s the long and the short of it, Mary. Young folks may get fond of each other before they know what life is, and they may think it all holiday if they can only get together; but it soon turns into working day, my dear. However, you have more sense than most, and you haven’t been kept in cotton-wool: there may be no occasion for me to say this, but a father trembles for his daughter, and you are all by yourself here.", "pos": 542158}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Don’t fear for me, father. Fred has always been very good to me; he is kind-hearted and affectionate, and not false, I think, with all his self-indulgence. But I will never engage myself to one who has no manly independence, and who goes on loitering away his time on the chance that others will provide for him. You and my mother have taught me too much pride for that.", "pos": 543438}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "That’s right—that’s right. Then I am easy. But it’s hard to run away with your earnings, eh child.", "pos": 543859}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Father! Take pocketfuls of love besides to them all at home,", "pos": 543997}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "I suppose your father wanted your earnings. He makes but a tight fit, I reckon. You’re of age now; you ought to be saving for yourself.", "pos": 544172}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I consider my father and mother the best part of myself, sir,", "pos": 544410}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "If Fred Vincy comes to-morrow, now, don’t you keep him chattering: let him come up to me.", "pos": 544686}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I feel very ill: I think you must send for Wrench.", "pos": 545457}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Oh, nonsense, mother! It’s nothing. I shall soon be all right. I must have taken cold in that nasty damp ride.", "pos": 546846}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Mamma! there is Mr. Lydgate, stopping to speak to some one. If I were you I would call him in. He has cured Ellen Bulstrode. They say he cures every one.", "pos": 547009}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "very ill usage on the part of Mr. Wrench, who had attended their house so many years in preference to Mr. Peacock, though Mr. Peacock was equally a friend. Why Mr. Wrench should neglect her children more than others, she could not for the life of her understand. He had not neglected Mrs. Larcher’s when they had the measles, nor indeed would Mrs. Vincy have wished that he should. And if anything should happen—", "pos": 548462}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "But you must come again—you must go on attending Fred. I can’t have my boy left to anybody who may come or not. I bear nobody ill-will, thank God, and Mr. Wrench saved me in the pleurisy, but he’d better have let me die—if—if—", "pos": 549441}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I will meet Mr. Wrench here, then, shall I?", "pos": 549670}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Pray make that arrangement, Mr. Lydgate,", "pos": 549822}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "I shall drink brandy. He’s an uncommonly unfortunate lad, is Fred. He’d need have some luck by and by to make up for all this—else I don’t know who’d have an eldest son.", "pos": 550312}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Don’t say so, Vincy, if you don’t want him to be taken from me.", "pos": 550594}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "It will worret you to death, Lucy; that I can see. However, Wrench shall know what I think of the matter. I’m the last man to give in to the cry about new doctors, or new parsons either—whether they’re Bulstrode’s men or not. But Wrench shall know what I think, take it as he will.", "pos": 550701}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Oh, Mr. Wrench, what have I ever done that you should use me so?— To go away, and never to come again! And my boy might have been stretched a corpse!", "pos": 551719}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "I’ll tell you what, Wrench, this is beyond a joke. To let fever get unawares into a house like this. There are some things that ought to be actionable, and are not so— that’s my opinion.", "pos": 552083}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "I should not be surprised at anything in Bulstrode, but I should be sorry to think it of Mr. Lydgate.", "pos": 554709}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Why, mother, you know very well that Lydgate is of a good family in the North. He never heard of Bulstrode before he came here.", "pos": 554813}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "That is satisfactory so far as Mr. Lydgate is concerned, Camden. But as to Bulstrode—the report may be true of some other son.", "pos": 554993}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Save my boy. He has always been good to me, Mr. Lydgate: he never had a hard word for his mother,", "pos": 557462}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I have good hope, Mrs. Vincy. Come down with me and let us talk about the food.", "pos": 557859}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "If I can only see my boy strong again, and who knows?—perhaps master of Stone Court! and he can marry anybody he likes then.", "pos": 559940}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Not if they won’t have me, mother,", "pos": 560100}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Oh, take a bit of jelly, my dear,", "pos": 560211}
{"speaker": "Mr. Ned", "text": "I think the Honorable Mrs. S. is something like you,", "pos": 568673}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Her back is very large; she seems to have sat for that,", "pos": 568831}
{"speaker": "Mr. Ned", "text": "I did not say she was as beautiful as you are,", "pos": 569062}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I suspect you of being an adroit flatterer. What a late comer you are! Mamma had given you up a little while ago. How do you find Fred?", "pos": 569175}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "As usual; going on well, but slowly. I want him to go away—to Stone Court, for example. But your mamma seems to have some objection.", "pos": 569768}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Poor fellow! You will see Fred so changed, we have looked to Mr. Lydgate as our guardian angel during this illness. What are you laughing at so profanely?", "pos": 569903}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I wonder which would turn out to be the silliest—the engravings or the writing here. Do look at this bridegroom coming out of church: did you ever see such a ‘sugared invention’—as the Elizabethans used to say? Did any haberdasher ever look so smirking? Yet I will answer for it the story makes him one of the first gentlemen in the land.", "pos": 570349}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "You are so severe, I am frightened at you,", "pos": 570896}
{"speaker": "Mr. Ned", "text": "There are a great many celebrated people writing in the ‘Keepsake,’ at all events. This is the first time I have heard it called silly.", "pos": 571096}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I think I shall turn round on you and accuse you of being a Goth. I suspect you know nothing about Lady Blessington and L. E. L.", "pos": 571281}
{"speaker": "young Plymdale", "text": "But Sir Walter Scott—I suppose Mr. Lydgate knows him,", "pos": 571683}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Oh, I read no literature now. I read so much when I was a lad, that I suppose it will last me all my life. I used to know Scott’s poems by heart.", "pos": 571796}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I should like to know when you left off, because then I might be sure that I knew something which you did not know.", "pos": 572000}
{"speaker": "Mr. Ned", "text": "Mr. Lydgate would say that was not worth knowing,", "pos": 572135}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "On the contrary. It would be worth knowing by the fact that Miss Vincy could tell it me.", "pos": 572220}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "How rash you are! Do you see that you have given offence?", "pos": 572568}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "What! is it Mr. Plymdale’s book? I am sorry. I didn’t think about it.", "pos": 572665}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I shall begin to admit what you said of yourself when you first came here—that you are a bear, and want teaching by the birds.", "pos": 572737}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Well, there is a bird who can teach me what she will. Don’t I listen to her willingly?", "pos": 572866}
{"speaker": "1_st Gent_", "text": "All times are good to seek your wedded home Bringing a mutual delight.", "pos": 574883}
{"speaker": "2_d Gent_", "text": "Why, true. The calendar hath not an evil day For souls made one by love, and even death Were sweetness, if it came like rolling waves While they two clasped each other, and foresaw No life apart.", "pos": 574963}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh, it was cruel to speak so! How sad—how dreadful!", "pos": 581221}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Dodo!", "pos": 581795}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "I need not ask how you are, my dear. Rome has agreed with you, I see—happiness, frescos, the antique—that sort of thing. Well, it’s very pleasant to have you back again, and you understand all about art now, eh? But Casaubon is a little pale, I tell him—a little pale, you know. Studying hard in his holidays is carrying it rather too far. I overdid it at one time about topography, ruins, temples—I thought I had a clew, but I saw it would carry me too far, and nothing might come of it. You may go any length in that sort of thing, and nothing may come of it, you know. Nothing to alarm you, my dear. A little English beef and mutton will soon make a difference. It was all very well to look pale, sitting for the portrait of Aquinas, you know—we got your letter just in time. But Aquinas, now—he was a little too subtle, wasn’t he? Does anybody read Aquinas?", "pos": 582011}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "He is not indeed an author adapted to superficial minds,", "pos": 583233}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You would like coffee in your own room, uncle?", "pos": 583367}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Yes; and you must go to Celia: she has great news to tell you, you know. I leave it all to her.", "pos": 583453}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Do you think it nice to go to Rome on a wedding journey?", "pos": 583767}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It would not suit all—not you, dear, for example,", "pos": 583922}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Mrs. Cadwallader says it is nonsense, people going a long journey when they are married. She says they get tired to death of each other, and can’t quarrel comfortably, as they would at home. And Lady Chettam says she went to Bath.", "pos": 584068}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Celia! has something happened? Have you really any great news to tell me?", "pos": 584481}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "It was because you went away, Dodo. Then there was nobody but me for Sir James to talk to,", "pos": 584610}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I understand. It is as I used to hope and believe,", "pos": 584755}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "It was only three days ago. And Lady Chettam is very kind.", "pos": 584959}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "And you are very happy?", "pos": 585034}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Yes. We are not going to be married yet. Because every thing is to be got ready. And I don’t want to be married so very soon, because I think it is nice to be engaged. And we shall be married all our lives after.", "pos": 585060}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I do believe you could not marry better, Kitty. Sir James is a good, honorable man,", "pos": 585275}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "He has gone on with the cottages, Dodo. He will tell you about them when he comes. Shall you be glad to see him?", "pos": 585384}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Of course I shall. How can you ask me?", "pos": 585499}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Only I was afraid you would be getting so learned,", "pos": 585540}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Dorothea, here is a letter for you, which was enclosed in one addressed to me.", "pos": 594627}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Mr. Ladislaw! What can he have to say to me? But. I can imagine what he has written to you about.", "pos": 594783}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "You can, if you please, read the letter. But I may as well say beforehand, that I must decline the proposal it contains to pay a visit here. I trust I may be excused for desiring an interval of complete freedom from such distractions as have been hitherto inevitable, and especially from guests whose desultory vivacity makes their presence a fatigue.", "pos": 594969}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Why do you attribute to me a wish for anything that would annoy you? You speak to me as if I were something you had to contend against. Wait at least till I appear to consult my own pleasure apart from yours.", "pos": 596387}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Dorothea, you are hasty,", "pos": 596598}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I think it was you who were first hasty in your false suppositions about my feeling,", "pos": 596812}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "We will, if you please, say no more on this subject, Dorothea. I have neither leisure nor energy for this kind of debate.", "pos": 597036}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Can you lean on me, dear?", "pos": 599052}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Good God! this is just what might have been expected,", "pos": 599646}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I recommend you to send for Lydgate. My mother has called him in, and she has found him uncommonly clever. She has had a poor opinion of the physicians since my father’s death.", "pos": 600335}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Poor dear Dodo—how dreadful! It is very shocking that Mr. Casaubon should be ill; but I never did like him. And I think he is not half fond enough of Dorothea; and he ought to be, for I am sure no one else would have had him—do you think they would?", "pos": 601017}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I always thought it a horrible sacrifice of your sister,", "pos": 601449}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Yes. But poor Dodo never did do what other people do, and I think she never will.", "pos": 601524}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "She is a noble creature,", "pos": 601608}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Yes. Shall I go to her? Could I help her, do you think?", "pos": 601897}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I think it would be well for you just to go and see her before Lydgate comes. Only don’t stay long.", "pos": 602070}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "In short, you recommend me to anticipate the arrival of my second childhood. These things, would be to me such relaxation as tow-picking is to prisoners in a house of correction.", "pos": 603928}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I confess, amusement is rather an unsatisfactory prescription. It is something like telling people to keep up their spirits. Perhaps I had better say, that you must submit to be mildly bored rather than to go on working.", "pos": 604189}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Yes, yes. Yes, yes. Get Dorothea to play backgammon with you in the evenings. And shuttlecock, now—I don’t know a finer game than shuttlecock for the daytime. I remember it all the fashion. To be sure, your eyes might not stand that, Casaubon. But you must unbend, you know. Why, you might take to some light study: conchology, now: I always think that must be a light study. Or get Dorothea to read you light things, Smollett—‘Roderick Random,’ ‘Humphry Clinker:’ they are a little broad, but she may read anything now she’s married, you know. I remember they made me laugh uncommonly—there’s a droll bit about a postilion’s breeches. We have no such humor now. I have gone through all these things, but they might be rather new to you.", "pos": 604437}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "As new as eating thistles, served as a resource to a certain order of minds.", "pos": 605186}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "You see. Casaubon has been a little narrow: it leaves him rather at a loss when you forbid him his particular work, which I believe is something very deep indeed—in the line of research, you know. I would never give way to that; I was always versatile. But a clergyman is tied a little tight. If they would make him a bishop, now!—he did a very good pamphlet for Peel. He would have more movement then, more show; he might get a little flesh. But I recommend you to talk to Mrs. Casaubon. She is clever enough for anything, is my niece. Tell her, her husband wants liveliness, diversion: put her on amusing tactics.", "pos": 605454}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You will not mind this sombre light. Since you forbade books, the library has been out of the question. But Mr. Casaubon will soon be here again, I hope. Is he not making progress?", "pos": 607646}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Yes, much more rapid progress than I at first expected. Indeed, he is already nearly in his usual state of health.", "pos": 607882}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You do not fear that the illness will return?", "pos": 607999}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Such cases are peculiarly difficult to pronounce upon. The only point on which I can be confident is that it will be desirable to be very watchful on Mr. Casaubon’s account, lest he should in any way strain his nervous power.", "pos": 608128}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I beseech you to speak quite plainly. I cannot bear to think that there might be something which I did not know, and which, if I had known it, would have made me act differently. Sit down,", "pos": 608372}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "What you say now justifies my own view. I think it is one’s function as a medical man to hinder regrets of that sort as far as possible. But I beg you to observe that Mr. Casaubon’s case is precisely of the kind in which the issue is most difficult to pronounce upon. He may possibly live for fifteen years or more, without much worse health than he has had hitherto.", "pos": 608911}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You mean if we are very careful.", "pos": 609377}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Yes—careful against mental agitation of all kinds, and against excessive application.", "pos": 609412}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "He would be miserable, if he had to give up his work,", "pos": 609500}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I am aware of that. The only course is to try by all means, direct and indirect, to moderate and vary his occupations. With a happy concurrence of circumstances, there is, as I said, no immediate danger from that affection of the heart, which I believe to have been the cause of his late attack. On the other hand, it is possible that the disease may develop itself more rapidly: it is one of those cases in which death is sometimes sudden. Nothing should be neglected which might be affected by such an issue.", "pos": 609616}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Help me, pray. Tell me what I can do.", "pos": 610358}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "What do you think of foreign travel? You have been lately in Rome, I think.", "pos": 610452}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh, that would not do—that would be worse than anything. Nothing will be of any use that he does not enjoy.", "pos": 610654}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I wish that I could have spared you this pain,", "pos": 610839}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It was right of you to tell me. I thank you for telling me the truth.", "pos": 611014}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I wish you to understand that I shall not say anything to enlighten Mr. Casaubon himself. I think it desirable for him to know nothing more than that he must not overwork himself, and must observe certain rules. Anxiety of any kind would be precisely the most unfavorable condition for him.", "pos": 611086}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh, you are a wise man, are you not? You know all about life and death. Advise me. Think what I can do. He has been laboring all his life and looking forward. He minds about nothing else.— And I mind about nothing else—", "pos": 611652}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "But what could he say now except that he should see Mr. Casaubon again to-morrow?", "pos": 612137}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I am honest.", "pos": 613750}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "To be sure, I will write, my dear. He’s a very clever young fellow—this young Ladislaw—I dare say will be a rising young man. It’s a good letter—marks his sense of things, you know. However, I will tell him about Casaubon.", "pos": 615667}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Of course she is devoted to her husband. Do you think her very handsome?", "pos": 618104}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "She certainly is handsome, but I have not thought about it,", "pos": 618448}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I suppose it would be unprofessional. But how your practice is spreading! You were called in before to the Chettams, I think; and now, the Casaubons.", "pos": 618524}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Yes. But I don’t really like attending such people so well as the poor. The cases are more monotonous, and one has to go through more fuss and listen more deferentially to nonsense.", "pos": 618703}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Not more than in Middlemarch. And at least you go through wide corridors and have the scent of rose-leaves everywhere.", "pos": 618938}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "That is true, Mademoiselle de Montmorenci,", "pos": 619076}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "Why do you say ‘poor Rosamond’?", "pos": 621071}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "She is so pretty, and has been brought up in such thoughtlessness. The mother, you know, had always that levity about her, which makes me anxious for the children.", "pos": 621179}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "Well, Harriet, if I am to speak my mind. I must say, anybody would suppose you and Mr. Bulstrode would be delighted with what has happened, for you have done everything to put Mr. Lydgate forward.", "pos": 621345}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Selina, what do you mean?", "pos": 621581}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "Not but what I am truly thankful for Ned’s sake. He could certainly better afford to keep such a wife than some people can; but I should wish him to look elsewhere. Still a mother has anxieties, and some young men would take to a bad life in consequence. Besides, if I was obliged to speak, I should say I was not fond of strangers coming into a town.", "pos": 621651}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "I don’t know, Selina. Mr. Bulstrode was a stranger here at one time. Abraham and Moses were strangers in the land, and we are told to entertain strangers. And especially, when they are unexceptionable.", "pos": 622027}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "I was not speaking in a religious sense, Harriet. I spoke as a mother.", "pos": 622325}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Selina, I am sure you have never heard me say anything against a niece of mine marrying your son.", "pos": 622398}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "Oh, it is pride in Miss Vincy—I am sure it is nothing else. No young man in Middlemarch was good enough for her: I have heard her mother say as much. That is not a Christian spirit, I think. But now, from all I hear, she has found a man as proud as herself.", "pos": 622498}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "You don’t mean that there is anything between Rosamond and Mr. Lydgate?", "pos": 622856}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "Is it possible you don’t know, Harriet?", "pos": 623002}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Oh, I go about so little; and I am not fond of gossip; I really never hear any. You see so many people that I don’t see. Your circle is rather different from ours.", "pos": 623044}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "Well, but your own niece and Mr. Bulstrode’s great favorite—and yours too, I am sure, Harriet! I thought, at one time, you meant him for Kate, when she is a little older.", "pos": 623210}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "I don’t believe there can be anything serious at present. My brother would certainly have told me.", "pos": 623383}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "Well, people have different ways, but I understand that nobody can see Miss Vincy and Mr. Lydgate together without taking them to be engaged. However, it is not my business. Shall I put up the pattern of mittens?", "pos": 623507}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "You are alone, I see, my dear. I have just heard something about you that has surprised me very much, Rosamond.", "pos": 624153}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "What is that, aunt?", "pos": 624693}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "I can hardly believe it—that you should be engaged without my knowing it—without your father’s telling me.", "pos": 624791}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I am not engaged, aunt.", "pos": 624987}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "How is it that every one says so, then—that it is the town’s talk?", "pos": 625013}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "The town’s talk is of very little consequence, I think,", "pos": 625082}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Oh, my dear, be more thoughtful; don’t despise your neighbors so. Remember you are turned twenty-two now, and you will have no fortune: your father, I am sure, will not be able to spare you anything. Mr. Lydgate is very intellectual and clever; I know there is an attraction in that. I like talking to such men myself; and your uncle finds him very useful. But the profession is a poor one here. To be sure, this life is not everything; but it is seldom a medical man has true religious views—there is too much pride of intellect. And you are not fit to marry a poor man.", "pos": 625175}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Mr. Lydgate is not a poor man, aunt. He has very high connections.", "pos": 625748}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "He told me himself he was poor.", "pos": 625817}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "That is because he is used to people who have a high style of living.", "pos": 625851}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "My dear Rosamond, you must not think of living in high style. Then it is really true? You are thinking of Mr. Lydgate—there is some understanding between you, though your father doesn’t know. Be open, my dear Rosamond: Mr. Lydgate has really made you an offer?", "pos": 625923}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Pray excuse me, aunt. I would rather not speak on the subject.", "pos": 626653}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "You would not give your heart to a man without a decided prospect, I trust, my dear. And think of the two excellent offers I know of that you have refused!—and one still within your reach, if you will not throw it away. I knew a very great beauty who married badly at last, by doing so. Mr. Ned Plymdale is a nice young man—some might think good-looking; and an only son; and a large business of that kind is better than a profession. Not that marrying is everything. I would have you seek first the kingdom of God. But a girl should keep her heart within her own power.", "pos": 626718}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I should never give it to Mr. Ned Plymdale, if it were. I have already refused him. If I loved, I should love at once and without change,", "pos": 627291}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "I see how it is, my dear. You have allowed your affections to be engaged without return.", "pos": 627525}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "No, indeed, aunt,", "pos": 627676}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Then you are quite confident that Mr. Lydgate has a serious attachment to you?", "pos": 627726}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Especially when she has great attractions, and her parents see much company. Gentlemen pay her attention, and engross her all to themselves, for the mere pleasure of the moment, and that drives off others. I think it is a heavy responsibility, Mr. Lydgate, to interfere with the prospects of any girl.", "pos": 628952}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Clearly. On the other hand, a man must be a great coxcomb to go about with a notion that he must not pay attention to a young lady lest she should fall in love with him, or lest others should think she must.", "pos": 629381}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Oh, Mr. Lydgate, you know well what your advantages are. You know that our young men here cannot cope with you. Where you frequent a house it may militate very much against a girl’s making a desirable settlement in life, and prevent her from accepting offers even if they are made.", "pos": 629663}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "What! you are going to get lashed to the mast, eh, and are stopping your ears? Well, if you don’t mean to be won by the sirens, you are right to take precautions in time.", "pos": 631072}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "What is the matter? you are distressed. Tell me, pray.", "pos": 636800}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Oh, my dear, you must do things handsomely where there’s last illness and a property. God knows, I don’t grudge them every ham in the house—only, save the best for the funeral. Have some stuffed veal always, and a fine cheese in cut. You must expect to keep open house in these last illnesses,", "pos": 643158}
{"speaker": "Jonah", "text": "Why, Tom, you don’t wear such gentlemanly trousers—you haven’t got half such fine long legs,", "pos": 646605}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Back, back, Mrs. Waule! Back, Solomon!", "pos": 648779}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "Oh, Brother. Peter,", "pos": 648819}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "Brother Peter. It’s nothing but right I should speak to you about the Three Crofts and the Manganese. The Almighty knows what I’ve got on my mind—", "pos": 649402}
{"speaker": "Peter", "text": "Then he knows more than I want to know,", "pos": 649604}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "There’s things you might repent of, Brother, for want of speaking to me. I could sit up with you to-night, and Jane with me, willingly, and you might take your own time to speak, or let me speak.", "pos": 649862}
{"speaker": "Peter", "text": "Yes, I shall take my own time—you needn’t offer me yours,", "pos": 650100}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "But you can’t take your own time to die in, Brother. And when you lie speechless you may be tired of having strangers about you, and you may think of me and my children", "pos": 650172}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "No, I shan’t. I shan’t think of any of you. I’ve made my will, I tell you, I’ve made my will.", "pos": 650548}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "Some people would be ashamed to fill up a place belonging by rights to others,", "pos": 650771}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "Oh, sister, you and me are not fine, and handsome, and clever enough: we must be humble and let smart people push themselves before us.", "pos": 650916}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Shall my mother and I leave the room, sir, that you may be alone with your friends?", "pos": 651178}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Sit down, I tell you. Stop where you are. Good-by, Solomon. Good-by, Mrs. Waule. Don’t you come again.", "pos": 651264}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "I shall be down-stairs, Brother, whether or no. I shall do my duty, and it remains to be seen what the Almighty will allow.", "pos": 651500}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "Yes, in property going out of families, and where there’s steady young men to carry on. But I pity them who are not such, and I pity their mothers. Good-by, Brother Peter.", "pos": 651642}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "Remember, I’m the eldest after you, Brother, and prospered from the first, just as you did, and have got land already by the name of Featherstone. But I bid you good-by for the present.", "pos": 651852}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "I don’t mind if I have a slice of that ham, and a glass of that ale, Miss Garth, if you will allow me. It’s not necessary for you to go out;—let me ring the bell.", "pos": 656875}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Thank you. I have an errand.", "pos": 657237}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "Well, Mr. Trumbull, you’re highly favored,", "pos": 657281}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "What! seeing the old man? Ah, you see he has relied on me considerably.", "pos": 657343}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "Might anybody ask what their brother has been saying?", "pos": 657541}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "Oh yes, anybody may ask. Anybody may interrogate. Any one may give their remarks an interrogative turn. This is constantly done by good speakers, even when they anticipate no answer. It is what we call a figure of speech—speech at a high figure, as one may say.", "pos": 657728}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "I shouldn’t be sorry to hear he’d remembered you, Mr. Trumbull. I never was against the deserving. It’s the undeserving I’m against.", "pos": 658173}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "Ah, there it is, you see, there it is. It can’t be denied that undeserving people have been legatees, and even residuary legatees. It is so, with testamentary dispositions.", "pos": 658324}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "Do you mean to say for certain, Mr. Trumbull, that my brother has left his land away from our family?", "pos": 658585}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "A man might as well turn his land into charity land at once as leave it to some people,", "pos": 658780}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "What, Blue-Coat land? Oh, Mr. Trumbull, you never can mean to say that. It would be flying in the face of the Almighty that’s prospered him.", "pos": 658934}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "Anne of Geierstein’ (pronounced Jeersteen) or the ‘Maiden of the Mist, by the author of Waverley. The course of four centuries has well-nigh elapsed since the series of events which are related in the following chapters took place on the Continent.", "pos": 659478}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "I shall take a mere mouthful of ham and a glass of ale. As a man with public business, I take a snack when I can. I will back this ham, against any ham in the three kingdoms. In my opinion it is better than the hams at Freshitt Hall—and I think I am a tolerable judge.", "pos": 660437}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "Some don’t like so much sugar in their hams. But my poor brother would always have sugar.", "pos": 660796}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "If any person demands better, he is at liberty to do so; but, God bless me, what an aroma! I should be glad to buy in that quality, I know. There is some gratification to a gentleman in having this kind of ham set on his table. You have an interesting work there, I see, Miss Garth. It is by the author of ‘Waverley’: that is Sir Walter Scott. I have bought one of his works myself—a very nice thing, a very superior publication, entitled ‘Ivanhoe.’ You will not get any writer to beat him in a hurry, I think—he will not, in my opinion, be speedily surpassed. I have just been reading a portion at the commencement of ‘Anne of Jeersteen.’ It commences well. You are a reader, I see. Do you subscribe to our Middlemarch library?", "pos": 660907}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "No. Mr. Fred Vincy brought this book.", "pos": 662160}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "I am a great bookman myself. I have no less than two hundred volumes in calf, and I flatter myself they are well selected. Also pictures by Murillo, Rubens, Teniers, Titian, Vandyck, and others. I shall be happy to lend you any work you like to mention, Miss Garth.", "pos": 662213}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I am much obliged, but I have little time for reading.", "pos": 662506}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "I should say my brother has done something for her in his will,", "pos": 662598}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "His first wife was a poor match for him, though. She brought him nothing: and this young woman is only her niece,—and very proud. And my brother has always paid her wage.", "pos": 662794}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "A sensible girl though, in my opinion. I have observed her when she has been mixing medicine in drops. She minds what she is doing, sir. That is a great point in a woman, and a great point for our friend up-stairs, poor dear old soul. A man whose life is of any value should think of his wife as a nurse: that is what I should do, if I married; and I believe I have lived single long enough not to make a mistake in that line. Some men must marry to elevate themselves a little, but when I am in need of that, I hope some one will tell me so—I hope some individual will apprise me of the fact. I wish you good morning, Mrs. Waule. Good morning, Mr. Solomon. I trust we shall meet under less melancholy auspices.", "pos": 662986}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "You may depend, Jane, my brother has left that girl a lumping sum.", "pos": 663899}
{"speaker": "Jane", "text": "Anybody would think so, from the way Mr. Trumbull talks. He talks as if my daughters wasn’t to be trusted to give drops.", "pos": 663968}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "Auctioneers talk wild,", "pos": 664125}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Missy, come here! How many of ’em are in the house?", "pos": 667894}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "You mean of your own relations, sir. Mr. Jonah Featherstone and young Cranch are sleeping here.", "pos": 668267}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Oh ay, they stick, do they? and the rest—they come every day, I’ll warrant—Solomon and Jane, and all the young uns? They come peeping, and counting and casting up?", "pos": 668456}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Not all of them every day. Mr. Solomon and Mrs. Waule are here every day, and the others come often.", "pos": 668622}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "The more fools they. You hearken, missy. It’s three o’clock in the morning, and I’ve got all my faculties as well as ever I had in my life. I know all my property, and where the money’s put out, and everything. And I’ve made everything ready to change my mind, and do as I like at the last. Do you hear, missy? I’ve got my faculties.", "pos": 668812}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Well, sir?", "pos": 669148}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "I’ve made two wills, and I’m going to burn one. Now you do as I tell you. This is the key of my iron chest, in the closet there. You push well at the side of the brass plate at the top, till it goes like a bolt: then you can put the key in the front lock and turn it. See and do that; and take out the topmost paper—Last Will and Testament—big printed.", "pos": 669236}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "No, sir. I cannot do that.", "pos": 669591}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Not do it? I tell you, you must,", "pos": 669650}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I cannot touch your iron chest or your will. I must refuse to do anything that might lay me open to suspicion.", "pos": 669768}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "I tell you, I’m in my right mind. Shan’t I do as I like at the last? I made two wills on purpose. Take the key, I say.", "pos": 669881}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "No, sir, I will not,", "pos": 670002}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "I tell you, there’s no time to lose.", "pos": 670095}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I cannot help that, sir. I will not let the close of your life soil the beginning of mine. I will not touch your iron chest or your will.", "pos": 670134}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Missy, look here! take the money—the notes and gold—look here—take it—you shall have it all—do as I tell you.", "pos": 670524}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I will not touch your key or your money, sir. Pray don’t ask me to do it again. If you do, I must go and call your brother. Pray put up your money, sir;", "pos": 670765}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Look here, then. Call the young chap. Call Fred Vincy.", "pos": 671243}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I will call him, if you will let me call Mr. Jonah and others with him.", "pos": 671481}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Nobody else, I say. The young chap. I shall do as I like.", "pos": 671555}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Wait till broad daylight, sir, when every one is stirring. Or let me call Simmons now, to go and fetch the lawyer? He can be here in less than two hours.", "pos": 671615}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Lawyer? What do I want with the lawyer? Nobody shall know—I say, nobody shall know. I shall do as I like.", "pos": 671771}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Let me call some one else, sir. Let me, pray, call some one else.", "pos": 671879}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "You let me alone, I say. Look here, missy. Take the money. You’ll never have the chance again. It’s pretty nigh two hundred—there’s more in the box, and nobody knows how much there was. Take it and do as I tell you.", "pos": 672244}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "It is of no use, sir. I will not do it. Put up your money. I will not touch your money. I will do anything else I can to comfort you; but I will not touch your keys or your money.", "pos": 672842}
{"speaker": "Mr. Featherstone", "text": "Anything else—anything else! I want nothing else. You come here—you come here.", "pos": 673024}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Let me give you some cordial, and try to compose yourself. You will perhaps go to sleep. And to-morrow by daylight you can do as you like.", "pos": 673486}
{"speaker": "1_st Gent.", "text": "Such men as this are feathers, chips, and straws, Carry no weight, no force.", "pos": 675715}
{"speaker": "2_d Gent.", "text": "But levity Is causal too, and makes the sum of weight. For power finds its place in lack of power; Advance is cession, and the driven ship May run aground because the helmsman’s thought Lacked force to balance opposites.", "pos": 675801}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I will go anywhere with you, Mrs. Cadwallader, but I don’t like funerals.", "pos": 681601}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Oh, my dear, when you have a clergyman in your family you must accommodate your tastes: I did that very early. When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn’t have the end without them.", "pos": 681695}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "No, to be sure not,", "pos": 682006}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I shall not look any more. I dare say Dodo likes it: she is fond of melancholy things and ugly people.", "pos": 683600}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am fond of knowing something about the people I live among. It seems to me we know nothing of our neighbors, unless they are cottagers. One is constantly wondering what sort of lives other people lead, and how they take things. I am quite obliged to Mrs. Cadwallader for coming and calling me out of the library.", "pos": 683866}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Quite right to feel obliged to me. Your rich Lowick farmers are as curious as any buffaloes or bisons, and I dare say you don’t half see them at church. They are quite different from your uncle’s tenants or Sir James’s—monsters—farmers without landlords—one can’t tell how to class them.", "pos": 684281}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Most of these followers are not Lowick people. I suppose they are legatees from a distance, or from Middlemarch. Lovegood tells me the old fellow has left a good deal of money as well as land.", "pos": 684596}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Think of that now! when so many younger sons can’t dine at their own expense. Ah, here is Mr. Brooke. I felt that we were incomplete before, and here is the explanation. You are come to see this odd funeral, of course?", "pos": 684809}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "No, I came to look after Casaubon—to see how he goes on, you know. And to bring a little news—a little news, my dear. I looked into the library, and I saw Casaubon over his books. I told him it wouldn’t do: I said, ‘This will never do, you know: think of your wife, Casaubon.’ And he promised me to come up. I didn’t tell him my news: I said, he must come up.", "pos": 685105}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Ah, now they are coming out of church. Dear me, what a wonderfully mixed set! Mr. Lydgate as doctor, I suppose. But that is really a good looking woman, and the fair young man must be her son. Who are they, Sir James, do you know?", "pos": 685531}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I see Vincy, the Mayor of Middlemarch; they are probably his wife and son,", "pos": 685794}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Yes, a very decent family—a very good fellow is Vincy; a credit to the manufacturing interest. You have seen him at my house, you know.", "pos": 685947}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Ah, yes: one of your secret committee,", "pos": 686085}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "A coursing fellow, though,", "pos": 686162}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "And one of those who suck the life out of the wretched handloom weavers in Tipton and Freshitt. That is how his family look so fair and sleek. Those dark, purple-faced people are an excellent foil. Dear me, they are like a set of jugs! Do look at Humphrey: one might fancy him an ugly archangel towering above them in his white surplice.", "pos": 686236}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "It’s a solemn thing, though, a funeral, if you take it in that light, you know.", "pos": 686601}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "But I am not taking it in that light. I can’t wear my solemnity too often, else it will go to rags. It was time the old man died, and none of these people are sorry.", "pos": 686702}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "How piteous! This funeral seems to me the most dismal thing I ever saw. It is a blot on the morning. I cannot bear to think that any one should die and leave no love behind.", "pos": 686870}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Positively, there is a new face come out from behind that broad man queerer than any of them: a little round head with bulging eyes—a sort of frog-face—do look. He must be of another blood, I think.", "pos": 687289}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Let me see! Oh, what an odd face! Why, Dodo, you never told me that Mr. Ladislaw was come again!", "pos": 687520}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "He came with me, you know; he is my guest—puts up with me at the Grange. And we have brought the picture at the top of the carriage. I knew you would be pleased with the surprise, Casaubon. There you are to the very life—as Aquinas, you know. Quite the right sort of thing. And you will hear young Ladislaw talk about it. He talks uncommonly well—points out this, that, and the other—knows art and everything of that kind—companionable, you know—is up with you in any track—what I’ve been wanting a long while.", "pos": 687952}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Who is Mr. Ladislaw?", "pos": 689336}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "A young relative of Mr. Casaubon’s,", "pos": 689359}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "A very nice young fellow—Casaubon has done everything for him. He repays your expense in him, Casaubon. I hope he will stay with me a long while and we shall make something of my documents. I have plenty of ideas and facts, you know, and I can see he is just the man to put them into shape—remembers what the right quotations are, omne tulit punctum, and that sort of thing—gives subjects a kind of turn. I invited him some time ago when you were ill, Casaubon; Dorothea said you couldn’t have anybody in the house, you know, and she asked me to write.", "pos": 689594}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "You are exceedingly hospitable, my dear sir; and I owe you acknowledgments for exercising your hospitality towards a relative of mine.", "pos": 691072}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Now you can see him, Mrs. Cadwallader. He is just like a miniature of Mr. Casaubon’s aunt that hangs in Dorothea’s boudoir—quite nice-looking.", "pos": 691274}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "A very pretty sprig. What is your nephew to be, Mr. Casaubon?", "pos": 691433}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Pardon me, he is not my nephew. He is my cousin.", "pos": 691529}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, you know, he is trying his wings. He is just the sort of young fellow to rise. I should be glad to give him an opportunity. He would make a good secretary, now, like Hobbes, Milton, Swift—that sort of man.", "pos": 691605}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "I understand. One who can write speeches.", "pos": 691819}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "I’ll fetch him in now, eh, Casaubon? He wouldn’t come in till I had announced him, you know. And we’ll go down and look at the picture. There you are to the life: a deep subtle sort of thinker with his fore-finger on the page, while Saint Bonaventure or somebody else, rather fat and florid, is looking up at the Trinity. Everything is symbolical, you know—the higher style of art: I like that up to a certain point, but not too far—it’s rather straining to keep up with, you know. But you are at home in that, Casaubon. And your painter’s flesh is good—solidity, transparency, everything of that sort. I went into that a great deal at one time. However, I’ll go and fetch Ladislaw.", "pos": 691888}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "Why, Trumbull himself is pretty sure of five hundred—that you may depend,—I shouldn’t wonder if my brother promised him,", "pos": 695478}
{"speaker": "Martha", "text": "Dear, dear!", "pos": 695678}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "I suppose you know everything about what my poor brother’s done, Mr. Trumbull,", "pos": 697996}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "My good lady, whatever was told me was told in confidence,", "pos": 698200}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "Them who’ve made sure of their good-luck may be disappointed yet,", "pos": 698325}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "Hopes are often delusive,", "pos": 698458}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "Ah! It’s wonderful how close poor Peter was. We none of us know what he might have had on his mind. I only hope and trust he wasn’t a worse liver than we think of, Martha.", "pos": 698526}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cranch", "text": "I never was covetous, Jane, but I have six children and have buried three, and I didn’t marry into money. The eldest, that sits there, is but nineteen—so I leave you to guess. And stock always short, and land most awkward. But if ever I’ve begged and prayed; it’s been to God above; though where there’s one brother a bachelor and the other childless after twice marrying—anybody might think!", "pos": 699098}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "I shouldn’t wonder if Featherstone had better feelings than any of us gave him credit for. This funeral shows a thought about everybody: it looks well when a man wants to be followed by his friends, and if they are humble, not to be ashamed of them. I should be all the better pleased if he’d left lots of small legacies. They may be uncommonly useful to fellows in a small way.", "pos": 699741}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Everything is as handsome as could be, crape and silk and everything,", "pos": 700161}
{"speaker": "Mr. Standish", "text": "The will I hold in my hand, was drawn up by myself and executed by our deceased friend on the 9th of August, 1825. But I find that there is a subsequent instrument hitherto unknown to me, bearing date the 20th of July, 1826, hardly a year later than the previous one. And there is farther, I see a codicil to this latter will, bearing date March 1, 1828.", "pos": 703376}
{"speaker": "sister Martha", "text": "Dear, dear!", "pos": 703993}
{"speaker": "Mr. Standish", "text": "I shall begin by reading the earlier will, since such, as appears by his not having destroyed the document, was the intention of the deceased.", "pos": 704116}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "A most singular testamentary disposition! But there is a second will—there is a further document. We have not yet heard the final wishes of the deceased.", "pos": 707920}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "The most unaccountable will I ever heard! I should say he was not in his right mind when he made it. I should say this last will was void. Eh Standish?", "pos": 709109}
{"speaker": "Mr. Standish", "text": "Our deceased friend always knew what he was about, I think. Everything is quite regular. Here is a letter from Clemmens of Brassing tied with the will. He drew it up. A very respectable solicitor.", "pos": 709344}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "I never noticed any alienation of mind—any aberration of intellect in the late Mr. Featherstone, but I call this will eccentric. I was always willingly of service to the old soul; and he intimated pretty plainly a sense of obligation which would show itself in his will. The gold-headed cane is farcical considered as an acknowledgment to me; but happily I am above mercenary considerations.", "pos": 709564}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "There’s nothing very surprising in the matter that I can see. Anybody might have had more reason for wondering if the will had been what you might expect from an open-minded straightforward man. For my part, I wish there was no such thing as a will.", "pos": 709984}
{"speaker": "the lawyer", "text": "That’s a strange sentiment to come from a Christian man, by God! I should like to know how you will back that up, Garth!", "pos": 710256}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Oh,", "pos": 710398}
{"speaker": "Jonah", "text": "Well, he always was a fine hypocrite, was my brother Peter. But this will cuts out everything. If I’d known, a wagon and six horses shouldn’t have drawn me from Brassing. I’ll put a white hat and drab coat on to-morrow.", "pos": 710635}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cranch", "text": "Dear, dear, and we’ve been at the expense of travelling, and that poor lad sitting idle here so long! It’s the first time I ever heard my brother Peter was so wishful to please God Almighty; but if I was to be struck helpless I must say it’s hard—I can think no other.", "pos": 710857}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "It’ll do him no good where he’s gone, that’s my belief. Peter was a bad liver, and almshouses won’t cover it, when he’s had the impudence to show it at the last.", "pos": 711148}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "And all the while had got his own lawful family—brothers and sisters and nephews and nieces—and has sat in church with ’em whenever he thought well to come. And might have left his property so respectable, to them that’s never been used to extravagance or unsteadiness in no manner of way—and not so poor but what they could have saved every penny and made more of it. And me—the trouble I’ve been at, times and times, to come here and be sisterly—and him with things on his mind all the while that might make anybody’s flesh creep. But if the Almighty’s allowed it, he means to punish him for it. Brother Solomon, I shall be going, if you’ll drive me.", "pos": 711418}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "I’ve no desire to put my foot on the premises again. I’ve got land of my own and property of my own to will away.", "pos": 712092}
{"speaker": "Jonah", "text": "It’s a poor tale how luck goes in the world. It never answers to have a bit of spirit in you. You’d better be a dog in the manger. But those above ground might learn a lesson. One fool’s will is enough in a family.", "pos": 712224}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "There’s more ways than one of being a fool. I shan’t leave my money to be poured down the sink, and I shan’t leave it to foundlings from Africay. I like Featherstones that were brewed such, and not turned Featherstones with sticking the name on ’em.", "pos": 712455}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Don’t give way, Lucy; don’t make a fool of yourself, my dear, before these people. Go and order the phaeton, Fred; I have no time to waste.", "pos": 714135}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Good-by. Be brave, Fred. I do believe you are better without the money. What was the good of it to Mr. Featherstone?", "pos": 714732}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "That’s all very fine. What is a fellow to do? I must go into the Church now. And I thought I should be able to pay your father at once and make everything right. And you have not even a hundred pounds left you. What shall you do now, Mary?", "pos": 714890}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Take another situation, of course, as soon as I can get one. My father has enough to do to keep the rest, without me. Good-by.", "pos": 715251}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Well, sir. I hope you’ve made up your mind now to go up next term and pass your examination. I’ve taken my resolution, so I advise you to lose no time in taking yours.", "pos": 718452}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Don’t be hard on the poor boy, Vincy. He’ll turn out well yet, though that wicked man has deceived him. I feel as sure as I sit here, Fred will turn out well—else why was he brought back from the brink of the grave? And I call it a robbery: it was like giving him the land, to promise it; and what is promising, if making everybody believe is not promising? And you see he did leave him ten thousand pounds, and then took it away again.", "pos": 719558}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Took it away again! I tell you the lad’s an unlucky lad, Lucy. And you’ve always spoiled him.", "pos": 719997}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Well, Vincy, he was my first, and you made a fine fuss with him when he came. You were as proud as proud,", "pos": 720122}
{"speaker": "the husband", "text": "Who knows what babies will turn to? I was fool enough, I dare say,", "pos": 720285}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "But who has handsomer, better children than ours? Fred is far beyond other people’s sons: you may hear it in his speech, that he has kept college company. And Rosamond—where is there a girl like her? She might stand beside any lady in the land, and only look the better for it. You see—Mr. Lydgate has kept the highest company and been everywhere, and he fell in love with her at once. Not but what I could have wished Rosamond had not engaged herself. She might have met somebody on a visit who would have been a far better match; I mean at her schoolfellow Miss Willoughby’s. There are relations in that family quite as high as Mr. Lydgate’s.", "pos": 720392}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Damn relations! I’ve had enough of them. I don’t want a son-in-law who has got nothing but his relations to recommend him.", "pos": 721039}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Why, my dear, you seemed as pleased as could be about it. It’s true, I wasn’t at home; but Rosamond told me you hadn’t a word to say against the engagement. And she has begun to buy in the best linen and cambric for her underclothing.", "pos": 721182}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Not by my will. I shall have enough to do this year, with an idle scamp of a son, without paying for wedding-clothes. The times are as tight as can be; everybody is being ruined; and I don’t believe Lydgate has got a farthing. I shan’t give my consent to their marrying. Let ’em wait, as their elders have done before ’em.", "pos": 721438}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Rosamond will take it hard, Vincy, and you know you never could bear to cross her.", "pos": 721781}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Yes, I could. The sooner the engagement’s off, the better. I don’t believe he’ll ever make an income, the way he goes on. He makes enemies; that’s all I hear of his making.", "pos": 721866}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "But he stands very high with Mr. Bulstrode, my dear. The marriage would please him, I should think.", "pos": 722041}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Please the deuce! Bulstrode won’t pay for their keep. And if Lydgate thinks I’m going to give money for them to set up housekeeping, he’s mistaken, that’s all. I expect I shall have to put down my horses soon. You’d better tell Rosy what I say.", "pos": 722143}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "What do you say, my dear?", "pos": 722935}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Papa does not mean anything of the kind. He has always said that he wished me to marry the man I loved. And I shall marry Mr. Lydgate. It is seven weeks now since papa gave his consent. And I hope we shall have Mrs. Bretton’s house.", "pos": 723009}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Well, my dear, I shall leave you to manage your papa. You always do manage everybody. But if we ever do go and get damask, Sadler’s is the place—far better than Hopkins’s. Mrs. Bretton’s is very large, though: I should love you to have such a house; but it will take a great deal of furniture—carpeting and everything, besides plate and glass. And you hear, your papa says he will give no money. Do you think Mr. Lydgate expects it?", "pos": 723275}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "You cannot imagine that I should ask him, mamma. Of course he understands his own affairs.", "pos": 723710}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "But he may have been looking for money, my dear, and we all thought of your having a pretty legacy as well as Fred;—and now everything is so dreadful—there’s no pleasure in thinking of anything, with that poor boy disappointed as he is.", "pos": 723803}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "That has nothing to do with my marriage, mamma. Fred must leave off being idle. I am going up-stairs to take this work to Miss Morgan: she does the open hemming very well. Mary Garth might do some work for me now, I should think. Her sewing is exquisite; it is the nicest thing I know about Mary. I should so like to have all my cambric frilling double-hemmed. And it takes a long time.", "pos": 724042}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Walter, you never mean to tell me that you have allowed all this to go on without inquiry into Mr. Lydgate’s prospects? Think of this girl brought up in luxury—in too worldly a way, I am sorry to say—what will she do on a small income?", "pos": 728412}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Oh, confound it, Harriet! What can I do when men come into the town without any asking of mine? Did you shut your house up against Lydgate? Bulstrode has pushed him forward more than anybody. I never made any fuss about the young fellow. You should go and talk to your husband about it, not me.", "pos": 728765}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Well, really, Walter, how can Mr. Bulstrode be to blame? I am sure he did not wish for the engagement.", "pos": 729062}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Oh, if Bulstrode had not taken him by the hand, I should never have invited him.", "pos": 729167}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "But you called him in to attend on Fred, and I am sure that was a mercy,", "pos": 729250}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "I don’t know about mercy. I know I am worried more than I like with my family. I was a good brother to you, Harriet, before you married Bulstrode, and I must say he doesn’t always show that friendly spirit towards your family that might have been expected of him.", "pos": 729397}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "I am sure we are bound to pray for that thoughtless girl—brought up as she has been,", "pos": 730308}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Truly, my dear. Those who are not of this world can do little else to arrest the errors of the obstinately worldly. That is what we must accustom ourselves to recognize with regard to your brother’s family. I could have wished that Mr. Lydgate had not entered into such a union; but my relations with him are limited to that use of his gifts for God’s purposes which is taught us by the divine government under each dispensation.", "pos": 730457}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.", "pos": 734042}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Yes, at some stages. But a better order will begin after.", "pos": 734139}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Soon?", "pos": 734288}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I hope so, really. This unsettled state of affairs uses up the time, and when one has notions in science, every moment is an opportunity. I feel sure that marriage must be the best thing for a man who wants to work steadily. He has everything at home then—no teasing with personal speculations—he can get calmness and freedom.", "pos": 734312}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "You are an enviable dog, to have such a prospect—Rosamond, calmness and freedom, all to your share. Here am I with nothing but my pipe and pond-animalcules. Now, are you ready?", "pos": 734641}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Dear! your eyelids are red.", "pos": 735840}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Are they? I wonder why.", "pos": 736295}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "As if you could hide it from me! Don’t I see a tiny drop on one of the lashes? Things trouble you, and you don’t tell me. That is unloving.", "pos": 736448}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Why should I tell you what you cannot alter? They are every-day things:—perhaps they have been a little worse lately.", "pos": 736648}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Family annoyances. Don’t fear speaking. I guess them.", "pos": 736768}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Papa has been more irritable lately. Fred makes him angry, and this morning there was a fresh quarrel because Fred threatens to throw his whole education away, and do something quite beneath him. And besides— I feel that papa is not quite pleased about our engagement, and he said last night that he should certainly speak to you and say it must be given up.", "pos": 736824}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Will you give it up?", "pos": 737505}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I never give up anything that I choose to do,", "pos": 737576}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "God bless you! It is too late now for your father to say that our engagement must be given up. You are of age, and I claim you as mine. If anything is done to make you unhappy,—that is a reason for hastening our marriage. Why should we defer it? I have taken the house now: everything else can soon be got ready—can it not? You will not mind about new clothes. Those can be bought afterwards.", "pos": 737694}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "What original notions you clever men have! This is the first time I ever heard of wedding-clothes being bought after marriage.", "pos": 738636}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "But you don’t mean to say you would insist on my waiting months for the sake of clothes? Remember, we are looking forward to a better sort of happiness even than this—being continually together, independent of others, and ordering our lives as we will. Come, dear, tell me how soon you can be altogether mine. Six weeks would be ample—say so, Rosamond,", "pos": 738860}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "There would be the house-linen and the furniture to be prepared. Still, mamma could see to those while we were away.", "pos": 739876}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Yes, to be sure. We must be away a week or so.", "pos": 739995}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Oh, more than that!", "pos": 740044}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Whatever you wish, my darling, when the day is fixed. But let us take a decided course, and put an end to any discomfort you may be suffering. Six weeks!—I am sure they would be ample.", "pos": 740598}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I could certainly hasten the work. Will you, then, mention it to papa?—I think it would be better to write to him.", "pos": 740785}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "It must be lovely. Just what Rosy ought to have. I trust in heaven it won’t be broken!", "pos": 742678}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "One must hire servants who will not break things,", "pos": 742853}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Nonsense, my dear! What has he got to marry on? You’d much better give up the engagement. I’ve told you so pretty plainly before this. What have you had such an education for, if you are to go and marry a poor man? It’s a cruel thing for a father to see.", "pos": 743591}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Mr. Lydgate is not poor, papa. He bought Mr. Peacock’s practice, which, they say, is worth eight or nine hundred a-year.", "pos": 743866}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Stuff and nonsense! What’s buying a practice? He might as well buy next year’s swallows. It’ll all slip through his fingers.", "pos": 743989}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "On the contrary, papa, he will increase the practice. See how he has been called in by the Chettams and Casaubons.", "pos": 744116}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "I hope he knows I shan’t give anything—with this disappointment about Fred, and Parliament going to be dissolved, and machine-breaking everywhere, and an election coming on—", "pos": 744233}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Dear papa! what can that have to do with my marriage?", "pos": 744409}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "A pretty deal to do with it! We may all be ruined for what I know—the country’s in that state! Some say it’s the end of the world, and be hanged if I don’t think it looks like it! Anyhow, it’s not a time for me to be drawing money out of my business, and I should wish Lydgate to know that.", "pos": 744465}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I am sure he expects nothing, papa. And he has such very high connections: he is sure to rise in one way or another. He is engaged in making scientific discoveries. I cannot give up my only prospect of happiness, papa. Mr. Lydgate is a gentleman. I could never love any one who was not a perfect gentleman. You would not like me to go into a consumption, as Arabella Hawley did. And you know that I never change my mind. Promise me, papa, that you will consent to what we wish. We shall never give each other up; and you know that you have always objected to long courtships and late marriages.", "pos": 744758}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Well, well, child, he must write to me first before I can answer him,", "pos": 745471}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I shall like so much to know your family. We might perhaps take a direction that would allow us to see them as we returned. Which of your uncles do you like best?", "pos": 747707}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Oh,—my uncle Godwin, I think. He is a good-natured old fellow.", "pos": 747938}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "You were constantly at his house at Quallingham, when you were a boy, were you not? I should so like to see the old spot and everything you were used to. Does he know you are going to be married?", "pos": 748003}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No,", "pos": 748201}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Do send him word of it, you naughty undutiful nephew. He will perhaps ask you to take me to Quallingham; and then you could show me about the grounds, and I could imagine you there when you were a boy. Remember, you see me in my home, just as it has been since I was a child. It is not fair that I should be so ignorant of yours. But perhaps you would be a little ashamed of me. I forgot that.", "pos": 748279}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I will write to him, then. But my cousins are bores.", "pos": 748903}
{"speaker": "Mamma", "text": "I hope your uncle Sir Godwin will not look down on Rosy, Mr. Lydgate. I should think he would do something handsome. A thousand or two can be nothing to a baronet.", "pos": 749226}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Mamma!", "pos": 749392}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "That means mischief, eh? He’s got the freak of being a popular man now, after dangling about like a stray tortoise. So much the worse for him. I’ve had my eye on him for some time. He shall be prettily pumped upon. He’s a damned bad landlord. What business has an old county man to come currying favor with a low set of dark-blue freemen? As to his paper, I only hope he may do the writing himself. It would be worth our paying for.", "pos": 753337}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hackbutt", "text": "I understand he has got a very brilliant young fellow to edit it, who can write the highest style of leading article, quite equal to anything in the London papers. And he means to take very high ground on Reform.", "pos": 753791}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "Let Brooke reform his rent-roll. He’s a cursed old screw, and the buildings all over his estate are going to rack. I suppose this young fellow is some loose fish from London.", "pos": 754006}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hackbutt", "text": "His name is Ladislaw. He is said to be of foreign extraction.", "pos": 754183}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "I know the sort, some emissary. He’ll begin with flourishing about the Rights of Man and end with murdering a wench. That’s the style.", "pos": 754247}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hackbutt", "text": "You must concede that there are abuses, Hawley. I myself should never favor immoderate views—in fact I take my stand with Huskisson—but I cannot blind myself to the consideration that the non-representation of large towns—", "pos": 754403}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "Large towns be damned! I know a little too much about Middlemarch elections. Let ’em quash every pocket borough to-morrow, and bring in every mushroom town in the kingdom—they’ll only increase the expense of getting into Parliament. I go upon facts.", "pos": 754712}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "He seems to me a kind of Shelley, you know. I don’t mean as to anything objectionable—laxities or atheism, or anything of that kind, you know—Ladislaw’s sentiments in every way I am sure are good—indeed, we were talking a great deal together last night. But he has the same sort of enthusiasm for liberty, freedom, emancipation—a fine thing under guidance—under guidance, you know. I think I shall be able to put him on the right tack; and I am the more pleased because he is a relation of yours, Casaubon.", "pos": 756447}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "It is the most horrible of virgin-sacrifices,", "pos": 759269}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Don’t mention that I am here, Pratt; I will wait till luncheon; I know Mr. Casaubon does not like to be disturbed when he is in the library.", "pos": 762763}
{"speaker": "Pratt", "text": "Master is out, sir; there’s only Mrs. Casaubon in the library. I’d better tell her you’re here, sir,", "pos": 762906}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Oh, very well; this confounded rain has hindered me from sketching,", "pos": 763139}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Mr. Casaubon has gone to the Archdeacon’s. I don’t know whether he will be at home again long before dinner. He was uncertain how long he should be. Did you want to say anything particular to him?", "pos": 763395}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No; I came to sketch, but the rain drove me in. Else I would not have disturbed you yet. I supposed that Mr. Casaubon was here, and I know he dislikes interruption at this hour.", "pos": 763615}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am indebted to the rain, then. I am so glad to see you.", "pos": 763795}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I really came for the chance of seeing you alone. I wanted to talk about things, as we did in Rome. It always makes a difference when other people are present.", "pos": 763957}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes. Sit down.", "pos": 764228}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I have often thought that I should like to talk to you again. It seems strange to me how many things I said to you.", "pos": 765084}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I remember them all,", "pos": 765227}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I have tried to learn a great deal since we were in Rome. I can read Latin a little, and I am beginning to understand just a little Greek. I can help Mr. Casaubon better now. I can find out references for him and save his eyes in many ways. But it is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.", "pos": 765545}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit. But it is quite true that the best minds have been sometimes overstrained in working out their ideas.", "pos": 765964}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You correct me. I expressed myself ill. I should have said that those who have great thoughts get too much worn in working them out. I used to feel about that, even when I was a little girl; and it always seemed to me that the use I should like to make of my life would be to help some one who did great works, so that his burthen might be lighter.", "pos": 766322}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "But you may easily carry the help too far, and get over-wrought yourself. Are you not too much shut up? You already look paler. It would be better for Mr. Casaubon to have a secretary; he could easily get a man who would do half his work for him. It would save him more effectually, and you need only help him in lighter ways.", "pos": 767135}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "How can you think of that? I should have no happiness if I did not help him in his work. What could I do? There is no good to be done in Lowick. The only thing I desire is to help him more. And he objects to a secretary: please not to mention that again.", "pos": 767475}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Certainly not, now I know your feeling. But I have heard both Mr. Brooke and Sir James Chettam express the same wish.", "pos": 767784}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes, but they don’t understand—they want me to be a great deal on horseback, and have the garden altered and new conservatories, to fill up my days. I thought you could understand that one’s mind has other wants, besides, Mr. Casaubon cannot bear to hear of a secretary.", "pos": 767904}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "My mistake is excusable. In old days I used to hear Mr. Casaubon speak as if he looked forward to having a secretary. Indeed he held out the prospect of that office to me. But I turned out to be—not good enough for it.", "pos": 768226}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You were not a steady worker enough.", "pos": 768585}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No. And I have seen since that Mr. Casaubon does not like any one to overlook his work and know thoroughly what he is doing. He is too doubtful—too uncertain of himself. I may not be good for much, but he dislikes me because I disagree with him.", "pos": 768624}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Mr. Casaubon must have overcome his dislike of you so far as his actions were concerned: and that is admirable.", "pos": 770176}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Yes; he has shown a sense of justice in family matters. It was an abominable thing that my grandmother should have been disinherited because she made what they called a mesalliance, though there was nothing to be said against her husband except that he was a Polish refugee who gave lessons for his bread.", "pos": 770290}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I wish I knew all about her! I wonder how she bore the change from wealth to poverty: I wonder whether she was happy with her husband! Do you know much about them?", "pos": 770598}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No; only that my grandfather was a patriot—a bright fellow—could speak many languages—musical—got his bread by teaching all sorts of things. They both died rather early. And I never knew much of my father, beyond what my mother told me; but he inherited the musical talents. I remember his slow walk and his long thin hands; and one day remains with me when he was lying ill, and I was very hungry, and had only a little bit of bread.", "pos": 770781}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Ah, what a different life from mine! I have always had too much of everything. But tell me how it was—Mr. Casaubon could not have known about you then.", "pos": 771218}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No; but my father had made himself known to Mr. Casaubon, and that was my last hungry day. My father died soon after, and my mother and I were well taken care of. Mr. Casaubon always expressly recognized it as his duty to take care of us because of the harsh injustice which had been shown to his mother’s sister. But now I am telling you what is not new to you.", "pos": 771440}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No. Mr. Casaubon has always avoided dwelling on his own honorable actions. He had never told me that he supported your mother. Is she still living?", "pos": 772185}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No; she died by an accident—a fall—four years ago. It is curious that my mother, too, ran away from her family, but not for the sake of her husband. She never would tell me anything about her family, except that she forsook them to get her own living—went on the stage, in fact. She was a dark-eyed creature, with crisp ringlets, and never seemed to be getting old. You see I come of rebellious blood on both sides,", "pos": 772565}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "That is your apology, I suppose, for having yourself been rather rebellious; I mean, to Mr. Casaubon’s wishes. You must remember that you have not done what he thought best for you. And if he dislikes you—you were speaking of dislike a little while ago—but I should rather say, if he has shown any painful feelings towards you, you must consider how sensitive he has become from the wearing effect of study. Perhaps, my uncle has not told you how serious Mr. Casaubon’s illness was. It would be very petty of us who are well and can bear things, to think much of small offences from those who carry a weight of trial.", "pos": 773188}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "You teach me better. I will never grumble on that subject again. I have really sometimes been a perverse fellow, but I will never again, if I can help it, do or say what you would disapprove.", "pos": 773855}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "That is very good of you. I shall have a little kingdom then, where I shall give laws. But you will soon go away, out of my rule, I imagine. You will soon be tired of staying at the Grange.", "pos": 774406}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "That is a point I wanted to mention to you—one of the reasons why I wished to speak to you alone. Mr. Brooke proposes that I should stay in this neighborhood. He has bought one of the Middlemarch newspapers, and he wishes me to conduct that, and also to help him in other ways.", "pos": 774640}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Would not that be a sacrifice of higher prospects for you?", "pos": 774919}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Perhaps; but I have always been blamed for thinking of prospects, and not settling to anything. And here is something offered to me. If you would not like me to accept it, I will give it up. Otherwise I would rather stay in this part of the country than go away. I belong to nobody anywhere else.", "pos": 774995}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I should like you to stay very much,", "pos": 775294}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Then I will stay,", "pos": 775496}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "But my opinion is of little consequence on such a subject. I think you should be guided by Mr. Casaubon. I spoke without thinking of anything else than my own feeling, which has nothing to do with the real question. But it now occurs to me—perhaps Mr. Casaubon might see that the proposal was not wise. Can you not wait now and mention it to him?", "pos": 776041}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I can’t wait to-day. The rain is quite over now. I told Mr. Brooke not to call for me: I would rather walk the five miles. I shall strike across Halsell Common, and see the gleams on the wet grass. I like that.", "pos": 776390}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I wish you could have stayed,", "pos": 777068}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Good-by,", "pos": 777387}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I have had the gratification of meeting my former acquaintance, Dr. Spanning, to-day, and of being praised by one who is himself a worthy recipient of praise. He spoke very handsomely of my late tractate on the Egyptian Mysteries,—using, in fact, terms which it would not become me to repeat.", "pos": 778340}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am very glad you have had that pleasure. Before you came I had been regretting that you happened to be out to-day.", "pos": 778845}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Why so, my dear?", "pos": 779046}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Because Mr. Ladislaw has been here; and he has mentioned a proposal of my uncle’s which I should like to know your opinion of. Dear uncle, you know, has many projects. It appears that he has bought one of the Middlemarch newspapers, and he has asked Mr. Ladislaw to stay in this neighborhood and conduct the paper for him, besides helping him in other ways. What is your opinion?", "pos": 779117}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Did Mr. Ladislaw come on purpose to ask my opinion?", "pos": 780009}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, he did not say that he came to ask your opinion. But when he mentioned the proposal, he of course expected me to tell you of it. I feared that you might feel some objection. But certainly a young man with so much talent might be very useful to my uncle—might help him to do good in a better way. And Mr. Ladislaw wishes to have some fixed occupation. He has been blamed, he says, for not seeking something of that kind, and he would like to stay in this neighborhood because no one cares for him elsewhere.", "pos": 780278}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Mrs. Casaubon informs me that a proposal has been made to you, and (according to an inference by no means stretched) has on your part been in some degree entertained, which involves your residence in this neighborhood in a capacity which I am justified in saying touches my own position in such a way as renders it not only natural and warrantable in me when that effect is viewed under the influence of legitimate feeling, but incumbent on me when the same effect is considered in the light of my responsibilities, to state at once that your acceptance of the proposal above indicated would be highly offensive to me. That I have some claim to the exercise of a veto here, would not, I believe, be denied by any reasonable person cognizant of the relations between us: relations which, though thrown into the past by your recent procedure, are not thereby annulled in their character of determining antecedents. I will not here make reflections on any person’s judgment. It is enough for me to point out to yourself that there are certain social fitnesses and proprieties which should hinder a somewhat near relative of mine from becoming any wise conspicuous in this vicinity in a status not only much beneath my own, but associated at best with the sciolism of literary or political adventurers. At any rate, the contrary issue must exclude you from further reception at my house.", "pos": 781240}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "But he will! The great strength of his character lies here. And what are we doing with our money? We make no use of half of our income. My own money buys me nothing but an uneasy conscience.", "pos": 786782}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Dorothea, since you are up, will you light a candle?", "pos": 788535}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Do you feel ill, dear?", "pos": 788590}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "No, not at all; but I shall be obliged, since you are up, if you will read me a few pages of Lowth.", "pos": 788658}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "May I talk to you a little instead?", "pos": 788760}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 788813}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I have been thinking about money all day—that I have always had too much, and especially the prospect of too much.", "pos": 788826}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "These, my dear Dorothea, are providential arrangements.", "pos": 788943}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "But if one has too much in consequence of others being wronged, it seems to me that the divine voice which tells us to set that wrong right must be obeyed.", "pos": 789001}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "What, my love, is the bearing of your remark?", "pos": 789159}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "That you have been too liberal in arrangements for me—I mean, with regard to property; and that makes me unhappy.", "pos": 789207}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "How so? I have none but comparatively distant connections.", "pos": 789323}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I have been led to think about your aunt Julia, and how she was left in poverty only because she married a poor man, an act which was not disgraceful, since he was not unworthy. It was on that ground, I know, that you educated Mr. Ladislaw and provided for his mother. But surely we should regard his claim as a much greater one, even to the half of that property which I know that you have destined for me. And I think he ought at once to be provided for on that understanding. It is not right that he should be in the dependence of poverty while we are rich. And if there is any objection to the proposal he mentioned, the giving him his true place and his true share would set aside any motive for his accepting it.", "pos": 789384}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Mr. Ladislaw has probably been speaking to you on this subject?", "pos": 790281}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Indeed, no! How can you imagine it, since he has so lately declined everything from you? I fear you think too hardly of him, dear. He only told me a little about his parents and grandparents, and almost all in answer to my questions. You are so good, so just—you have done everything you thought to be right. But it seems to me clear that more than that is right; and I must speak about it, since I am the person who would get what is called benefit by that ‘more’ not being done.", "pos": 790419}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Dorothea, my love, this is not the first occasion, but it were well that it should be the last, on which you have assumed a judgment on subjects beyond your scope. Into the question how far conduct, especially in the matter of alliances, constitutes a forfeiture of family claims, I do not now enter. Suffice it, that you are not here qualified to discriminate. What I now wish you to understand is, that I accept no revision, still less dictation within that range of affairs which I have deliberated upon as distinctly and properly mine. It is not for you to interfere between me and Mr. Ladislaw, and still less to encourage communications from him to you which constitute a criticism on my procedure.", "pos": 791051}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "DEAR MR. CASAUBON,—I have given all due consideration to your letter of yesterday, but I am unable to take precisely your view of our mutual position. With the fullest acknowledgment of your generous conduct to me in the past, I must still maintain that an obligation of this kind cannot fairly fetter me as you appear to expect that it should. Granted that a benefactor’s wishes may constitute a claim; there must always be a reservation as to the quality of those wishes. They may possibly clash with more imperative considerations. Or a benefactor’s veto might impose such a negation on a man’s life that the consequent blank might be more cruel than the benefaction was generous. I am merely using strong illustrations. In the present case I am unable to take your view of the bearing which my acceptance of occupation—not enriching certainly, but not dishonorable—will have on your own position which seems to me too substantial to be affected in that shadowy manner. And though I do not believe that any change in our relations will occur (certainly none has yet occurred) which can nullify the obligations imposed on me by the past, pardon me for not seeing that those obligations should restrain me from using the ordinary freedom of living where I choose, and maintaining myself by any lawful occupation I may choose. Regretting that there exists this difference between us as to a relation in which the conferring of benefits has been entirely on your side— I remain, yours with persistent obligation, WILL LADISLAW.”", "pos": 792504}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Never fear, Casaubon! Depend upon it, young Ladislaw will do you credit. Depend upon it, I have put my finger on the right thing.", "pos": 795996}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I can’t talk to you as I want, before Celia: it might hurt her. Indeed, it would not be right.", "pos": 797585}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "I know what you mean—the ‘Pioneer’ at the Grange! It is frightful—this taking to buying whistles and blowing them in everybody’s hearing. Lying in bed all day and playing at dominoes, like poor Lord Plessy, would be more private and bearable.", "pos": 797682}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "I see they are beginning to attack our friend Brooke in the ‘Trumpet,’ There are tremendous sarcasms against a landlord not a hundred miles from Middlemarch, who receives his own rents, and makes no returns.", "pos": 798014}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I do wish Brooke would leave that off,", "pos": 798332}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Is he really going to be put in nomination, though? I saw Farebrother yesterday—he’s Whiggish himself, hoists Brougham and Useful Knowledge; that’s the worst I know of him;—and he says that Brooke is getting up a pretty strong party. Bulstrode, the banker, is his foremost man. But he thinks Brooke would come off badly at a nomination.", "pos": 798425}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Exactly. I have been inquiring into the thing, for I’ve never known anything about Middlemarch politics before—the county being my business. What Brooke trusts to, is that they are going to turn out Oliver because he is a Peelite. But Hawley tells me that if they send up a Whig at all it is sure to be Bagster, one of those candidates who come from heaven knows where, but dead against Ministers, and an experienced Parliamentary man. Hawley’s rather rough: he forgot that he was speaking to me. He said if Brooke wanted a pelting, he could get it cheaper than by going to the hustings.", "pos": 798788}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "I warned you all of it. I said to Humphrey long ago, Mr. Brooke is going to make a splash in the mud. And now he has done it.", "pos": 799414}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Well, he might have taken it into his head to marry. That would have been a graver mess than a little flirtation with politics.", "pos": 799593}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "He may do that afterwards, when he has come out on the other side of the mud with an ague.", "pos": 799742}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "What I care for most is his own dignity. Of course I care the more because of the family. But he’s getting on in life now, and I don’t like to think of his exposing himself. They will be raking up everything against him.", "pos": 799859}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "I suppose it’s no use trying any persuasion. There’s such an odd mixture of obstinacy and changeableness in Brooke. Have you tried him on the subject?", "pos": 800100}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Well, no. I feel a delicacy in appearing to dictate. But I have been talking to this young Ladislaw that Brooke is making a factotum of. Ladislaw seems clever enough for anything. I thought it as well to hear what he had to say; and he is against Brooke’s standing this time. I think he’ll turn him round: I think the nomination may be staved off.", "pos": 800272}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "I know. The independent member hasn’t got his speeches well enough by heart.", "pos": 800640}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "But this Ladislaw—there again is a vexatious business. We have had him two or three times to dine at the Hall (you have met him, by the bye) as Brooke’s guest and a relation of Casaubon’s, thinking he was only on a flying visit. And now I find he’s in everybody’s mouth in Middlemarch as the editor of the ‘Pioneer.’ There are stories going about him as a quill-driving alien, a foreign emissary, and what not.", "pos": 800753}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Casaubon won’t like that,", "pos": 801184}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "There is some foreign blood in Ladislaw,", "pos": 801229}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "with his opera songs and his ready tongue. A sort of Byronic hero—an amorous conspirator, it strikes me. And Thomas Aquinas is not fond of him. I could see that, the day the picture was brought.", "pos": 801434}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "He has more right to interfere than I. But it’s a disagreeable affair all round. What a character for anybody with decent connections to show himself in!—one of those newspaper fellows! You have only to look at Keck, who manages the ‘Trumpet.’ I saw him the other day with Hawley. His writing is sound enough, I believe, but he’s such a low fellow, that I wished he had been on the wrong side.", "pos": 801701}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "What can you expect with these peddling Middlemarch papers?", "pos": 802097}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Exactly: that makes it so annoying that Brooke should have put a man who has a sort of connection with the family in a position of that kind. For my part, I think Ladislaw is rather a fool for accepting.", "pos": 802342}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "It is Aquinas’s fault. Why didn’t he use his interest to get Ladislaw made an attache or sent to India? That is how families get rid of troublesome sprigs.", "pos": 802548}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "But if Casaubon says nothing, what can I do?", "pos": 802817}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "don’t let us make too much of all this. It is likely enough to end in mere smoke. After a month or two Brooke and this Master Ladislaw will get tired of each other; Ladislaw will take wing; Brooke will sell the ‘Pioneer,’ and everything will settle down again as usual.", "pos": 802905}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "If I knew the items of election expenses I could scare him. It’s no use plying him with wide words like Expenditure: I wouldn’t talk of phlebotomy, I would empty a pot of leeches upon him. What we good stingy people don’t like, is having our sixpences sucked away from us.", "pos": 803280}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "And he will not like having things raked up against him,", "pos": 803555}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Perhaps the ‘Trumpet’ may rouse him to make a change, and some good may come of it all,", "pos": 803885}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I want him to have a proper man to look after things—I want him to take on Garth again,", "pos": 804138}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "In the right of it too. Garth is an independent fellow: an original, simple-minded fellow. One day, when he was doing some valuation for me, he told me point-blank that clergymen seldom understood anything about business, and did mischief when they meddled; but he said it as quietly and respectfully as if he had been talking to me about sailors. He would make a different parish of Tipton, if Brooke would let him manage. I wish, by the help of the ‘Trumpet,’ you could bring that round.", "pos": 804551}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "If Dorothea had kept near her uncle, there would have been some chance. She might have got some power over him in time, and she was always uneasy about the estate. She had wonderfully good notions about such things. But now Casaubon takes her up entirely. Celia complains a good deal. We can hardly get her to dine with us, since he had that fit.", "pos": 805062}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Poor Casaubon!", "pos": 805602}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Brooke doesn’t mean badly by his tenants or any one else, but he has got that way of paring and clipping at expenses.", "pos": 805800}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Come, that’s a blessing. That helps him to find himself in a morning. He may not know his own opinions, but he does know his own pocket.", "pos": 805920}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I don’t believe a man is in pocket by stinginess on his land,", "pos": 806084}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "But talk of an independent politician and he will appear.", "pos": 806323}
{"speaker": "What", "text": "What! Brooke?", "pos": 806383}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Yes. Now, you ply him with the ‘Trumpet,’ Humphrey; and I will put the leeches on him. What will you do, Sir James?", "pos": 806417}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "The fact is, I don’t like to begin about it with Brooke, in our mutual position; the whole thing is so unpleasant. I do wish people would behave like gentlemen,", "pos": 806535}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Here you all are, eh? I was going up to the Hall by-and-by, Chettam. But it’s pleasant to find everybody, you know. Well, what do you think of things?—going on a little fast! It was true enough, what Lafitte said—‘Since yesterday, a century has passed away:’—they’re in the next century, you know, on the other side of the water. Going on faster than we are.", "pos": 806803}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Why, yes,", "pos": 807218}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Eh? no,", "pos": 807340}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Look here! all this is about a landlord not a hundred miles from Middlemarch, who receives his own rents. They say he is the most retrogressive man in the county. I think you must have taught them that word in the ‘Pioneer.’", "pos": 807519}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Oh, that is Keck—an illiterate fellow, you know. Retrogressive, now! Come, that’s capital. He thinks it means destructive: they want to make me out a destructive, you know,", "pos": 807746}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "I think he knows the meaning of the word. Here is a sharp stroke or two. If we had to describe a man who is retrogressive in the most evil sense of the word—we should say, he is one who would dub himself a reformer of our constitution, while every interest for which he is immediately responsible is going to decay: a philanthropist who cannot bear one rogue to be hanged, but does not mind five honest tenants being half-starved: a man who shrieks at corruption, and keeps his farms at rack-rent: who roars himself red at rotten boroughs, and does not mind if every field on his farms has a rotten gate: a man very open-hearted to Leeds and Manchester, no doubt; he would give any number of representatives who will pay for their seats out of their own pockets: what he objects to giving, is a little return on rent-days to help a tenant to buy stock, or an outlay on repairs to keep the weather out at a tenant’s barn-door or make his house look a little less like an Irish cottier’s. But we all know the wag’s definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance. And so on. All the rest is to show what sort of legislator a philanthropist is likely to make,", "pos": 808017}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Come, that’s rather good, you know, that about roaring himself red at rotten boroughs—I never made a speech about rotten boroughs in my life. And as to roaring myself red and that kind of thing—these men never understand what is good satire. Satire, you know, should be true up to a certain point. I recollect they said that in ‘The Edinburgh’ somewhere—it must be true up to a certain point.", "pos": 809384}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Well, that is really a hit about the gates. Dagley complained to me the other day that he hadn’t got a decent gate on his farm. Garth has invented a new pattern of gate—I wish you would try it. One ought to use some of one’s timber in that way.", "pos": 809922}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "You go in for fancy farming, you know, Chettam,", "pos": 810215}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "They said the last unsuccessful candidate at Middlemarch—Giles, wasn’t his name?—spent ten thousand pounds and failed because he did not bribe enough. What a bitter reflection for a man!", "pos": 810492}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Somebody was saying, that East Retford was nothing to Middlemarch, for bribery.", "pos": 810680}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Nothing of the kind. The Tories bribe, you know: Hawley and his set bribe with treating, hot codlings, and that sort of thing; and they bring the voters drunk to the poll. But they are not going to have it their own way in future—not in future, you know. Middlemarch is a little backward, I admit—the freemen are a little backward. But we shall educate them—we shall bring them on, you know. The best people there are on our side.", "pos": 810793}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Hawley says you have men on your side who will do you harm. He says Bulstrode the banker will do you harm.", "pos": 811245}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "And that if you got pelted, half the rotten eggs would mean hatred of your committee-man. Good heavens! Think what it must be to be pelted for wrong opinions. And I seem to remember a story of a man they pretended to chair and let him fall into a dust-heap on purpose!", "pos": 811376}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Pelting is nothing to their finding holes in one’s coat. I confess that’s what I should be afraid of, if we parsons had to stand at the hustings for preferment. I should be afraid of their reckoning up all my fishing days. Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.", "pos": 811678}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "The fact is, if a man goes into public life he must be prepared for the consequences. He must make himself proof against calumny.", "pos": 812001}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "My dear Chettam, that is all very fine, you know. But how will you make yourself proof against calumny? You should read history—look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. But what is that in Horace?—fiat justitia, ruat … something or other.", "pos": 812151}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Exactly. What I mean by being proof against calumny is being able to point to the fact as a contradiction.", "pos": 812483}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "And it is not martyrdom to pay bills that one has run into one’s self,", "pos": 812646}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, you know, Chettam, you and I have a different system. You are all for outlay with your farms. I don’t want to make out that my system is good under all circumstances—under all circumstances, you know.", "pos": 812813}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "There ought to be a new valuation made from time to time. Returns are very well occasionally, but I like a fair valuation. What do you say, Cadwallader?", "pos": 813085}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "I agree with you. If I were Brooke, I would choke the ‘Trumpet’ at once by getting Garth to make a new valuation of the farms, and giving him carte blanche about gates and repairs: that’s my view of the political situation,", "pos": 813258}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "That’s a showy sort of thing to do, you know. But I should like you to tell me of another landlord who has distressed his tenants for arrears as little as I have. I let the old tenants stay on. I’m uncommonly easy, let me tell you, uncommonly easy. I have my own ideas, and I take my stand on them, you know. A man who does that is always charged with eccentricity, inconsistency, and that kind of thing. When I change my line of action, I shall follow my own ideas.", "pos": 813593}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I didn’t want to take a liberty with Brooke. I see he is nettled. But as to what he says about old tenants, in point of fact no new tenant would take the farms on the present terms.", "pos": 814230}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "I have a notion that he will be brought round in time. But you were pulling one way, Elinor, and we were pulling another. You wanted to frighten him away from expense, and we want to frighten him into it. Better let him try to be popular and see that his character as a landlord stands in his way. I don’t think it signifies two straws about the ‘Pioneer,’ or Ladislaw, or Brooke’s speechifying to the Middlemarchers. But it does signify about the parishioners in Tipton being comfortable.", "pos": 814432}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Excuse me, it is you two who are on the wrong tack. You should have proved to him that he loses money by bad management, and then we should all have pulled together. If you put him a-horseback on politics, I warn you of the consequences. It was all very well to ride on sticks at home and call them ideas.", "pos": 814943}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, my dear, this is pleasant, now. You have left Casaubon with his books, I suppose. That’s right. We must not have you getting too learned for a woman, you know.", "pos": 817787}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "There is no fear of that, uncle. I am very slow. When I want to be busy with books, I am often playing truant among my thoughts. I find it is not so easy to be learned as to plan cottages.", "pos": 817999}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Why, yes, my dear, it was quite your hobby to draw plans. But it was good to break that off a little. Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins. I have never let myself be run away with; I always pulled up. That is what I tell Ladislaw. He and I are alike, you know: he likes to go into everything. We are working at capital punishment. We shall do a great deal together, Ladislaw and I.", "pos": 818579}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes. Sir James has been telling me that he is in hope of seeing a great change made soon in your management of the estate—that you are thinking of having the farms valued, and repairs made, and the cottages improved, so that Tipton may look quite another place. Oh, how happy! If I were at home still, I should take to riding again, that I might go about with you and see all that! And you are going to engage Mr. Garth, who praised my cottages, Sir James says.", "pos": 819032}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Chettam is a little hasty, my dear, a little hasty, you know. I never said I should do anything of the kind. I never said I should not do it, you know.", "pos": 819678}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "He only feels confident that you will do it, because you mean to enter Parliament as a member who cares for the improvement of the people, and one of the first things to be made better is the state of the land and the laborers. Think of Kit Downes, uncle, who lives with his wife and seven children in a house with one sitting room and one bedroom hardly larger than this table!—and those poor Dagleys, in their tumble-down farmhouse, where they live in the back kitchen and leave the other rooms to the rats! That is one reason why I did not like the pictures here, dear uncle—which you think me stupid about. I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don’t mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.", "pos": 819870}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "There is something in what you say, my dear, something in what you say—but not everything—eh, Ladislaw? You and I don’t like our pictures and statues being found fault with. Young ladies are a little ardent, you know—a little one-sided, my dear. Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation—emollit mores—you understand a little Latin now. But—eh? what? I’ll come, I’ll come. I shall let him off easily, you know,", "pos": 821923}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I hope you feel how right this change is that I—that Sir James wishes for,", "pos": 822580}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I do, now I have heard you speak about it. I shall not forget what you have said. But can you think of something else at this moment? I may not have another opportunity of speaking to you about what has occurred,", "pos": 822711}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Pray tell me what it is,", "pos": 823026}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, I did not. I am very, very sorry,", "pos": 823583}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Mr. Casaubon’s reason is, his displeasure at my taking a position here which he considers unsuited to my rank as his cousin. I have told him that I cannot give way on this point. It is a little too hard on me to expect that my course in life is to be hampered by prejudices which I think ridiculous. Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning. I would not have accepted the position if I had not meant to make it useful and honorable. I am not bound to regard family dignity in any other light.", "pos": 824597}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It is better for us not to speak on the subject, since you and Mr. Casaubon disagree. You intend to remain?", "pos": 825295}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Yes; but I shall hardly ever see you now,", "pos": 825524}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, hardly ever. But I shall hear of you. I shall know what you are doing for my uncle.", "pos": 825617}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I shall know hardly anything about you. No one will tell me anything.", "pos": 825756}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh, my life is very simple. I am always at Lowick.", "pos": 825841}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "That is a dreadful imprisonment,", "pos": 825986}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, don’t think that. I have no longings. I mean, for myself. Except that I should like not to have so much more than my share without doing anything for others. But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me.", "pos": 826045}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 826347}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil—widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.", "pos": 826404}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "That is a beautiful mysticism—it is a—", "pos": 826639}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Please not to call it by any name. You will say it is Persian, or something else geographical. It is my life. I have found it out, and cannot part with it. I have always been finding out my religion since I was a little girl. I used to pray so much—now I hardly ever pray. I try not to have desires merely for myself, because they may not be good for others, and I have too much already. I only told you, that you might know quite well how my days go at Lowick.", "pos": 826680}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "God bless you for telling me!", "pos": 827197}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "What is your religion? I mean—not what you know about religion, but the belief that helps you most?", "pos": 827380}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "To love what is good and beautiful when I see it. But I am a rebel: I don’t feel bound, as you do, to submit to what I don’t like.", "pos": 827499}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "But if you like what is good, that comes to the same thing,", "pos": 827645}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Now you are subtle,", "pos": 827731}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes; Mr. Casaubon often says I am too subtle. I don’t feel as if I were subtle. But how long my uncle is! I must go and look for him. I must really go on to the Hall. Celia is expecting me.", "pos": 827764}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Chettam, now, he finds fault with me, my dear; but I should not preserve my game if it were not for Chettam, and he can’t say that that expense is for the sake of the tenants, you know. It’s a little against my feeling:—poaching, now, if you come to look into it—I have often thought of getting up the subject. Not long ago, Flavell, the Methodist preacher, was brought up for knocking down a hare that came across his path when he and his wife were walking out together. He was pretty quick, and knocked it on the neck.", "pos": 828338}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "That was very brutal, I think,", "pos": 828875}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, now, it seemed rather black to me, I confess, in a Methodist preacher, you know. And Johnson said, ‘You may judge what a hypocrite he is.’ And upon my word, I thought Flavell looked very little like ‘the highest style of man’—as somebody calls the Christian—Young, the poet Young, I think—you know Young? Well, now, Flavell in his shabby black gaiters, pleading that he thought the Lord had sent him and his wife a good dinner, and he had a right to knock it down, though not a mighty hunter before the Lord, as Nimrod was—I assure you it was rather comic: Fielding would have made something of it—or Scott, now—Scott might have worked it up. But really, when I came to think of it, I couldn’t help liking that the fellow should have a bit of hare to say grace over. It’s all a matter of prejudice—prejudice with the law on its side, you know—about the stick and the gaiters, and so on. However, it doesn’t do to reason about things; and law is law. But I got Johnson to be quiet, and I hushed the matter up. I doubt whether Chettam would not have been more severe, and yet he comes down on me as if I were the hardest man in the county. But here we are at Dagley’s.", "pos": 828923}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Dagley, my good fellow,", "pos": 833892}
{"speaker": "Dagley", "text": "Oh, ay, I’m a good feller, am I? Thank ye, sir, thank ye. I’m glad to hear I’m a good feller.", "pos": 833999}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Your little lad Jacob has been caught killing a leveret, Dagley: I have told Johnson to lock him up in the empty stable an hour or two, just to frighten him, you know. But he will be brought home by-and-by, before night: and you’ll just look after him, will you, and give him a reprimand, you know?", "pos": 834546}
{"speaker": "Dagley", "text": "No, I woon’t: I’ll be dee’d if I’ll leather my boy to please you or anybody else, not if you was twenty landlords istid o’ one, and that a bad un.", "pos": 834847}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, well, I’ll speak to your wife—I didn’t mean beating, you know. How do you do, Mrs. Dagley? I came to tell you about your boy: I don’t want you to give him the stick, you know.", "pos": 835178}
{"speaker": "Dagley", "text": "No, nor he woon’t hev the stick, whether you want it or no. You’ve got no call to come an’ talk about sticks o’ these primises, as you woon’t give a stick tow’rt mending. Go to Middlemarch to ax for your charrickter.", "pos": 836070}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Dagley", "text": "You’d far better hold your tongue, Dagley, and not kick your own trough over. When a man as is father of a family has been an’ spent money at market and made himself the worse for liquor, he’s done enough mischief for one day. But I should like to know what my boy’s done, sir.", "pos": 836363}
{"speaker": "Dagley", "text": "Niver do you mind what he’s done, it’s my business to speak, an’ not yourn. An’ I wull speak, too. I’ll hev my say—supper or no. An’ what I say is, as I’ve lived upo’ your ground from my father and grandfather afore me, an’ hev dropped our money into’t, an’ me an’ my children might lie an’ rot on the ground for top-dressin’ as we can’t find the money to buy, if the King wasn’t to put a stop.", "pos": 836660}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "My good fellow, you’re drunk, you know. Another day, another day,", "pos": 837087}
{"speaker": "Dagley", "text": "I’m no more drunk nor you are, nor so much. I can carry my liquor, an’ I know what I meean. An’ I meean as the King ’ull put a stop to ’t, for them say it as knows it, as there’s to be a Rinform, and them landlords as never done the right thing by their tenants ’ull be treated i’ that way as they’ll hev to scuttle off. An’ there’s them i’ Middlemarch knows what the Rinform is—an’ as knows who’ll hev to scuttle. Says they, ‘I know who your landlord is.’ An’ says I, ‘I hope you’re the better for knowin’ him, I arn’t.’ Says they, ‘He’s a close-fisted un.’ ‘Ay ay,’ says I. ‘He’s a man for the Rinform,’ says they. That’s what they says. An’ I made out what the Rinform were—an’ it were to send you an’ your likes a-scuttlin’ an’ wi’ pretty strong-smellin’ things too. An’ you may do as you like now, for I’m none afeard on you. An’ you’d better let my boy aloan, an’ look to yoursen, afore the Rinform has got upo’ your back. That’s what I’n got to say,", "pos": 837571}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "Oh, don’t sew, Mary!", "pos": 842248}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "No, no, Mischief! Try and mould it yourself: you have seen me do it often enough. I must get this sewing done. It is for Rosamond Vincy: she is to be married next week, and she can’t be married without this handkerchief.", "pos": 842397}
{"speaker": "Letty", "text": "Why can’t she, Mary?", "pos": 842750}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Because this is one of a dozen, and without it there would only be eleven,", "pos": 842933}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Have you made up your mind, my dear?", "pos": 843105}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I shall go to the school at York. I am less unfit to teach in a school than in a family. I like to teach classes best. And, you see, I must teach: there is nothing else to be done.", "pos": 843186}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Teaching seems to me the most delightful work in the world. I could understand your objection to it if you had not knowledge enough, Mary, or if you disliked children.", "pos": 843382}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I suppose we never quite understand why another dislikes what we like, mother. I am not fond of a schoolroom: I like the outside world better. It is a very inconvenient fault of mine.", "pos": 843607}
{"speaker": "Alfred", "text": "It must be very stupid to be always in a girls’ school. Such a set of nincompoops, like Mrs. Ballard’s pupils walking two and two.", "pos": 843821}
{"speaker": "Jim", "text": "And they have no games worth playing at. They can neither throw nor leap. I don’t wonder at Mary’s not liking it.", "pos": 843969}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "What is that Mary doesn’t like, eh?", "pos": 844097}
{"speaker": "Alfred", "text": "Being among a lot of nincompoop girls,", "pos": 844226}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Is it the situation you had heard of, Mary?", "pos": 844280}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Yes, father: the school at York. I have determined to take it. It is quite the best. Thirty-five pounds a-year, and extra pay for teaching the smallest strummers at the piano.", "pos": 844371}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Poor child! I wish she could stay at home with us, Susan,", "pos": 844549}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Mary would not be happy without doing her duty,", "pos": 844654}
{"speaker": "Alfred", "text": "It wouldn’t make me happy to do such a nasty duty as that,", "pos": 844770}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Do find a fitter word than nasty, my dear Alfred, for everything that you think disagreeable. And suppose that Mary could help you to go to Mr. Hanmer’s with the money she gets?", "pos": 844920}
{"speaker": "Alfred", "text": "That seems to me a great shame. But she’s an old brick,", "pos": 845100}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "She’s an old brick, old brick, old brick!", "pos": 845663}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "What do you think, Susan?", "pos": 846226}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "He writes handsomely, doesn’t he, Susan? Brooke didn’t like to ask me himself, I can see,", "pos": 846987}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Here is an honor to your father, children. He is asked to take a post again by those who dismissed him long ago. That shows that he did his work well, so that they feel the want of him.", "pos": 847252}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "Like Cincinnatus—hooray!", "pos": 847525}
{"speaker": "Letty", "text": "Will they come to fetch him, mother?", "pos": 847639}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Now, mind you ask fair pay, Caleb.", "pos": 847957}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Oh yes. It’ll come to between four and five hundred, the two together. Mary, write and give up that school. Stay and help your mother. I’m as pleased as Punch, now I’ve thought of that.", "pos": 847994}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "It’s a thousand pities Christy didn’t take to business, Susan. I shall want help by-and-by. And Alfred must go off to the engineering—I’ve made up my mind to that. I shall make Brooke have new agreements with the tenants, and I shall draw up a rotation of crops. And I’ll lay a wager we can get fine bricks out of the clay at Bott’s corner. I must look into that: it would cheapen the repairs. It’s a fine bit of work, Susan! A man without a family would be glad to do it for nothing.", "pos": 849115}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Mind you don’t, though,", "pos": 849694}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "No, no; but it’s a fine thing to come to a man when he’s seen into the nature of business: to have the chance of getting a bit of the country into good fettle, as they say, and putting men into the right way with their farming, and getting a bit of good contriving and solid building done—that those who are living and those who come after will be the better for. I’d sooner have it than a fortune. I hold it the most honorable work that is. It’s a great gift of God, Susan.", "pos": 849758}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "That it is, Caleb. And it will be a blessing to your children to have had a father who did such work: a father whose good work remains though his name may be forgotten.", "pos": 850429}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I come as an envoy, Mrs. Garth: I have something to say to you and Garth on behalf of Fred Vincy. The fact is, poor fellow, he has taken me into his confidence.", "pos": 851757}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "We haven’t seen the lad for months. I couldn’t think what was become of him.", "pos": 852120}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "He has been away on a visit, because home was a little too hot for him, and Lydgate told his mother that the poor fellow must not begin to study yet. But yesterday he came and poured himself out to me. I am very glad he did, because I have seen him grow up from a youngster of fourteen, and I am so much at home in the house that the children are like nephews and nieces to me. But it is a difficult case to advise upon. However, he has asked me to come and tell you that he is going away, and that he is so miserable about his debt to you, and his inability to pay, that he can’t bear to come himself even to bid you good by.", "pos": 852213}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Tell him it doesn’t signify a farthing. We’ve had the pinch and have got over it. And now I’m going to be as rich as a Jew.", "pos": 852860}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Which means, that we are going to have enough to bring up the boys well and to keep Mary at home.", "pos": 853017}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "What is the treasure-trove?", "pos": 853158}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "I’m going to be agent for two estates, Freshitt and Tipton; and perhaps for a pretty little bit of land in Lowick besides: it’s all the same family connection, and employment spreads like water if it’s once set going. It makes me very happy, Mr. Farebrother that I’ve got an opportunity again with the letting of the land, and carrying out a notion or two with improvements. It’s a most uncommonly cramping thing, as I’ve often told Susan, to sit on horseback and look over the hedges at the wrong thing, and not be able to put your hand to it to make it right. What people do who go into politics I can’t think: it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.", "pos": 853210}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I congratulate you heartily, Garth. This is the best sort of news I could have had to carry to Fred Vincy, for he dwelt a good deal on the injury he had done you in causing you to part with money—robbing you of it, he said—which you wanted for other purposes. I wish Fred were not such an idle dog; he has some very good points, and his father is a little hard upon him.", "pos": 854153}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Where is he going?", "pos": 854544}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "He means to try again for his degree, and he is going up to study before term. I have advised him to do that. I don’t urge him to enter the Church—on the contrary. But if he will go and work so as to pass, that will be some guarantee that he has energy and a will; and he is quite at sea; he doesn’t know what else to do. So far he will please his father, and I have promised in the mean time to try and reconcile Vincy to his son’s adopting some other line of life. Fred says frankly he is not fit for a clergyman, and I would do anything I could to hinder a man from the fatal step of choosing the wrong profession. He quoted to me what you said, Miss Garth—do you remember it?", "pos": 854597}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I have said so many impertinent things to Fred—we are such old playfellows.", "pos": 855566}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "You said, according to him, that he would be one of those ridiculous clergymen who help to make the whole clergy ridiculous. Really, that was so cutting that I felt a little cut myself.", "pos": 855644}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "She gets her tongue from you, Susan,", "pos": 855847}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Not its flippancy, father. It is rather too bad of Fred to repeat my flippant speeches to Mr. Farebrother.", "pos": 855916}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "It was certainly a hasty speech, my dear. We should not value our Vicar the less because there was a ridiculous curate in the next parish.", "pos": 856092}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "There’s something in what she says, though. A bad workman of any sort makes his fellows mistrusted. Things hang together,", "pos": 856313}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Clearly. By being contemptible we set men’s minds to the tune of contempt. I certainly agree with Miss Garth’s view of the matter, whether I am condemned by it or not. But as to Fred Vincy, it is only fair he should be excused a little: old Featherstone’s delusive behavior did help to spoil him. There was something quite diabolical in not leaving him a farthing after all. But Fred has the good taste not to dwell on that. And what he cares most about is having offended you, Mrs. Garth; he supposes you will never think well of him again.", "pos": 856615}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "I have been disappointed in Fred. But I shall be ready to think well of him again when he gives me good reason to do so.", "pos": 857185}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Oh, we must forgive young people when they’re sorry. And as you say, Mr. Farebrother, there was the very devil in that old man. Now Mary’s gone out, I must tell you a thing—it’s only known to Susan and me, and you’ll not tell it again. The old scoundrel wanted Mary to burn one of the wills the very night he died, when she was sitting up with him by herself, and he offered her a sum of money that he had in the box by him if she would do it. But Mary, you understand, could do no such thing—would not be handling his iron chest, and so on. Now, you see, the will he wanted burnt was this last, so that if Mary had done what he wanted, Fred Vincy would have had ten thousand pounds. The old man did turn to him at the last. That touches poor Mary close; she couldn’t help it—she was in the right to do what she did, but she feels, as she says, much as if she had knocked down somebody’s property and broken it against her will, when she was rightfully defending herself. I feel with her, somehow, and if I could make any amends to the poor lad, instead of bearing him a grudge for the harm he did us, I should be glad to do it. Now, what is your opinion, sir? Susan doesn’t agree with me; she says—tell what you say, Susan.", "pos": 857406}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Mary could not have acted otherwise, even if she had known what would be the effect on Fred. And she was quite ignorant of it. It seems to me, a loss which falls on another because we have done right is not to lie upon our conscience.", "pos": 858677}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "It’s the feeling. The child feels in that way, and I feel with her. You don’t mean your horse to tread on a dog when you’re backing out of the way; but it goes through you, when it’s done.", "pos": 859042}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I am sure Mrs. Garth would agree with you there. One could hardly say that the feeling you mention about Fred is wrong—or rather, mistaken—though no man ought to make a claim on such feeling.", "pos": 859233}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Well, well, it’s a secret. You will not tell Fred.", "pos": 859519}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Certainly not. But I shall carry the other good news—that you can afford the loss he caused you.", "pos": 859586}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Have you any message for your old playfellow, Miss Garth? Something to soften down that harsh judgment? I am going straight to see him.", "pos": 862019}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "No. If I were to say that he would not be ridiculous as a clergyman, I must say that he would be something worse than ridiculous. But I am very glad to hear that he is going away to work.", "pos": 862273}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "On the other hand, I am very glad to hear that you are not going away to work. My mother, I am sure, will be all the happier if you will come to see her at the vicarage: you know she is fond of having young people to talk to, and she has a great deal to tell about old times. You will really be doing a kindness.", "pos": 862507}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I should like it very much, if I may. Everything seems too happy for me all at once. I thought it would always be part of my life to long for home, and losing that grievance makes me feel rather empty: I suppose it served instead of sense to fill up my mind?", "pos": 862822}
{"speaker": "Letty", "text": "May I go with you, Mary?", "pos": 863096}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Susan, guess what I’m thinking of.", "pos": 864815}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "The rotation of crops, or else the back-doors of the Tipton cottages.", "pos": 864852}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "No. I am thinking that I could do a great turn for Fred Vincy. Christy’s gone, Alfred will be gone soon, and it will be five years before Jim is ready to take to business. I shall want help, and Fred might come in and learn the nature of things and act under me, and it might be the making of him into a useful man, if he gives up being a parson. What do you think?", "pos": 864979}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "I think, there is hardly anything honest that his family would object to more,", "pos": 865370}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "What care I about their objecting? The lad is of age and must get his bread. He has sense enough and quickness enough; he likes being on the land, and it’s my belief that he could learn business well if he gave his mind to it.", "pos": 865479}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "But would he? His father and mother wanted him to be a fine gentleman, and I think he has the same sort of feeling himself. They all think us beneath them. And if the proposal came from you, I am sure Mrs. Vincy would say that we wanted Fred for Mary.", "pos": 865789}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Life is a poor tale, if it is to be settled by nonsense of that sort,", "pos": 866043}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Yes, but there is a certain pride which is proper, Caleb.", "pos": 866141}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "I call it improper pride to let fools’ notions hinder you from doing a good action. There’s no sort of work, that could ever be done well, if you minded what fools say. You must have it inside you that your plan is right, and that plan you must follow.", "pos": 866201}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "I will not oppose any plan you have set your mind on, Caleb. Still, it seems to be fixed that Fred is to go back to college: will it not be better to wait and see what he will choose to do after that? It is not easy to keep people against their will. And you are not yet quite sure enough of your own position, or what you will want.", "pos": 866552}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Well, it may be better to wait a bit. But as to my getting plenty of work for two, I’m pretty sure of that. I’ve always had my hands full with scattered things, and there’s always something fresh turning up. Why, only yesterday—bless me, I don’t think I told you!—it was rather odd that two men should have been at me on different sides to do the same bit of valuing. And who do you think they were? Why, that Rigg, or Rigg Featherstone, was one. But Bulstrode was before him, so I’m going to do it for Bulstrode. Whether it’s mortgage or purchase they’re going for, I can’t tell yet.", "pos": 867008}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Can that man be going to sell the land just left him—which he has taken the name for?", "pos": 867877}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Deuce knows. But Bulstrode has long been wanting to get a handsome bit of land under his fingers—that I know. And it’s a difficult matter to get, in this part of the country. The ins and outs of things are curious. Here is the land they’ve been all along expecting for Fred, which it seems the old man never meant to leave him a foot of, but left it to this side-slip of a son that he kept in the dark, and thought of his sticking there and vexing everybody as well as he could have vexed ’em himself if he could have kept alive. I say, it would be curious if it got into Bulstrode’s hands after all. The old man hated him, and never would bank with him.", "pos": 867982}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "What reason could the miserable creature have for hating a man whom he had nothing to do with?", "pos": 868822}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Pooh! where’s the use of asking for such fellows’ reasons? The soul of man. The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.", "pos": 868936}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Come, now, Josh, look at it in this light: here is your poor mother going into the vale of years, and you could afford something handsome now to make her comfortable.", "pos": 874489}
{"speaker": "Rigg", "text": "Not while you live. Nothing would make her comfortable while you live. What I give her, you’ll take.", "pos": 874700}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "You bear me a grudge, Josh, that I know. But come, now—as between man and man—without humbug—a little capital might enable me to make a first-rate thing of the shop. The tobacco trade is growing. I should cut my own nose off in not doing the best I could at it. I should stick to it like a flea to a fleece for my own sake. I should always be on the spot. And nothing would make your poor mother so happy. I’ve pretty well done with my wild oats—turned fifty-five. I want to settle down in my chimney-corner. And if I once buckled to the tobacco trade, I could bring an amount of brains and experience to bear on it that would not be found elsewhere in a hurry. I don’t want to be bothering you one time after another, but to get things once for all into the right channel. Consider that, Josh—as between man and man—and with your poor mother to be made easy for her life. I was always fond of the old woman, by Jove!", "pos": 874844}
{"speaker": "Mr. Rigg", "text": "Have you done?", "pos": 875764}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Yes, I’ve done,", "pos": 875843}
{"speaker": "Rigg", "text": "Then just listen to me. The more you say anything, the less I shall believe it. The more you want me to do a thing, the more reason I shall have for never doing it. Do you think I mean to forget your kicking me when I was a lad, and eating all the best victual away from me and my mother? Do you think I forget your always coming home to sell and pocket everything, and going off again leaving us in the lurch? I should be glad to see you whipped at the cart-tail. My mother was a fool to you: she’d no right to give me a father-in-law, and she’s been punished for it. She shall have her weekly allowance paid and no more: and that shall be stopped if you dare to come on to these premises again, or to come into this country after me again. The next time you show yourself inside the gates here, you shall be driven off with the dogs and the wagoner’s whip.", "pos": 875976}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Come, Josh, give us a spoonful of brandy, and a sovereign to pay the way back, and I’ll go. Honor bright! I’ll go like a bullet, by Jove!", "pos": 877464}
{"speaker": "Rigg", "text": "Mind, if I ever see you again, I shan’t speak to you. I don’t own you any more than if I saw a crow; and if you want to own me you’ll get nothing by it but a character for being what you are—a spiteful, brassy, bullying rogue.", "pos": 877635}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "That’s a pity, now, Josh. I’m very fond of you; by Jove, I am! There’s nothing I like better than plaguing you—you’re so like your mother, and I must do without it. But the brandy and the sovereign’s a bargain.", "pos": 877906}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Farewell, Josh—and if forever!", "pos": 879035}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "In marrying Dorothea Brooke I had to care for her well-being in case of my death. But well-being is not to be secured by ample, independent possession of property; on the contrary, occasions might arise in which such possession might expose her to the more danger. She is ready prey to any man who knows how to play adroitly either on her affectionate ardor or her Quixotic enthusiasm; and a man stands by with that very intention in his mind—a man with no other principle than transient caprice, and who has a personal animosity towards me—I am sure of it—an animosity which is fed by the consciousness of his ingratitude, and which he has constantly vented in ridicule of which I am as well assured as if I had heard it. Even if I live I shall not be without uneasiness as to what he may attempt through indirect influence. This man has gained Dorothea’s ear: he has fascinated her attention; he has evidently tried to impress her mind with the notion that he has claims beyond anything I have done for him. If I die—and he is waiting here on the watch for that—he will persuade her to marry him. That would be calamity for her and success for him. She would not think it calamity: he would make her believe anything; she has a tendency to immoderate attachment which she inwardly reproaches me for not responding to, and already her mind is occupied with his fortunes. He thinks of an easy conquest and of entering into my nest. That I will hinder! Such a marriage would be fatal to Dorothea. Has he ever persisted in anything except from contradiction? In knowledge he has always tried to be showy at small cost. In religion he could be, as long as it suited him, the facile echo of Dorothea’s vagaries. When was sciolism ever dissociated from laxity? I utterly distrust his morals, and it is my duty to hinder to the utmost the fulfilment of his designs.", "pos": 889916}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "No, I merely wish to have his opinion concerning some habitual symptoms. You need not see him, my dear. I shall give orders that he may be sent to me in the Yew-tree Walk, where I shall be taking my usual exercise.", "pos": 892304}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Poor fellow, some men with his years are like lions; one can tell nothing of their age except that they are full grown.", "pos": 893281}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Mr. Lydgate. I am exceedingly obliged to you for your punctuality. We will, if you please, carry on our conversation in walking to and fro.", "pos": 893417}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I hope your wish to see me is not due to the return of unpleasant symptoms,", "pos": 893612}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Not immediately—no. In order to account for that wish I must mention—what it were otherwise needless to refer to—that my life, on all collateral accounts insignificant, derives a possible importance from the incompleteness of labors which have extended through all its best years. In short, I have long had on hand a work which I would fain leave behind me in such a state, at least, that it might be committed to the press by—others. Were I assured that this is the utmost I can reasonably expect, that assurance would be a useful circumscription of my attempts, and a guide in both the positive and negative determination of my course.", "pos": 893724}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "You refer to the possible hindrances from want of health?", "pos": 895326}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I do. You have not implied to me that the symptoms which—I am bound to testify—you watched with scrupulous care, were those of a fatal disease. But were it so, Mr. Lydgate, I should desire to know the truth without reservation, and I appeal to you for an exact statement of your conclusions: I request it as a friendly service. If you can tell me that my life is not threatened by anything else than ordinary casualties, I shall rejoice, on grounds which I have already indicated. If not, knowledge of the truth is even more important to me.", "pos": 895490}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Then I can no longer hesitate as to my course, but the first thing I must impress on you is that my conclusions are doubly uncertain—uncertain not only because of my fallibility, but because diseases of the heart are eminently difficult to found predictions on. In any case, one can hardly increase appreciably the tremendous uncertainty of life. I believe that you are suffering from what is called fatty degeneration of the heart, a disease which was first divined and explored by Laennec, the man who gave us the stethoscope, not so very many years ago. A good deal of experience—a more lengthened observation—is wanting on the subject. But after what you have said, it is my duty to tell you that death from this disease is often sudden. At the same time, no such result can be predicted. Your condition may be consistent with a tolerably comfortable life for another fifteen years, or even more. I could add no information to this beyond anatomical or medical details, which would leave expectation at precisely the same point.", "pos": 896034}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I thank you, Mr. Lydgate. One thing more I have still to ask: did you communicate what you have now told me to Mrs. Casaubon?", "pos": 897290}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Partly—I mean, as to the possible issues.", "pos": 897463}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I thank you,", "pos": 897674}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I wish to be alone", "pos": 901736}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "What have I done—what am I—that he should treat me so? He never knows what is in my mind—he never cares. What is the use of anything I do? He wishes he had never married me. Is he worth living for? It is his fault, not mine.", "pos": 902541}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I shall not dine, then, Tantripp.", "pos": 904567}
{"speaker": "Tantripp", "text": "Oh, madam, let me bring you a little something?", "pos": 904603}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No; I am not well. Get everything ready in my dressing room, but pray do not disturb me again.", "pos": 904653}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Dorothea! Were you waiting for me?", "pos": 906296}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes, I did not like to disturb you.", "pos": 906380}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Come, my dear, come. You are young, and need not to extend your life by watching.", "pos": 906418}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "This figure hath high price: ’t was wrought with love Ages ago in finest ivory; Nought modish in it, pure and noble lines Of generous womanhood that fits all time That too is costly ware; majolica Of deft design, to please a lordly eye: The smile, you see, is perfect—wonderful As mere Faience! a table ornament To suit the richest mounting.", "pos": 906816}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Is Mrs. Lydgate at home? I will go in and speak to her, if she will allow me. Will you ask her if she can see me—see Mrs. Casaubon, for a few minutes?", "pos": 908338}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Thank you very much for allowing me to interrupt you. I am anxious to see Mr. Lydgate, if possible, before I go home, and I hoped that you might possibly tell me where I could find him, or even allow me to wait for him, if you expect him soon.", "pos": 911320}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "He is at the New Hospital. I am not sure how soon he will come home. But I can send for him.", "pos": 911596}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Will you let me go and fetch him?", "pos": 911708}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I did not know it was you: I had no thought of seeing you here.", "pos": 911932}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "May I go to the Hospital and tell Mr. Lydgate that you wish to see him?", "pos": 911998}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It would be quicker to send the carriage for him, if you will be kind enough to give the message to the coachman. I will go myself, thank you. I wish to lose no time before getting home again. I will drive to the Hospital and see Mr. Lydgate there. Pray excuse me, Mrs. Lydgate. I am very much obliged to you.", "pos": 912083}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Perhaps I have been mistaken in many things,", "pos": 914237}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. May I come another day and just finish about the rendering of ‘Lungi dal caro bene’?", "pos": 916950}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I shall be happy to be taught. But I am sure you admit that the interruption was a very beautiful one. I quite envy your acquaintance with Mrs. Casaubon. Is she very clever? She looks as if she were.", "pos": 917093}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Really, I never thought about it,", "pos": 917312}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "That is just the answer Tertius gave me, when I first asked him if she were handsome. What is it that you gentlemen are thinking of when you are with Mrs. Casaubon?", "pos": 917368}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Herself. When one sees a perfect woman, one never thinks of her attributes—one is conscious of her presence.", "pos": 917534}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I shall be jealous when Tertius goes to Lowick. He will come back and think nothing of me.", "pos": 917711}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "That does not seem to have been the effect on Lydgate hitherto. Mrs. Casaubon is too unlike other women for them to be compared with her.", "pos": 917865}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "You are a devout worshipper, I perceive. You often see her, I suppose.", "pos": 918005}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No. Worship is usually a matter of theory rather than of practice. But I am practising it to excess just at this moment—I must really tear myself away.", "pos": 918078}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Pray come again some evening: Mr. Lydgate will like to hear the music, and I cannot enjoy it so well without him. Mr. Ladislaw was here singing with me when Mrs. Casaubon came in. He seemed vexed. Do you think he disliked her seeing him at our house? Surely your position is more than equal to his—whatever may be his relation to the Casaubons.", "pos": 918263}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No, no; it must be something else if he were really vexed. Ladislaw is a sort of gypsy; he thinks nothing of leather and prunella.", "pos": 918737}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Music apart, he is not always very agreeable. Do you like him?", "pos": 918870}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Yes: I think he is a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-a-brac, but likable.", "pos": 918935}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Do you know, I think he adores Mrs. Casaubon.", "pos": 919022}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Poor devil!", "pos": 919070}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Why so?", "pos": 920249}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Why, what can a man do when he takes to adoring one of you mermaids? He only neglects his work and runs up bills.", "pos": 920259}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I am sure you do not neglect your work. You are always at the Hospital, or seeing poor patients, or thinking about some doctor’s quarrel; and then at home you always want to pore over your microscope and phials. Confess you like those things better than me.", "pos": 920375}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Haven’t you ambition enough to wish that your husband should be something better than a Middlemarch doctor? I shall make you learn my favorite bit from an old poet— ‘Why should our pride make such a stir to be And be forgot? What good is like to this, To do worthy the writing, and to write Worthy the reading and the worlds delight?’ What I want, Rosy, is to do worthy the writing,—and to write out myself what I have done. A man must work, to do that, my pet.", "pos": 920635}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Of course, I wish you to make discoveries: no one could more wish you to attain a high position in some better place than Middlemarch. You cannot say that I have ever tried to hinder you from working. But we cannot live like hermits. You are not discontented with me, Tertius?", "pos": 921212}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No, dear, no. I am too entirely contented.", "pos": 921491}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "But what did Mrs. Casaubon want to say to you?", "pos": 921536}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Merely to ask about her husband’s health. But I think she is going to be splendid to our New Hospital: I think she will give us two hundred a-year.", "pos": 921585}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I don’t know whether your or Mr. Casaubon’s attention has been drawn to the needs of our New Hospital. Circumstances have made it seem rather egotistic in me to urge the subject; but that is not my fault: it is because there is a fight being made against it by the other medical men. I think you are generally interested in such things, for I remember that when I first had the pleasure of seeing you at Tipton Grange before your marriage, you were asking me some questions about the way in which the health of the poor was affected by their miserable housing.", "pos": 922293}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes, indeed. I shall be quite grateful to you if you will tell me how I can help to make things a little better. Everything of that sort has slipped away from me since I have been married. I mean, that the people in our village are tolerably comfortable, and my mind has been too much taken up for me to inquire further. But here—in such a place as Middlemarch—there must be a great deal to be done.", "pos": 922856}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "There is everything to be done. And this Hospital is a capital piece of work, due entirely to Mr. Bulstrode’s exertions, and in a great degree to his money. But one man can’t do everything in a scheme of this sort. Of course he looked forward to help. And now there’s a mean, petty feud set up against the thing in the town, by certain persons who want to make it a failure.", "pos": 923329}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "What can be their reasons?", "pos": 923742}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Chiefly Mr. Bulstrode’s unpopularity, to begin with. Half the town would almost take trouble for the sake of thwarting him. In this stupid world most people never consider that a thing is good to be done unless it is done by their own set. I had no connection with Bulstrode before I came here. I look at him quite impartially, and I see that he has some notions—that he has set things on foot—which I can turn to good public purpose. If a fair number of the better educated men went to work with the belief that their observations might contribute to the reform of medical doctrine and practice, we should soon see a change for the better. That’s my point of view. I hold that by refusing to work with Mr. Bulstrode I should be turning my back on an opportunity of making my profession more generally serviceable.", "pos": 923807}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I quite agree with you. But what is there against Mr. Bulstrode? I know that my uncle is friendly with him.", "pos": 924624}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "People don’t like his religious tone,", "pos": 924816}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "That is all the stronger reason for despising such an opposition,", "pos": 924890}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "To put the matter quite fairly, they have other objections to him:—he is masterful and rather unsociable, and he is concerned with trade, which has complaints of its own that I know nothing about. But what has that to do with the question whether it would not be a fine thing to establish here a more valuable hospital than any they have in the county? The immediate motive to the opposition, however, is the fact that Bulstrode has put the medical direction into my hands. Of course I am glad of that. It gives me an opportunity of doing some good work,—and I am aware that I have to justify his choice of me. But the consequence is, that the whole profession in Middlemarch have set themselves tooth and nail against the Hospital, and not only refuse to cooperate themselves, but try to blacken the whole affair and hinder subscriptions.", "pos": 925051}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "How very petty!", "pos": 925893}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I suppose one must expect to fight one’s way: there is hardly anything to be done without it. And the ignorance of people about here is stupendous. I don’t lay claim to anything else than having used some opportunities which have not come within everybody’s reach; but there is no stifling the offence of being young, and a new-comer, and happening to know something more than the old inhabitants. Still, if I believe that I can set going a better method of treatment—if I believe that I can pursue certain observations and inquiries which may be a lasting benefit to medical practice, I should be a base truckler if I allowed any consideration of personal comfort to hinder me. And the course is all the clearer from there being no salary in question to put my persistence in an equivocal light.", "pos": 925944}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am glad you have told me this, Mr. Lydgate. I feel sure I can help a little. I have some money, and don’t know what to do with it—that is often an uncomfortable thought to me. I am sure I can spare two hundred a-year for a grand purpose like this. How happy you must be, to know things that you feel sure will do great good! I wish I could awake with that knowledge every morning. There seems to be so much trouble taken that one can hardly see the good of! Pray come to Lowick and tell us more of this. I will mention the subject to Mr. Casaubon. I must hasten home now.", "pos": 926743}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "She knows that I know,", "pos": 928326}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "It is in that way that hard-working medical men may come to be almost as mischievous as quacks. To get their own bread they must overdose the king’s lieges; and that’s a bad sort of treason, Mr. Mawmsey—undermines the constitution in a fatal way.", "pos": 935203}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Mawmsey", "text": "Does this Mr. Lydgate mean to say there is no use in taking medicine? I should like him to tell me how I could bear up at Fair time, if I didn’t take strengthening medicine for a month beforehand. Think of what I have to provide for calling customers, my dear! a large veal pie—a stuffed fillet—a round of beef—ham, tongue, et cetera, et cetera! But what keeps me up best is the pink mixture, not the brown. I wonder, Mr. Mawmsey, with your experience, you could have patience to listen. I should have told him at once that I knew a little better than that.", "pos": 937789}
{"speaker": "Mr. Mawmsey", "text": "No, no, no. I was not going to tell him my opinion. Hear everything and judge for yourself is my motto. But he didn’t know who he was talking to. I was not to be turned on his finger. People often pretend to tell me things, when they might as well say, ‘Mawmsey, you’re a fool.’ But I smile at it: I humor everybody’s weak place. If physic had done harm to self and family, I should have found it out by this time.", "pos": 938473}
{"speaker": "Mr. Gambit", "text": "Indeed! How will he cure his patients, then?", "pos": 938996}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Mawmsey", "text": "That is what I say. Does he suppose that people will pay him only to come and sit with them and go away again?", "pos": 939166}
{"speaker": "Mr. Gambit", "text": "Well, Lydgate is a good-looking young fellow, you know.", "pos": 939664}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Mawmsey", "text": "Not one that I would employ. Others may do as they please.", "pos": 939722}
{"speaker": "Mr. Toller", "text": "Dibbitts will get rid of his stale drugs, then. I’m fond of little Dibbitts—I’m glad he’s in luck.", "pos": 941947}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hackbutt", "text": "I see your meaning, Toller, and I am entirely of your opinion. I shall take an opportunity of expressing myself to that effect. A medical man should be responsible for the quality of the drugs consumed by his patients. That is the rationale of the system of charging which has hitherto obtained; and nothing is more offensive than this ostentation of reform, where there is no real amelioration.", "pos": 942048}
{"speaker": "Mr. Toller", "text": "Ostentation, Hackbutt? I don’t see that. A man can’t very well be ostentatious of what nobody believes in. There’s no reform in the matter: the question is, whether the profit on the drugs is paid to the medical man by the druggist or by the patient, and whether there shall be extra pay under the name of attendance.", "pos": 942467}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "Ah, to be sure; one of your damned new versions of old humbug,", "pos": 942818}
{"speaker": "Mr. Wrench", "text": "As to humbug, Hawley, that’s a word easy to fling about. But what I contend against is the way medical men are fouling their own nest, and setting up a cry about the country as if a general practitioner who dispenses drugs couldn’t be a gentleman. I throw back the imputation with scorn. I say, the most ungentlemanly trick a man can be guilty of is to come among the members of his profession with innovations which are a libel on their time-honored procedure. That is my opinion, and I am ready to maintain it against any one who contradicts me.", "pos": 943056}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "I can’t oblige you there, Wrench,", "pos": 943666}
{"speaker": "Mr. Toller", "text": "My dear fellow, the physicians have their toes trodden on more than we have. If you come to dignity it is a question for Minchin and Sprague.", "pos": 943765}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hackbutt", "text": "Does medical jurisprudence provide nothing against these infringements? How does the law stand, eh, Hawley?", "pos": 943980}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "Nothing to be done there. I looked into it for Sprague. You’d only break your nose against a damned judge’s decision.", "pos": 944160}
{"speaker": "Mr. Toller", "text": "Pooh! no need of law. So far as practice is concerned the attempt is an absurdity. No patient will like it—certainly not Peacock’s, who have been used to depletion. Pass the wine.", "pos": 944299}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "It’s not tumor: it’s cramp.", "pos": 948116}
{"speaker": "Dr. Minchin", "text": "Indeed! ah! I saw it was a surgical case, not of a fatal kind.", "pos": 949030}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "Never fear, sir; you are not speaking to one who is altogether ignorant of the vis medicatrix,", "pos": 951933}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Very well, we have a capital house-surgeon and dispenser, a clear-headed, neat-handed fellow; we’ll get Webbe from Crabsley, as good a country practitioner as any of them, to come over twice a-week, and in case of any exceptional operation, Protheroe will come from Brassing. I must work the harder, that’s all, and I have given up my post at the Infirmary. The plan will flourish in spite of them, and then they’ll be glad to come in. Things can’t last as they are: there must be all sorts of reform soon, and then young fellows may be glad to come and study here.", "pos": 956641}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I shall not flinch, you may depend upon it, Mr. Lydgate. While I see you carrying out high intentions with vigor, you shall have my unfailing support. And I have humble confidence that the blessing which has hitherto attended my efforts against the spirit of evil in this town will not be withdrawn. Suitable directors to assist me I have no doubt of securing. Mr. Brooke of Tipton has already given me his concurrence, and a pledge to contribute yearly: he has not specified the sum—probably not a great one. But he will be a useful member of the board.", "pos": 957271}
{"speaker": "Mr. Toller", "text": "Bulstrode had found a man to suit him in Lydgate; a charlatan in religion is sure to like other sorts of charlatans.", "pos": 958696}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Taft", "text": "Yes, indeed, I can imagine, there are so many of that sort. I remember Mr. Cheshire, with his irons, trying to make people straight when the Almighty had made them crooked.", "pos": 958815}
{"speaker": "Mr. Toller", "text": "No, no. Cheshire was all right—all fair and above board. But there’s St. John Long—that’s the kind of fellow we call a charlatan, advertising cures in ways nobody knows anything about: a fellow who wants to make a noise by pretending to go deeper than other people. The other day he was pretending to tap a man’s brain and get quicksilver out of it.", "pos": 959083}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Taft", "text": "Good gracious! what dreadful trifling with people’s constitutions!", "pos": 959454}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "They will not drive me away. I have got a good opportunity here, for the ends I care most about; and I am pretty sure to get income enough for our wants. By-and-by I shall go on as quietly as possible: I have no seductions now away from home and work. And I am more and more convinced that it will be possible to demonstrate the homogeneous origin of all the tissues. Raspail and others are on the same track, and I have been losing time.", "pos": 960540}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I have no power of prophecy there, but as to the hostility in the town, you’ll weather it if you are prudent.", "pos": 961043}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "How am I to be prudent? I just do what comes before me to do. I can’t help people’s ignorance and spite, any more than Vesalius could. It isn’t possible to square one’s conduct to silly conclusions which nobody can foresee.", "pos": 961247}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Quite true; I didn’t mean that. I meant only two things. One is, keep yourself as separable from Bulstrode as you can: of course, you can go on doing good work of your own by his help; but don’t get tied. Perhaps it seems like personal feeling in me to say so—and there’s a good deal of that, I own—but personal feeling is not always in the wrong if you boil it down to the impressions which make it simply an opinion.", "pos": 961489}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Bulstrode is nothing to me, except on public grounds. As to getting very closely united to him, I am not fond enough of him for that. But what was the other thing you meant?", "pos": 961910}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Why, this. Take care—experto crede—take care not to get hampered about money matters. I know, by a word you let fall one day, that you don’t like my playing at cards so much for money. You are right enough there. But try and keep clear of wanting small sums that you haven’t got. I am perhaps talking rather superfluously; but a man likes to assume superiority over himself, by holding up his bad example and sermonizing on it.", "pos": 962220}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Is that enough music for you, my lord?", "pos": 964201}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Yes, dear, if you are tired,", "pos": 964322}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "What is absorbing you?", "pos": 964589}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I am thinking of a great fellow, who was about as old as I am three hundred years ago, and had already begun a new era in anatomy.", "pos": 964741}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I can’t guess. We used to play at guessing historical characters at Mrs. Lemon’s, but not anatomists.", "pos": 964874}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I’ll tell you. His name was Vesalius. And the only way he could get to know anatomy as he did, was by going to snatch bodies at night, from graveyards and places of execution.", "pos": 965013}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Oh! I am very glad you are not Vesalius. I should have thought he might find some less horrible way than that.", "pos": 965191}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No, he couldn’t. He could only get a complete skeleton by snatching the whitened bones of a criminal from the gallows, and burying them, and fetching them away by bits secretly, in the dead of night.", "pos": 965364}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I hope he is not one of your great heroes, else I shall have you getting up in the night to go to St. Peter’s churchyard. You know how angry you told me the people were about Mrs. Goby. You have enemies enough already.", "pos": 965640}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "So had Vesalius, Rosy. No wonder the medical fogies in Middlemarch are jealous, when some of the greatest doctors living were fierce upon Vesalius because they had believed in Galen, and he showed that Galen was wrong. They called him a liar and a poisonous monster. But the facts of the human frame were on his side; and so he got the better of them.", "pos": 965910}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "And what happened to him afterwards?", "pos": 966264}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Oh, he had a good deal of fighting to the last. And they did exasperate him enough at one time to make him burn a good deal of his work. Then he got shipwrecked just as he was coming from Jerusalem to take a great chair at Padua. He died rather miserably.", "pos": 966338}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Do you know, Tertius, I often wish you had not been a medical man.", "pos": 966645}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Nay, Rosy, don’t say that. That is like saying you wish you had married another man.", "pos": 966714}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Not at all; you are clever enough for anything: you might easily have been something else. And your cousins at Quallingham all think that you have sunk below them in your choice of a profession.", "pos": 966844}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "The cousins at Quallingham may go to the devil! It was like their impudence if they said anything of the sort to you.", "pos": 967041}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Still. I do not think it is a nice profession, dear.", "pos": 967189}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "It is the grandest profession in the world, Rosamond. And to say that you love me without loving the medical man in me, is the same sort of thing as to say that you like eating a peach but don’t like its flavor. Don’t say that again, dear, it pains me.", "pos": 967322}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Very well, Doctor Grave-face. I will declare in future that I dote on skeletons, and body-snatchers, and bits of things in phials, and quarrels with everybody, that end in your dying miserably.", "pos": 967602}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No, no, not so bad as that, giving up remonstrance and petting her resignedly.", "pos": 967821}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Things will grow and ripen as if it were a comet year. The public temper will soon get to a cometary heat, now the question of Reform has set in. There is likely to be another election before long, and by that time Middlemarch will have got more ideas into its head. What we have to work at now is the ‘Pioneer’ and political meetings.", "pos": 968833}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Quite right, Ladislaw; we shall make a new thing of opinion here. Only I want to keep myself independent about Reform, you know; I don’t want to go too far. I want to take up Wilberforce’s and Romilly’s line, you know, and work at Negro Emancipation, Criminal Law—that kind of thing. But of course I should support Grey.", "pos": 969184}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "If you go in for the principle of Reform, you must be prepared to take what the situation offers. If everybody pulled for his own bit against everybody else, the whole question would go to tatters.", "pos": 969526}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Yes, yes, I agree with you—I quite take that point of view. I should put it in that light. I should support Grey, you know. But I don’t want to change the balance of the constitution, and I don’t think Grey would.", "pos": 969739}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "But that is what the country wants. Else there would be no meaning in political unions or any other movement that knows what it’s about. It wants to have a House of Commons which is not weighted with nominees of the landed class, but with representatives of the other interests. And as to contending for a reform short of that, it is like asking for a bit of an avalanche which has already begun to thunder.", "pos": 969955}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "That is fine, Ladislaw: that is the way to put it. Write that down, now. We must begin to get documents about the feeling of the country, as well as the machine-breaking and general distress.", "pos": 970378}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "As to documents, a two-inch card will hold plenty. A few rows of figures are enough to deduce misery from, and a few more will show the rate at which the political determination of the people is growing.", "pos": 970572}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Good: draw that out a little more at length, Ladislaw. That is an idea, now: write it out in the ‘Pioneer.’ Put the figures and deduce the misery, you know; and put the other figures and deduce—and so on. You have a way of putting things. Burke, now:—when I think of Burke, I can’t help wishing somebody had a pocket-borough to give you, Ladislaw. You’d never get elected, you know. And we shall always want talent in the House: reform as we will, we shall always want talent. That avalanche and the thunder, now, was really a little like Burke. I want that sort of thing—not ideas, you know, but a way of putting them.", "pos": 970791}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Pocket-boroughs would be a fine thing, if they were always in the right pocket, and there were always a Burke at hand.", "pos": 971413}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Shift the pegs a little, and Mr. Brooke might be in the Cabinet, while I was Under-Secretary. That is the common order of things: the little waves make the large ones and are of the same pattern. I am better here than in the sort of life Mr. Casaubon would have trained me for, where the doing would be all laid down by a precedent too rigid for me to react upon. I don’t care for prestige or high pay. I never had any caste,", "pos": 973962}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "Brooke has taken him up, because that is what no man in his senses could have expected. Casaubon has devilish good reasons, you may be sure, for turning the cold shoulder on a young fellow whose bringing-up he paid for. Just like Brooke—one of those fellows who would praise a cat to sell a horse.", "pos": 975515}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "which had existed when he was in his cradle.", "pos": 976414}
{"speaker": "Mr. Keck", "text": "the violence of an energumen—a miserable effort to shroud in the brilliancy of fireworks the daring of irresponsible statements and the poverty of a knowledge which was of the cheapest and most recent description.", "pos": 976564}
{"speaker": "Dr. Sprague", "text": "That was a rattling article yesterday, Keck. But what is an energumen?", "pos": 976780}
{"speaker": "Mr. Keck", "text": "Oh, a term that came up in the French Revolution,", "pos": 976900}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "It’s no use your puffing Brooke as a reforming landlord, Ladislaw: they only pick the more holes in his coat in the ‘Trumpet.’", "pos": 981121}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No matter; those who read the ‘Pioneer’ don’t read the ‘Trumpet,’ Do you suppose the public reads with a view to its own conversion? We should have a witches’ brewing with a vengeance then—‘Mingle, mingle, mingle, mingle, You that mingle may’—and nobody would know which side he was going to take.", "pos": 981250}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Farebrother says, he doesn’t believe Brooke would get elected if the opportunity came: the very men who profess to be for him would bring another member out of the bag at the right moment.", "pos": 981601}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "There’s no harm in trying. It’s good to have resident members.", "pos": 981792}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Why?", "pos": 981857}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "They represent the local stupidity better, and they are kept on their best behavior in the neighborhood. Brooke is not a bad fellow, but he has done some good things on his estate that he never would have done but for this Parliamentary bite.", "pos": 981943}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "He’s not fitted to be a public man. He would disappoint everybody who counted on him: I can see that at the Hospital. Only, there Bulstrode holds the reins and drives him.", "pos": 982234}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "That depends on how you fix your standard of public men. He’s good enough for the occasion: when the people have made up their mind as they are making it up now, they don’t want a man—they only want a vote.", "pos": 982452}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "That is the way with you political writers, Ladislaw—crying up a measure as if it were a universal cure, and crying up men who are a part of the very disease that wants curing.", "pos": 982674}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Why not? Men may help to cure themselves off the face of the land without knowing it,", "pos": 982853}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "That is no excuse for encouraging the superstitious exaggeration of hopes about this particular measure, helping the cry to swallow it whole and to send up voting popinjays who are good for nothing but to carry it. You go against rottenness, and there is nothing more thoroughly rotten than making people believe that society can be cured by a political hocus-pocus.", "pos": 983036}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "That’s very fine, my dear fellow. But your cure must begin somewhere, and put it that a thousand things which debase a population can never be reformed without this particular reform to begin with. Look what Stanley said the other day—that the House had been tinkering long enough at small questions of bribery, inquiring whether this or that voter has had a guinea when everybody knows that the seats have been sold wholesale. Wait for wisdom and conscience in public agents—fiddlestick! The only conscience we can trust to is the massive sense of wrong in a class, and the best wisdom that will work is the wisdom of balancing claims. That’s my text—which side is injured? I support the man who supports their claims; not the virtuous upholder of the wrong.", "pos": 983405}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "That general talk about a particular case is mere question begging, Ladislaw. When I say, I go in for the dose that cures, it doesn’t follow that I go in for opium in a given case of gout.", "pos": 984167}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I am not begging the question we are upon—whether we are to try for nothing till we find immaculate men to work with. Should you go on that plan? If there were one man who would carry you a medical reform and another who would oppose it, should you inquire which had the better motives or even the better brains?", "pos": 984358}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Oh, of course, if one did not work with such men as are at hand, things must come to a dead-lock. Suppose the worst opinion in the town about Bulstrode were a true one, that would not make it less true that he has the sense and the resolution to do what I think ought to be done in the matters I know and care most about; but that is the only ground on which I go with him. He is nothing to me otherwise; I would not cry him up on any personal ground—I would keep clear of that.", "pos": 984673}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Do you mean that I cry up Brooke on any personal ground?", "pos": 985314}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Not at all. I was simply explaining my own action. I meant that a man may work for a special end with others whose motives and general course are equivocal, if he is quite sure of his personal independence, and that he is not working for his private interest—either place or money.", "pos": 985599}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Then, why don’t you extend your liberality to others? My personal independence is as important to me as yours is to you. You have no more reason to imagine that I have personal expectations from Brooke, than I have to imagine that you have personal expectations from Bulstrode. Motives are points of honor, I suppose—nobody can prove them. But as to money and place in the world. I think it is pretty clear that I am not determined by considerations of that sort.", "pos": 985899}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "You quite mistake me, Ladislaw. I beg your pardon for unintentionally annoying you. In fact, I should rather attribute to you a romantic disregard of your own worldly interests. On the political question, I referred simply to intellectual bias.", "pos": 986430}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "How very unpleasant you both are this evening! I cannot conceive why money should have been referred to. Politics and Medicine are sufficiently disagreeable to quarrel upon. You can both of you go on quarrelling with all the world and with each other on those two topics.", "pos": 986822}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Poor Rosy! Disputation is not amusing to cherubs. Have some music. Ask Ladislaw to sing with you.", "pos": 987224}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "What put you out of temper this evening, Tertius?", "pos": 987441}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Me? It was Ladislaw who was out of temper. He is like a bit of tinder.", "pos": 987493}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "But I mean, before that. Something had vexed you before you came in, you looked cross. And that made you begin to dispute with Mr. Ladislaw. You hurt me very much when you look so, Tertius.", "pos": 987566}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Do I? Then I am a brute,", "pos": 987758}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "What vexed you?", "pos": 987825}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Oh, outdoor things—business.", "pos": 987843}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Was never true love loved in vain. For truest love is highest gain. No art can make it: it must spring Where elements are fostering. So in heaven’s spot and hour Springs the little native flower. Downward root and upward eye. Shapen by the earth and sky.", "pos": 988058}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Dorothea, he said to himself, was forever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool; and if he could have written out in immortal syllables the effect she wrought within him, he might have boasted after the example of old Drayton, that,—", "pos": 991734}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Queens hereafter might be glad to live Upon the alms of her superfluous praise.", "pos": 992004}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I am a fool.", "pos": 993124}
{"speaker": "Objection", "text": "That will be a virtual defiance of Mr. Casaubon’s prohibition to visit Lowick, and Dorothea will be displeased.", "pos": 993517}
{"speaker": "Inclination", "text": "Nonsense! it would be too monstrous for him to hinder me from going out to a pretty country church on a spring morning. And Dorothea will be glad.", "pos": 993631}
{"speaker": "Objection", "text": "It will be clear to Mr. Casaubon that you have come either to annoy him or to see Dorothea.", "pos": 993802}
{"speaker": "Inclination", "text": "It is not true that I go to annoy him, and why should I not go to see Dorothea? Is he to have everything to himself and be always comfortable? Let him smart a little, as other people are obliged to do. I have always liked the quaintness of the church and congregation; besides, I know the Tuckers: I shall go into their pew.", "pos": 993896}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "You will oblige me, my dear, if instead of other reading this evening, you will go through this aloud, pencil in hand, and at each point where I say ‘mark,’ will make a cross with your pencil. This is the first step in a sifting process which I have long had in view, and as we go on I shall be able to indicate to you certain principles of selection whereby you will, I trust, have an intelligent participation in my purpose. We will take the volume up-stairs—and the pencil, if you please—and in case of reading in the night, we can pursue this task. It is not wearisome to you, I trust, Dorothea?", "pos": 1004700}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I prefer always reading what you like best to hear,", "pos": 1005648}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Are you ill, Edward?", "pos": 1006751}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I felt some uneasiness in a reclining posture. I will sit here for a time.", "pos": 1006804}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You would like me to read to you?", "pos": 1006939}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "You would oblige me greatly by doing so, Dorothea. I am wakeful: my mind is remarkably lucid.", "pos": 1006975}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I fear that the excitement may be too great for you,", "pos": 1007152}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "No, I am not conscious of undue excitement. Thought is easy. That will do—mark that Pass on to the next head—I omit the second excursus on Crete. Close the book now, my dear. We will resume our work to-morrow. I have deferred it too long, and would gladly see it completed. But you observe that the principle on which my selection is made, is to give adequate, and not disproportionate illustration to each of the theses enumerated in my introduction, as at present sketched. You have perceived that distinctly, Dorothea?", "pos": 1007254}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1008223}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "And now I think that I can take some repose. Before I sleep, I have a request to make, Dorothea.", "pos": 1008289}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 1008570}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "It is that you will let me know, deliberately, whether, in case of my death, you will carry out my wishes: whether you will avoid doing what I should deprecate, and apply yourself to do what I should desire. You refuse?", "pos": 1008623}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, I do not yet refuse, but it is too solemn—I think it is not right—to make a promise when I am ignorant what it will bind me to. Whatever affection prompted I would do without promising.", "pos": 1009093}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "But you would use your own judgment: I ask you to obey mine; you refuse.", "pos": 1009369}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, dear, no! But may I wait and reflect a little while? I desire with my whole soul to do what will comfort you; but I cannot give any pledge suddenly—still less a pledge to do I know not what.", "pos": 1009444}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "You cannot then confide in the nature of my wishes?", "pos": 1009699}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Grant me till to-morrow,", "pos": 1009753}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "Till to-morrow then,", "pos": 1009809}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I refuse to content this pining hunger?", "pos": 1013240}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No! if you die, I will put no finger to your work", "pos": 1014164}
{"speaker": "Tantripp", "text": "I never saw you look so pale, madam,", "pos": 1014612}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Was I ever high-colored, Tantripp?", "pos": 1014731}
{"speaker": "Tantripp", "text": "Well, not to say high-colored, but with a bloom like a Chiny rose. But always smelling those leather books, what can be expected? Do rest a little this morning, madam. Let me say you are ill and not able to go into that close library.", "pos": 1014800}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh no, no! let me make haste. Mr. Casaubon wants me particularly.", "pos": 1015037}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I was waiting for your appearance, my dear. I had hoped to set to work at once this morning, but I find myself under some indisposition, probably from too much excitement yesterday. I am going now to take a turn in the shrubbery, since the air is milder.", "pos": 1015367}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am glad to hear that. Your mind, I feared, was too active last night.", "pos": 1015624}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I would fain have it set at rest on the point I last spoke of, Dorothea. You can now, I hope, give me an answer.", "pos": 1015715}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "May I come out to you in the garden presently?", "pos": 1015830}
{"speaker": "Mr. Casaubon", "text": "I shall be in the Yew-tree Walk for the next half-hour,", "pos": 1015940}
{"speaker": "Tantripp", "text": "God bless you, madam! I wish every book in that library was built into a caticom for your master,", "pos": 1016547}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "He exhausted himself last night. I am come, Edward; I am ready. I am ready! Wake, dear, wake! Listen to me. I am come to answer. Tell him I shall go to him soon: I am ready to promise. Only, thinking about it was so dreadful—it has made me ill. Not very ill. I shall soon be better. Go and tell him.", "pos": 1018688}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I wish to God we could hinder Dorothea from knowing this,", "pos": 1020281}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "That would be difficult, you know, Chettam, as she is an executrix, and she likes to go into these things—property, land, that kind of thing. She has her notions, you know, and she would like to act—depend upon it, as an executrix Dorothea would want to act. And she was twenty-one last December, you know. I can hinder nothing.", "pos": 1020647}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I will tell you what we can do. Until Dorothea is well, all business must be kept from her, and as soon as she is able to be moved she must come to us. Being with Celia and the baby will be the best thing in the world for her, and will pass away the time. And meanwhile you must get rid of Ladislaw: you must send him out of the country.", "pos": 1021230}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "That is easily said, Chettam, easily said, you know.", "pos": 1021757}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "My dear sir, it was you who brought him here, and you who keep him here—I mean by the occupation you give him.", "pos": 1021812}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Yes, but I can’t dismiss him in an instant without assigning reasons, my dear Chettam. Ladislaw has been invaluable, most satisfactory. I consider that I have done this part of the country a service by bringing him—by bringing him, you know.", "pos": 1022001}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "It’s a pity this part of the country didn’t do without him, that’s all I have to say about it. At any rate, as Dorothea’s brother-in-law, I feel warranted in objecting strongly to his being kept here by any action on the part of her friends. You admit, I hope, that I have a right to speak about what concerns the dignity of my wife’s sister?", "pos": 1022300}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Of course, my dear Chettam, of course. But you and I have different ideas—different—", "pos": 1022673}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Not about this action of Casaubon’s, I should hope. I say that he has most unfairly compromised Dorothea. I say that there never was a meaner, more ungentlemanly action than this—a codicil of this sort to a will which he made at the time of his marriage with the knowledge and reliance of her family—a positive insult to Dorothea!", "pos": 1022760}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, you know, Casaubon was a little twisted about Ladislaw. Ladislaw has told me the reason—dislike of the bent he took, you know—Ladislaw didn’t think much of Casaubon’s notions, Thoth and Dagon—that sort of thing: and I fancy that Casaubon didn’t like the independent position Ladislaw had taken up. I saw the letters between them, you know. Poor Casaubon was a little buried in books—he didn’t know the world.", "pos": 1023118}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "It’s all very well for Ladislaw to put that color on it. But I believe Casaubon was only jealous of him on Dorothea’s account, and the world will suppose that she gave him some reason; and that is what makes it so abominable—coupling her name with this young fellow’s.", "pos": 1023535}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "My dear Chettam, it won’t lead to anything, you know. It’s all of a piece with Casaubon’s oddity. This paper, now, ‘Synoptical Tabulation’ and so on, ‘for the use of Mrs. Casaubon,’ it was locked up in the desk with the will. I suppose he meant Dorothea to publish his researches, eh? and she’ll do it, you know; she has gone into his studies uncommonly.", "pos": 1023824}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "My dear sir, that is neither here nor there. The question is, whether you don’t see with me the propriety of sending young Ladislaw away?", "pos": 1024253}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, no, not the urgency of the thing. By-and-by, perhaps, it may come round. As to gossip, you know, sending him away won’t hinder gossip. People say what they like to say, not what they have chapter and verse for. I might get rid of Ladislaw up to a certain point—take away the ‘Pioneer’ from him, and that sort of thing; but I couldn’t send him out of the country if he didn’t choose to go—didn’t choose, you know.", "pos": 1024424}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Good God! let us get him a post; let us spend money on him. If he could go in the suite of some Colonial Governor! Grampus might take him—and I could write to Fulke about it.", "pos": 1025120}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "But Ladislaw won’t be shipped off like a head of cattle, my dear fellow; Ladislaw has his ideas. It’s my opinion that if he were to part from me to-morrow, you’d only hear the more of him in the country. With his talent for speaking and drawing up documents, there are few men who could come up to him as an agitator—an agitator, you know.", "pos": 1025355}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Agitator!", "pos": 1025697}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "But be reasonable, Chettam. Dorothea, now. As you say, she had better go to Celia as soon as possible. She can stay under your roof, and in the mean time things may come round quietly. Don’t let us be firing off our guns in a hurry, you know. Standish will keep our counsel, and the news will be old before it’s known. Twenty things may happen to carry off Ladislaw—without my doing anything, you know.", "pos": 1025852}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Then I am to conclude that you decline to do anything?", "pos": 1026257}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Decline, Chettam?—no—I didn’t say decline. But I really don’t see what I could do. Ladislaw is a gentleman.", "pos": 1026314}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I am glad to hear it! I am sure Casaubon was not.", "pos": 1026424}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, it would have been worse if he had made the codicil to hinder her from marrying again at all, you know.", "pos": 1026545}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I don’t know that. It would have been less indelicate.", "pos": 1026657}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "One of poor Casaubon’s freaks! That attack upset his brain a little. It all goes for nothing. She doesn’t want to marry Ladislaw.", "pos": 1026732}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "But this codicil is framed so as to make everybody believe that she did. I don’t believe anything of the sort about Dorothea, but I suspect Ladislaw. I tell you frankly, I suspect Ladislaw.", "pos": 1026864}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "I couldn’t take any immediate action on that ground, Chettam. In fact, if it were possible to pack him off—send him to Norfolk Island—that sort of thing—it would look all the worse for Dorothea to those who knew about it. It would seem as if we distrusted her—distrusted her, you know.", "pos": 1027090}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Well, I can only say that I think Dorothea was sacrificed once, because her friends were too careless. I shall do what I can, as her brother, to protect her now.", "pos": 1027582}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "You can’t do better than get her to Freshitt as soon as possible, Chettam. I approve that plan altogether,", "pos": 1027746}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This Loller here wol precilen us somewhat.", "pos": 1028309}
{"speaker": "The Schipman", "text": "Nay by my father’s soule! that schal he nat, here schal he not preche, We schal no gospel glosen here ne teche. We leven all in the gret God. He wolden sowen some diffcultee.", "pos": 1028354}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Uncle, it is right now that I should consider who is to have the living at Lowick. After Mr. Tucker had been provided for, I never heard my husband say that he had any clergyman in his mind as a successor to himself. I think I ought to have the keys now and go to Lowick to examine all my husband’s papers. There may be something that would throw light on his wishes.", "pos": 1030078}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "No hurry, my dear. By-and-by, you know, you can go, if you like. But I cast my eyes over things in the desks and drawers—there was nothing—nothing but deep subjects, you know—besides the will. Everything can be done by-and-by. As to the living, I have had an application for interest already—I should say rather good. Mr. Tyke has been strongly recommended to me—I had something to do with getting him an appointment before. An apostolic man, I believe—the sort of thing that would suit you, my dear.", "pos": 1030448}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I should like to have fuller knowledge about him, uncle, and judge for myself, if Mr. Casaubon has not left any expression of his wishes. He has perhaps made some addition to his will—there may be some instructions for me,", "pos": 1030979}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Nothing about the rectory, my dear—nothing, nor about his researches, you know. Nothing in the will.", "pos": 1031310}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Look, Dodo! look at him! Did you ever see anything like that?", "pos": 1032163}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "What, Kitty?", "pos": 1032268}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "What? why, his upper lip; see how he is drawing it down, as if he meant to make a face. Isn’t it wonderful! He may have his little thoughts. I wish nurse were here. Do look at him.", "pos": 1032332}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I wonder if Sir James would drive me to Lowick. I want to look over everything—to see if there were any words written for me.", "pos": 1032780}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "You are not to go till Mr. Lydgate says you may go. And he has not said so yet (here you are, nurse; take baby and walk up and down the gallery). Besides, you have got a wrong notion in your head as usual, Dodo—I can see that: it vexes me.", "pos": 1032908}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Where am I wrong, Kitty?", "pos": 1033150}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I can see what you are thinking of as well as can be, Dodo. You are wanting to find out if there is anything uncomfortable for you to do now, only because Mr. Casaubon wished it. As if you had not been uncomfortable enough before. And he doesn’t deserve it, and you will find that out. He has behaved very badly. James is as angry with him as can be. And I had better tell you, to prepare you.", "pos": 1033698}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Celia, you distress me. Tell me at once what you mean.", "pos": 1034108}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Why, he has made a codicil to his will, to say the property was all to go away from you if you married—I mean—", "pos": 1034318}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "That is of no consequence,", "pos": 1034431}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "But if you married Mr. Ladislaw, not anybody else. Of course that is of no consequence in one way—you never would marry Mr. Ladislaw; but that only makes it worse of Mr. Casaubon. James says so. He says it is abominable, and not like a gentleman. And there never was a better judge than James. It is as if Mr. Casaubon wanted to make people believe that you would wish to marry Mr. Ladislaw—which is ridiculous. Only James says it was to hinder Mr. Ladislaw from wanting to marry you for your money—just as if he ever would think of making you an offer. Mrs. Cadwallader said you might as well marry an Italian with white mice! But I must just go and look at baby,", "pos": 1034500}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "What I think, Dodo, is that Mr. Casaubon was spiteful. I never did like him, and James never did. I think the corners of his mouth were dreadfully spiteful. And now he has behaved in this way, I am sure religion does not require you to make yourself uncomfortable about him. If he has been taken away, that is a mercy, and you ought to be grateful. We should not grieve, should we, baby?", "pos": 1037233}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I fear you are not so well as you were, Mrs. Casaubon; have you been agitated? allow me to feel your pulse.", "pos": 1037971}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "She wants to go to Lowick, to look over papers. She ought not, ought she?", "pos": 1038123}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I hardly know. In my opinion Mrs. Casaubon should do what would give her the most repose of mind. That repose will not always come from being forbidden to act.", "pos": 1038289}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Thank you. I am sure that is wise. There are so many things which I ought to attend to. Why should I sit here idle? You know every one in Middlemarch, I think, Mr. Lydgate. I shall ask you to tell me a great deal. I have serious things to do now. I have a living to give away. You know Mr. Tyke and all the—", "pos": 1038451}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Let Mrs. Casaubon do as she likes. She wants perfect freedom, I think, more than any other prescription.", "pos": 1039019}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I have no wish to stay there at present. I could hardly bear it. I am much happier at Freshitt with Celia. I shall be able to think better about what should be done at Lowick by looking at it from a distance. And I should like to be at the Grange a little while with my uncle, and go about in all the old walks and among the people in the village.", "pos": 1039889}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Not yet, I think. Your uncle is having political company, and you are better out of the way of such doings,", "pos": 1040256}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Instead of telling you anything about Mr. Tyke. I should like to speak of another man—Mr. Farebrother, the Vicar of St. Botolph’s. His living is a poor one, and gives him a stinted provision for himself and his family. His mother, aunt, and sister all live with him, and depend upon him. I believe he has never married because of them. I never heard such good preaching as his—such plain, easy eloquence. He would have done to preach at St. Paul’s Cross after old Latimer. His talk is just as good about all subjects: original, simple, clear. I think him a remarkable fellow: he ought to have done more than he has done. Why has he not done more?", "pos": 1045024}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "That’s a hard question. I find myself that it’s uncommonly difficult to make the right thing work: there are so many strings pulling at once. Farebrother often hints that he has got into the wrong profession; he wants a wider range than that of a poor clergyman, and I suppose he has no interest to help him on. He is very fond of Natural History and various scientific matters, and he is hampered in reconciling these tastes with his position. He has no money to spare—hardly enough to use; and that has led him into card-playing—Middlemarch is a great place for whist. He does play for money, and he wins a good deal. Of course that takes him into company a little beneath him, and makes him slack about some things; and yet, with all that, looking at him as a whole, I think he is one of the most blameless men I ever knew. He has neither venom nor doubleness in him, and those often go with a more correct outside.", "pos": 1045765}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I wonder whether he suffers in his conscience because of that habit. I wonder whether he wishes he could leave it off.", "pos": 1046702}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I have no doubt he would leave it off, if he were transplanted into plenty: he would be glad of the time for other things.", "pos": 1046840}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "My uncle says that Mr. Tyke is spoken of as an apostolic man,", "pos": 1046965}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I don’t pretend to say that Farebrother is apostolic. His position is not quite like that of the Apostles: he is only a parson among parishioners whose lives he has to try and make better. Practically I find that what is called being apostolic now, is an impatience of everything in which the parson doesn’t cut the principal figure. I see something of that in Mr. Tyke at the Hospital: a good deal of his doctrine is a sort of pinching hard to make people uncomfortably aware of him. Besides, an apostolic man at Lowick!—he ought to think, as St. Francis did, that it is needful to preach to the birds.", "pos": 1047232}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "True. It is hard to imagine what sort of notions our farmers and laborers get from their teaching. I have been looking into a volume of sermons by Mr. Tyke: such sermons would be of no use at Lowick—I mean, about imputed righteousness and the prophecies in the Apocalypse. I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest—I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much. But I should like to see Mr. Farebrother and hear him preach.", "pos": 1047854}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Do. I trust to the effect of that. He is very much beloved, but he has his enemies too: there are always people who can’t forgive an able man for differing from them. And that money-winning business is really a blot. You don’t, of course, see many Middlemarch people: but Mr. Ladislaw, who is constantly seeing Mr. Brooke, is a great friend of Mr. Farebrother’s old ladies, and would be glad to sing the Vicar’s praises. One of the old ladies—Miss Noble, the aunt—is a wonderfully quaint picture of self-forgetful goodness, and Ladislaw gallants her about sometimes. I met them one day in a back street: you know Ladislaw’s look—a sort of Daphnis in coat and waistcoat; and this little old maid reaching up to his arm—they looked like a couple dropped out of a romantic comedy. But the best evidence about Farebrother is to see him and hear him.", "pos": 1048565}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Why should you bring me into the matter? I never see Mrs. Casaubon, and am not likely to see her, since she is at Freshitt. I never go there. It is Tory ground, where I and the ‘Pioneer’ are no more welcome than a poacher and his gun.", "pos": 1051838}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "We are forever divided. I might as well be at Rome; she would be no farther from me.", "pos": 1053222}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "You know there are tactics in these things, meeting people half-way—tempering your ideas—saying, ‘Well now, there’s something in that,’ and so on. I agree with you that this is a peculiar occasion—the country with a will of its own—political unions—that sort of thing—but we sometimes cut with rather too sharp a knife, Ladislaw. These ten-pound householders, now: why ten? Draw the line somewhere—yes: but why just at ten? That’s a difficult question, now, if you go into it.", "pos": 1055249}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Of course it is. But if you are to wait till we get a logical Bill, you must put yourself forward as a revolutionist, and then Middlemarch would not elect you, I fancy. As for trimming, this is not a time for trimming.", "pos": 1055747}
{"speaker": "Mr. Mawmsey", "text": "As to Reform, sir, put it in a family light. Will it support Mrs. Mawmsey, and enable her to bring up six children when I am no more? I put the question fictiously, knowing what must be the answer. Very well, sir. I ask you what, as a husband and a father, I am to do when gentlemen come to me and say, ‘Do as you like, Mawmsey; but if you vote against us, I shall get my groceries elsewhere: when I sugar my liquor I like to feel that I am benefiting the country by maintaining tradesmen of the right color.’ Those very words have been spoken to me, sir, in the very chair where you are now sitting. I don’t mean by your honorable self, Mr. Brooke.", "pos": 1057725}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "No, no, no—that’s narrow, you know. Until my butler complains to me of your goods, Mr. Mawmsey, until I hear that you send bad sugars, spices—that sort of thing—I shall never order him to go elsewhere.", "pos": 1058450}
{"speaker": "Mr. Mawmsey", "text": "Sir, I am your humble servant, and greatly obliged. There would be some pleasure in voting for a gentleman who speaks in that honorable manner.", "pos": 1058685}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, you know, Mr. Mawmsey, you would find it the right thing to put yourself on our side. This Reform will touch everybody by-and-by—a thoroughly popular measure—a sort of A, B, C, you know, that must come first before the rest can follow. I quite agree with you that you’ve got to look at the thing in a family light: but public spirit, now. We’re all one family, you know—it’s all one cupboard. Such a thing as a vote, now: why, it may help to make men’s fortunes at the Cape—there’s no knowing what may be the effect of a vote,", "pos": 1058900}
{"speaker": "Mr. Mawmsey", "text": "I beg your pardon, sir, but I can’t afford that. When I give a vote I must know what I am doing; I must look to what will be the effects on my till and ledger, speaking respectfully. Prices, I’ll admit, are what nobody can know the merits of; and the sudden falls after you’ve bought in currants, which are a goods that will not keep—I’ve never; myself seen into the ins and outs there; which is a rebuke to human pride. But as to one family, there’s debtor and creditor, I hope; they’re not going to reform that away; else I should vote for things staying as they are. Few men have less need to cry for change than I have, personally speaking—that is, for self and family. I am not one of those who have nothing to lose: I mean as to respectability both in parish and private business, and noways in respect of your honorable self and custom, which you was good enough to say you would not withdraw from me, vote or no vote, while the article sent in was satisfactory.", "pos": 1059585}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "This looks well, eh? I shall have a good audience, at any rate. I like this, now—this kind of public made up of one’s own neighbors, you know.", "pos": 1063547}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "I’ll take another glass of sherry, Ladislaw,", "pos": 1064512}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "And questions, now, somebody may put questions about the schedules.—Ladislaw, just hand me the memorandum of the schedules.", "pos": 1065497}
{"speaker": "Mr. Standish", "text": "This looks dangerous, by God! Hawley has got some deeper plan than this.", "pos": 1065966}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Gentlemen—Electors of Middlemarch! I’m uncommonly glad to be here—I was never so proud and happy in my life—never so happy, you know.", "pos": 1066408}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "it’s all up now. The only chance is that, since the best thing won’t always do, floundering may answer for once.", "pos": 1066955}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "I am a close neighbor of yours, my good friends—you’ve known me on the bench a good while—I’ve always gone a good deal into public questions—machinery, now, and machine-breaking—you’re many of you concerned with machinery, and I’ve been going into that lately. It won’t do, you know, breaking machines: everything must go on—trade, manufactures, commerce, interchange of staples—that kind of thing—since Adam Smith, that must go on. We must look all over the globe:—‘Observation with extensive view,’ must look everywhere, ‘from China to Peru,’ as somebody says—Johnson, I think, ‘The Rambler,’ you know. That is what I have done up to a certain point—not as far as Peru; but I’ve not always stayed at home—I saw it wouldn’t do. I’ve been in the Levant, where some of your Middlemarch goods go—and then, again, in the Baltic. The Baltic, now.", "pos": 1067218}
{"speaker": "Echo", "text": "The Baltic, now,", "pos": 1069065}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "That reminds me, if I wanted a precedent, you know—but we never want a precedent for the right thing—but there is Chatham, now; I can’t say I should have supported Chatham, or Pitt, the younger Pitt—he was not a man of ideas, and we want ideas, you know. Blast your ideas! we want the Bill,", "pos": 1070198}
{"speaker": "Invisible Punch", "text": "Blast your ideas! we want the Bill.", "pos": 1070691}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "There is something in what you say, my good friend, and what do we meet for but to speak our minds—freedom of opinion, freedom of the press, liberty—that kind of thing? The Bill, now—you shall have the Bill", "pos": 1070958}
{"speaker": "Invisible Punch", "text": "You shall have the Bill, Mr. Brooke, per electioneering contest, and a seat outside Parliament as delivered, five thousand pounds, seven shillings, and fourpence.", "pos": 1071356}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Buffoonery, tricks, ridicule the test of truth—all that is very well", "pos": 1071785}
{"speaker": "Echo", "text": "All that is very well;", "pos": 1071929}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "This is a little too bad, you know. I should have got the ear of the people by-and-by—but they didn’t give me time. I should have gone into the Bill by-and-by, you know. However, things will come all right at the nomination.", "pos": 1072812}
{"speaker": "Mr. Standish", "text": "It was Bowyer who did it. I know it as well as if he had been advertised. He’s uncommonly good at ventriloquism, and he did it uncommonly well, by God! Hawley has been having him to dinner lately: there’s a fund of talent in Bowyer.", "pos": 1073287}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, you know, you never mentioned him to me, Standish, else I would have invited him to dine,", "pos": 1073554}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "There’s not a more paltry fellow in Middlemarch than Bowyer, but it seems as if the paltry fellows were always to turn the scale.", "pos": 1073749}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "I have felt uneasy about the chest—it won’t do to carry that too far. I must pull up. Poor Casaubon was a warning, you know. I’ve made some heavy advances, but I’ve dug a channel. It’s rather coarse work—this electioneering, eh, Ladislaw? dare say you are tired of it. However, we have dug a channel with the ‘Pioneer’—put things in a track, and so on. A more ordinary man than you might carry it on now—more ordinary, you know.", "pos": 1076267}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Do you wish me to give it up? I am ready to do so whenever you wish it.", "pos": 1076746}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "As to wishing, my dear Ladislaw, I have the highest opinion of your powers, you know. But about the ‘Pioneer,’ I have been consulting a little with some of the men on our side, and they are inclined to take it into their hands—indemnify me to a certain extent—carry it on, in fact. And under the circumstances, you might like to give up—might find a better field. These people might not take that high view of you which I have always taken, as an alter ego, a right hand—though I always looked forward to your doing something else. I think of having a run into France. But I’ll write you any letters, you know—to Althorpe and people of that kind. I’ve met Althorpe.", "pos": 1076966}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I am exceedingly obliged to you. Since you are going to part with the ‘Pioneer,’ I need not trouble you about the steps I shall take. I may choose to continue here for the present.", "pos": 1077634}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "The greatest comfort, Camden, is that you have deserved it.", "pos": 1078662}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "When a man gets a good berth, mother, half the deserving must come after. Now, aunt. There shall be sugar-candy always on the table for you to steal and give to the children, and you shall have a great many new stockings to make presents of, and you shall darn your own more than ever!", "pos": 1078724}
{"speaker": "Miss Winifred", "text": "You must set me the example, Cam: you must marry now.", "pos": 1079931}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "With all my heart. But who is in love with me? I am a seedy old fellow. What do you say, mother?", "pos": 1079987}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "You are a handsome man, Camden: though not so fine a figure of a man as your father,", "pos": 1080164}
{"speaker": "Miss Winifred", "text": "I wish you would marry Miss Garth, brother,", "pos": 1080270}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Very fine! You talk as if young women were tied up to be chosen, like poultry at market; as if I had only to ask and everybody would have me,", "pos": 1080377}
{"speaker": "Miss Winifred", "text": "We don’t want everybody. But you would like Miss Garth, mother, shouldn’t you?", "pos": 1080560}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "My son’s choice shall be mine, and a wife would be most welcome, Camden. You will want your whist at home when we go to Lowick, and Henrietta Noble never was a whist-player.", "pos": 1080663}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I shall do without whist now, mother.", "pos": 1080969}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "Why so, Camden? In my time whist was thought an undeniable amusement for a good churchman,", "pos": 1081009}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I shall be too busy for whist; I shall have two parishes. I don’t feel bound to give up St. Botolph’s. It is protest enough against the pluralism they want to reform if I give somebody else most of the money. The stronger thing is not to give up power, but to use it well.", "pos": 1081258}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I have thought of that. So far as self is concerned, I think it would be easier to give up power and money than to keep them. It seems very unfitting that I should have this patronage, yet I felt that I ought not to let it be used by some one else instead of me.", "pos": 1081635}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "It is I who am bound to act so that you will not regret your power. I used often to wish I had been something else than a clergyman, but perhaps it will be better to try and make as good a clergyman out of myself as I can. That is the well-beneficed point of view, you perceive, from which difficulties are much simplified,", "pos": 1081917}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I am ashamed to trouble you, Mr. Farebrother, but you are the only friend I can consult. I told you everything once before, and you were so good that I can’t help coming to you again.", "pos": 1082969}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Sit down, Fred, I’m ready to hear and do anything I can,", "pos": 1083207}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I wanted to tell you— I might go into the Church now; and really, look where I may, I can’t see anything else to do. I don’t like it, but I know it’s uncommonly hard on my father to say so, after he has spent a good deal of money in educating me for it. and I can’t see anything else to do.", "pos": 1083362}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I did talk to your father about it, Fred, but I made little way with him. He said it was too late. But you have got over one bridge now: what are your other difficulties?", "pos": 1083763}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Merely that I don’t like it. I don’t like divinity, and preaching, and feeling obliged to look serious. I like riding across country, and doing as other men do. I don’t mean that I want to be a bad fellow in any way; but I’ve no taste for the sort of thing people expect of a clergyman. And yet what else am I to do? My father can’t spare me any capital, else I might go into farming. And he has no room for me in his trade. And of course I can’t begin to study for law or physic now, when my father wants me to earn something. It’s all very well to say I’m wrong to go into the Church; but those who say so might as well tell me to go into the backwoods.", "pos": 1083936}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Have you any difficulties about doctrines—about the Articles?", "pos": 1084777}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "No; I suppose the Articles are right. I am not prepared with any arguments to disprove them, and much better, cleverer fellows than I am go in for them entirely. I think it would be rather ridiculous in me to urge scruples of that sort, as if I were a judge,", "pos": 1084911}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I suppose, then, it has occurred to you that you might be a fair parish priest without being much of a divine?", "pos": 1085197}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Of course, if I am obliged to be a clergyman, I shall try and do my duty, though I mayn’t like it. Do you think any body ought to blame me?", "pos": 1085310}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "For going into the Church under the circumstances? That depends on your conscience, Fred—how far you have counted the cost, and seen what your position will require of you. I can only tell you about myself, that I have always been too lax, and have been uneasy in consequence.", "pos": 1085452}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "But there is another hindrance. I did not tell you before, though perhaps I may have said things that made you guess it. There is somebody I am very fond of: I have loved her ever since we were children.", "pos": 1085731}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Miss Garth, I suppose?", "pos": 1085960}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Yes. I shouldn’t mind anything if she would have me. And I know I could be a good fellow then.", "pos": 1086037}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "And you think she returns the feeling?", "pos": 1086134}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "She never will say so; and a good while ago she made me promise not to speak to her about it again. And she has set her mind especially against my being a clergyman; I know that. But I can’t give her up. I do think she cares about me. I saw Mrs. Garth last night, and she said that Mary was staying at Lowick Rectory with Miss Farebrother.", "pos": 1086175}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Yes, she is very kindly helping my sister. Do you wish to go there?", "pos": 1086517}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "No, I want to ask a great favor of you. I am ashamed to bother you in this way; but Mary might listen to what you said, if you mentioned the subject to her—I mean about my going into the Church.", "pos": 1086587}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "That is rather a delicate task, my dear Fred. I shall have to presuppose your attachment to her; and to enter on the subject as you wish me to do, will be asking her to tell me whether she returns it.", "pos": 1086784}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "That is what I want her to tell you. I don’t know what to do, unless I can get at her feeling.", "pos": 1086987}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "You mean that you would be guided by that as to your going into the Church?", "pos": 1087106}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "If Mary said she would never have me I might as well go wrong in one way as another.", "pos": 1087184}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "That is nonsense, Fred. Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.", "pos": 1087271}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Not my sort of love: I have never been without loving Mary. If I had to give her up, it would be like beginning to live on wooden legs.", "pos": 1087384}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Will she not be hurt at my intrusion?", "pos": 1087522}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "No, I feel sure she will not. She respects you more than any one, and she would not put you off with fun as she does me. Of course I could not have told any one else, or asked any one else to speak to her, but you. There is no one else who could be such a friend to both of us. And she ought to acknowledge that I have worked in order to pass. She ought to believe that I would exert myself for her sake.", "pos": 1087562}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Very well, my boy. I will do what you wish.", "pos": 1088141}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Fly, Fly, I am ashamed of you. This is not becoming in a sensible dog; anybody would think you were a silly young gentleman.", "pos": 1088938}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "You are unmerciful to young gentlemen, Miss Garth,", "pos": 1089105}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "It always answers to reason with Fly. Oh, with some, I suppose; since some of them turn into excellent men.", "pos": 1089228}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I am glad of that admission, because I want at this very moment to interest you in a young gentleman.", "pos": 1089394}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Not a silly one, I hope,", "pos": 1089498}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "No; though perhaps wisdom is not his strong point, but rather affection and sincerity. However, wisdom lies more in those two qualities than people are apt to imagine. I hope you know by those marks what young gentleman I mean.", "pos": 1089614}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Yes, I think I do, it must be Fred Vincy.", "pos": 1089844}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "He has asked me to consult you about his going into the Church. I hope you will not think that I consented to take a liberty in promising to do so.", "pos": 1089961}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "On the contrary, Mr. Farebrother, whenever you have anything to say to me I feel honored.", "pos": 1090111}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "But before I enter on that question, let me just touch a point on which your father took me into confidence; by the way, it was that very evening on which I once before fulfilled a mission from Fred, just after he had gone to college. Mr. Garth told me what happened on the night of Featherstone’s death—how you refused to burn the will; and he said that you had some heart-prickings on that subject, because you had been the innocent means of hindering Fred from getting his ten thousand pounds. I have kept that in mind, and I have heard something that may relieve you on that score—may show you that no sin-offering is demanded from you there. I mean, that your action made no real difference to Fred’s lot. I find that the first will would not have been legally good after the burning of the last; it would not have stood if it had been disputed, and you may be sure it would have been disputed. So, on that score, you may feel your mind free.", "pos": 1090282}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Farebrother. I am grateful to you for remembering my feelings.", "pos": 1091562}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Well, now I may go on. Fred, you know, has taken his degree. He has worked his way so far, and now the question is, what is he to do? That question is so difficult that he is inclined to follow his father’s wishes and enter the Church, though you know better than I do that he was quite set against that formerly. I have questioned him on the subject, and I confess I see no insuperable objection to his being a clergyman, as things go. He says that he could turn his mind to doing his best in that vocation, on one condition. If that condition were fulfilled I would do my utmost in helping Fred on. After a time—not, of course, at first—he might be with me as my curate, and he would have so much to do that his stipend would be nearly what I used to get as vicar. But I repeat that there is a condition without which all this good cannot come to pass. He has opened his heart to me, Miss Garth, and asked me to plead for him. The condition lies entirely in your feeling. To speak quite plainly, Fred will not take any course which would lessen the chance that you would consent to be his wife; but with that prospect, he will try his best at anything you approve.", "pos": 1091666}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I cannot possibly say that I will ever be his wife, Mr. Farebrother: but I certainly never will be his wife if he becomes a clergyman. What you say is most generous and kind; I don’t mean for a moment to correct your judgment. It is only that I have my girlish, mocking way of looking at things,", "pos": 1092954}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "He wishes me to report exactly what you think,", "pos": 1093360}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I could not love a man who is ridiculous. Fred has sense and knowledge enough to make him respectable, if he likes, in some good worldly business, but I can never imagine him preaching and exhorting, and pronouncing blessings, and praying by the sick, without feeling as if I were looking at a caricature. His being a clergyman would be only for gentility’s sake, and I think there is nothing more contemptible than such imbecile gentility. I used to think that of Mr. Crowse, with his empty face and neat umbrella, and mincing little speeches. What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly—as if—", "pos": 1093431}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Young women are severe: they don’t feel the stress of action as men do, though perhaps I ought to make you an exception there. But you don’t put Fred Vincy on so low a level as that?", "pos": 1094250}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "No, indeed, he has plenty of sense, but I think he would not show it as a clergyman. He would be a piece of professional affectation.", "pos": 1094435}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Then the answer is quite decided. As a clergyman he could have no hope?", "pos": 1094571}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I think Fred ought not to need telling again what I have already said to him. I mean that he ought not to put such questions until he has done something worthy, instead of saying that he could do it.", "pos": 1094813}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I understand that you resist any attempt to fetter you, but either your feeling for Fred Vincy excludes your entertaining another attachment, or it does not: either he may count on your remaining single until he shall have earned your hand, or he may in any case be disappointed. Pardon me, Mary—you know I used to catechise you under that name—but when the state of a woman’s affections touches the happiness of another life—of more lives than one—I think it would be the nobler course for her to be perfectly direct and open.", "pos": 1095220}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Since you think it my duty, Mr. Farebrother, I will tell you that I have too strong a feeling for Fred to give him up for any one else. I should never be quite happy if I thought he was unhappy for the loss of me. It has taken such deep root in me—my gratitude to him for always loving me best, and minding so much if I hurt myself, from the time when we were very little. I cannot imagine any new feeling coming to make that weaker. I should like better than anything to see him worthy of every one’s respect. But please tell him I will not promise to marry him till then: I should shame and grieve my father and mother. He is free to choose some one else.", "pos": 1096401}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Then I have fulfilled my commission thoroughly, and I shall ride back to Middlemarch forthwith. With this prospect before him, we shall get Fred into the right niche somehow, and I hope I shall live to join your hands. God bless you!", "pos": 1097061}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Oh, please stay, and let me give you some tea,", "pos": 1097351}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Bless my heart! what’s this fellow in black coming along the lane? He’s like one of those men one sees about after the races.", "pos": 1105472}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "By Jove, Nick, it’s you! I couldn’t be mistaken, though the five-and-twenty years have played old Boguy with us both! How are you, eh? you didn’t expect to see me here. Come, shake us by the hand.", "pos": 1106033}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I did not indeed expect to see you in this remote country place.", "pos": 1106499}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Well, it belongs to a stepson of mine. I came to see him here before. I’m not so surprised at seeing you, old fellow, because I picked up a letter—what you may call a providential thing. It’s uncommonly fortunate I met you, though; for I don’t care about seeing my stepson: he’s not affectionate, and his poor mother’s gone now. To tell the truth, I came out of love to you, Nick: I came to get your address, for—look here!", "pos": 1106566}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "I wish you good evening, Mr. Bulstrode; I must be getting home,", "pos": 1107872}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "You didn’t put your full address to this letter. That was not like the first-rate man of business you used to be. ‘The Shrubs,’—they may be anywhere: you live near at hand, eh?—have cut the London concern altogether—perhaps turned country squire—have a rural mansion to invite me to. Lord, how many years it is ago! The old lady must have been dead a pretty long while—gone to glory without the pain of knowing how poor her daughter was, eh? But, by Jove! you’re very pale and pasty, Nick. Come, if you’re going home, I’ll walk by your side.", "pos": 1107957}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I was going home, but I can defer my ride a little. And you can, if you please, rest here.", "pos": 1109231}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Thank you. I don’t care now about seeing my stepson. I’d rather go home with you.", "pos": 1109335}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Your stepson, if Mr. Rigg Featherstone was he, is here no longer. I am master here now.", "pos": 1109453}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Well then, I’ve no objection. I’ve had enough walking from the coach-road. I never was much of a walker, or rider either. What I like is a smart vehicle and a spirited cob. I was always a little heavy in the saddle. What a pleasant surprise it must be to you to see me, old fellow! You don’t say so; but you never took your luck heartily—you were always thinking of improving the occasion—you’d such a gift for improving your luck.", "pos": 1109622}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "If I remember rightly, our acquaintance many years ago had not the sort of intimacy which you are now assuming, Mr. Raffles. Any services you desire of me will be the more readily rendered if you will avoid a tone of familiarity which did not lie in our former intercourse, and can hardly be warranted by more than twenty years of separation.", "pos": 1110262}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "You don’t like being called Nick? Why, I always called you Nick in my heart, and though lost to sight, to memory dear. By Jove! my feelings have ripened for you like fine old cognac. I hope you’ve got some in the house now. Josh filled my flask well the last time.", "pos": 1110651}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Your habits and mine are so different, Mr. Raffles, that we can hardly enjoy each other’s society. The wisest plan for both of us will therefore be to part as soon as possible. Since you say that you wished to meet me, you probably considered that you had some business to transact with me. But under the circumstances I will invite you to remain here for the night, and I will myself ride over here early to-morrow morning—before breakfast, in fact—when I can receive any communication you have to make to me.", "pos": 1111624}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "With all my heart, this is a comfortable place—a little dull for a continuance; but I can put up with it for a night, with this good liquor and the prospect of seeing you again in the morning. You’re a much better host than my stepson was; but Josh owed me a bit of a grudge for marrying his mother; and between you and me there was never anything but kindness.", "pos": 1112137}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "As I have little time to spare, Mr. Raffles. I shall be obliged if you will mention at once the ground on which you wished to meet with me. I presume that you have a home elsewhere and will be glad to return to it.", "pos": 1115697}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Why, if a man has got any heart, doesn’t he want to see an old friend, Nick?—I must call you Nick—we always did call you young Nick when we knew you meant to marry the old widow. Some said you had a handsome family likeness to old Nick, but that was your mother’s fault, calling you Nicholas. Aren’t you glad to see me again? I expected an invite to stay with you at some pretty place. My own establishment is broken up now my wife’s dead. I’ve no particular attachment to any spot; I would as soon settle hereabout as anywhere.", "pos": 1116013}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "May I ask why you returned from America? I considered that the strong wish you expressed to go there, when an adequate sum was furnished, was tantamount to an engagement that you would remain there for life.", "pos": 1116544}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Never knew that a wish to go to a place was the same thing as a wish to stay. But I did stay a matter of ten years; it didn’t suit me to stay any longer. And I’m not going again, Nick.", "pos": 1116754}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Do you wish to be settled in any business? What is your calling now?", "pos": 1117003}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Thank you, my calling is to enjoy myself as much as I can. I don’t care about working any more. If I did anything it would be a little travelling in the tobacco line—or something of that sort, which takes a man into agreeable company. But not without an independence to fall back upon. That’s what I want: I’m not so strong as I was, Nick, though I’ve got more color than you. I want an independence.", "pos": 1117074}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "That could be supplied to you, if you would engage to keep at a distance,", "pos": 1117477}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "That must be as it suits my convenience. I see no reason why I shouldn’t make a few acquaintances hereabout. I’m not ashamed of myself as company for anybody. I dropped my portmanteau at the turnpike when I got down—change of linen—genuine—honor bright—more than fronts and wristbands; and with this suit of mourning, straps and everything, I should do you credit among the nobs here.", "pos": 1117632}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "If you intend to rely on me in any way, Mr. Raffles, you will expect to meet my wishes.", "pos": 1118362}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Ah, to be sure. Didn’t I always do it? Lord, you made a pretty thing out of me, and I got but little. I’ve often thought since, I might have done better by telling the old woman that I’d found her daughter and her grandchild: it would have suited my feelings better; I’ve got a soft place in my heart. But you’ve buried the old lady by this time, I suppose—it’s all one to her now. And you’ve got your fortune out of that profitable business which had such a blessing on it. You’ve taken to being a nob, buying land, being a country bashaw. Still in the Dissenting line, eh? Still godly? Or taken to the Church as more genteel?", "pos": 1118537}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "I’ve not had such fine luck as you, by Jove! Things went confoundedly with me in New York; those Yankees are cool hands, and a man of gentlemanly feelings has no chance with them. I married when I came back—a nice woman in the tobacco trade—very fond of me—but the trade was restricted, as we say. She had been settled there a good many years by a friend; but there was a son too much in the case. Josh and I never hit it off. However, I made the most of the position, and I’ve always taken my glass in good company. It’s been all on the square with me; I’m as open as the day. You won’t take it ill of me that I didn’t look you up before. I’ve got a complaint that makes me a little dilatory. I thought you were trading and praying away in London still, and didn’t find you there. But you see I was sent to you, Nick—perhaps for a blessing to both of us.", "pos": 1120093}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "You will do well to reflect, Mr. Raffles, that it is possible for a man to overreach himself in the effort to secure undue advantage. Although I am not in any way bound to you, I am willing to supply you with a regular annuity—in quarterly payments—so long as you fulfil a promise to remain at a distance from this neighborhood. It is in your power to choose. If you insist on remaining here, even for a short time, you will get nothing from me. I shall decline to know you.", "pos": 1121411}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Ha, ha! that reminds me of a droll dog of a thief who declined to know the constable.", "pos": 1121932}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Your allusions are lost on me sir; the law has no hold on me either through your agency or any other.", "pos": 1122020}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "You can’t understand a joke, my good fellow. I only meant that I should never decline to know you. But let us be serious. Your quarterly payment won’t quite suit me. I like my freedom. I’ll tell you what! Give us a couple of hundreds—come, that’s modest—and I’ll go away—honor bright!—pick up my portmanteau and go away. But I shall not give up my liberty for a dirty annuity. I shall come and go where I like. Perhaps it may suit me to stay away, and correspond with a friend; perhaps not. Have you the money with you?", "pos": 1122159}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "No, I have one hundred. I will forward you the other if you will mention an address.", "pos": 1122982}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "No, I’ll wait here till you bring it. I’ll take a stroll and have a snack, and you’ll be back by that time. I did have another look after Sarah again, though I didn’t tell you; I’d a tender conscience about that pretty young woman. I didn’t find her, but I found out her husband’s name, and I made a note of it. But hang it, I lost my pocketbook. However, if I heard it, I should know it again. I’ve got my faculties as if I was in my prime, but names wear out, by Jove! Sometimes I’m no better than a confounded tax-paper before the names are filled in. However, if I hear of her and her family, you shall know, Nick. You’d like to do something for her, now she’s your step-daughter.", "pos": 1123069}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Doubtless,", "pos": 1124137}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "But what the deuce was the name? It began with L; it was almost all l’s I fancy,", "pos": 1124515}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Ladislaw!", "pos": 1125517}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Dodo is just the creature not to mind about having anything of her own—children or anything! And if she had had a baby, it never could have been such a dear as Arthur. Could it, James?", "pos": 1128109}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Not if it had been like Casaubon,", "pos": 1128324}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "No! just imagine! Really it was a mercy, and I think it is very nice for Dodo to be a widow. She can be just as fond of our baby as if it were her own, and she can have as many notions of her own as she likes.", "pos": 1128505}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "It is a pity she was not a queen,", "pos": 1128731}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "But what should we have been then? We must have been something else. I like her better as she is. What will you do at Lowick, Dodo? You say yourself there is nothing to be done there: everybody is so clean and well off, it makes you quite melancholy. And here you have been so happy going all about Tipton with Mr. Garth into the worst backyards. And now uncle is abroad, you and Mr. Garth can have it all your own way; and I am sure James does everything you tell him.", "pos": 1128794}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I shall often come here, and I shall see how baby grows all the better,", "pos": 1129539}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "But you will never see him washed, and that is quite the best part of the day.", "pos": 1129628}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Dear Kitty, I will come and stay all night on purpose; but I want to be alone now, and in my own home. I wish to know the Farebrothers better, and to talk to Mr. Farebrother about what there is to be done in Middlemarch.", "pos": 1129830}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "You will certainly go mad in that house alone, my dear. You will see visions. We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by. To be sure, for younger sons and women who have no money, it is a sort of provision to go mad: they are taken care of then. But you must not run into that. I dare say you are a little bored here with our good dowager; but think what a bore you might become yourself to your fellow-creatures if you were always playing tragedy queen and taking things sublimely. Sitting alone in that library at Lowick you may fancy yourself ruling the weather; you must get a few people round you who wouldn’t believe you if you told them. That is a good lowering medicine.", "pos": 1131033}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I never called everything by the same name that all the people about me did,", "pos": 1131792}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "But I suppose you have found out your mistake, my dear,", "pos": 1131895}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, I still think that the greater part of the world is mistaken about many things. Surely one may be sane and yet think so, since the greater part of the world has often had to come round from its opinion.", "pos": 1132079}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "It will be well for her to marry again as soon as it is proper, if one could get her among the right people. Of course the Chettams would not wish it. But I see clearly a husband is the best thing to keep her in order. If we were not so poor I would invite Lord Triton. He will be marquis some day, and there is no denying that she would make a good marchioness: she looks handsomer than ever in her mourning.", "pos": 1132378}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "My dear Elinor, do let the poor woman alone. Such contrivances are of no use,", "pos": 1132790}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "No use? How are matches made, except by bringing men and women together? And it is a shame that her uncle should have run away and shut up the Grange just now. There ought to be plenty of eligible matches invited to Freshitt and the Grange. Lord Triton is precisely the man: full of plans for making the people happy in a soft-headed sort of way. That would just suit Mrs. Casaubon.", "pos": 1132892}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Let Mrs. Casaubon choose for herself, Elinor.", "pos": 1133277}
{"speaker": "Elinor", "text": "That is the nonsense you wise men talk! How can she choose if she has no variety to choose from? A woman’s choice usually means taking the only man she can get. Mark my words, Humphrey. If her friends don’t exert themselves, there will be a worse business than the Casaubon business yet.", "pos": 1133324}
{"speaker": "Humphrey", "text": "For heaven’s sake don’t touch on that topic, Elinor! It is a very sore point with Sir James. He would be deeply offended if you entered on it to him unnecessarily.", "pos": 1133614}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "I have never entered on it. Celia told me all about the will at the beginning, without any asking of mine.", "pos": 1133780}
{"speaker": "Humphrey", "text": "Yes, yes; but they want the thing hushed up, and I understand that the young fellow is going out of the neighborhood.", "pos": 1133932}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I could not use it. Do you not see now that I could not submit my soul to yours, by working hopelessly at what I have no belief in—Dorothea?", "pos": 1135344}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Probably some of Mr. Farebrother’s Middlemarch hearers may follow him to Lowick sometimes. Do you not think so?", "pos": 1137198}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "If they are wise they will, Mrs. Casaubon. I see that you set a right value on my son’s preaching. His grandfather on my side was an excellent clergyman, but his father was in the law:—most exemplary and honest nevertheless, which is a reason for our never being rich. They say Fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman and gives to those who merit, which has been the case with you, Mrs. Casaubon, who have given a living to my son.", "pos": 1137403}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I do wish it", "pos": 1138531}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I will see him. Let him be shown into the drawing-room.", "pos": 1139757}
{"speaker": "Pratt", "text": "Glad to see you here again, sir,", "pos": 1140475}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I am only come to say good-by, Pratt,", "pos": 1140551}
{"speaker": "Pratt", "text": "Very sorry to hear it, sir,", "pos": 1140713}
{"speaker": "Tantripp", "text": "Your master was as jealous as a fiend—and no reason. Madam would look higher than Mr. Ladislaw, else I don’t know her. Mrs. Cadwallader’s maid says there’s a lord coming who is to marry her when the mourning’s over.", "pos": 1140970}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I hope I have not presumed too much in calling. I could not bear to leave the neighborhood and begin a new life without seeing you to say good-by.", "pos": 1142289}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Presumed? Surely not. I should have thought it unkind if you had not wished to see me. Are you going away immediately?", "pos": 1142451}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Very soon, I think. I intend to go to town and eat my dinners as a barrister, since, they say, that is the preparation for all public business. There will be a great deal of political work to be done by-and-by, and I mean to try and do some of it. Other men have managed to win an honorable position for themselves without family or money.", "pos": 1142696}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "And that will make it all the more honorable. Besides, you have so many talents. I have heard from my uncle how well you speak in public, so that every one is sorry when you leave off, and how clearly you can explain things. And you care that justice should be done to every one. I am so glad. When we were in Rome, I thought you only cared for poetry and art, and the things that adorn life for us who are well off. But now I know you think about the rest of the world.", "pos": 1143038}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "You approve of my going away for years, then, and never coming here again till I have made myself of some mark in the world?", "pos": 1143715}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes, it must be right for you to do as you say. I shall be very happy when I hear that you have made your value felt. But you must have patience. It will perhaps be a long while.", "pos": 1144964}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I shall never hear from you. And you will forget all about me.", "pos": 1145444}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No. I shall never forget you. I have never forgotten any one whom I once knew. My life has never been crowded, and seems not likely to be so. And I have a great deal of space for memory at Lowick, haven’t I?", "pos": 1145509}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Good God!", "pos": 1145748}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I wonder whether you would like to have that miniature which hangs up-stairs—I mean that beautiful miniature of your grandmother. I think it is not right for me to keep it, if you would wish to have it. It is wonderfully like you.", "pos": 1147016}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "You are very good. No; I don’t mind about it. It is not very consoling to have one’s own likeness. It would be more consoling if others wanted to have it.", "pos": 1147249}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I thought you would like to cherish her memory—I thought— you would surely like to have the miniature as a family memorial.", "pos": 1147430}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Why should I have that, when I have nothing else! A man with only a portmanteau for his stowage must keep his memorials in his head.", "pos": 1147657}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You are much the happier of us two, Mr. Ladislaw, to have nothing.", "pos": 1148071}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I never felt it a misfortune to have nothing till now. But poverty may be as bad as leprosy, if it divides us from what we most care for.", "pos": 1148642}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Sorrow comes in so many ways. Two years ago I had no notion of that—I mean of the unexpected way in which trouble comes, and ties our hands, and makes us silent when we long to speak. I used to despise women a little for not shaping their lives more, and doing better things. I was very fond of doing as I liked, but I have almost given it up,", "pos": 1148893}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I have not given up doing as I like, but I can very seldom do it. The thing one most longs for may be surrounded with conditions that would be intolerable.", "pos": 1149269}
{"speaker": "Pratt", "text": "Sir James Chettam is in the library, madam.", "pos": 1149695}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Ask Sir James to come in here,", "pos": 1149741}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I must say good-by, Mrs. Casaubon; and probably for a long while.", "pos": 1150138}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "How is Celia?", "pos": 1150519}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Dear Dodo, do throw off that cap. I am sure your dress must make you feel ill.", "pos": 1155005}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am so used to the cap—it has become a sort of shell. I feel rather bare and exposed when it is off.", "pos": 1155086}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I must see you without it; it makes us all warm,", "pos": 1155216}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Ah!", "pos": 1155615}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "It was I who did it, James. Dodo need not make such a slavery of her mourning; she need not wear that cap any more among her friends.", "pos": 1155648}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "My dear Celia, a widow must wear her mourning at least a year.", "pos": 1155798}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Not if she marries again before the end of it,", "pos": 1155884}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "That is very rare, I hope. No friend of ours ever committed herself in that way except Mrs. Beevor, and it was very painful to Lord Grinsell when she did so. Her first husband was objectionable, which made it the greater wonder. And severely she was punished for it. They said Captain Beevor dragged her about by the hair, and held up loaded pistols at her.", "pos": 1156096}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Oh, if she took the wrong man! Marriage is always bad then, first or second. Priority is a poor recommendation in a husband if he has got no other. I would rather have a good second husband than an indifferent first.", "pos": 1156526}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "My dear, your clever tongue runs away with you. I am sure you would be the last woman to marry again prematurely, if our dear Rector were taken away.", "pos": 1156806}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Oh, I make no vows; it might be a necessary economy. It is lawful to marry again, I suppose; else we might as well be Hindoos instead of Christians. Of course if a woman accepts the wrong man, she must take the consequences, and one who does it twice over deserves her fate. But if she can marry blood, beauty, and bravery—the sooner the better.", "pos": 1156979}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I think the subject of our conversation is very ill-chosen. Suppose we change it.", "pos": 1157327}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Not on my account, Sir James. If you are speaking on my behalf, I can assure you that no question can be more indifferent and impersonal to me than second marriage. It is no more to me than if you talked of women going fox-hunting: whether it is admirable in them or not, I shall not follow them. Pray let Mrs. Cadwallader amuse herself on that subject as much as on any other.", "pos": 1157453}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "you do not, I hope, think there was any allusion to you in my mentioning Mrs. Beevor. It was only an instance that occurred to me. She was step-daughter to Lord Grinsell: he married Mrs. Teveroy for his second wife. There could be no possible allusion to you.", "pos": 1158029}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Nobody chose the subject; it all came out of Dodo’s cap. Mrs. Cadwallader only said what was quite true. A woman could not be married in a widow’s cap, James.", "pos": 1158312}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "I will not offend again. I will not even refer to Dido or Zenobia. Only what are we to talk about? I, for my part, object to the discussion of Human Nature, because that is the nature of rectors’ wives.", "pos": 1158513}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Really, Dodo, taking your cap off made you like yourself again in more ways than one. You spoke up just as you used to do, when anything was said to displease you. But I could hardly make out whether it was James that you thought wrong, or Mrs. Cadwallader.", "pos": 1158807}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Neither. James spoke out of delicacy to me, but he was mistaken in supposing that I minded what Mrs. Cadwallader said. I should only mind if there were a law obliging me to take any piece of blood and beauty that she or anybody else recommended.", "pos": 1159067}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "But you know, Dodo, if you ever did marry, it would be all the better to have blood and beauty,", "pos": 1159332}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Don’t be anxious, Kitty; I have quite other thoughts about my life. I shall never marry again,", "pos": 1159572}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Really—quite? Not anybody at all—if he were very wonderful indeed?", "pos": 1159833}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Not anybody at all. I have delightful plans. I should like to take a great deal of land, and drain it, and make a little colony, where everybody should work, and all the work should be done well. I should know every one of the people and be their friend. I am going to have great consultations with Mr. Garth: he can tell me almost everything I want to know.", "pos": 1159948}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Then you will be happy, if you have a plan, Dodo? Perhaps little Arthur will like plans when he grows up, and then he can help you.", "pos": 1160309}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Most uncommon! She said a thing I often used to think myself when I was a lad:—‘Mr. Garth, I should like to feel, if I lived to be old, that I had improved a great piece of land and built a great many good cottages, because the work is of a healthy kind while it is being done, and after it is done, men are the better for it.’ Those were the very words: she sees into things in that way.", "pos": 1162049}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "But womanly, I hope,", "pos": 1162458}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Oh, you can’t think! You would like to hear her speak, Susan. She speaks in such plain words, and a voice like music. Bless me! it reminds me of bits in the ‘Messiah’—‘and straightway there appeared a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying;’ it has a tone with it that satisfies your ear.", "pos": 1162585}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "The cows will all cast their calves, brother, if the railway comes across the Near Close; and I shouldn’t wonder at the mare too, if she was in foal. It’s a poor tale if a widow’s property is to be spaded away, and the law say nothing to it. What’s to hinder ’em from cutting right and left if they begin? It’s well known, I can’t fight.", "pos": 1165284}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "The best way would be to say nothing, and set somebody on to send ’em away with a flea in their ear, when they came spying and measuring. Folks did that about Brassing, by what I can understand. It’s all a pretence, if the truth was known, about their being forced to take one way. Let ’em go cutting in another parish. And I don’t believe in any pay to make amends for bringing a lot of ruffians to trample your crops. Where’s a company’s pocket?", "pos": 1165673}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Waule", "text": "Brother Peter, God forgive him, got money out of a company. But that was for the manganese. That wasn’t for railways to blow you to pieces right and left.", "pos": 1166139}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "Well, there’s this to be said, Jane, the more spokes we put in their wheel, the more they’ll pay us to let ’em go on, if they must come whether or not.", "pos": 1166315}
{"speaker": "Hiram", "text": "Why, there’ll be no stirrin’ from one pla-ace to another,", "pos": 1169817}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "Not a bit. And cutting up fine land such as this parish! Let ’em go into Tipton, say I. But there’s no knowing what there is at the bottom of it. Traffic is what they put for’ard; but it’s to do harm to the land and the poor man in the long-run.", "pos": 1169923}
{"speaker": "Hiram", "text": "Why, they’re Lunnon chaps, I reckon,", "pos": 1170191}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "Ay, to be sure. And in some parts against Brassing, by what I’ve heard say, the folks fell on ’em when they were spying, and broke their peep-holes as they carry, and drove ’em away, so as they knew better than come again.", "pos": 1170314}
{"speaker": "Hiram", "text": "It war good foon, I’d be bound,", "pos": 1170539}
{"speaker": "Solomon", "text": "Well, I wouldn’t meddle with ’em myself. But some say this country’s seen its best days, and the sign is, as it’s being overrun with these fellows trampling right and left, and wanting to cut it up into railways; and all for the big traffic to swallow up the little, so as there shan’t be a team left on the land, nor a whip to crack.", "pos": 1170633}
{"speaker": "Hiram", "text": "I’ll crack my whip about their ear’n, afore they bring it to that, though,", "pos": 1170986}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "What do you confounded fools mean? I’ll swear to every one of you before the magistrate. You’ve knocked the lad down and killed him, for what I know. You’ll every one of you be hanged at the next assizes, if you don’t mind,", "pos": 1174631}
{"speaker": "Hiram Ford", "text": "Yo’re a coward, yo are. Yo git off your horse, young measter, and I’ll have a round wi’ ye, I wull. Yo daredn’t come on wi’out your hoss an’ whip. I’d soon knock the breath out on ye, I would.", "pos": 1175275}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Wait a minute, and I’ll come back presently, and have a round with you all in turn, if you like. Let them put the horse in the stable, and tell the surveyors they can come back for their traps. The ground is clear now.", "pos": 1175470}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "No, no, here’s a breakage. They’ll have to give up for to-day, and it will be as well. Here, take the things before you on the horse, Tom. They’ll see you coming, and they’ll turn back.", "pos": 1176051}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I’m glad I happened to be here at the right moment, Mr. Garth. No knowing what might have happened if the cavalry had not come up in time.", "pos": 1176253}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Ay, ay, it was lucky. But—deuce take it—this is what comes of men being fools—I’m hindered of my day’s work. I can’t get along without somebody to help me with the measuring-chain. However! What have you got to do to-day, young fellow?", "pos": 1176425}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Nothing, Mr. Garth. I’ll help you with pleasure—can I?", "pos": 1176945}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Well, you mustn’t mind stooping and getting hot.", "pos": 1177090}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I don’t mind anything. Only I want to go first and have a round with that hulky fellow who turned to challenge me. It would be a good lesson for him. I shall not be five minutes.", "pos": 1177141}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Nonsense! I shall go and speak to the men myself. It’s all ignorance. Somebody has been telling them lies. The poor fools don’t know any better.", "pos": 1177322}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I shall go with you, then,", "pos": 1177520}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "No, no; stay where you are. I don’t want your young blood. I can take care of myself.", "pos": 1177560}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Why, my lads, how’s this? How came you to make such a mistake as this? Somebody has been telling you lies. You thought those men up there wanted to do mischief.", "pos": 1178618}
{"speaker": "Laborers", "text": "Aw!", "pos": 1178986}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Nonsense! No such thing! They’re looking out to see which way the railroad is to take. Now, my lads, you can’t hinder the railroad: it will be made whether you like it or not. And if you go fighting against it, you’ll get yourselves into trouble. The law gives those men leave to come here on the land. The owner has nothing to say against it, and if you meddle with them you’ll have to do with the constable and Justice Blakesley, and with the handcuffs and Middlemarch jail. And you might be in for it now, if anybody informed against you. But come, you didn’t mean any harm. Somebody told you the railroad was a bad thing. That was a lie. It may do a bit of harm here and there, to this and to that; and so does the sun in heaven. But the railway’s a good thing.", "pos": 1179077}
{"speaker": "Timothy Cooper", "text": "Aw! good for the big folks to make money out on. I’n seen lots o’ things turn up sin’ I war a young un—the war an’ the peace, and the canells, an’ the oald King George, an’ the Regen’, an’ the new King George, an’ the new un as has got a new ne-ame—an’ it’s been all aloike to the poor mon. What’s the canells been t’ him? They’n brought him neyther me-at nor be-acon, nor wage to lay by, if he didn’t save it wi’ clemmin’ his own inside. Times ha’ got wusser for him sin’ I war a young un. An’ so it’ll be wi’ the railroads. They’ll on’y leave the poor mon furder behind. But them are fools as meddle, and so I told the chaps here. This is the big folks’s world, this is. But yo’re for the big folks, Muster Garth, yo are.", "pos": 1179976}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "If you don’t think well of me, Tim, never mind; that’s neither here nor there now. Things may be bad for the poor man—bad they are; but I want the lads here not to do what will make things worse for themselves. The cattle may have a heavy load, but it won’t help ’em to throw it over into the roadside pit, when it’s partly their own fodder.", "pos": 1181673}
{"speaker": "Hiram Ford", "text": "We war on’y for a bit o’ foon. That war all we war arter.", "pos": 1182017}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Well, promise me not to meddle again, and I’ll see that nobody informs against you.", "pos": 1182130}
{"speaker": "Timothy Cooper", "text": "I’n ne’er meddled, an’ I’n no call to promise,", "pos": 1182216}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "No, but the rest. Come, I’m as hard at work as any of you to-day, and I can’t spare much time. Say you’ll be quiet without the constable.", "pos": 1182279}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Aw, we wooant meddle—they may do as they loike for oos", "pos": 1182419}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "A young fellow needn’t be a B. A. to do this sort of work, eh, Fred?", "pos": 1183487}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I wish I had taken to it before I had thought of being a B. A. Do you think I am too old to learn your business, Mr. Garth?", "pos": 1183558}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "My business is of many sorts, my boy. A good deal of what I know can only come from experience: you can’t learn it off as you learn things out of a book. But you are young enough to lay a foundation yet.", "pos": 1183753}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "You do think I could do some good at it, if I were to try?", "pos": 1184159}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "That depends. You must be sure of two things: you must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There’s this and there’s that—if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is—I wouldn’t give twopence for him whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn’t do well what he undertook to do.", "pos": 1184245}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I can never feel that I should do that in being a clergyman,", "pos": 1185075}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Then let it alone, my boy, else you’ll never be easy. Or, if you are easy, you’ll be a poor stick.", "pos": 1185185}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "That is very nearly what Mary thinks about it. I think you must know what I feel for Mary, Mr. Garth: I hope it does not displease you that I have always loved her better than any one else, and that I shall never love any one as I love her.", "pos": 1185310}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "That makes things more serious, Fred, if you want to take Mary’s happiness into your keeping.", "pos": 1185702}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I know that, Mr. Garth, and I would do anything for her. She says she will never have me if I go into the Church; and I shall be the most miserable devil in the world if I lose all hope of Mary. Really, if I could get some other profession, business—anything that I am at all fit for, I would work hard, I would deserve your good opinion. I should like to have to do with outdoor things. I know a good deal about land and cattle already. I used to believe, you know—though you will think me rather foolish for it—that I should have land of my own. I am sure knowledge of that sort would come easily to me, especially if I could be under you in any way.", "pos": 1185798}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Softly, my boy. What have you said to your father about all this?", "pos": 1186475}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Nothing, yet; but I must tell him. I am only waiting to know what I can do instead of entering the Church. I am very sorry to disappoint him, but a man ought to be allowed to judge for himself when he is four-and-twenty. How could I know when I was fifteen, what it would be right for me to do now? My education was a mistake.", "pos": 1186602}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "But hearken to this, Fred. Are you sure Mary is fond of you, or would ever have you?", "pos": 1186931}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I asked Mr. Farebrother to talk to her, because she had forbidden me—I didn’t know what else to do. And he says that I have every reason to hope, if I can put myself in an honorable position—I mean, out of the Church. I dare say you think it unwarrantable in me, Mr. Garth, to be troubling you and obtruding my own wishes about Mary, before I have done anything at all for myself. Of course I have not the least claim—indeed, I have already a debt to you which will never be discharged, even when I have been able to pay it in the shape of money.", "pos": 1187032}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Yes, my boy, you have a claim. The young ones have always a claim on the old to help them forward. I was young myself once and had to do without much help; but help would have been welcome to me, if it had been only for the fellow-feeling’s sake. But I must consider. Come to me to-morrow at the office, at nine o’clock. At the office, mind.", "pos": 1187610}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "It is come round as I thought, Susan. The children are fond of each other—I mean, Fred and Mary. After we’d done our work, Fred poured it all out to me. He can’t bear to be a clergyman, and Mary says she won’t have him if he is one; and the lad would like to be under me and give his mind to business. And I’ve determined to take him and make a man of him.", "pos": 1188992}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Caleb!", "pos": 1189634}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "It’s a fine thing to do. I shall have trouble with him, but I think I shall carry it through. The lad loves Mary, and a true love for a good woman is a great thing, Susan. It shapes many a rough fellow.", "pos": 1189718}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Has Mary spoken to you on the subject?", "pos": 1190021}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Not a word. I asked her about Fred once; I gave her a bit of a warning. But she assured me she would never marry an idle self-indulgent man—nothing since. But it seems Fred set on Mr. Farebrother to talk to her, because she had forbidden him to speak himself, and Mr. Farebrother has found out that she is fond of Fred, but says he must not be a clergyman. Fred’s heart is fixed on Mary, that I can see: it gives me a good opinion of the lad—and we always liked him, Susan.", "pos": 1190144}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "It is a pity for Mary, I think,", "pos": 1190620}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Why—a pity?", "pos": 1190671}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Because, Caleb, she might have had a man who is worth twenty Fred Vincy’s.", "pos": 1190685}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Ah?", "pos": 1190762}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "I firmly believe that Mr. Farebrother is attached to her, and meant to make her an offer; but of course, now that Fred has used him as an envoy, there is an end to that better prospect.", "pos": 1190795}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "That would have made me very proud and happy, Susan, and I should have been glad for your sake. I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you. But you took me, though I was a plain man.", "pos": 1191299}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "I took the best and cleverest man I had ever known,", "pos": 1191515}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Well, perhaps others thought you might have done better. But it would have been worse for me. And that is what touches me close about Fred. The lad is good at bottom, and clever enough to do, if he’s put in the right way; and he loves and honors my daughter beyond anything, and she has given him a sort of promise according to what he turns out. I say, that young man’s soul is in my hand; and I’ll do the best I can for him, so help me God! It’s my duty, Susan.", "pos": 1191665}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Few men besides you would think it a duty to add to their anxieties in that way, Caleb.", "pos": 1192382}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "That signifies nothing—what other men would think. I’ve got a clear feeling inside me, and that I shall follow; and I hope your heart will go with me, Susan, in making everything as light as can be to Mary, poor child. God bless you, Caleb! Our children have a good father. Now Fred, you will have some desk-work. I have always done a good deal of writing myself, but I can’t do without help, and as I want you to understand the accounts and get the values into your head, I mean to do without another clerk. So you must buckle to. How are you at writing and arithmetic?", "pos": 1192472}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I’m not afraid of arithmetic, Mr. Garth: it always came easily to me. I think you know my writing.", "pos": 1193717}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Let us see. Copy me a line or two of that valuation, with the figures at the end.", "pos": 1193818}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "The deuce! To think that this is a country where a man’s education may cost hundreds and hundreds, and it turns you out this! The Lord have mercy on us, Fred, I can’t put up with this!", "pos": 1194780}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "What can I do, Mr. Garth?", "pos": 1195092}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Do? Why, you must learn to form your letters and keep the line. What’s the use of writing at all if nobody can understand it? Is there so little business in the world that you must be sending puzzles over the country? But that’s the way people are brought up. I should lose no end of time with the letters some people send me, if Susan did not make them out for me. It’s disgusting.", "pos": 1195281}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I am very sorry,", "pos": 1196631}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "We must make the best of it, Fred. Every man can learn to write. I taught myself. Go at it with a will, and sit up at night if the day-time isn’t enough. We’ll be patient, my boy. Callum shall go on with the books for a bit, while you are learning. But now I must be off. You must let your father know our agreement. You’ll save me Callum’s salary, you know, when you can write; and I can afford to give you eighty pounds for the first year, and more after.", "pos": 1196728}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "So you’ve made up your mind at last, sir?", "pos": 1198599}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Yes, father.", "pos": 1198643}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Very well; stick to it. I’ve no more to say. You’ve thrown away your education, and gone down a step in life, when I had given you the means of rising, that’s all.", "pos": 1198658}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I am very sorry that we differ, father. I think I can be quite as much of a gentleman at the work I have undertaken, as if I had been a curate. But I am grateful to you for wishing to do the best for me.", "pos": 1198824}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Very well; I have no more to say. I wash my hands of you. I only hope, when you have a son of your own he will make a better return for the pains you spend on him.", "pos": 1199030}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I hope you will not object to my remaining at home, sir? I shall have a sufficient salary to pay for my board, as of course I should wish to do.", "pos": 1199629}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Board be hanged! Of course your mother will want you to stay. But I shall keep no horse for you, you understand; and you will pay your own tailor. You will do with a suit or two less, I fancy, when you have to pay for ’em.", "pos": 1199807}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I hope you will shake hands with me, father, and forgive me the vexation I have caused you.", "pos": 1200215}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Yes, yes, let us say no more.", "pos": 1200446}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Come, Lucy, my dear, don’t be so down-hearted. You always have spoiled the boy, and you must go on spoiling him.", "pos": 1201803}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Nothing ever did cut me so before, Vincy, only his illness.", "pos": 1201918}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Pooh, pooh, never mind! We must expect to have trouble with our children. Don’t make it worse by letting me see you out of spirits.", "pos": 1202050}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Well, I won’t,", "pos": 1202184}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "It won’t do to begin making a fuss about one. There’s Rosamond as well as Fred.", "pos": 1202332}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Yes, poor thing. I’m sure I felt for her being disappointed of her baby; but she got over it nicely.", "pos": 1202498}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Baby, pooh! I can see Lydgate is making a mess of his practice, and getting into debt too, by what I hear. I shall have Rosamond coming to me with a pretty tale one of these days. But they’ll get no money from me, I know. Let his family help him. I never did like that marriage. But it’s no use talking. Ring the bell for lemons, and don’t look dull any more, Lucy. I’ll drive you and Louisa to Riverston to-morrow.", "pos": 1202600}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "Take me!", "pos": 1206041}
{"speaker": "Letty", "text": "Oh, and me too,", "pos": 1206052}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "You can’t keep up with Fred and me,", "pos": 1206082}
{"speaker": "Letty", "text": "Yes, I can. Mother, please say that I am to go,", "pos": 1206130}
{"speaker": "Jim", "text": "I shall stay with Christy,", "pos": 1206268}
{"speaker": "Christy", "text": "Let us all go and see Mary,", "pos": 1206482}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "No, my dear child, we must not go in a swarm to the parsonage. And that old Glasgow suit of yours would never do. Besides, your father will come home. We must let Fred go alone. He can tell Mary that you are here, and she will come back to-morrow. Children, run away, it is too warm to hang about your friends. Take your brother and show him the rabbits.", "pos": 1206544}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "How glad you must be to have Christy here!", "pos": 1207382}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Yes; he has come sooner than I expected. He got down from the coach at nine o’clock, just after his father went out. I am longing for Caleb to come and hear what wonderful progress Christy is making. He has paid his expenses for the last year by giving lessons, carrying on hard study at the same time. He hopes soon to get a private tutorship and go abroad.", "pos": 1207427}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "He is a great fellow, and no trouble to anybody. But I fear you will think that I am going to be a great deal of trouble to Mr. Garth.", "pos": 1207788}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Caleb likes taking trouble: he is one of those men who always do more than any one would have thought of asking them to do,", "pos": 1208025}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I know you think me very undeserving, Mrs. Garth, and with good reason. I happen to have behaved just the worst to the people I can’t help wishing for the most from. But while two men like Mr. Garth and Mr. Farebrother have not given me up, I don’t see why I should give myself up.", "pos": 1208436}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Assuredly. A young man for whom two such elders had devoted themselves would indeed be culpable if he threw himself away and made their sacrifices vain.", "pos": 1208907}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I hope it will not be so with me, Mrs. Garth, since I have some encouragement to believe that I may win Mary. Mr. Garth has told you about that? You were not surprised, I dare say?", "pos": 1209162}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Not surprised that Mary has given you encouragement? Yes, I confess I was surprised.", "pos": 1209427}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "She never did give me any—not the least in the world, when I talked to her myself. But when I asked Mr. Farebrother to speak for me, she allowed him to tell me there was a hope.", "pos": 1209707}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "You made a great mistake, Fred, in asking Mr. Farebrother to speak for you.", "pos": 1210513}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Did I? Mr. Farebrother has always been such a friend of ours; and Mary, I knew, would listen to him gravely; and he took it on himself quite readily.", "pos": 1210591}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Yes, young people are usually blind to everything but their own wishes, and seldom imagine how much those wishes cost others,", "pos": 1210878}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I cannot conceive how it could be any pain to Mr. Farebrother,", "pos": 1211195}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "Precisely; you cannot conceive,", "pos": 1211356}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Do you mean to say, Mrs. Garth, that Mr. Farebrother is in love with Mary?", "pos": 1211573}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "And if it were so, Fred, I think you are the last person who ought to be surprised,", "pos": 1211650}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Then you think I am standing in his way, and in Mary’s too? Mr. Garth seemed pleased that Mary should be attached to me. He could not have known anything of this.", "pos": 1212086}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "I spoke from inference only. I am not aware that Mary knows anything of the matter.", "pos": 1212858}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "God bless you", "pos": 1214007}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I am so glad,", "pos": 1216769}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "You don’t mean, my dear Miss Garth, that you are glad to hear of a young man giving up the Church for which he was educated: you only mean that things being so, you are glad that he should be under an excellent man like your father.", "pos": 1216924}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "No, really, Mrs. Farebrother, I am glad of both, I fear. I have a dreadfully secular mind. I never liked any clergyman except the Vicar of Wakefield and Mr. Farebrother.", "pos": 1217159}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "Now why, my dear? You have always a good reason for your opinions, but this astonishes me. Of course I put out of the question those who preach new doctrine. But why should you dislike clergymen?", "pos": 1217389}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Oh dear. I don’t like their neckcloths.", "pos": 1217678}
{"speaker": "Miss Winifred", "text": "Why, you don’t like Camden’s, then,", "pos": 1217802}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Yes, I do. I don’t like the other clergymen’s neckcloths, because it is they who wear them.", "pos": 1217877}
{"speaker": "Miss Noble", "text": "How very puzzling!", "pos": 1217984}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "My dear, you are joking. You would have better reasons than these for slighting so respectable a class of men,", "pos": 1218077}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Miss Garth has such severe notions of what people should be that it is difficult to satisfy her,", "pos": 1218227}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "Well, I am glad at least that she makes an exception in favor of my son,", "pos": 1218337}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "That is right; Fred, help me to carry these drawers back into my study—you have never seen my fine new study. Pray come too, Miss Garth. I want you to see a stupendous spider I found this morning.", "pos": 1218609}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Wait here a minute or two. I am going to look out an engraving which Fred is tall enough to hang for me. I shall be back in a few minutes.", "pos": 1219836}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "It is of no use, whatever I do, Mary. You are sure to marry Farebrother at last.", "pos": 1220051}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "What do you mean, Fred?", "pos": 1220167}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "It is impossible that you should not see it all clearly enough—you who see everything.", "pos": 1220287}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I only see that you are behaving very ill, Fred, in speaking so of Mr. Farebrother after he has pleaded your cause in every way. How can you have taken up such an idea?", "pos": 1220375}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "It follows as a matter of course. When you are continually seeing a man who beats me in everything, and whom you set up above everybody, I can have no fair chance.", "pos": 1220693}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "You are very ungrateful, Fred. I wish I had never told Mr. Farebrother that I cared for you in the least.", "pos": 1220873}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "No, I am not ungrateful; I should be the happiest fellow in the world if it were not for this. I told your father everything, and he was very kind; he treated me as if I were his son. I could go at the work with a will, writing and everything, if it were not for this.", "pos": 1220994}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "For this? for what?", "pos": 1221265}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "This dreadful certainty that I shall be bowled out by Farebrother.", "pos": 1221365}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Fred, you are too delightfully ridiculous. If you were not such a charming simpleton, what a temptation this would be to play the wicked coquette, and let you suppose that somebody besides you has made love to me.", "pos": 1221481}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Do you really like me best, Mary?", "pos": 1221783}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I don’t like you at all at this moment. I only said that no mortal ever made love to me besides you. And that is no argument that a very wise man ever will,", "pos": 1221898}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I wish you would tell me that you could not possibly ever think of him,", "pos": 1222136}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Never dare to mention this any more to me, Fred. I don’t know whether it is more stupid or ungenerous in you not to see that Mr. Farebrother has left us together on purpose that we might speak freely. I am disappointed that you should be so blind to his delicate feeling.", "pos": 1222221}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Fred has lost all his other expectations; he must keep this,", "pos": 1223528}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I wish you would talk more to the Captain at dinner, Tertius. You really look so absent sometimes—you seem to be seeing through his head into something behind it, instead of looking at him.", "pos": 1227825}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "My dear Rosy, you don’t expect me to talk much to such a conceited ass as that, I hope. If he got his head broken, I might look at it with interest, not before.", "pos": 1228138}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I cannot conceive why you should speak of your cousin so contemptuously,", "pos": 1228328}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Ask Ladislaw if he doesn’t think your Captain the greatest bore he ever met with. Ladislaw has almost forsaken the house since he came.", "pos": 1228521}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "It is impossible to say what will suit eccentric persons, but in my opinion Captain Lydgate is a thorough gentleman, and I think you ought not, out of respect to Sir Godwin, to treat him with neglect.", "pos": 1228788}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No, dear; but we have had dinners for him. And he comes in and goes out as he likes. He doesn’t want me.", "pos": 1229007}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Still, when he is in the room, you might show him more attention. He may not be a phoenix of cleverness in your sense; his profession is different; but it would be all the better for you to talk a little on his subjects. I think his conversation is quite agreeable. And he is anything but an unprincipled man.", "pos": 1229114}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "The fact is, you would wish me to be a little more like him, Rosy,", "pos": 1229426}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "However, you have come back safely. You will not go again, Rosy; that is understood. If it were the quietest, most familiar horse in the world, there would always be the chance of accident. And you know very well that I wished you to give up riding the roan on that account.", "pos": 1231840}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "But there is the chance of accident indoors, Tertius.", "pos": 1232157}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "My darling, don’t talk nonsense, surely I am the person to judge for you. I think it is enough that I say you are not to go again.", "pos": 1232213}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I wish you would fasten up my plaits, dear,", "pos": 1232677}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I shall tell the Captain that he ought to have known better than offer you his horse,", "pos": 1233286}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I beg you will not do anything of the kind, Tertius. It will be treating me as if I were a child. Promise that you will leave the subject to me.", "pos": 1233401}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Very well,", "pos": 1233697}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Poor, poor darling!", "pos": 1235321}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "How are you, Lydgate?", "pos": 1249571}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Have you dined, Tertius? I expected you much earlier,", "pos": 1249701}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I have dined. I should like some tea, please,", "pos": 1249889}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I shall be off,", "pos": 1250066}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Tea is coming, pray don’t go.", "pos": 1250111}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Yes, Lydgate is bored,", "pos": 1250160}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "There is the more need for you to stay, he will not speak to me all the evening.", "pos": 1250335}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Yes, Rosamond, I shall. I have some serious business to speak to you about.", "pos": 1250474}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "There! you see. I’m going to the meeting about the Mechanics’ Institute. Good-by;", "pos": 1250734}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Would she kill me because I wearied her? It is the way with all women.", "pos": 1251636}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Advise me—think what I can do—he has been all his life laboring and looking forward. He minds about nothing else—and I mind about nothing else.", "pos": 1252417}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Here is your tea, Tertius,", "pos": 1252953}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Dear Rosy, lay down your work and come to sit by me,", "pos": 1253987}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Dear! I am obliged to tell you what will hurt you, Rosy. But there are things which husband and wife must think of together. I dare say it has occurred to you already that I am short of money. I was not able to pay for all the things we had to get before we were married, and there have been expenses since which I have been obliged to meet. The consequence is, there is a large debt at Brassing—three hundred and eighty pounds—which has been pressing on me a good while, and in fact we are getting deeper every day, for people don’t pay me the faster because others want the money. I took pains to keep it from you while you were not well; but now we must think together about it, and you must help me.", "pos": 1254760}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "What can I do, Tertius?", "pos": 1255878}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "It is necessary for you to know, because I have to give security for a time, and a man must come to make an inventory of the furniture.", "pos": 1256563}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Have you not asked papa for money?", "pos": 1256726}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No.", "pos": 1256801}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Then I must ask him!", "pos": 1256807}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No, Rosy. It is too late to do that. The inventory will be begun to-morrow. Remember it is a mere security: it will make no difference: it is a temporary affair. I insist upon it that your father shall not know, unless I choose to tell him,", "pos": 1256929}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Try not to grieve, darling. We must brace ourselves to do what is necessary. It is I who have been in fault: I ought to have seen that I could not afford to live in this way. But many things have told against me in my practice, and it really just now has ebbed to a low point. I may recover it, but in the mean time we must pull up—we must change our way of living. We shall weather it. When I have given this security I shall have time to look about me; and you are so clever that if you turn your mind to managing you will school me into carefulness. I have been a thoughtless rascal about squaring prices—but come, dear, sit down and forgive me.", "pos": 1258157}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Why can you not put off having the inventory made? You can send the men away to-morrow when they come.", "pos": 1259310}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I shall not send them away,", "pos": 1259415}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "If we left Middlemarch? there would of course be a sale, and that would do as well.", "pos": 1259522}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "But we are not going to leave Middlemarch.", "pos": 1259608}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I am sure, Tertius, it would be much better to do so. Why can we not go to London? Or near Durham, where your family is known?", "pos": 1259653}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "We can go nowhere without money, Rosamond.", "pos": 1259782}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Your friends would not wish you to be without money. And surely these odious tradesmen might be made to understand that, and to wait, if you would make proper representations to them.", "pos": 1259827}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "This is idle Rosamond. You must learn to take my judgment on questions you don’t understand. I have made necessary arrangements, and they must be carried out. As to friends, I have no expectations whatever from them, and shall not ask them for anything. We have no time to waste now on unnecessary words, dear. There are some details that I want to consider with you. Dover says he will take a good deal of the plate back again, and any of the jewellery we like. He really behaves very well.", "pos": 1260013}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Are we to go without spoons and forks then?", "pos": 1260717}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Oh no, dear! But look here, here is Dover’s account. See, I have marked a number of articles, which if we returned them would reduce the amount by thirty pounds and more. I have not marked any of the jewellery.", "pos": 1260917}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "It is useless for me to look, Tertius, you will return what you please.", "pos": 1261553}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "This is all the jewellery you ever gave me. You can return what you like of it, and of the plate also. You will not, of course, expect me to stay at home to-morrow. I shall go to papa’s.", "pos": 1262533}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "And when shall you come back again?", "pos": 1262897}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Oh, in the evening. Of course I shall not mention the subject to mamma.", "pos": 1262978}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Now we have been united, Rosy, you should not leave me to myself in the first trouble that has come.", "pos": 1263304}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Certainly not. I shall do everything it becomes me to do.", "pos": 1263407}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "It is not right that the thing should be left to servants, or that I should have to speak to them about it. And I shall be obliged to go out—I don’t know how early. I understand your shrinking from the humiliation of these money affairs. But, my dear Rosamond, as a question of pride, which I feel just as much as you can, it is surely better to manage the thing ourselves, and let the servants see as little of it as possible; and since you are my wife, there is no hindering your share in my disgraces—if there were disgraces.", "pos": 1263484}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Very well, I will stay at home.", "pos": 1264074}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I shall not touch these jewels, Rosy. Take them away again. But I will write out a list of plate that we may return, and that can be packed up and sent at once.", "pos": 1264108}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "The servants will know that,", "pos": 1264271}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Well, we must meet some disagreeables as necessities. Where is the ink, I wonder? Come, darling, let us make the best of things. It will only be for a time, I hope, that we shall have to be stingy and particular. Kiss me.", "pos": 1264354}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Take care you don’t drop the faintest hint to Ladislaw, Rosy. He is likely to fly out as if you insulted him. Of course it is a painful affair.", "pos": 1268317}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I know all about it. I have a confidential little bird. There is a powerful magnet in this neighborhood.", "pos": 1268671}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "To be sure there is. Nobody knows that better than you,", "pos": 1268886}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "It is really the most charming romance: Mr. Casaubon jealous, and foreseeing that there was no one else whom Mrs. Casaubon would so much like to marry, and no one who would so much like to marry her as a certain gentleman; and then laying a plan to spoil all by making her forfeit her property if she did marry that gentleman—and then—and then—and then—oh, I have no doubt the end will be thoroughly romantic.", "pos": 1269012}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Great God! what do you mean? Don’t joke; tell me what you mean.", "pos": 1269424}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "You don’t really know?", "pos": 1269597}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No!", "pos": 1269736}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Don’t know that Mr. Casaubon has left it in his will that if Mrs. Casaubon marries you she is to forfeit all her property?", "pos": 1269768}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "How do you know that it is true?", "pos": 1269893}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "My brother Fred heard it from the Farebrothers. I dare say she likes you better than the property,", "pos": 1269948}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Pray don’t say any more about it. It is a foul insult to her and to me.", "pos": 1270150}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Now you are angry with me. It is too bad to bear me malice. You ought to be obliged to me for telling you.", "pos": 1270366}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "So I am,", "pos": 1270492}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I expect to hear of the marriage,", "pos": 1270611}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Never! You will never hear of the marriage!", "pos": 1270673}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "I am more likely to want help myself.", "pos": 1271633}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "if, attendance at the sale would not interfere with the arrangements for your departure, which I know is imminent.", "pos": 1274865}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "Now, ladies. I shall appeal to you. Here is a fender which at any other sale would hardly be offered with out reserve, being, as I may say, for quality of steel and quaintness of design, a kind of thing that might not fall in with ordinary tastes. Allow me to tell you that by-and-by this style of workmanship will be the only one in vogue—half-a-crown, you said? thank you—going at half-a-crown, this characteristic fender; and I have particular information that the antique style is very much sought after in high quarters. Three shillings—three-and-sixpence—hold it well up, Joseph! Look, ladies, at the chastity of the design—I have no doubt myself that it was turned out in the last century! Four shillings, Mr. Mawmsey?—four shillings.", "pos": 1278994}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Mawmsey", "text": "It’s not a thing I would put in my drawing-room. I wonder at Mrs. Larcher. Every blessed child’s head that fell against it would be cut in two. The edge is like a knife.", "pos": 1279857}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "Quite true, and most uncommonly useful to have a fender at hand that will cut, if you have a leather shoe-tie or a bit of string that wants cutting and no knife at hand: many a man has been left hanging because there was no knife to cut him down. Gentlemen, here’s a fender that if you had the misfortune to hang yourselves would cut you down in no time—with astonishing celerity—four-and-sixpence—five—five-and-sixpence—an appropriate thing for a spare bedroom where there was a four-poster and a guest a little out of his mind—six shillings—thank you, Mr. Clintup—going at six shillings—going—gone! Mr. Clintup. Be handy, Joseph.", "pos": 1280096}
{"speaker": "Mr. Clintup", "text": "It was worth six shillings to have a fender you could always tell that joke on,", "pos": 1280999}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "Now, ladies, this tray contains a very recherchy lot—a collection of trifles for the drawing-room table—and trifles make the sum of human things—nothing more important than trifles—(yes, Mr. Ladislaw, yes, by-and-by)—but pass the tray round, Joseph—these bijoux must be examined, ladies. This I have in my hand is an ingenious contrivance—a sort of practical rebus, I may call it: here, you see, it looks like an elegant heart-shaped box, portable—for the pocket; there, again, it becomes like a splendid double flower—an ornament for the table; and now a book of riddles! No less than five hundred printed in a beautiful red. Gentlemen, if I had less of a conscience, I should not wish you to bid high for this lot—I have a longing for it myself. What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?—it hinders profane language, and attaches a man to the society of refined females. This ingenious article itself, without the elegant domino-box, card-basket, &c., ought alone to give a high price to the lot. Carried in the pocket it might make an individual welcome in any society. Four shillings, sir?—four shillings for this remarkable collection of riddles with the et caeteras. Here is a sample: ‘How must you spell honey to make it catch lady-birds? Answer—money.’ You hear?—lady-birds—honey money. This is an amusement to sharpen the intellect; it has a sting—it has what we call satire, and wit without indecency. Four-and-sixpence—five shillings.", "pos": 1281331}
{"speaker": "Mr. Toller", "text": "Come, Trumbull, this is too bad—you’ve been putting some old maid’s rubbish into the sale. I want to see how the prints go, and I must be off soon.", "pos": 1283785}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "Immediately, Mr. Toller. It was only an act of benevolence which your noble heart would approve. Joseph! quick with the prints—Lot 235. Now, gentlemen, you who are connoissures, you are going to have a treat. Here is an engraving of the Duke of Wellington surrounded by his staff on the Field of Waterloo; and notwithstanding recent events which have, as it were, enveloped our great Hero in a cloud, I will be bold to say—for a man in my line must not be blown about by political winds—that a finer subject—of the modern order, belonging to our own time and epoch—the understanding of man could hardly conceive: angels might, perhaps, but not men, sirs, not men.", "pos": 1283991}
{"speaker": "Mr. Powderell", "text": "Who painted it?", "pos": 1284657}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "It is a proof before the letter, Mr. Powderell—the painter is not known,", "pos": 1284711}
{"speaker": "Mr. Powderell", "text": "I’ll bid a pound!", "pos": 1284907}
{"speaker": "Mr. Horrock", "text": "Who is it you’ve picked up, Bam?", "pos": 1286224}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bambridge", "text": "Ask him yourself. He said he’d just turned in from the road.", "pos": 1286284}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "Yes, Mr. Ladislaw, yes; this interests you as a connoissure, I think. It is some pleasure, to have a picture like this to show to a company of ladies and gentlemen—a picture worth any sum to an individual whose means were on a level with his judgment. It is a painting of the Italian school—by the celebrated Guydo, the greatest painter in the world, the chief of the Old Masters, as they are called—I take it, because they were up to a thing or two beyond most of us—in possession of secrets now lost to the bulk of mankind. Let me tell you, gentlemen, I have seen a great many pictures by the Old Masters, and they are not all up to this mark—some of them are darker than you might like and not family subjects. But here is a Guydo—the frame alone is worth pounds—which any lady might be proud to hang up—a suitable thing for what we call a refectory in a charitable institution, if any gentleman of the Corporation wished to show his munificence. Turn it a little, sir? yes. Joseph, turn it a little towards Mr. Ladislaw—Mr. Ladislaw, having been abroad, understands the merit of these things, you observe.", "pos": 1287018}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Five pounds.", "pos": 1288243}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "Ah! Mr. Ladislaw! the frame alone is worth that. Ladies and gentlemen, for the credit of the town! Suppose it should be discovered hereafter that a gem of art has been amongst us in this town, and nobody in Middlemarch awake to it. Five guineas—five seven-six—five ten. Still, ladies, still! It is a gem, and ‘Full many a gem,’ as the poet says, has been allowed to go at a nominal price because the public knew no better, because it was offered in circles where there was—I was going to say a low feeling, but no!—Six pounds—six guineas—a Guydo of the first order going at six guineas—it is an insult to religion, ladies; it touches us all as Christians, gentlemen, that a subject like this should go at such a low figure—six pounds ten—seven—", "pos": 1288305}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Excuse me, Mr. Ladislaw—was your mother’s name Sarah Dunkirk?", "pos": 1290358}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Yes, sir, it was. And what is that to you?", "pos": 1290516}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "No offence, my good sir, no offence! I only remember your mother—knew her when she was a girl. But it is your father that you feature, sir. I had the pleasure of seeing your father too. Parents alive, Mr. Ladislaw?", "pos": 1291140}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No!", "pos": 1291357}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Should be glad to do you a service, Mr. Ladislaw—by Jove, I should! Hope to meet again.", "pos": 1291411}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "I’ve been abroad myself, Mr. Ladislaw—I’ve seen the world—used to parley-vous a little. It was at Boulogne I saw your father—a most uncommon likeness you are of him, by Jove! mouth—nose—eyes—hair turned off your brow just like his—a little in the foreign style. John Bull doesn’t do much of that. But your father was very ill when I saw him. Lord, lord! hands you might see through. You were a small youngster then. Did he get well?", "pos": 1292337}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No,", "pos": 1292771}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Ah! Well! I’ve often wondered what became of your mother. She ran away from her friends when she was a young lass—a proud-spirited lass, and pretty, by Jove! I knew the reason why she ran away,", "pos": 1292796}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "You know nothing dishonorable of her, sir,", "pos": 1293052}
{"speaker": "Mr. Raffles", "text": "Not a bit! She was a little too honorable to like her friends—that was it! Lord bless you, I knew all about ’em—a little in what you may call the respectable thieving line—the high style of receiving-house—none of your holes and corners—first-rate. Slap-up shop, high profits and no mistake. But Lord! Sarah would have known nothing about it—a dashing young lady she was—fine boarding-school—fit for a lord’s wife—only Archie Duncan threw it at her out of spite, because she would have nothing to do with him. And so she ran away from the whole concern. I travelled for ’em, sir, in a gentlemanly way—at a high salary. They didn’t mind her running away at first—godly folks, sir, very godly—and she was for the stage. The son was alive then, and the daughter was at a discount. Hallo! here we are at the Blue Bull. What do you say, Mr. Ladislaw?—shall we turn in and have a glass?", "pos": 1293204}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No, I must say good evening,", "pos": 1294163}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Nicholas, there has been such a disagreeable man here asking for you—it has made me quite uncomfortable.", "pos": 1295452}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "What kind of man, my dear,", "pos": 1295614}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "A red-faced man with large whiskers, and most impudent in his manner. He declared he was an old friend of yours, and said you would be sorry not to see him. He wanted to wait for you here, but I told him he could see you at the Bank to-morrow morning. Most impudent he was!—stared at me, and said his friend Nick had luck in wives. I don’t believe he would have gone away, if Blucher had not happened to break his chain and come running round on the gravel—for I was in the garden; so I said, ‘You’d better go away—the dog is very fierce, and I can’t hold him.’ Do you really know anything of such a man?", "pos": 1295697}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I believe I know who he is, my dear, an unfortunate dissolute wretch, whom I helped too much in days gone by. However, I presume you will not be troubled by him again. He will probably come to the Bank—to beg, doubtless.", "pos": 1296304}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "You look very ill, Nicholas. Is there anything the matter?", "pos": 1296943}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I have a good deal of pain in my head,", "pos": 1297004}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Sit down and let me sponge it with vinegar.", "pos": 1297165}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "You are very good, Harriet,", "pos": 1297474}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Has anything worried you? Did that man come to you at the Bank?", "pos": 1297710}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Yes; it was as I had supposed. He is a man who at one time might have done better. But he has sunk into a drunken debauched creature.", "pos": 1297788}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Is he quite gone away?", "pos": 1297924}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Is he quite gone away?", "pos": 1300363}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Oh, I trust so,", "pos": 1300388}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Thank you, she is quite satisfied; she has gone out with her daughters this evening. I begged you to come, Mr. Ladislaw, because I have a communication of a very private—indeed, I will say, of a sacredly confidential nature, which I desire to make to you. Nothing, I dare say, has been farther from your thoughts than that there had been important ties in the past which could connect your history with mine.", "pos": 1316373}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No, indeed, nothing.", "pos": 1317328}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "You see before you, Mr. Ladislaw, a man who is deeply stricken. But for the urgency of conscience and the knowledge that I am before the bar of One who seeth not as man seeth, I should be under no compulsion to make the disclosure which has been my object in asking you to come here to-night. So far as human laws go, you have no claim on me whatever. I am told that your mother’s name was Sarah Dunkirk, and that she ran away from her friends to go on the stage. Also, that your father was at one time much emaciated by illness. May I ask if you can confirm these statements?", "pos": 1317351}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Yes, they are all true,", "pos": 1318119}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Do you know any particulars of your mother’s family?", "pos": 1318538}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No; she never liked to speak of them. She was a very generous, honorable woman,", "pos": 1318607}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I do not wish to allege anything against her. Did she never mention her mother to you at all?", "pos": 1318716}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I have heard her say that she thought her mother did not know the reason of her running away. She said ‘poor mother’ in a pitying tone.", "pos": 1318812}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "That mother became my wife, you have a claim on me, Mr. Ladislaw: as I said before, not a legal claim, but one which my conscience recognizes. I was enriched by that marriage—a result which would probably not have taken place—certainly not to the same extent—if your grandmother could have discovered her daughter. That daughter, I gather, is no longer living!", "pos": 1318950}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "No,", "pos": 1319373}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Pray be seated, Mr. Ladislaw. Doubtless you are startled by the suddenness of this discovery. But I entreat your patience with one who is already bowed down by inward trial. It is my wish, Mr. Ladislaw, to make amends for the deprivation which befell your mother. I know that you are without fortune, and I wish to supply you adequately from a store which would have probably already been yours had your grandmother been certain of your mother’s existence and been able to find her.", "pos": 1319602}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I suppose you did know of my mother’s existence, and knew where she might have been found.", "pos": 1320848}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I will not deny that you conjecture rightly. And I wish to make atonement to you as the one still remaining who has suffered a loss through me. You enter, I trust, into my purpose, Mr. Ladislaw, which has a reference to higher than merely human claims, and as I have already said, is entirely independent of any legal compulsion. I am ready to narrow my own resources and the prospects of my family by binding myself to allow you five hundred pounds yearly during my life, and to leave you a proportional capital at my death—nay, to do still more, if more should be definitely necessary to any laudable project on your part.", "pos": 1321304}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Before I make any reply to your proposition, Mr. Bulstrode, I must beg you to answer a question or two. Were you connected with the business by which that fortune you speak of was originally made?", "pos": 1322284}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1322633}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "And was that business—or was it not—a thoroughly dishonorable one—nay, one that, if its nature had been made public, might have ranked those concerned in it with thieves and convicts?", "pos": 1322640}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "The business was established before I became connected with it, sir; nor is it for you to institute an inquiry of that kind,", "pos": 1323196}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Yes, it is. It is eminently mine to ask such questions, when I have to decide whether I will have transactions with you and accept your money. My unblemished honor is important to me. It is important to me to have no stain on my birth and connections. And now I find there is a stain which I can’t help. My mother felt it, and tried to keep as clear of it as she could, and so will I. You shall keep your ill-gotten money. If I had any fortune of my own, I would willingly pay it to any one who could disprove what you have told me. What I have to thank you for is that you kept the money till now, when I can refuse it. It ought to lie with a man’s self that he is a gentleman. Good-night, sir.", "pos": 1323396}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "a little mental occupation of this sort good for a widow.", "pos": 1328636}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Enough! I understand. You shall be innocent. I am such a blackamoor that I cannot smirch myself.", "pos": 1331025}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I don’t mean that it’s of any consequence. Only it is desirable that Dorothea should know there are reasons why she should not receive him again; and I really can’t say so to her. It will come lightly from you.", "pos": 1331149}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "All false! He is not gone, or going, apparently; the ‘Pioneer’ keeps its color, and Mr. Orlando Ladislaw is making a sad dark-blue scandal by warbling continually with your Mr. Lydgate’s wife, who they tell me is as pretty as pretty can be. It seems nobody ever goes into the house without finding this young gentleman lying on the rug or warbling at the piano. But the people in manufacturing towns are always disreputable.", "pos": 1332202}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You began by saying that one report was false, Mrs. Cadwallader, and I believe this is false too, at least, I feel sure it is a misrepresentation. I will not hear any evil spoken of Mr. Ladislaw; he has already suffered too much injustice.", "pos": 1332654}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Heaven grant it, my dear!—I mean that all bad tales about anybody may be false. But it is a pity that young Lydgate should have married one of these Middlemarch girls. Considering he’s a son of somebody, he might have got a woman with good blood in her veins, and not too young, who would have put up with his profession. There’s Clara Harfager, for instance, whose friends don’t know what to do with her; and she has a portion. Then we might have had her among us. However!—it’s no use being wise for other people. Where is Celia? Pray let us go in.", "pos": 1333368}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am going on immediately to Tipton. Good-by. It is not true—it is not true! He said he would never do anything that I disapproved—I wish I could have told him that I disapproved of that. They all try to blacken him before me; but I will care for no pain, if he is not to blame. I always believed he was good.", "pos": 1333921}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I must stay here a little, Mrs. Kell. I will go into the library and write you some memoranda from my uncle’s letter, if you will open the shutters for me.", "pos": 1335685}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Kell", "text": "The shutters are open, madam. Mr. Ladislaw is there, looking for something.", "pos": 1335843}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Go in first, and tell him that I am here.", "pos": 1336429}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Kell", "text": "Mrs. Casaubon is coming in, sir.", "pos": 1336893}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Pray sit down. I am very glad you were here.", "pos": 1337461}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I have sent a letter to Lowick Manor to-day, asking leave to see you. I am going away immediately, and I could not go without speaking to you again.", "pos": 1338224}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I thought we had parted when you came to Lowick many weeks ago—you thought you were going then,", "pos": 1338421}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Yes; but I was in ignorance then of things which I know now—things which have altered my feelings about the future. When I saw you before, I was dreaming that I might come back some day. I don’t think I ever shall—now.", "pos": 1338564}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You wished me to know the reasons?", "pos": 1338803}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Yes. Of course I must wish it. I have been grossly insulted in your eyes and in the eyes of others. There has been a mean implication against my character. I wish you to know that under no circumstances would I have lowered myself by—under no circumstances would I have given men the chance of saying that I sought money under the pretext of seeking—something else. There was no need of other safeguard against me—the safeguard of wealth was enough.", "pos": 1338864}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It would be very unkind of you to suppose that I ever attributed any meanness to you. Do you suppose that I ever disbelieved in you?", "pos": 1339920}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am sure no safeguard was ever needed against you.", "pos": 1340822}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I must go,", "pos": 1341647}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "What shall you do in life? Have your intentions remained just the same as when we said good-by before?", "pos": 1341820}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Yes. I shall work away at the first thing that offers. I suppose one gets a habit of doing without happiness or hope.", "pos": 1341951}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh, what sad words! We used to agree that we were alike in speaking too strongly.", "pos": 1342145}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I have not spoken too strongly now. There are certain things which a man can only go through once in his life; and he must know some time or other that the best is over with him. This experience has happened to me while I am very young—that is all. What I care more for than I can ever care for anything else is absolutely forbidden to me—I don’t mean merely by being out of my reach, but forbidden me, even if it were within my reach, by my own pride and honor—by everything I respect myself for. Of course I shall go on living as a man might do who had seen heaven in a trance.", "pos": 1342313}
{"speaker": "footman", "text": "The horses are ready, madam, whenever you like to start.", "pos": 1344917}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Presently. I have some memoranda to write for the housekeeper.", "pos": 1344976}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I must go. The day after to-morrow I shall leave Middlemarch.", "pos": 1345090}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You have acted in every way rightly. I have never done you injustice. Please remember me,", "pos": 1345221}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Why should you say that? As if I were not in danger of forgetting everything else.", "pos": 1345726}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I was right to defend him.", "pos": 1347767}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I only wish I had known before—I wish he knew—then we could be quite happy in thinking of each other, though we are forever parted. And if I could but have given him the money, and made things easier for him!", "pos": 1349038}
{"speaker": "Mr. Toller", "text": "Have you seen much of your scientific phoenix, Lydgate, lately?", "pos": 1350626}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Not much, I am sorry to say. I am out of the way and he is too busy.", "pos": 1350795}
{"speaker": "Dr. Minchin", "text": "Is he? I am glad to hear it,", "pos": 1350971}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "He gives a great deal of time to the New Hospital. I hear of that from my neighbor, Mrs. Casaubon, who goes there often. She says Lydgate is indefatigable, and is making a fine thing of Bulstrode’s institution. He is preparing a new ward in case of the cholera coming to us.", "pos": 1351055}
{"speaker": "Mr. Toller", "text": "And preparing theories of treatment to try on the patients, I suppose,", "pos": 1351404}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Come, Toller, be candid. You are too clever not to see the good of a bold fresh mind in medicine, as well as in everything else; and as to cholera, I fancy, none of you are very sure what you ought to do. If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.", "pos": 1351494}
{"speaker": "Dr. Minchin", "text": "I am sure you and Wrench ought to be obliged to him,", "pos": 1351834}
{"speaker": "Mr. Harry Toller", "text": "Lydgate has been living at a great rate for a young beginner,", "pos": 1351986}
{"speaker": "Mr. Chichely", "text": "I hope so, else he ought not to have married that nice girl we were all so fond of. Hang it, one has a grudge against a man who carries off the prettiest girl in the town.", "pos": 1352137}
{"speaker": "Mr. Standish", "text": "Ay, by God! and the best too,", "pos": 1352332}
{"speaker": "Mr. Chichely", "text": "He wouldn’t do much. How the relations on the other side may have come down I can’t say.", "pos": 1352464}
{"speaker": "Mr. Toller", "text": "Oh, I shouldn’t think Lydgate ever looked to practice for a living,", "pos": 1352633}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "You have to give up a great deal of your husband’s society, Mrs. Lydgate.", "pos": 1358136}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Yes, the life of a medical man is very arduous: especially when he is so devoted to his profession as Mr. Lydgate is,", "pos": 1358212}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "It is dreadfully dull for her when there is no company. I am sure I thought so when Rosamond was ill, and I was staying with her. You know, Mrs. Farebrother, ours is a cheerful house. I am of a cheerful disposition myself, and Mr. Vincy always likes something to be going on. That is what Rosamond has been used to. Very different from a husband out at odd hours, and never knowing when he will come home, and of a close, proud disposition, I think", "pos": 1358429}
{"speaker": "Louisa", "text": "Oh mamma, mamma, the little man stamped so hard on the floor he couldn’t get his leg out again!", "pos": 1359873}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Bless you, my cherub! you shall tell me all about it to-morrow. Go and listen!", "pos": 1359971}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "You will never care any more about my one-eyed giant, Loo,", "pos": 1360865}
{"speaker": "Louisa", "text": "Yes, I shall. Tell about him now,", "pos": 1360948}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Oh, I dare say; I am quite cut out. Ask Mr. Farebrother.", "pos": 1360997}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "ask Mr. Farebrother to tell you about the ants whose beautiful house was knocked down by a giant named Tom, and he thought they didn’t mind because he couldn’t hear them cry, or see them use their pocket-handkerchiefs.", "pos": 1361075}
{"speaker": "Louisa", "text": "Please,", "pos": 1361296}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "No, no, I am a grave old parson. If I try to draw a story out of my bag a sermon comes instead. Shall I preach you a sermon?", "pos": 1361344}
{"speaker": "Louisa", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1361543}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Let me see, then. Against cakes: how cakes are bad things, especially if they are sweet and have plums in them. Ah, I see it will not do to preach on New Year’s Day,", "pos": 1361576}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "A delightful young person is Miss Garth,", "pos": 1362034}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "It is a pity she is not better-looking.", "pos": 1362228}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "I cannot say that. I like her countenance. We must not always ask for beauty, when a good God has seen fit to make an excellent young woman without it. I put good manners first, and Miss Garth will know how to conduct herself in any station.", "pos": 1362270}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "You are the man I was going to look for, now I don’t play for money. I owe that to you, Mrs. Casaubon says.", "pos": 1363389}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "How?", "pos": 1363757}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Ah, you didn’t mean me to know it; I call that ungenerous reticence. You should let a man have the pleasure of feeling that you have done him a good turn. I don’t enter into some people’s dislike of being under an obligation: upon my word, I prefer being under an obligation to everybody for behaving well to me.", "pos": 1363786}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I can’t tell what you mean, unless it is that I once spoke of you to Mrs. Casaubon. But I did not think that she would break her promise not to mention that I had done so,", "pos": 1364101}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "It was Brooke who let it out, only the other day. He paid me the compliment of saying that he was very glad I had the living though you had come across his tactics, and had praised me up as a Ken and a Tillotson, and that sort of thing, till Mrs. Casaubon would hear of no one else.", "pos": 1364399}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Oh, Brooke is such a leaky-minded fool,", "pos": 1364684}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Well, I was glad of the leakiness then. I don’t see why you shouldn’t like me to know that you wished to do me a service, my dear fellow. And you certainly have done me one. It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money. A man will not be tempted to say the Lord’s Prayer backward to please the devil, if he doesn’t want the devil’s services. I have no need to hang on the smiles of chance now.", "pos": 1364756}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I don’t see that there’s any money-getting without chance, if a man gets it in a profession, it’s pretty sure to come by chance.", "pos": 1365236}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Ah, there’s enormous patience wanted with the way of the world. But it is the easier for a man to wait patiently when he has friends who love him, and ask for nothing better than to help him through, so far as it lies in their power.", "pos": 1365646}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Oh yes. People make much more of their difficulties than they need to do.", "pos": 1365882}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "What time are you?", "pos": 1366881}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "After eleven,", "pos": 1366949}
{"speaker": "1_st Gent.", "text": "Where lies the power, there let the blame lie too.", "pos": 1367039}
{"speaker": "2_d Gent.", "text": "Nay, power is relative; you cannot fright The coming pest with border fortresses, Or catch your carp with subtle argument. All force is twain in one: cause is not cause Unless effect be there; and action’s self Must needs contain a passive. So command Exists but with obedience.", "pos": 1367099}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "We two can do with only one servant, and live on very little, and I shall manage with one horse.", "pos": 1370681}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Of course you can dismiss the other two servants, if you like, but I should have thought it would be very injurious to your position for us to live in a poor way. You must expect your practice to be lowered.", "pos": 1371098}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "My dear Rosamond, it is not a question of choice. We have begun too expensively. Peacock, you know, lived in a much smaller house than this. It is my fault: I ought to have known better, and I deserve a thrashing—if there were anybody who had a right to give it me—for bringing you into the necessity of living in a poorer way than you have been used to. But we married because we loved each other, I suppose. And that may help us to pull along till things get better. Come, dear, put down that work and come to me.", "pos": 1371325}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I find, now I look into things a little, Rosy, that it is wonderful what an amount of money slips away in our housekeeping. I suppose the servants are careless, and we have had a great many people coming. But there must be many in our rank who manage with much less: they must do with commoner things, I suppose, and look after the scraps. It seems, money goes but a little way in these matters, for Wrench has everything as plain as possible, and he has a very large practice.", "pos": 1372559}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Oh, if you think of living as the Wrenches do! But I have heard you express your disgust at that way of living.", "pos": 1373039}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Yes, they have bad taste in everything—they make economy look ugly. We needn’t do that. I only meant that they avoid expenses, although Wrench has a capital practice.", "pos": 1373202}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Why should not you have a good practice, Tertius? Mr. Peacock had. You should be more careful not to offend people, and you should send out medicines as the others do. I am sure you began well, and you got several good houses. It cannot answer to be eccentric; you should think what will be generally liked,", "pos": 1373371}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "What I am to do in my practice, Rosy, it is for me to judge. That is not the question between us. It is enough for you to know that our income is likely to be a very narrow one—hardly four hundred, perhaps less, for a long time to come, and we must try to re-arrange our lives in accordance with that fact.", "pos": 1374014}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "My uncle Bulstrode ought to allow you a salary for the time you give to the Hospital: it is not right that you should work for nothing.", "pos": 1374399}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "It was understood from the beginning that my services would be gratuitous. That, again, need not enter into our discussion. I have pointed out what is the only probability. I think I see one resource which would free us from a good deal of the present difficulty. I hear that young Ned Plymdale is going to be married to Miss Sophy Toller. They are rich, and it is not often that a good house is vacant in Middlemarch. I feel sure that they would be glad to take this house from us with most of our furniture, and they would be willing to pay handsomely for the lease. I can employ Trumbull to speak to Plymdale about it.", "pos": 1374537}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I thought, at least, when I had borne to send the plate back and have that man taking an inventory of the furniture—I should have thought that would suffice.", "pos": 1375655}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I explained it to you at the time, dear. That was only a security and behind that security there is a debt. And that debt must be paid within the next few months, else we shall have our furniture sold. If young Plymdale will take our house and most of our furniture, we shall be able to pay that debt, and some others too, and we shall be quit of a place too expensive for us. We might take a smaller house: Trumbull, I know, has a very decent one to let at thirty pounds a-year, and this is ninety.", "pos": 1375815}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I never could have believed that you would like to act in that way.", "pos": 1376728}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Like it? it’s not a question of liking. Of course, I don’t like it; it’s the only thing I can do.", "pos": 1376798}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I should have thought there were many other means than that. Let us have a sale and leave Middlemarch altogether.", "pos": 1377060}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "To do what? What is the use of my leaving my work in Middlemarch to go where I have none? We should be just as penniless elsewhere as we are here,", "pos": 1377193}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "If we are to be in that position it will be entirely your own doing, Tertius. You will not behave as you ought to do to your own family. You offended Captain Lydgate. Sir Godwin was very kind to me when we were at Quallingham, and I am sure if you showed proper regard to him and told him your affairs, he would do anything for you. But rather than that, you like giving up our house and furniture to Mr. Ned Plymdale.", "pos": 1377375}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Well, then, if you will have it so, I do like it. I admit that I like it better than making a fool of myself by going to beg where it’s of no use. Understand then, that it is what I like to do.", "pos": 1377954}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Have you spoken to Trumbull yet? No,", "pos": 1380230}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "Yes, Ned is most happy, I must say. And Sophy Toller is all I could desire in a daughter-in-law. Of course her father is able to do something handsome for her—that is only what would be expected with a brewery like his. And the connection is everything we should desire. But that is not what I look at. She is such a very nice girl—no airs, no pretensions, though on a level with the first. I don’t mean with the titled aristocracy. I see very little good in people aiming out of their own sphere. I mean that Sophy is equal to the best in the town, and she is contented with that.", "pos": 1380906}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I have always thought her very agreeable,", "pos": 1381490}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "I look upon it as a reward for Ned, who never held his head too high, that he should have got into the very best connection. And such particular people as the Tollers are, they might have objected because some of our friends are not theirs. It is well known that your aunt Bulstrode and I have been intimate from our youth, and Mr. Plymdale has been always on Mr. Bulstrode’s side. And I myself prefer serious opinions. But the Tollers have welcomed Ned all the same.", "pos": 1381549}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I am sure he is a very deserving, well-principled young man,", "pos": 1382130}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "Oh, he has not the style of a captain in the army, or that sort of carriage as if everybody was beneath him, or that showy kind of talking, and singing, and intellectual talent. But I am thankful he has not. It is a poor preparation both for here and Hereafter.", "pos": 1382290}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Oh dear, yes; appearances have very little to do with happiness. I think there is every prospect of their being a happy couple. What house will they take?", "pos": 1382554}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "Oh, as for that, they must put up with what they can get. They have been looking at the house in St. Peter’s Place, next to Mr. Hackbutt’s; it belongs to him, and he is putting it nicely in repair. I suppose they are not likely to hear of a better. Indeed, I think Ned will decide the matter to-day.", "pos": 1382728}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I should think it is a nice house; I like St. Peter’s Place.", "pos": 1383030}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "Well, it is near the Church, and a genteel situation. But the windows are narrow, and it is all ups and downs. You don’t happen to know of any other that would be at liberty?", "pos": 1383093}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Oh no; I hear so little of those things.", "pos": 1383377}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "indeed, if it had not been, she would not have wished to act on it.", "pos": 1384650}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "Yes, ma’am, yes, he did; he did so. I was about to fulfil his order, if possible, this afternoon. He wished me not to procrastinate.", "pos": 1385463}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I called to tell you not to go any further, Mr. Trumbull; and I beg of you not to mention what has been said on the subject. Will you oblige me?", "pos": 1385681}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "Certainly I will, Mrs. Lydgate, certainly. Confidence is sacred with me on business or any other topic. I am then to consider the commission withdrawn?", "pos": 1385828}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Yes, if you please. I find that Mr. Ned Plymdale has taken a house—the one in St. Peter’s Place next to Mr. Hackbutt’s. Mr. Lydgate would be annoyed that his orders should be fulfilled uselessly. And besides that, there are other circumstances which render the proposal unnecessary.", "pos": 1386100}
{"speaker": "Mr. Trumbull", "text": "Very good, Mrs. Lydgate, very good. I am at your commands, whenever you require any service of me. Rely on me, I beg. The affair shall go no further.", "pos": 1386385}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "If she will be happy and I can rub through, what does it all signify? It is only a narrow swamp that we have to pass in a long journey. If I can get my mind clear again, I shall do.", "pos": 1386846}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Mr. Ned Plymdale has taken a house already.", "pos": 1387745}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "How do you know?", "pos": 1387962}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I called at Mrs. Plymdale’s this morning, and she told me that he had taken the house in St. Peter’s Place, next to Mr. Hackbutt’s.", "pos": 1387981}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Perhaps some one else may turn up. I told Trumbull to be on the look-out if he failed with Plymdale.", "pos": 1388904}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "How much money is it that those disagreeable people want?", "pos": 1389279}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "What disagreeable people?", "pos": 1389339}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Those who took the list—and the others. I mean, how much money would satisfy them so that you need not be troubled any more?", "pos": 1389367}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Oh, if I could have got six hundred from Plymdale for furniture and as premium, I might have managed. I could have paid off Dover, and given enough on account to the others to make them wait patiently, if we contracted our expenses.", "pos": 1389580}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "But I mean how much should you want if we stayed in this house?", "pos": 1389815}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "More than I am likely to get anywhere,", "pos": 1389881}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Why should you not mention the sum?", "pos": 1390103}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Well, it would take at least a thousand to set me at ease. I have to consider what I shall do without it, not with it.", "pos": 1390214}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I shall try to see Trumbull this morning, and tell him to advertise the house in the ‘Pioneer’ and the ‘Trumpet.’ If the thing were advertised, some one might be inclined to take it who would not otherwise have thought of a change. In these country places many people go on in their old houses when their families are too large for them, for want of knowing where they can find another. And Trumbull seems to have got no bite at all.", "pos": 1392915}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I ordered Trumbull not to inquire further,", "pos": 1393402}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "May I ask when and why you did so?", "pos": 1394086}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "When I knew that the Plymdales had taken a house, I called to tell him not to mention ours to them; and at the same time I told him not to let the affair go on any further. I knew that it would be very injurious to you if it were known that you wished to part with your house and furniture, and I had a very strong objection to it. I think that was reason enough.", "pos": 1394123}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "It was of no consequence then that I had told you imperative reasons of another kind; of no consequence that I had come to a different conclusion, and given an order accordingly?", "pos": 1394489}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I think I had a perfect right to speak on a subject which concerns me at least as much as you.", "pos": 1394990}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Clearly—you had a right to speak, but only to me. You had no right to contradict my orders secretly, and treat me as if I were a fool. Is it possible to make you understand what the consequences will be? Is it of any use for me to tell you again why we must try to part with the house?", "pos": 1395087}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "It is not necessary for you to tell me again. I remembered what you said. You spoke just as violently as you do now. But that does not alter my opinion that you ought to try every other means rather than take a step which is so painful to me. And as to advertising the house, I think it would be perfectly degrading to you.", "pos": 1395447}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "And suppose I disregard your opinion as you disregard mine?", "pos": 1395847}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "You can do so, of course. But I think you ought to have told me before we were married that you would place me in the worst position, rather than give up your own will.", "pos": 1395909}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "When we were married everyone felt that your position was very high. I could not have imagined then that you would want to sell our furniture, and take a house in Bride Street, where the rooms are like cages. If we are to live in that way let us at least leave Middlemarch.", "pos": 1396655}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "These would be very strong considerations, these would be very strong considerations if I did not happen to be in debt.", "pos": 1396931}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Many persons must have been in debt in the same way, but if they are respectable, people trust them. I am sure I have heard papa say that the Torbits were in debt, and they went on very well. It cannot be good to act rashly,", "pos": 1397182}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I may at least request that you will not go to Trumbull at present—until it has been seen that there are no other means. Promise me that you will not go to him for a few weeks, or without telling me.", "pos": 1398325}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I think it is I who should exact a promise that you will do nothing without telling me,", "pos": 1398683}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "You remember that we are going to dine at papa’s,", "pos": 1398846}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Oh yes,", "pos": 1399002}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Tertius, come in here—here is a letter for you.", "pos": 1405138}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Ah? My uncle Godwin! It will be impossible to endure life with you, if you will always be acting secretly—acting in opposition to me and hiding your actions.", "pos": 1405188}
{"speaker": "Godwin Lydgate", "text": "DEAR TERTIUS,—Don’t set your wife to write to me when you have anything to ask. It is a roundabout wheedling sort of thing which I should not have credited you with. I never choose to write to a woman on matters of business. As to my supplying you with a thousand pounds, or only half that sum, I can do nothing of the sort. My own family drains me to the last penny. With two younger sons and three daughters, I am not likely to have cash to spare. You seem to have got through your own money pretty quickly, and to have made a mess where you are; the sooner you go somewhere else the better. But I have nothing to do with men of your profession, and can’t help you there. I did the best I could for you as guardian, and let you have your own way in taking to medicine. You might have gone into the army or the Church. Your money would have held out for that, and there would have been a surer ladder before you. Your uncle Charles has had a grudge against you for not going into his profession, but not I. I have always wished you well, but you must consider yourself on your own legs entirely now.", "pos": 1406125}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Will this be enough to convince you of the harm you may do by secret meddling? Have you sense enough to recognize now your incompetence to judge and act for me—to interfere with your ignorance in affairs which it belongs to me to decide on? I had nearly resolved on going to Quallingham. It would have cost me pain enough to do it, yet it might have been of some use. But it has been of no use for me to think of anything. You have always been counteracting me secretly. You delude me with a false assent, and then I am at the mercy of your devices. If you mean to resist every wish I express, say so and defy me. I shall at least know what I am doing then.", "pos": 1407575}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Can you not see, Rosamond, that nothing can be so fatal as a want of openness and confidence between us? It has happened again and again that I have expressed a decided wish, and you have seemed to assent, yet after that you have secretly disobeyed my wish. In that way I can never know what I have to trust to. There would be some hope for us if you would admit this. Am I such an unreasonable, furious brute? Why should you not be open with me? Will you only say that you have been mistaken, and that I may depend on your not acting secretly in future?", "pos": 1409722}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I cannot possibly make admissions or promises in answer to such words as you have used towards me. I have not been accustomed to language of that kind. You have spoken of my ‘secret meddling,’ and my ‘interfering ignorance,’ and my ‘false assent.’ I have never expressed myself in that way to you, and I think that you ought to apologize. You spoke of its being impossible to live with me. Certainly you have not made my life pleasant to me of late. I think it was to be expected that I should try to avert some of the hardships which our marriage has brought on me.", "pos": 1410485}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Rosamond, you should allow for a man’s words when he is disappointed and provoked. You and I cannot have opposite interests. I cannot part my happiness from yours. If I am angry with you, it is that you seem not to see how any concealment divides us. How could I wish to make anything hard to you either by my words or conduct? When I hurt you, I hurt part of my own life. I should never be angry with you if you would be quite open with me.", "pos": 1412755}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I have only wished to prevent you from hurrying us into wretchedness without any necessity. It is so very hard to be disgraced here among all the people we know, and to live in such a miserable way. I wish I had died with the baby.", "pos": 1413258}
{"speaker": "Mr. Horrock", "text": "Mr. Bambridge was not yet come, but would be sure to arrive by-and-by,", "pos": 1419262}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I will tell you what, Mistress Mary—it will be rather harder work to learn surveying and drawing plans than it would have been to write sermons, and as to Hercules and Theseus, they were nothing to me. They had sport, and never learned to write a bookkeeping hand.", "pos": 1422007}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Can I speak to you a moment? Farebrother has just sent up a message to say that he wants to speak to me. He is below. I thought you might like to know he was there, if you had anything to say to him.", "pos": 1427145}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No, no. I have nothing particular to say to him. But—the game is up—I must be going—I came in just to see Bambridge.", "pos": 1427754}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Bambridge is over there, but he is making a row—I don’t think he’s ready for business. Come down with me to Farebrother. I expect he is going to blow me up, and you will shield me,", "pos": 1427889}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I disturbed you, young gentleman, because I have some pressing business with you. Walk with me to St. Botolph’s, will you? I thought Lydgate never went to the Green Dragon?", "pos": 1428464}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "So did I. But he said that he went to see Bambridge.", "pos": 1428815}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "He was not playing, then?", "pos": 1428883}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Yes, he was. But I suppose it was an accidental thing. I have never seen him there before.", "pos": 1428975}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "You have been going often yourself, then, lately?", "pos": 1429068}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Oh, about five or six times.", "pos": 1429120}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I think you had some good reason for giving up the habit of going there?", "pos": 1429151}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Yes. You know all about it. I made a clean breast to you.", "pos": 1429226}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I suppose that gives me a warrant to speak about the matter now. It is understood between us, is it not?—that we are on a footing of open friendship: I have listened to you, and you will be willing to listen to me. I may take my turn in talking a little about myself?", "pos": 1429340}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I am under the deepest obligation to you, Mr. Farebrother,", "pos": 1429610}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I will not affect to deny that you are under some obligation to me. But I am going to confess to you, Fred, that I have been tempted to reverse all that by keeping silence with you just now. When somebody said to me, ‘Young Vincy has taken to being at the billiard-table every night again—he won’t bear the curb long;’ I was tempted to do the opposite of what I am doing—to hold my tongue and wait while you went down the ladder again, betting first and then—", "pos": 1429719}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I have not made any bets,", "pos": 1430181}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Glad to hear it. But I say, my prompting was to look on and see you take the wrong turning, wear out Garth’s patience, and lose the best opportunity of your life—the opportunity which you made some rather difficult effort to secure. You can guess the feeling which raised that temptation in me—I am sure you know it. I am sure you know that the satisfaction of your affections stands in the way of mine.", "pos": 1430229}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I could not be expected to give her up,", "pos": 1430845}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Clearly not, when her affection met yours. But relations of this sort, even when they are of long standing, are always liable to change. I can easily conceive that you might act in a way to loosen the tie she feels towards you—it must be remembered that she is only conditionally bound to you—and that in that case, another man, who may flatter himself that he has a hold on her regard, might succeed in winning that firm place in her love as well as respect which you had let slip. I can easily conceive such a result. There is a companionship of ready sympathy, which might get the advantage even over the longest associations.", "pos": 1430975}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Of course I know it might easily be all up with me. If she is beginning to compare— But I thought you were friendly to me.", "pos": 1431934}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "So I am; that is why we are here. But I have had a strong disposition to be otherwise. I have said to myself, ‘If there is a likelihood of that youngster doing himself harm, why should you interfere? Aren’t you worth as much as he is, and don’t your sixteen years over and above his, in which you have gone rather hungry, give you more right to satisfaction than he has? If there’s a chance of his going to the dogs, let him—perhaps you could nohow hinder it—and do you take the benefit.’ But I had once meant better than that, and I am come back to my old intention. I thought that I could hardly secure myself in it better, Fred, than by telling you just what had gone on in me. And now, do you understand me? I want you to make the happiness of her life and your own, and if there is any chance that a word of warning from me may turn aside any risk to the contrary—well, I have uttered it.", "pos": 1432192}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I will try to be worthy, of you as well as of her.", "pos": 1433934}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "You must not imagine that I believe there is at present any decline in her preference of you, Fred. Set your heart at rest, that if you keep right, other things will keep right.", "pos": 1434109}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "I shall never forget what you have done. I can’t say anything that seems worth saying—only I will try that your goodness shall not be thrown away.", "pos": 1434289}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "That’s enough. Good-by, and God bless you.", "pos": 1434455}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "It certainly would have been a fine thing for her to marry Farebrother—but if she loves me best and I am a good husband?", "pos": 1434666}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline!", "pos": 1434880}
{"speaker": "Papa", "text": "Papa said he had come, with one bad year after another, to trade more and more on borrowed capital, and had had to give up many indulgences; he could not spare a single hundred from the charges of his family. He said, let Lydgate ask Bulstrode: they have always been hand and glove.", "pos": 1438088}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I will write a letter: I prefer that to any circuitous talk; No; if I were talking to him, I could make a retreat before any signs of disinclination.", "pos": 1439699}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Would any man buy the practice of me even now, for as little as it is worth? Then the sale might happen as a necessary preparation for going away.", "pos": 1440379}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "One sees how any mental strain, however slight, may affect a delicate frame, by the deep stamp which an anxiety will make for a time even on the young and vigorous. I am naturally very strong; yet I have been thoroughly shaken lately by an accumulation of trouble.", "pos": 1442377}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I presume that a constitution in the susceptible state in which mine at present is, would be especially liable to fall a victim to cholera, if it visited our district. And since its appearance near London, we may well besiege the Mercy-seat for our protection,", "pos": 1442754}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "You have at all events taken your share in using good practical precautions for the town, and that is the best mode of asking for protection. The town has done well in the way of cleansing, and finding appliances; and I think that if the cholera should come, even our enemies will admit that the arrangements in the Hospital are a public good.", "pos": 1443130}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Truly. With regard to what you say, Mr. Lydgate, about the relaxation of my mental labor, I have for some time been entertaining a purpose to that effect—a purpose of a very decided character. I contemplate at least a temporary withdrawal from the management of much business, whether benevolent or commercial. Also I think of changing my residence for a time: probably I shall close or let ‘The Shrubs,’ and take some place near the coast—under advice of course as to salubrity. That would be a measure which you would recommend?", "pos": 1443751}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Oh yes,", "pos": 1444326}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I have for some time felt that I should open this subject with you in relation to our Hospital. Under the circumstances I have indicated, of course I must cease to have any personal share in the management, and it is contrary to my views of responsibility to continue a large application of means to an institution which I cannot watch over and to some extent regulate. I shall therefore, in case of my ultimate decision to leave Middlemarch, consider that I withdraw other support to the New Hospital than that which will subsist in the fact that I chiefly supplied the expenses of building it, and have contributed further large sums to its successful working.", "pos": 1444488}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "He has perhaps been losing a good deal of money. The loss to the Hospital can hardly be made up, I fear.", "pos": 1445245}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Hardly, except by some changes of plan. The only person who may be certainly counted on as willing to increase her contributions is Mrs. Casaubon. I have had an interview with her on the subject, and I have pointed out to her, as I am about to do to you, that it will be desirable to win a more general support to the New Hospital by a change of system. The change I mean is an amalgamation with the Infirmary, so that the New Hospital shall be regarded as a special addition to the elder institution, having the same directing board. It will be necessary, also, that the medical management of the two shall be combined. In this way any difficulty as to the adequate maintenance of our new establishment will be removed; the benevolent interests of the town will cease to be divided.", "pos": 1445488}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No doubt that is a good device as to ways and means. But I can’t be expected to rejoice in it at once, since one of the first results will be that the other medical men will upset or interrupt my methods, if it were only because they are mine.", "pos": 1446480}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I myself, as you know, Mr. Lydgate, highly valued the opportunity of new and independent procedure which you have diligently employed: the original plan, I confess, was one which I had much at heart, under submission to the Divine Will. But since providential indications demand a renunciation from me, I renounce.", "pos": 1446777}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "What did Mrs. Casaubon say?", "pos": 1447430}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "That was the further statement which I wished to make to you. She is, you are aware, a woman of most munificent disposition, and happily in possession—not I presume of great wealth, but of funds which she can well spare. She has informed me that though she has destined the chief part of those funds to another purpose, she is willing to consider whether she cannot fully take my place in relation to the Hospital. But she wishes for ample time to mature her thoughts on the subject, and I have told her that there is no need for haste—that, in fact, my own plans are not yet absolute.", "pos": 1447460}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "If Mrs. Casaubon would take your place, there would be gain, instead of loss. I suppose, then, that I may enter into the subject with Mrs. Casaubon.", "pos": 1448149}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Precisely; that is what she expressly desires. Her decision, she says, will much depend on what you can tell her. But not at present: she is, I believe, just setting out on a journey. I have her letter here,", "pos": 1448392}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am immediately otherwise engaged. I am going into Yorkshire with Sir James and Lady Chettam; and the conclusions I come to about some land which I am to see there may affect my power of contributing to the Hospital.", "pos": 1448660}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Thus, Mr. Lydgate, there is no haste necessary in this matter; but I wished to apprise you beforehand of what may possibly occur.", "pos": 1448891}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I am much obliged to you for giving me full notice. The highest object to me is my profession, and I had identified the Hospital with the best use I can at present make of my profession. But the best use is not always the same with monetary success. Everything which has made the Hospital unpopular has helped with other causes—I think they are all connected with my professional zeal—to make me unpopular as a practitioner. I get chiefly patients who can’t pay me. I should like them best, if I had nobody to pay on my own side. I have slipped into money difficulties which I can see no way out of, unless some one who trusts me and my future will advance me a sum without other security. I had very little fortune left when I came here. I have no prospects of money from my own family. My expenses, in consequence of my marriage, have been very much greater than I had expected. The result at this moment is that it would take a thousand pounds to clear me. I mean, to free me from the risk of having all my goods sold in security of my largest debt—as well as to pay my other debts—and leave anything to keep us a little beforehand with our small income. I find that it is out of the question that my wife’s father should make such an advance. That is why I mention my position to—to the only other man who may be held to have some personal connection with my prosperity or ruin.", "pos": 1449330}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I am grieved, though, I confess, not surprised by this information, Mr. Lydgate. For my own part, I regretted your alliance with my brother-in-law’s family, which has always been of prodigal habits, and which has already been much indebted to me for sustainment in its present position. My advice to you, Mr. Lydgate, would be, that instead of involving yourself in further obligations, and continuing a doubtful struggle, you should simply become a bankrupt.", "pos": 1451182}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "That would not improve my prospect, even if it were a more agreeable thing in itself.", "pos": 1451644}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "It is always a trial, but trial, my dear sir, is our portion here, and is a needed corrective. I recommend you to weigh the advice I have given.", "pos": 1451778}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Thank you. I have occupied you too long. Good-day.", "pos": 1451947}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I came to call you thus early, Mr. Raffles, because I have ordered the carriage to be ready at half-past seven, and intend myself to conduct you as far as Ilsely, where you can either take the railway or await a coach. Be silent, sir, and hear what I have to say. I shall supply you with money now, and I will furnish you with a reasonable sum from time to time, on your application to me by letter; but if you choose to present yourself here again, if you return to Middlemarch, if you use your tongue in a manner injurious to me, you will have to live on such fruits as your malice can bring you, without help from me. Nobody will pay you well for blasting my name: I know the worst you can do against me, and I shall brave it if you dare to thrust yourself upon me again. Get up, sir, and do as I order you, without noise, or I will send for a policeman to take you off my premises, and you may carry your stories into every pothouse in the town, but you shall have no sixpence from me to pay your expenses there.", "pos": 1457220}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "May I trust to you to find me a tenant on these terms, Mr. Garth? And will you mention to me the yearly sum which would repay you for managing these affairs which we have discussed together?", "pos": 1464082}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "I’ll think about it. I’ll see how I can make it out.", "pos": 1464293}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "The lad would be as happy as two, if I could tell him it was all settled. Think; Susan! His mind had been running on that place for years before old Featherstone died. And it would be as pretty a turn of things as could be that he should hold the place in a good industrious way after all—by his taking to business. For it’s likely enough Bulstrode might let him go on, and gradually buy the stock. He hasn’t made up his mind, I can see, whether or not he shall settle somewhere else as a lasting thing. I never was better pleased with a notion in my life. And then the children might be married by-and-by, Susan.", "pos": 1465190}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "You will not give any hint of the plan to Fred, until you are sure that Bulstrode would agree to the plan? And as to marriage, Caleb, we old people need not help to hasten it.", "pos": 1465874}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Oh, I don’t know. Marriage is a taming thing. Fred would want less of my bit and bridle. However, I shall say nothing till I know the ground I’m treading on. I shall speak to Bulstrode again.", "pos": 1466100}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "I think you are always a little hard towards my family, Nicholas. And I am sure I have no reason to deny any of my relatives. Too worldly they may be, but no one ever had to say that they were not respectable.", "pos": 1467178}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "My dear Harriet. I have supplied your brother with a great deal of capital. I cannot be expected to take care of his married children.", "pos": 1467390}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "But suppose the whole scheme should turn out to be a castle in the air?", "pos": 1469119}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Well, well, the castle will tumble about nobody’s head.", "pos": 1469210}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "By all means. Pray sit down, Mr. Garth. I am glad that you arrived just in time to find me here. I know you count your minutes.", "pos": 1469633}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Oh,", "pos": 1469845}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "I have just come away from Stone Court, Mr. Bulstrode.", "pos": 1470821}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "You found nothing wrong there, I hope. I was there myself yesterday. Abel has done well with the lambs this year.", "pos": 1470878}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Why, yes, there is something wrong—a stranger, who is very ill, I think. He wants a doctor, and I came to tell you of that. His name is Raffles.", "pos": 1471013}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Poor wretch! Do you know how he came there?", "pos": 1471397}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "I took him myself, took him up in my gig. He had got down from the coach, and was walking a little beyond the turning from the toll-house, and I overtook him. He remembered seeing me with you once before, at Stone Court, and he asked me to take him on. I saw he was ill: it seemed to me the right thing to do, to carry him under shelter. And now I think you should lose no time in getting advice for him.", "pos": 1471513}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Certainly. Perhaps you will yourself oblige me, Mr. Garth, by calling at Mr. Lydgate’s as you pass—or stay! he may at this hour probably be at the Hospital. I will first send my man on the horse there with a note this instant, and then I will myself ride to Stone Court. Perhaps Raffles only spoke to Garth of his illness. Garth may wonder, as he must have done before, at this disreputable fellow’s claiming intimacy with me; but he will know nothing. And he is friendly to me—I can be of use to him. I am exceedingly obliged to you, Mr. Garth. My servant will be back in a few minutes, and I shall then go myself to see what can be done for this unfortunate man. Perhaps you had some other business with me? If so, pray be seated.", "pos": 1472022}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Thank you. I wish to say, Mr. Bulstrode, that I must request you to put your business into some other hands than mine. I am obliged to you for your handsome way of meeting me—about the letting of Stone Court, and all other business. But I must give it up.", "pos": 1473278}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "This is sudden, Mr. Garth,", "pos": 1473680}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "It is, but it is quite fixed. I must give it up.", "pos": 1473740}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "You have been led to this, I apprehend, by some slanders concerning me uttered by that unhappy creature,", "pos": 1474151}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "That is true. I can’t deny that I act upon what I heard from him.", "pos": 1474306}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "You are a conscientious man, Mr. Garth—a man, I trust, who feels himself accountable to God. You would not wish to injure me by being too ready to believe a slander. That is a poor reason for giving up a connection which I think I may say will be mutually beneficial.", "pos": 1474374}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "I would injure no man if I could help it, even if I thought God winked at it. I hope I should have a feeling for my fellow-creature. But, sir—I am obliged to believe that this Raffles has told me the truth. And I can’t be happy in working with you, or profiting by you. It hurts my mind. I must beg you to seek another agent.", "pos": 1474730}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Very well, Mr. Garth. But I must at least claim to know the worst that he has told you. I must know what is the foul speech that I am liable to be the victim of,", "pos": 1475072}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "That’s needless. What he has said to me will never pass from my lips, unless something now unknown forces it from me. If you led a harmful life for gain, and kept others out of their rights by deceit, to get the more for yourself, I dare say you repent—you would like to go back, and can’t: that must be a bitter thing it is not for me to make your life harder to you.", "pos": 1475369}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "But you do—you do make it harder to me. You make it harder to me by turning your back on me.", "pos": 1475938}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "That I’m forced to do. I am sorry. I don’t judge you and say, he is wicked, and I am righteous. God forbid. I don’t know everything. A man may do wrong, and his will may rise clear out of it, though he can’t get his life clear. That’s a bad punishment. If it is so with you,—well, I’m very sorry for you. But I have that feeling inside me, that I can’t go on working with you. That’s all, Mr. Bulstrode. Everything else is buried, so far as my will goes. And I wish you good-day.", "pos": 1476092}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "One moment, Mr. Garth! I may trust then to your solemn assurance that you will not repeat either to man or woman what—even if it have any degree of truth in it—is yet a malicious representation?", "pos": 1476628}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Why should I have said it if I didn’t mean it? I am in no fear of you. Such tales as that will never tempt my tongue.", "pos": 1476907}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Excuse me—I am agitated—I am the victim of this abandoned man.", "pos": 1477027}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Stop a bit! you have got to consider whether you didn’t help to make him worse, when you profited by his vices.", "pos": 1477092}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "You are wronging me by too readily believing him,", "pos": 1477206}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "No. I am ready to believe better, when better is proved. I rob you of no good chance. As to speaking, I hold it a crime to expose a man’s sin unless I’m clear it must be done to save the innocent. That is my way of thinking, Mr. Bulstrode, and what I say, I’ve no need to swear. I wish you good-day.", "pos": 1477468}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "He was disposed to interfere too much, was he?", "pos": 1478080}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Oh,", "pos": 1478298}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I have called you in, Mr. Lydgate, to an unfortunate man who was once in my employment, many years ago. Afterwards he went to America, and returned I fear to an idle dissolute life. Being destitute, he has a claim on me. He was slightly connected with Rigg, the former owner of this place, and in consequence found his way here. I believe he is seriously ill: apparently his mind is affected. I feel bound to do the utmost for him.", "pos": 1482226}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "What is his name?", "pos": 1482918}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Raffles, John Raffles. It is a serious case, I apprehend,", "pos": 1483043}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No—and yes. It is difficult to decide as to the possible effect of long-standing complications; but the man had a robust constitution to begin with. I should not expect this attack to be fatal, though of course the system is in a ticklish state. He should be well watched and attended to.", "pos": 1483456}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I will remain here myself. Mrs. Abel and her husband are inexperienced. I can easily remain here for the night, if you will oblige me by taking a note for Mrs. Bulstrode.", "pos": 1483779}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I should think that is hardly necessary. He seems tame and terrified enough. He might become more unmanageable. But there is a man here—is there not?", "pos": 1483970}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I have more than once stayed here a few nights for the sake of seclusion. I am quite disposed to do so now. Mrs. Abel and her husband can relieve or aid me, if necessary.", "pos": 1484138}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Very well. Then I need give my directions only to you,", "pos": 1484344}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "You think, then, that the case is hopeful?", "pos": 1484475}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Unless there turn out to be further complications, such as I have not at present detected—yes. He may pass on to a worse stage; but I should not wonder if he got better in a few days, by adhering to the treatment I have prescribed. There must be firmness. Remember, if he calls for liquors of any sort, not to give them to him. In my opinion, men in his condition are oftener killed by treatment than by the disease. Still, new symptoms may arise. I shall come again to-morrow morning.", "pos": 1484578}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "The man is in a diseased state, but there’s a good deal of wear in him still. I suppose he is an object of charity to Bulstrode. It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. Bulstrode seems the most unsympathetic fellow I ever saw about some people, and yet he has taken no end of trouble, and spent a great deal of money, on benevolent objects. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for—he has made up his mind that it doesn’t care for me.", "pos": 1485718}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Forgive me for this misery, my poor Rosamond! Let us only love one another.", "pos": 1488649}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Do you object, Tertius?", "pos": 1489423}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Do as you like. But things are not coming to a crisis immediately. There is no hurry.", "pos": 1489449}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I should not go till to-morrow. I shall want to pack my clothes.", "pos": 1489552}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Oh, I would wait a little longer than to-morrow—there is no knowing what may happen. I may get my neck broken, and that may make things easier to you.", "pos": 1489636}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I see you do not wish me to go, why can you not say so, without that kind of violence? I shall stay until you request me to do otherwise.", "pos": 1490239}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "What do you think of him?", "pos": 1497545}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "The symptoms are worse.", "pos": 1497601}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "You are less hopeful?", "pos": 1497627}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No; I still think he may come round. Are you going to stay here yourself?", "pos": 1497651}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Yes, I think so. Mrs. Bulstrode is advised of the reasons which detain me. Mrs. Abel and her husband are not experienced enough to be left quite alone, and this kind of responsibility is scarcely included in their service of me. You have some fresh instructions, I presume.", "pos": 1497873}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "From what I see of the case, narcotism is the only thing I should be much afraid of. He may wear through even without much food. There’s a good deal of strength in him.", "pos": 1498652}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "You look ill yourself, Mr. Lydgate—a most unusual, I may say unprecedented thing in my knowledge of you. I fear you are harassed.", "pos": 1498835}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Yes, I am,", "pos": 1499148}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Something new, I fear. Pray be seated.", "pos": 1499220}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No, thank you. I mentioned to you yesterday what was the state of my affairs. There is nothing to add, except that the execution has since then been actually put into my house. One can tell a good deal of trouble in a short sentence. I will say good morning.", "pos": 1499292}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Stay, Mr. Lydgate, stay. I have been reconsidering this subject. I was yesterday taken by surprise, and saw it superficially. Mrs. Bulstrode is anxious for her niece, and I myself should grieve at a calamitous change in your position. Claims on me are numerous, but on reconsideration, I esteem it right that I should incur a small sacrifice rather than leave you unaided. You said, I think, that a thousand pounds would suffice entirely to free you from your burthens, and enable you to recover a firm stand?", "pos": 1499588}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Yes, that would pay all my debts, and leave me a little on hand. I could set about economizing in our way of living. And by-and-by my practice might look up.", "pos": 1500118}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "If you will wait a moment, Mr. Lydgate, I will draw a check to that amount. I am aware that help, to be effectual in these cases, should be thorough. You can give me a note of hand for this, Mr. Lydgate. And by-and-by, I hope, you may be in circumstances gradually to repay me. Meanwhile, I have pleasure in thinking that you will be released from further difficulty.", "pos": 1500358}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I am deeply obliged to you. You have restored to me the prospect of working with some happiness and some chance of good.", "pos": 1500959}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Nothing at present, except the offer of the soup or the soda-water: you can come to me for further directions. Unless there is any important change, I shall not come into the room again to-night. You will ask your husband for help if necessary. I must go to bed early.", "pos": 1504070}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Abel", "text": "You’ve much need, sir, I’m sure, and to take something more strengthening than what you’ve done.", "pos": 1504341}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Abel", "text": "If you please, sir, should I have no brandy nor nothing to give the poor creetur? He feels sinking away, and nothing else will he swaller—and but little strength in it, if he did—only the opium. And he says more and more he’s sinking down through the earth. I think he must die for want o’ support, if he goes on in that way. When I nursed my poor master, Mr. Robisson, I had to give him port-wine and brandy constant, and a big glass at a time. It’s not a time to spare when people are at death’s door, nor would you wish it, sir, I’m sure. Else I should give him our own bottle o’ rum as we keep by us. But a sitter-up so as you’ve been, and doing everything as laid in your power—", "pos": 1506829}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "That is the key of the wine-cooler. You will find plenty of brandy there.", "pos": 1507815}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "How is your patient—asleep, I think?", "pos": 1508563}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Abel", "text": "He’s gone very deep, sir. He went off gradual between three and four o’clock. Would you please to go and look at him? I thought it no harm to leave him. My man’s gone afield, and the little girl’s seeing to the kettles.", "pos": 1508656}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "When did this change begin?", "pos": 1511164}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I did not watch by him last night. I was over-worn, and left him under Mrs. Abel’s care. She said that he sank into sleep between three and four o’clock. When I came in before eight he was nearly in this condition.", "pos": 1511225}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "It’s all over.", "pos": 1511536}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "How are you, Lydgate? I came to see you because I had heard something which made me anxious about you,", "pos": 1514286}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I think I know what you mean. You had heard that there was an execution in the house?", "pos": 1514547}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Yes; is it true?", "pos": 1514635}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "It was true. But the danger is over; the debt is paid. I am out of my difficulties now: I shall be freed from debts, and able, I hope, to start afresh on a better plan.", "pos": 1514654}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I am very thankful to hear it. I like that better than all the news in the ‘Times.’ I confess I came to you with a heavy heart.", "pos": 1514917}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Thank you for coming. I can enjoy the kindness all the more because I am happier. I have certainly been a good deal crushed. I’m afraid I shall find the bruises still painful by-and by, but just now I can only feel that the torture-screw is off.", "pos": 1515178}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "My dear fellow, let me ask you one question. Forgive me if I take a liberty.", "pos": 1515553}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I don’t believe you will ask anything that ought to offend me.", "pos": 1515632}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Then—this is necessary to set my heart quite at rest—you have not—have you?—in order to pay your debts, incurred another debt which may harass you worse hereafter?", "pos": 1515697}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No. There is no reason why I should not tell you—since the fact is so—that the person to whom I am indebted is Bulstrode. He has made me a very handsome advance—a thousand pounds—and he can afford to wait for repayment.", "pos": 1515863}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Well, that is generous. And Bulstrode must naturally feel an interest in your welfare, after you have worked with him in a way which has probably reduced your income instead of adding to it. I am glad to think that he has acted accordingly.", "pos": 1516120}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I shall set up a surgery. I really think I made a mistaken effort in that respect. And if Rosamond will not mind, I shall take an apprentice. I don’t like these things, but if one carries them out faithfully they are not really lowering. I have had a severe galling to begin with: that will make the small rubs seem easy.", "pos": 1517373}
{"speaker": "_Froth_", "text": "I have so: because it is an open room, and good for winter.", "pos": 1518192}
{"speaker": "_Clo._", "text": "Why, very well then: I hope here be truths.", "pos": 1518257}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Bulstrode!", "pos": 1521045}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bambridge", "text": "By jingo! that reminds me. I picked up something else at Bilkley besides your gig-horse, Mr. Hawley. I picked up a fine story about Bulstrode. Do you know how he came by his fortune? Any gentleman wanting a bit of curious information, I can give it him free of expense. If everybody got their deserts, Bulstrode might have had to say his prayers at Botany Bay.", "pos": 1521453}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "What do you mean?", "pos": 1521857}
{"speaker": "Bambridge", "text": "I had it from a party who was an old chum of Bulstrode’s. I’ll tell you where I first picked him up. He was at Larcher’s sale, but I knew nothing of him then—he slipped through my fingers—was after Bulstrode, no doubt. He tells me he can tap Bulstrode to any amount, knows all his secrets. However, he blabbed to me at Bilkley: he takes a stiff glass. Damme if I think he meant to turn king’s evidence; but he’s that sort of bragging fellow, the bragging runs over hedge and ditch with him, till he’d brag of a spavin as if it ’ud fetch money. A man should know when to pull up.", "pos": 1522060}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "What’s the man’s name? Where can he be found?", "pos": 1522827}
{"speaker": "Bambridge", "text": "As to where he is to be found, I left him to it at the Saracen’s Head; but his name is Raffles.", "pos": 1522892}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hopkins", "text": "Raffles! I furnished his funeral yesterday. He was buried at Lowick. Mr. Bulstrode followed him. A very decent funeral.", "pos": 1522990}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "What?—where did the man die?", "pos": 1523340}
{"speaker": "the draper", "text": "At Stone Court. The housekeeper said he was a relation of the master’s. He came there ill on Friday.", "pos": 1523371}
{"speaker": "Bambridge", "text": "Why, it was on Wednesday I took a glass with him,", "pos": 1523493}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "Did any doctor attend him?", "pos": 1523567}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hopkins", "text": "Yes. Mr. Lydgate. Mr. Bulstrode sat up with him one night. He died the third morning.", "pos": 1523612}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "Go on, Bambridge. What did this fellow say about Bulstrode?", "pos": 1523700}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Well, it is a strange story. So our mercurial Ladislaw has a queer genealogy! A high-spirited young lady and a musical Polish patriot made a likely enough stock for him to spring from, but I should never have suspected a grafting of the Jew pawnbroker. However, there’s no knowing what a mixture will turn out beforehand. Some sorts of dirt serve to clarify.", "pos": 1527138}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "It’s just what I should have expected. Any cursed alien blood, Jew, Corsican, or Gypsy.", "pos": 1527641}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I know he’s one of your black sheep, Hawley. But he is really a disinterested, unworldly fellow,", "pos": 1527770}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "Ay, ay, that is your Whiggish twist,", "pos": 1527900}
{"speaker": "Mr. Limp", "text": "That’s odd. Why, I read in the ‘Trumpet’ that was what the Duke of Wellington said when he turned his coat and went over to the Romans.", "pos": 1532640}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Dollop", "text": "Very like. If one raskill said it, it’s more reason why another should. But hypocrite as he’s been, and holding things with that high hand, as there was no parson i’ the country good enough for him, he was forced to take Old Harry into his counsel, and Old Harry’s been too many for him.", "pos": 1532854}
{"speaker": "Mr. Crabbe", "text": "Ay, ay, he’s a ’complice you can’t send out o’ the country. But by what I can make out, there’s them says Bulstrode was for running away, for fear o’ being found out, before now.", "pos": 1533164}
{"speaker": "Mr. Dill", "text": "He’ll be drove away, whether or no. I shaved Fletcher, Hawley’s clerk, this morning—he’s got a bad finger—and he says they’re all of one mind to get rid of Bulstrode. Mr. Thesiger is turned against him, and wants him out o’ the parish. And there’s gentlemen in this town says they’d as soon dine with a fellow from the hulks. ‘And a deal sooner I would,’ says Fletcher; ‘for what’s more against one’s stomach than a man coming and making himself bad company with his religion, and giving out as the Ten Commandments are not enough for him, and all the while he’s worse than half the men at the tread-mill?’ Fletcher said so himself.", "pos": 1533427}
{"speaker": "Mr. Limp", "text": "It’ll be a bad thing for the town though, if Bulstrode’s money goes out of it,", "pos": 1534116}
{"speaker": "Unnamed dyer", "text": "Ah, there’s better folks spend their money worse,", "pos": 1534225}
{"speaker": "Mr. Crabbe", "text": "But he won’t keep his money, by what I can make out. Don’t they say as there’s somebody can strip it off him? By what I can understan’, they could take every penny off him, if they went to lawing.", "pos": 1534372}
{"speaker": "Mr. Dill", "text": "No such thing! Fletcher says it’s no such thing. He says they might prove over and over again whose child this young Ladislaw was, and they’d do no more than if they proved I came out of the Fens—he couldn’t touch a penny.", "pos": 1534591}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Dollop", "text": "Look you there now! I thank the Lord he took my children to Himself, if that’s all the law can do for the motherless. Then by that, it’s o’ no use who your father and mother is. But as to listening to what one lawyer says without asking another—I wonder at a man o’ your cleverness, Mr. Dill. It’s well known there’s always two sides, if no more; else who’d go to law, I should like to know? It’s a poor tale, with all the law as there is up and down, if it’s no use proving whose child you are. Fletcher may say that if he likes, but I say, don’t Fletcher me!", "pos": 1534921}
{"speaker": "Mr. Crabbe", "text": "If they come to lawing, and it’s all true as folks say, there’s more to be looked to nor money. There’s this poor creetur as is dead and gone; by what I can make out, he’d seen the day when he was a deal finer gentleman nor Bulstrode.", "pos": 1535729}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Dollop", "text": "Finer gentleman! I’ll warrant him, and a far personabler man, by what I can hear. As I said when Mr. Baldwin, the tax-gatherer, comes in, a-standing where you sit, and says, ‘Bulstrode got all his money as he brought into this town by thieving and swindling,’—I said, ‘You don’t make me no wiser, Mr. Baldwin: it’s set my blood a-creeping to look at him ever sin’ here he came into Slaughter Lane a-wanting to buy the house over my head: folks don’t look the color o’ the dough-tub and stare at you as if they wanted to see into your backbone for nothingk.’ That was what I said, and Mr. Baldwin can bear me witness. Bulstrode got all his money as he brought into this town by thieving and swindling. You don’t make me no wiser, Mr. Baldwin: it’s set my blood a-creeping to look at him ever sin’ here he came into Slaughter Lane a-wanting to buy the house over my head: folks don’t look the color o’ the dough-tub and stare at you as if they wanted to see into your backbone for nothingk.", "pos": 1535986}
{"speaker": "Mr. Crabbe", "text": "And in the rights of it too. For by what I can make out, this Raffles, as they call him, was a lusty, fresh-colored man as you’d wish to see, and the best o’ company—though dead he lies in Lowick churchyard sure enough; and by what I can understan’, there’s them knows more than they should know about how he got there.", "pos": 1536625}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Dollop", "text": "I’ll believe you! When a man’s been ’ticed to a lone house, and there’s them can pay for hospitals and nurses for half the country-side choose to be sitters-up night and day, and nobody to come near but a doctor as is known to stick at nothingk, and as poor as he can hang together, and after that so flush o’ money as he can pay off Mr. Byles the butcher as his bill has been running on for the best o’ joints since last Michaelmas was a twelvemonth—I don’t want anybody to come and tell me as there’s been more going on nor the Prayer-book’s got a service for—I don’t want to stand winking and blinking and thinking.", "pos": 1536966}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jonas", "text": "Why shouldn’t they dig the man up and have the Crowner? It’s been done many and many’s the time. If there’s been foul play they might find it out.", "pos": 1538123}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Dollop", "text": "Not they, Mr. Jonas! I know what doctors are. They’re a deal too cunning to be found out. And this Doctor Lydgate that’s been for cutting up everybody before the breath was well out o’ their body—it’s plain enough what use he wanted to make o’ looking into respectable people’s insides. He knows drugs, you may be sure, as you can neither smell nor see, neither before they’re swallowed nor after. Why, I’ve seen drops myself ordered by Doctor Gambit, as is our club doctor and a good charikter, and has brought more live children into the world nor ever another i’ Middlemarch—I say I’ve seen drops myself as made no difference whether they was in the glass or out, and yet have griped you the next day. So I’ll leave your own sense to judge. Don’t tell me! All I say is, it’s a mercy they didn’t take this Doctor Lydgate on to our club. There’s many a mother’s child might ha’ rued it.", "pos": 1538289}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "We will make a journey to Cheltenham in the course of a month or two. There are great spiritual advantages to be had in that town along with the air and the waters, and six weeks there will be eminently refreshing to us. if I have herein transgressed.", "pos": 1540027}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "Mr. Chairman, I request that before any one delivers his opinion on this point I may be permitted to speak on a question of public feeling, which not only by myself, but by many gentlemen present, is regarded as preliminary. In what I have to say, Mr. Chairman, I am not speaking simply on my own behalf: I am speaking with the concurrence and at the express request of no fewer than eight of my fellow-townsmen, who are immediately around us. It is our united sentiment that Mr. Bulstrode should be called upon—and I do now call upon him—to resign public positions which he holds not simply as a tax-payer, but as a gentleman among gentlemen. There are practices and there are acts which, owing to circumstances, the law cannot visit, though they may be worse than many things which are legally punishable. Honest men and gentlemen, if they don’t want the company of people who perpetrate such acts, have got to defend themselves as they best can, and that is what I and the friends whom I may call my clients in this affair are determined to do. I don’t say that Mr. Bulstrode has been guilty of shameful acts, but I call upon him either publicly to deny and confute the scandalous statements made against him by a man now dead, and who died in his house—the statement that he was for many years engaged in nefarious practices, and that he won his fortune by dishonest procedures—or else to withdraw from positions which could only have been allowed him as a gentleman among gentlemen.", "pos": 1543686}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "I protest before you, sir, as a Christian minister, against the sanction of proceedings towards me which are dictated by virulent hatred. Those who are hostile to me are glad to believe any libel uttered by a loose tongue against me. And their consciences become strict against me. Say that the evil-speaking of which I am to be made the victim accuses me of malpractices— who shall be my accuser? Not men whose own lives are unchristian, nay, scandalous—not men who themselves use low instruments to carry out their ends—whose profession is a tissue of chicanery—who have been spending their income on their own sensual enjoyments, while I have been devoting mine to advance the best objects with regard to this life and the next.", "pos": 1548175}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hawley", "text": "If you mean me, sir, I call you and every one else to the inspection of my professional life. As to Christian or unchristian, I repudiate your canting palavering Christianity; and as to the way in which I spend my income, it is not my principle to maintain thieves and cheat offspring of their due inheritance in order to support religion and set myself up as a saintly Killjoy. I affect no niceness of conscience—I have not found any nice standards necessary yet to measure your actions by, sir. And I again call upon you to enter into satisfactory explanations concerning the scandals against you, or else to withdraw from posts in which we at any rate decline you as a colleague. I say, sir, we decline to co-operate with a man whose character is not cleared from infamous lights cast upon it, not only by reports but by recent actions.", "pos": 1549264}
{"speaker": "chairman", "text": "Allow me, Mr. Hawley,", "pos": 1550106}
{"speaker": "Mr. Thesiger", "text": "Mr. Bulstrode, it is not desirable, I think, to prolong the present discussion. I must so far concur with what has fallen from Mr. Hawley in expression of a general feeling, as to think it due to your Christian profession that you should clear yourself, if possible, from unhappy aspersions. I for my part should be willing to give you full opportunity and hearing. But I must say that your present attitude is painfully inconsistent with those principles which you have sought to identify yourself with, and for the honor of which I am bound to care. I recommend you at present, as your clergyman, and one who hopes for your reinstatement in respect, to quit the room, and avoid further hindrance to business.", "pos": 1550259}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Step into my carriage. I am going round to see Mrs. Casaubon. She was to come back from Yorkshire last night. She will like to see me, you know.", "pos": 1552798}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, my dear, we have just come from a meeting—a sanitary meeting, you know.", "pos": 1553528}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Was Mr. Lydgate there? I want to see him and have a great consultation with him about the Hospital. I have engaged with Mr. Bulstrode to do so.", "pos": 1553627}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Oh, my dear, we have been hearing bad news—bad news, you know.", "pos": 1553893}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You don’t believe that Mr. Lydgate is guilty of anything base? I will not believe it. Let us find out the truth and clear him!", "pos": 1554348}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "It is a delicate matter to touch. How can we begin to inquire into it? It must be either publicly by setting the magistrate and coroner to work, or privately by questioning Lydgate. As to the first proceeding there is no solid ground to go upon, else Hawley would have adopted it; and as to opening the subject with Lydgate, I confess I should shrink from it. He would probably take it as a deadly insult. I have more than once experienced the difficulty of speaking to him on personal matters. And—one should know the truth about his conduct beforehand, to feel very confident of a good result.", "pos": 1554918}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I feel convinced that his conduct has not been guilty: I believe that people are almost always better than their neighbors think they are,", "pos": 1555527}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Mr. Lydgate would understand that if his friends hear a calumny about him their first wish must be to justify him. What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.", "pos": 1556301}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Exactly But, Dorothea, you can’t undertake to manage a man’s life for him in that way. Lydgate must know—at least he will soon come to know how he stands. If he can clear himself, he will. He must act for himself.", "pos": 1557119}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I think his friends must wait till they find an opportunity. It is possible—I have often felt so much weakness in myself that I can conceive even a man of honorable disposition, such as I have always believed Lydgate to be, succumbing to such a temptation as that of accepting money which was offered more or less indirectly as a bribe to insure his silence about scandalous facts long gone by. I say, I can conceive this, if he were under the pressure of hard circumstances—if he had been harassed as I feel sure Lydgate has been. I would not believe anything worse of him except under stringent proof. But there is the terrible Nemesis following on some errors, that it is always possible for those who like it to interpret them into a crime: there is no proof in favor of the man outside his own consciousness and assertion.", "pos": 1557624}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh, how cruel! And would you not like to be the one person who believed in that man’s innocence, if the rest of the world belied him? Besides, there is a man’s character beforehand to speak for him.", "pos": 1558479}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "But, my dear Mrs. Casaubon, character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.", "pos": 1558717}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Then it may be rescued and healed. I should not be afraid of asking Mr. Lydgate to tell me the truth, that I might help him. Why should I be afraid? Now that I am not to have the land, James, I might do as Mr. Bulstrode proposed, and take his place in providing for the Hospital; and I have to consult Mr. Lydgate, to know thoroughly what are the prospects of doing good by keeping up the present plans. There is the best opportunity in the world for me to ask for his confidence; and he would be able to tell me things which might make all the circumstances clear. Then we would all stand by him and bring him out of his trouble. People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.", "pos": 1558953}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "It is true that a woman may venture on some efforts of sympathy which would hardly succeed if we men undertook them,", "pos": 1559833}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Surely, a woman is bound to be cautious and listen to those who know the world better than she does. Whatever you do in the end, Dorothea, you should really keep back at present, and not volunteer any meddling with this Bulstrode business. We don’t know yet what may turn up. You must agree with me?", "pos": 1560012}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "I do think it would be better to wait,", "pos": 1560393}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Yes, yes, my dear. It is easy to go too far, you know. You must not let your ideas run away with you. And as to being in a hurry to put money into schemes—it won’t do, you know. Garth has drawn me in uncommonly with repairs, draining, that sort of thing: I’m uncommonly out of pocket with one thing or another. I must pull up. As for you, Chettam, you are spending a fortune on those oak fences round your demesne.", "pos": 1560451}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Now, Dodo, do listen to what James says, else you will be getting into a scrape. You always did, and you always will, when you set about doing as you please. And I think it is a mercy now after all that you have got James to think for you. He lets you have your plans, only he hinders you from being taken in. And that is the good of having a brother instead of a husband. A husband would not let you have your plans.", "pos": 1561142}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "As if I wanted a husband! I only want not to have my feelings checked at every turn.", "pos": 1561576}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Now, really, Dodo, you are contradictory: first one thing and then another. You used to submit to Mr. Casaubon quite shamefully: I think you would have given up ever coming to see me if he had asked you.", "pos": 1561752}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Of course I submitted to him, because it was my duty; it was my feeling for him,", "pos": 1562013}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Then why can’t you think it your duty to submit a little to what James wishes? Because he only wishes what is for your own good. And, of course, men know best about everything, except what women know better. Well, I mean about babies and those things. I should not give up to James when I knew he was wrong, as you used to do to Mr. Casaubon.", "pos": 1562151}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "He was afraid of some betrayal in my hearing: all he wanted was to bind me to him by a strong obligation: that was why he passed on a sudden from hardness to liberality. And he may have tampered with the patient—he may have disobeyed my orders. I fear he did. But whether he did or not, the world believes that he somehow or other poisoned the man and that I winked at the crime, if I didn’t help in it. And yet—and yet he may not be guilty of the last offence; and it is just possible that the change towards me may have been a genuine relenting—the effect of second thoughts such as he alleged. What we call the ‘just possible’ is sometimes true and the thing we find it easier to believe is grossly false. In his last dealings with this man Bulstrode may have kept his hands pure, in spite of my suspicion to the contrary. I did not take the money as a bribe.", "pos": 1565095}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "the purest experiment in treatment may still be conscientious: my business is to take care of life, and to do the best I can think of for it. Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. Is there a medical man of them all in Middlemarch who would question himself as I do? And yet they will all feel warranted in making a wide space between me and them, as if I were a leper! My practice and my reputation are utterly damned—I can see that. Even if I could be cleared by valid evidence, it would make little difference to the blessed world here. I have been set down as tainted and should be cheapened to them all the same.", "pos": 1568571}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I shall do as I think right, and explain to nobody. They will try to starve me out, but—", "pos": 1571190}
{"speaker": "Men", "text": "Ah, poor woman! She’s as honest as the day—she never suspected anything wrong in him, you may depend on it.", "pos": 1574126}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hackbutt", "text": "She has always been showy, though she has got into the way of putting her religion forward, to conform to her husband; she has tried to hold her head up above Middlemarch by making it known that she invites clergymen and heaven-knows-who from Riverston and those places.", "pos": 1575326}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Sprague", "text": "We can hardly blame her for that, because few of the best people in the town cared to associate with Bulstrode, and she must have somebody to sit down at her table.", "pos": 1575651}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hackbutt", "text": "Mr. Thesiger has always countenanced him. I think he must be sorry now.", "pos": 1575839}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Tom Toller", "text": "But he was never fond of him in his heart—that every one knows. Mr. Thesiger never goes into extremes. He keeps to the truth in what is evangelical. It is only clergymen like Mr. Tyke, who want to use Dissenting hymn-books and that low kind of religion, who ever found Bulstrode to their taste.", "pos": 1575935}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hackbutt", "text": "I understand, Mr. Tyke is in great distress about him. And well he may be: they say the Bulstrodes have half kept the Tyke family.", "pos": 1576256}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Sprague", "text": "And of course it is a discredit to his doctrines. People will not make a boast of being methodistical in Middlemarch for a good while to come.", "pos": 1576411}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "I think we must not set down people’s bad actions to their religion,", "pos": 1576629}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Sprague", "text": "Oh, my dear, we are forgetting. We ought not to be talking of this before you.", "pos": 1576766}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "I am sure I have no reason to be partial. It’s true Mr. Plymdale has always been on good terms with Mr. Bulstrode, and Harriet Vincy was my friend long before she married him. But I have always kept my own opinions and told her where she was wrong, poor thing. Still, in point of religion, I must say, Mr. Bulstrode might have done what he has, and worse, and yet have been a man of no religion. I don’t say that there has not been a little too much of that—I like moderation myself. But truth is truth. The men tried at the assizes are not all over-religious, I suppose.", "pos": 1576868}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hackbutt", "text": "Well, all I can say is, that I think she ought to separate from him.", "pos": 1577474}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Sprague", "text": "I can’t say that. She took him for better or worse, you know.", "pos": 1577586}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hackbutt", "text": "But ‘worse’ can never mean finding out that your husband is fit for Newgate. Fancy living with such a man! I should expect to be poisoned.", "pos": 1577671}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Tom Toller", "text": "Yes, I think myself it is an encouragement to crime if such men are to be taken care of and waited on by good wives,", "pos": 1577834}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "And a good wife poor Harriet has been. She thinks her husband the first of men. It’s true he has never denied her anything.", "pos": 1577975}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hackbutt", "text": "Well, we shall see what she will do. I suppose she knows nothing yet, poor creature. I do hope and trust I shall not see her, for I should be frightened to death lest I should say anything about her husband. Do you think any hint has reached her?", "pos": 1578123}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Tom Toller", "text": "I should hardly think so. We hear that he is ill, and has never stirred out of the house since the meeting on Thursday; but she was with her girls at church yesterday, and they had new Tuscan bonnets. Her own had a feather in it. I have never seen that her religion made any difference in her dress.", "pos": 1578394}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "She wears very neat patterns always. And that feather I know she got dyed a pale lavender on purpose to be consistent. I must say it of Harriet that she wishes to do right.", "pos": 1578720}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hackbutt", "text": "As to her knowing what has happened, it can’t be kept from her long. The Vincys know, for Mr. Vincy was at the meeting. It will be a great blow to him. There is his daughter as well as his sister.", "pos": 1578933}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Sprague", "text": "Yes, indeed. Nobody supposes that Mr. Lydgate can go on holding up his head in Middlemarch, things look so black about the thousand pounds he took just at that man’s death. It really makes one shudder.", "pos": 1579154}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hackbutt", "text": "Pride must have a fall,", "pos": 1579379}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "I am not so sorry for Rosamond Vincy that was as I am for her aunt. She needed a lesson.", "pos": 1579425}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Sprague", "text": "I suppose the Bulstrodes will go and live abroad somewhere. That is what is generally done when there is anything disgraceful in a family.", "pos": 1579538}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "And a most deadly blow it will be to Harriet. If ever a woman was crushed, she will be. I pity her from my heart. And with all her faults, few women are better. From a girl she had the neatest ways, and was always good-hearted, and as open as the day. You might look into her drawers when you would—always the same. And so she has brought up Kate and Ellen. You may think how hard it will be for her to go among foreigners.", "pos": 1579700}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Sprague", "text": "The doctor says that is what he should recommend the Lydgates to do. He says Lydgate ought to have kept among the French.", "pos": 1580147}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Plymdale", "text": "That would suit her well enough, I dare say, there is that kind of lightness about her. But she got that from her mother; she never got it from her aunt Bulstrode, who always gave her good advice, and to my knowledge would rather have had her marry elsewhere.", "pos": 1580292}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Mr. Lydgate, pray be open with me: I like to know the truth. Has anything happened to Mr. Bulstrode?", "pos": 1583052}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Some little nervous shock,", "pos": 1583155}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "But what brought it on?", "pos": 1583273}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "There is often something poisonous in the air of public rooms. Strong men can stand it, but it tells on people in proportion to the delicacy of their systems. It is often impossible to account for the precise moment of an attack—or rather, to say why the strength gives way at a particular moment.", "pos": 1583370}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "I have not been anywhere except to church for nearly a week. But Mr. Bulstrode was taken so ill at the meeting on Thursday that I have not liked to leave the house. Was Mr. Hackbutt at the meeting?", "pos": 1584947}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hackbutt", "text": "Yes, he was. The land is to be bought by subscription, I believe.", "pos": 1585379}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Let us hope that there will be no more cases of cholera to be buried in it. It is an awful visitation. But I always think Middlemarch a very healthy spot. I suppose it is being used to it from a child; but I never saw the town I should like to live at better, and especially our end.", "pos": 1585493}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hackbutt", "text": "I am sure I should be glad that you always should live at Middlemarch, Mrs. Bulstrode. Still, we must learn to resign ourselves, wherever our lot may be cast. Though I am sure there will always be people in this town who will wish you well. if you take my advice you will part from your husband,", "pos": 1585802}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Selina", "pos": 1587093}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "What is it that you have in your mind?", "pos": 1588043}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "God help you, Harriet! you know all.", "pos": 1588963}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "I know nothing, Walter. What is it?", "pos": 1589867}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "People will talk. Even if a man has been acquitted by a jury, they’ll talk, and nod and wink—and as far as the world goes, a man might often as well be guilty as not. It’s a breakdown blow, and it damages Lydgate as much as Bulstrode. I don’t pretend to say what is the truth. I only wish we had never heard the name of either Bulstrode or Lydgate. You’d better have been a Vincy all your life, and so had Rosamond. But you must bear up as well as you can, Harriet. People don’t blame you. And I’ll stand by you whatever you make up your mind to do,", "pos": 1590083}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Give me your arm to the carriage, Walter. I feel very weak. I am not well, my dear; I must go and lie down. Attend to your papa. Leave me in quiet. I shall take no dinner.", "pos": 1590742}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Look up, Nicholas.", "pos": 1594146}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "This is Chichely’s scratch. What is he writing to you about? Why on earth have you been sending out invitations without telling me, Rosamond? I beg, I insist that you will not invite any one to this house. I suppose you have been inviting others, and they have refused too. Do you hear me?", "pos": 1601343}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Yes, certainly I hear you,", "pos": 1601807}
{"speaker": "Mr. and Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Well, my dear!", "pos": 1603060}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Is there anything the matter, papa?", "pos": 1603177}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Oh, my dear, have you heard nothing? It won’t be long before it reaches you.", "pos": 1603255}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Is it anything about Tertius?", "pos": 1603334}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "Oh, my dear, yes. To think of your marrying into this trouble. Debt was bad enough, but this will be worse.", "pos": 1603492}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Stay, stay, Lucy. Have you heard nothing about your uncle Bulstrode, Rosamond?", "pos": 1603602}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "No, papa,", "pos": 1603701}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "It’s better for you to know, my dear. I think Lydgate must leave the town. Things have gone against him. I dare say he couldn’t help it. I don’t accuse him of any harm,", "pos": 1603934}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Vincy", "text": "She bears it beyond anything,", "pos": 1604980}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Ah, thank God!", "pos": 1605047}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Rosamond, have you heard anything that distresses you?", "pos": 1606626}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1606683}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "What have you heard?", "pos": 1606820}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Everything, I suppose. Papa told me.", "pos": 1606843}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "That people think me disgraced?", "pos": 1606882}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1606916}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Surely, Tertius—", "pos": 1609708}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Well?", "pos": 1609727}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Surely now at last you have given up the idea of staying in Middlemarch. I cannot go on living here. Let us go to London. Papa, and every one else, says you had better go. Whatever misery I have to put up with, it will be easier away from here.", "pos": 1609735}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Your views may possibly have undergone some change, but, in that case also, it is desirable that you should lay them before her.", "pos": 1612231}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I have wished very much to see you for a long while, Mr. Lydgate, but I put off asking you to come until Mr. Bulstrode applied to me again about the Hospital. I know that the advantage of keeping the management of it separate from that of the Infirmary depends on you, or, at least, on the good which you are encouraged to hope for from having it under your control. And I am sure you will not refuse to tell me exactly what you think.", "pos": 1614688}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "You want to decide whether you should give a generous support to the Hospital. I cannot conscientiously advise you to do it in dependence on any activity of mine. I may be obliged to leave the town.", "pos": 1615185}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Not because there is no one to believe in you? I know the unhappy mistakes about you. I knew them from the first moment to be mistakes. You have never done anything vile. You would not do anything dishonorable.", "pos": 1615533}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Thank you.", "pos": 1615929}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I beseech you to tell me how everything was. I am sure that the truth would clear you.", "pos": 1616083}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Tell me, pray, then we can consult together. It is wicked to let people think evil of any one falsely, when it can be hindered.", "pos": 1616705}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I don’t want, to bear hard on Bulstrode, who has lent me money of which I was in need—though I would rather have gone without it now. He is hunted down and miserable, and has only a poor thread of life in him. But I should like to tell you everything. It will be a comfort to me to speak where belief has gone beforehand, and where I shall not seem to be offering assertions of my own honesty. You will feel what is fair to another, as you feel what is fair to me.", "pos": 1617516}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Do trust me. I will not repeat anything without your leave. But at the very least, I could say that you have made all the circumstances clear to me, and that I know you are not in any way guilty. Mr. Farebrother would believe me, and my uncle, and Sir James Chettam. Nay, there are persons in Middlemarch to whom I could go; although they don’t know much of me, they would believe me. They would know that I could have no other motive than truth and justice. I would take any pains to clear you. I have very little to do. There is nothing better that I can do in the world.", "pos": 1617994}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "It has come to my knowledge since, that Hawley sent some one to examine the housekeeper at Stone Court, and she said that she gave the patient all the opium in the phial I left, as well as a good deal of brandy. But that would not have been opposed to ordinary prescriptions, even of first-rate men. The suspicions against me had no hold there: they are grounded on the knowledge that I took money, that Bulstrode had strong motives for wishing the man to die, and that he gave me the money as a bribe to concur in some malpractices or other against the patient—that in any case I accepted a bribe to hold my tongue. They are just the suspicions that cling the most obstinately, because they lie in people’s inclination and can never be disproved. How my orders came to be disobeyed is a question to which I don’t know the answer. It is still possible that Bulstrode was innocent of any criminal intention—even possible that he had nothing to do with the disobedience, and merely abstained from mentioning it. But all that has nothing to do with the public belief. It is one of those cases on which a man is condemned on the ground of his character—it is believed that he has committed a crime in some undefined way, because he had the motive for doing it; and Bulstrode’s character has enveloped me, because I took his money. I am simply blighted—like a damaged ear of corn—the business is done and can’t be undone.", "pos": 1619659}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh, it is hard! I understand the difficulty there is in your vindicating yourself. And that all this should have come to you who had meant to lead a higher life than the common, and to find out better ways—I cannot bear to rest in this as unchangeable. I know you meant that. I remember what you said to me when you first spoke to me about the hospital. There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that—to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.", "pos": 1621090}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Yes. I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.", "pos": 1621579}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Suppose, suppose we kept on the Hospital according to the present plan, and you stayed here though only with the friendship and support of a few, the evil feeling towards you would gradually die out; there would come opportunities in which people would be forced to acknowledge that they had been unjust to you, because they would see that your purposes were pure. You may still win a great fame like the Louis and Laennec I have heard you speak of, and we shall all be proud of you,", "pos": 1621856}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "That might do if I had my old trust in myself. Nothing galls me more than the notion of turning round and running away before this slander, leaving it unchecked behind me. Still, I can’t ask any one to put a great deal of money into a plan which depends on me.", "pos": 1622398}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It would be quite worth my while. Only think. I am very uncomfortable with my money, because they tell me I have too little for any great scheme of the sort I like best, and yet I have too much. I don’t know what to do. I have seven hundred a-year of my own fortune, and nineteen hundred a-year that Mr. Casaubon left me, and between three and four thousand of ready money in the bank. I wished to raise money and pay it off gradually out of my income which I don’t want, to buy land with and found a village which should be a school of industry; but Sir James and my uncle have convinced me that the risk would be too great. So you see that what I should most rejoice at would be to have something good to do with my money: I should like it to make other people’s lives better to them. It makes me very uneasy—coming all to me who don’t want it. I think you see now that you spoke too scrupulously. The hospital would be one good; and making your life quite whole and well again would be another.", "pos": 1622689}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "You have the goodness as well as the money to do all that; if it could be done. But— Why should I not tell you?—you know what sort of bond marriage is. You will understand everything. It is impossible for me now to do anything—to take any step without considering my wife’s happiness. The thing that I might like to do if I were alone, is become impossible to me. I can’t see her miserable. She married me without knowing what she was going into, and it might have been better for her if she had not married me.", "pos": 1624213}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I know, I know—you could not give her pain, if you were not obliged to do it,", "pos": 1625028}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "And she has set her mind against staying. She wishes to go. The troubles she has had here have wearied her,", "pos": 1625157}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "But when she saw the good that might come of staying—", "pos": 1625330}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "She would not see it. And, indeed, I have lost all spirit about carrying on my life here. The fact is, this trouble has come upon her confusedly. We have not been able to speak to each other about it. I am not sure what is in her mind about it: she may fear that I have really done something base. It is my fault; I ought to be more open. But I have been suffering cruelly.", "pos": 1625532}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "May I go and see her? Would she accept my sympathy? I would tell her that you have not been blamable before any one’s judgment but your own. I would tell her that you shall be cleared in every fair mind. I would cheer her heart. Will you ask her if I may go to see her? I did see her once.", "pos": 1626123}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I am sure you may. She would feel honored—cheered, I think, by the proof that you at least have some respect for me. I will not speak to her about your coming—that she may not connect it with my wishes at all. I know very well that I ought not to have left anything to be told her by others, but—", "pos": 1626441}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "And if Mrs. Lydgate knew that there were friends who would believe in you and support you, she might then be glad that you should stay in your place and recover your hopes—and do what you meant to do. Perhaps then you would see that it was right to agree with what I proposed about your continuing at the Hospital. Surely you would, if you still have faith in it as a means of making your knowledge useful? You need not decide immediately. A few days hence it will be early enough for me to send my answer to Mr. Bulstrode.", "pos": 1627131}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No; I prefer that there should be no interval left for wavering. I am no longer sure enough of myself—I mean of what it would be possible for me to do under the changed circumstances of my life. It would be dishonorable to let others engage themselves to anything serious in dependence on me. I might be obliged to go away after all; I see little chance of anything else. The whole thing is too problematic; I cannot consent to be the cause of your goodness being wasted. No—let the new Hospital be joined with the old Infirmary, and everything go on as it might have done if I had never come. I have kept a valuable register since I have been there; I shall send it to a man who will make use of it. I can think of nothing for a long while but getting an income.", "pos": 1627828}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It hurts me very much to hear you speak so hopelessly. It would be a happiness to your friends, who believe in your future, in your power to do great things, if you would let them save you from that. Think how much money I have; it would be like taking a burthen from me if you took some of it every year till you got free from this fettering want of income. Why should not people do these things? It is so difficult to make shares at all even. This is one way.", "pos": 1628615}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "God bless you, Mrs. Casaubon! It is good that you should have such feelings. But I am not the man who ought to allow himself to benefit by them. I have not given guarantees enough. I must not at least sink into the degradation of being pensioned for work that I never achieved. It is very clear to me that I must not count on anything else than getting away from Middlemarch as soon as I can manage it. I should not be able for a long while, at the very best, to get an income here, and—and it is easier to make necessary changes in a new place. I must do as other men do, and think what will please the world and bring in money; look for a little opening in the London crowd, and push myself; set up in a watering-place, or go to some southern town where there are plenty of idle English, and get myself puffed,—that is the sort of shell I must creep into and try to keep my soul alive in.", "pos": 1629096}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Now that is not brave, to give up the fight.", "pos": 1630154}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No, it is not brave, but if a man is afraid of creeping paralysis? Yet you have made a great difference in my courage by believing in me. Everything seems more bearable since I have talked to you; and if you can clear me in a few other minds, especially in Farebrother’s, I shall be deeply grateful. The point I wish you not to mention is the fact of disobedience to my orders. That would soon get distorted. After all, there is no evidence for me but people’s opinion of me beforehand. You can only repeat my own report of myself.", "pos": 1630218}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Mr. Farebrother will believe—others will believe. I can say of you what will make it stupidity to suppose that you would be bribed to do a wickedness.", "pos": 1630792}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I don’t know. I have not taken a bribe yet. But there is a pale shade of bribery which is sometimes called prosperity. You will do me another great kindness, then, and come to see my wife?", "pos": 1630962}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes, I will. I remember how pretty she is. I hope she will like me.", "pos": 1631211}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "If Tertius goes away, you will help us to move, will you not, papa? I suppose we shall have very little money. I am sure I hope some one will help us.", "pos": 1633359}
{"speaker": "Mr. Vincy", "text": "Yes, child, I don’t mind a hundred or two. I can see the end of that.", "pos": 1633536}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "somebody who will manage your property for you, my dear,", "pos": 1641273}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I should like to manage it myself, if I knew what to do with it,", "pos": 1641400}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I shall talk to her about her husband. I shall take Mrs. Lydgate good news, and perhaps she will like to talk to me and make a friend of me. Is Mrs. Lydgate at home?", "pos": 1642474}
{"speaker": "Martha", "text": "I’m not sure, my lady; I’ll see, if you’ll please to walk in. Will you please to walk in, and I’ll go and see.", "pos": 1643527}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Say that I am Mrs. Casaubon,", "pos": 1643830}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Excuse me, Mrs. Lydgate, the servant did not know that you were here. I called to deliver an important letter for Mr. Lydgate, which I wished to put into your own hands.", "pos": 1645916}
{"speaker": "Martha", "text": "she was sorry the mistress was not at home", "pos": 1646318}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Drive on to Freshitt Hall,", "pos": 1646586}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Dodo, how very bright your eyes are! And you don’t see anything you look at, Arthur or anything. You are going to do something uncomfortable, I know. Is it all about Mr. Lydgate, or has something else happened?", "pos": 1647739}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes, dear, a great many things have happened,", "pos": 1648065}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I wonder what,", "pos": 1648143}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh, all the troubles of all people on the face of the earth,", "pos": 1648227}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Dear me, Dodo, are you going to have a scheme for them?", "pos": 1648347}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Don’t touch me!", "pos": 1649812}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "You can easily go after Mrs. Casaubon and explain your preference.", "pos": 1651176}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Go after her! Do you think she would turn to look at me, or value any word I ever uttered to her again at more than a dirty feather?—Explain! How can a man explain at the expense of a woman?", "pos": 1651245}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "You can tell her what you please,", "pos": 1651486}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Do you suppose she would like me better for sacrificing you? She is not a woman to be flattered because I made myself despicable—to believe that I must be true to her because I was a dastard to you. I had no hope before—not much—of anything better to come. But I had one certainty—that she believed in me. Whatever people had said or done about me, she believed in me.—That’s gone! She’ll never again think me anything but a paltry pretence—too nice to take heaven except upon flattering conditions, and yet selling myself for any devil’s change by the sly. She’ll think of me as an incarnate insult to her, from the first moment we— Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman’s living.", "pos": 1651554}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Shall I come in and see Lydgate this evening?", "pos": 1656157}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "If you like,", "pos": 1656205}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "My poor Rosamond! has something agitated you?", "pos": 1657348}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Poor Rosamond is ill,", "pos": 1658713}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Not seriously, I hope,", "pos": 1658780}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "No—only a slight nervous shock—the effect of some agitation. She has been overwrought lately. The truth is, Ladislaw, I am an unlucky devil. We have gone through several rounds of purgatory since you left, and I have lately got on to a worse ledge of it than ever. I suppose you are only just come down—you look rather battered—you have not been long enough in the town to hear anything?", "pos": 1658816}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I travelled all night and got to the White Hart at eight o’clock this morning. I have been shutting myself up and resting,", "pos": 1659206}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I thought it better to tell you that your name is mixed up with the disclosures. You will be sure to hear it as soon as you turn out into the town. I suppose it is true that Raffles spoke to you.", "pos": 1659683}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Yes. I shall be fortunate if gossip does not make me the most disreputable person in the whole affair. I should think the latest version must be, that I plotted with Raffles to murder Bulstrode, and ran away from Middlemarch for the purpose.", "pos": 1659986}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Mrs. Casaubon has been the one person to come forward and say that she had no belief in any of the suspicions against me.", "pos": 1660939}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "We shall have you again, old fellow,", "pos": 1661578}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "Henrietta Noble, what is the matter?", "pos": 1664858}
{"speaker": "Miss Noble", "text": "I have lost my tortoise-shell lozenge-box. I fear the kitten has rolled it away,", "pos": 1664993}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Is it a great treasure, aunt?", "pos": 1665148}
{"speaker": "Miss Noble", "text": "Mr. Ladislaw gave it me. A German box—very pretty, but if it falls it always spins away as far as it can.", "pos": 1665252}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "Oh, if it is Ladislaw’s present,", "pos": 1665379}
{"speaker": "Miss Noble", "text": "it was under a fender the last time.", "pos": 1665587}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "That is an affair of the heart with my aunt,", "pos": 1665626}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Farebrother", "text": "If Henrietta Noble forms an attachment to any one, Mrs. Casaubon, she is like a dog—she would take their shoes for a pillow and sleep the better.", "pos": 1665740}
{"speaker": "Miss Noble", "text": "Mr. Ladislaw’s shoes, I would,", "pos": 1665921}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I must go; I have overtired myself.", "pos": 1666329}
{"speaker": "Mr. Farebrother", "text": "It is true; you must have half-exhausted yourself in talking about Lydgate. That sort of work tells upon one after the excitement is over.", "pos": 1666420}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh, I did love him!", "pos": 1666959}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "What should I do—how should I act now, this very day, if I could clutch my own pain, and compel it to silence, and think of those three?", "pos": 1672704}
{"speaker": "Tantripp", "text": "Why, madam, you’ve never been in bed this blessed night. You’ll kill yourself, you will. Anybody might think now you had a right to give yourself a little comfort.", "pos": 1673927}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Don’t be alarmed, Tantripp. I have slept; I am not ill. I shall be glad of a cup of coffee as soon as possible. And I want you to bring me my new dress; and most likely I shall want my new bonnet to-day.", "pos": 1674253}
{"speaker": "Tantripp", "text": "They’ve lain there a month and more ready for you, madam, and most thankful I shall be to see you with a couple o’ pounds’ worth less of crape. There’s a reason in mourning, as I’ve always said; and three folds at the bottom of your skirt and a plain quilling in your bonnet—and if ever anybody looked like an angel, it’s you in a net quilling—is what’s consistent for a second year. At least, that’s my thinking, and if anybody was to marry me flattering himself I should wear those hijeous weepers two years for him, he’d be deceived by his own vanity, that’s all.", "pos": 1674485}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "The fire will do, my good Tan, get me the coffee.", "pos": 1675148}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Do you think that Mrs. Lydgate can receive me this morning?", "pos": 1676616}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I have no doubt she will, if you will be kind enough to come in and let me tell her that you are here. She has not been very well since you were here yesterday, but she is better this morning, and I think it is very likely that she will be cheered by seeing you again.", "pos": 1676778}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I wrote this last night, and was going to carry it to Lowick in my ride. When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech—one does not at least hear how inadequate the words are.", "pos": 1677676}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It is I who have most to thank for, since you have let me take that place. You have consented?", "pos": 1677942}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Yes, the check is going to Bulstrode to-day.", "pos": 1678068}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Ladislaw is come, Rosy; he sat with me last night; I dare say he will be here again to-day. I thought he looked rather battered and depressed. Rosy, dear, Mrs. Casaubon is come to see you again; you would like to see her, would you not?", "pos": 1678659}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I am going out immediately.", "pos": 1679678}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Pray tell Martha not to bring any one else into the drawing-room.", "pos": 1679767}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I had an errand yesterday which I did not finish; that is why I am here again so soon. You will not think me too troublesome when I tell you that I came to talk to you about the injustice that has been shown towards Mr. Lydgate. It will cheer you—will it not?—to know a great deal about him, that he may not like to speak about himself just because it is in his own vindication and to his own honor. You will like to know that your husband has warm friends, who have not left off believing in his high character? You will let me speak of this without thinking that I take a liberty?", "pos": 1682934}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I know you have been very good. I shall like to hear anything you will say to me about Tertius.", "pos": 1684014}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "The day before yesterday, when I had asked him to come to Lowick to give me his opinion on the affairs of the Hospital, he told me everything about his conduct and feelings in this sad event which has made ignorant people cast suspicions on him. The reason he told me was because I was very bold and asked him. I believed that he had never acted dishonorably, and I begged him to tell me the history. He confessed to me that he had never told it before, not even to you, because he had a great dislike to say, ‘I was not wrong,’ as if that were proof, when there are guilty people who will say so. The truth is, he knew nothing of this man Raffles, or that there were any bad secrets about him; and he thought that Mr. Bulstrode offered him the money because he repented, out of kindness, of having refused it before. All his anxiety about his patient was to treat him rightly, and he was a little uncomfortable that the case did not end as he had expected; but he thought then and still thinks that there may have been no wrong in it on any one’s part. And I have told Mr. Farebrother, and Mr. Brooke, and Sir James Chettam: they all believe in your husband. That will cheer you, will it not? That will give you courage?", "pos": 1684111}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Thank you: you are very kind.", "pos": 1685582}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "And he felt that he had been so wrong not to pour out everything about this to you. But you will forgive him. It was because he feels so much more about your happiness than anything else—he feels his life bound into one with yours, and it hurts him more than anything, that his misfortunes must hurt you. He could speak to me because I am an indifferent person. And then I asked him if I might come to see you; because I felt so much for his trouble and yours. That is why I came yesterday, and why I am come to-day. Trouble is so hard to bear, is it not?— How can we live and think that any one has trouble—piercing trouble—and we could help them, and never try?", "pos": 1685614}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "We were talking about your husband. I thought his looks were sadly changed with suffering the other day. I had not seen him for many weeks before. He said he had been feeling very lonely in his trial; but I think he would have borne it all better if he had been able to be quite open with you.", "pos": 1689006}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Tertius is so angry and impatient if I say anything. He ought not to wonder that I object to speak to him on painful subjects.", "pos": 1689339}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It was himself he blamed for not speaking. What he said of you was, that he could not be happy in doing anything which made you unhappy—that his marriage was of course a bond which must affect his choice about everything; and for that reason he refused my proposal that he should keep his position at the Hospital, because that would bind him to stay in Middlemarch, and he would not undertake to do anything which would be painful to you. He could say that to me, because he knows that I had much trial in my marriage, from my husband’s illness, which hindered his plans and saddened him; and he knows that I have felt how hard it is to walk always in fear of hurting another who is tied to us. Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved some one else better than—than those we were married to, it would be no use I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear—but it murders our marriage—and then the marriage stays with us like a murder—and everything else is gone. And then our husband—if he loved and trusted us, and we have not helped him, but made a curse in his life— I know, I know that the feeling may be very dear—it has taken hold of us unawares—it is so hard, it may seem like death to part with it—and we are weak—I am weak—", "pos": 1689544}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "You are thinking what is not true. When you came in yesterday—it was not as you thought. He was telling me how he loved another woman, that I might know he could never love me. And now I think he hates me because—because you mistook him yesterday. He says it is through me that you will think ill of him—think that he is a false person. But it shall not be through me. He has never had any love for me—I know he has not—he has always thought slightly of me. He said yesterday that no other woman existed for him beside you. The blame of what happened is entirely mine. He said he could never explain to you—because of me. He said you could never think well of him again. But now I have told you, and he cannot reproach me any more.", "pos": 1692293}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, he cannot reproach you any more. You are not sorry that I came this morning?", "pos": 1694194}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "No, you have been very good to me. I did not think that you would be so good. I was very unhappy. I am not happy now. Everything is so sad.", "pos": 1694568}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "But better days will come. Your husband will be rightly valued. And he depends on you for comfort. He loves you best. The worst loss would be to lose that—and you have not lost it,", "pos": 1694727}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Tertius did not find fault with me, then?", "pos": 1695101}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, indeed! How could you imagine it?", "pos": 1695406}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "I am come back in my quality of doctor. After I went away, I was haunted by two pale faces: Mrs. Casaubon looked as much in need of care as you, Rosy. And I thought that I had not done my duty in leaving you together; so when I had been to Coleman’s I came home again. I noticed that you were walking, Mrs. Casaubon, and the sky has changed—I think we may have rain. May I send some one to order your carriage to come for you?", "pos": 1695493}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh, no! I am strong: I need the walk. Mrs. Lydgate and I have chatted a great deal, and it is time for me to go. I have always been accused of being immoderate and saying too much.", "pos": 1695933}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "Well, Rosy, what do you think of Mrs. Casaubon now you have seen so much of her?", "pos": 1696637}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I think she must be better than any one, and she is very beautiful. If you go to talk to her so often, you will be more discontented with me than ever!", "pos": 1696773}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "But has she made you any less discontented with me?", "pos": 1696979}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I think she has. How heavy your eyes are, Tertius—and do push your hair back.", "pos": 1697033}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "I have told Mrs. Casaubon. She is not under any mistake about you. I told her because she came to see me and was very kind. You will have nothing to reproach me with now. I shall not have made any difference to you.", "pos": 1705036}
{"speaker": "DR. DONNE", "text": "And now good-morrow to our waking souls Which watch not one another out of fear; For love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere.", "pos": 1706255}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh dear! oh dear! Do sit down. Am I wanted for anything? I shall be so glad if I can do anything.", "pos": 1709357}
{"speaker": "Miss Noble", "text": "I will not stay. I have left a friend in the churchyard. Mr. Ladislaw. He fears he has offended you, and has begged me to ask if you will see him for a few minutes. Do see him, Mrs. Casaubon, else I must go back and say No, and that will hurt him.", "pos": 1709878}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes, I will see him. Pray tell him to come.", "pos": 1710861}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "If I love him too much it is because he has been used so ill:", "pos": 1711875}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I am so grateful to you for seeing me.", "pos": 1712656}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I wanted to see you,", "pos": 1712697}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I fear you think me foolish and perhaps wrong for coming back so soon. I have been punished for my impatience. You know—every one knows now—a painful story about my parentage. I knew of it before I went away, and I always meant to tell you of it if—if we ever met again. But the affair is matter of gossip now. I wished you to know that something connected with it—something which happened before I went away, helped to bring me down here again. At least I thought it excused my coming. It was the idea of getting Bulstrode to apply some money to a public purpose—some money which he had thought of giving me. Perhaps it is rather to Bulstrode’s credit that he privately offered me compensation for an old injury: he offered to give me a good income to make amends; but I suppose you know the disagreeable story? You know that it must be altogether painful to me.", "pos": 1712951}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Yes—yes—I know,", "pos": 1714115}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I did not choose to accept an income from such a source. I was sure that you would not think well of me if I did so. I felt that", "pos": 1714157}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "You acted as I should have expected you to act,", "pos": 1714435}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "I did not believe that you would let any circumstance of my birth create a prejudice in you against me, though it was sure to do so in others,", "pos": 1714586}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "If it were a new hardship it would be a new reason for me to cling to you. Nothing could have changed me but— but thinking that you were different—not so good as I had believed you to be.", "pos": 1714831}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "You are sure to believe me better than I am in everything but one. I mean, in my truth to you. When I thought you doubted of that, I didn’t care about anything that was left. I thought it was all over with me, and there was nothing to try for—only things to endure.", "pos": 1715175}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I don’t doubt you any longer. See how dark the clouds have become, and how the trees are tossed,", "pos": 1715511}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "That was a wrong thing for you to say, that you would have had nothing to try for. If we had lost our own chief good, other people’s good would remain, and that is worth trying for. Some can be happy. I seemed to see that more clearly than ever, when I was the most wretched. I can hardly think how I could have borne the trouble, if that feeling had not come to me to make strength.", "pos": 1717095}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "You have never felt the sort of misery I felt, the misery of knowing that you must despise me.", "pos": 1717481}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "But I have felt worse—it was worse to think ill—", "pos": 1717591}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "We may at least have the comfort of speaking to each other without disguise. Since I must go away—since we must always be divided—you may think of me as one on the brink of the grave.", "pos": 1717857}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "There is no hope for me. Even if you loved me as well as I love you—even if I were everything to you—I shall most likely always be very poor: on a sober calculation, one can count on nothing but a creeping lot. It is impossible for us ever to belong to each other. It is perhaps base of me to have asked for a word from you. I meant to go away into silence, but I have not been able to do what I meant.", "pos": 1718633}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Don’t be sorry. I would rather share all the trouble of our parting.", "pos": 1719051}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "It is impossible! It is as fatal as a murder or any other horror that divides people, it is more intolerable—to have our life maimed by petty accidents.", "pos": 1720222}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No—don’t say that—your life need not be maimed,", "pos": 1720534}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Yes, it must. It is cruel of you to speak in that way—as if there were any comfort. You may see beyond the misery of it, but I don’t. It is unkind—it is throwing back my love for you as if it were a trifle, to speak in that way in the face of the fact. We can never be married.", "pos": 1720607}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Some time—we might,", "pos": 1720909}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "When? What is the use of counting on any success of mine? It is a mere toss up whether I shall ever do more than keep myself decently, unless I choose to sell myself as a mere pen and a mouthpiece. I can see that clearly enough. I could not offer myself to any woman, even if she had no luxuries to renounce.", "pos": 1720968}
{"speaker": "Will Ladislaw", "text": "Good-by.", "pos": 1721863}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Oh, I cannot bear it—my heart will break. I don’t mind about poverty—I hate my wealth. We could live quite well on my own fortune—it is too much—seven hundred a-year—I want so little—no new clothes—and I will learn what everything costs.", "pos": 1721874}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "It would be very nice, though, if he were a Viscount—and his lordship’s little tooth coming through! He might have been, if James had been an Earl.", "pos": 1724245}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "My dear Celia. James’s title is worth far more than any new earldom. I never wished his father to be anything else than Sir James.", "pos": 1724395}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Oh, I only meant about Arthur’s little tooth. But see, here is my uncle coming.", "pos": 1724548}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, my dear! Well, you’re all here, you know,", "pos": 1724871}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Don’t take the throwing out of the Bill so much to heart, Brooke; you’ve got all the riff-raff of the country on your side.", "pos": 1725151}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "The Bill, eh? ah! Thrown out, you know, eh? The Lords are going too far, though. They’ll have to pull up. Sad news, you know. I mean, here at home—sad news. But you must not blame me, Chettam.", "pos": 1725277}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "What is the matter? Not another gamekeeper shot, I hope? It’s what I should expect, when a fellow like Trapping Bass is let off so easily.", "pos": 1725529}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Gamekeeper? No. Let us go in; I can tell you all in the house, you know. As to poachers like Trapping Bass, you know, Chettam, when you are a magistrate, you’ll not find it so easy to commit. Severity is all very well, but it’s a great deal easier when you’ve got somebody to do it for you. You have a soft place in your heart yourself, you know—you’re not a Draco, a Jeffreys, that sort of thing.", "pos": 1725688}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "I’m dying to know the sad news. The gamekeeper is not shot: that is settled. What is it, then?", "pos": 1726614}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, it’s a very trying thing, you know. I’m glad you and the Rector are here; it’s a family matter—but you will help us all to bear it, Cadwallader. I’ve got to break it to you, my dear. You’ve no notion what it is, you know. And, Chettam, it will annoy you uncommonly—but, you see, you have not been able to hinder it, any more than I have. There’s something singular in things: they come round, you know.", "pos": 1726711}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "It must be about Dodo,", "pos": 1727175}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "For God’s sake let us hear what it is!", "pos": 1727366}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, you know, Chettam, I couldn’t help Casaubon’s will: it was a sort of will to make things worse.", "pos": 1727423}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Exactly. But what is worse?", "pos": 1727527}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Dorothea is going to be married again, you know,", "pos": 1727584}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Merciful heaven! Not to young Ladislaw?", "pos": 1727833}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Yes; to Ladislaw,", "pos": 1727927}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "You see, Humphrey! Another time you will admit that I have some foresight; or rather you will contradict me and be just as blind as ever. You supposed that the young gentleman was gone out of the country.", "pos": 1727988}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "So he might be, and yet come back,", "pos": 1728256}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "When did you learn this?", "pos": 1728319}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Yesterday. I went to Lowick. Dorothea sent for me, you know. It had come about quite suddenly—neither of them had any idea two days ago—not any idea, you know. There’s something singular in things. But Dorothea is quite determined—it is no use opposing. I put it strongly to her. I did my duty, Chettam. But she can act as she likes, you know.", "pos": 1728447}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "It would have been better if I had called him out and shot him a year ago,", "pos": 1728820}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Really, James, that would have been very disagreeable,", "pos": 1728988}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Be reasonable, Chettam. Look at the affair more quietly,", "pos": 1729057}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "That is not so very easy for a man of any dignity—with any sense of right—when the affair happens to be in his own family. It is perfectly scandalous. If Ladislaw had had a spark of honor he would have gone out of the country at once, and never shown his face in it again. However, I am not surprised. The day after Casaubon’s funeral I said what ought to be done. But I was not listened to.", "pos": 1729201}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "You wanted what was impossible, you know, Chettam. You wanted him shipped off. I told you Ladislaw was not to be done as we liked with: he had his ideas. He was a remarkable fellow—I always said he was a remarkable fellow.", "pos": 1729645}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Yes, it is rather a pity you formed that high opinion of him. We are indebted to that for his being lodged in this neighborhood. We are indebted to that for seeing a woman like Dorothea degrading herself by marrying him. A man so marked out by her husband’s will, that delicacy ought to have forbidden her from seeing him again—who takes her out of her proper rank—into poverty—has the meanness to accept such a sacrifice—has always had an objectionable position—a bad origin—and, I believe, is a man of little principle and light character. That is my opinion.", "pos": 1729889}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "I pointed everything out to her. I mean the poverty, and abandoning her position. I said, ‘My dear, you don’t know what it is to live on seven hundred a-year, and have no carriage, and that kind of thing, and go amongst people who don’t know who you are.’ I put it strongly to her. But I advise you to talk to Dorothea herself. The fact is, she has a dislike to Casaubon’s property. You will hear what she says, you know.", "pos": 1730649}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "No—excuse me—I shall not. I cannot bear to see her again; it is too painful. It hurts me too much that a woman like Dorothea should have done what is wrong.", "pos": 1731107}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Be just, Chettam. Mrs. Casaubon may be acting imprudently: she is giving up a fortune for the sake of a man, and we men have so poor an opinion of each other that we can hardly call a woman wise who does that. But I think you should not condemn it as a wrong action, in the strict sense of the word.", "pos": 1731304}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Yes, I do. I think that Dorothea commits a wrong action in marrying Ladislaw.", "pos": 1731693}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "My dear fellow, we are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us,", "pos": 1731795}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "It is very dreadful of Dodo, though. She said she never would marry again—not anybody at all.", "pos": 1732124}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "I heard her say the same thing myself,", "pos": 1732266}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Oh, there is usually a silent exception in such cases. The only wonder to me is, that any of you are surprised. You did nothing to hinder it. If you would have had Lord Triton down here to woo her with his philanthropy, he might have carried her off before the year was over. There was no safety in anything else. Mr. Casaubon had prepared all this as beautifully as possible. He made himself disagreeable—or it pleased God to make him so—and then he dared her to contradict him. It’s the way to make any trumpery tempting, to ticket it at a high price in that way.", "pos": 1732372}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "I don’t know what you mean by wrong, Cadwallader. He’s not a man we can take into the family. At least, I must speak for myself. I suppose others will find his society too pleasant to care about the propriety of the thing.", "pos": 1732965}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "Well, you know, Chettam. I can’t turn my back on Dorothea. I must be a father to her up to a certain point. I said, ‘My dear, I won’t refuse to give you away.’ I had spoken strongly before. But I can cut off the entail, you know. It will cost money and be troublesome; but I can do it, you know.", "pos": 1733348}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Do you mean that Dodo is going to be married directly, uncle?", "pos": 1735056}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "In three weeks, you know. I can do nothing to hinder it, Cadwallader,", "pos": 1735120}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "I should not make any fuss about it. If she likes to be poor, that is her affair. Nobody would have said anything if she had married the young fellow because he was rich. Plenty of beneficed clergy are poorer than they will be. Here is Elinor, she vexed her friends by me: I had hardly a thousand a-year—I was a lout—nobody could see anything in me—my shoes were not the right cut—all the men wondered how a woman could like me. Upon my word, I must take Ladislaw’s part until I hear more harm of him.", "pos": 1735295}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "Humphrey, that is all sophistry, and you know it. Everything is all one—that is the beginning and end with you. As if you had not been a Cadwallader! Does any one suppose that I would have taken such a monster as you by any other name?", "pos": 1735833}
{"speaker": "Lady Chettam", "text": "And a clergyman too. Elinor cannot be said to have descended below her rank. It is difficult to say what Mr. Ladislaw is, eh, James?", "pos": 1736088}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "It must be admitted that his blood is a frightful mixture! The Casaubon cuttle-fish fluid to begin with, and then a rebellious Polish fiddler or dancing-master, was it?—and then an old clo—", "pos": 1736415}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cadwallader", "text": "Nonsense, Elinor. It is time for us to go.", "pos": 1736632}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Cadwallader", "text": "After all, he is a pretty sprig. He is like the fine old Crichley portraits before the idiots came in.", "pos": 1736704}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "I’ll go with you. You must all come and dine with me to-morrow, you know—eh, Celia, my dear?", "pos": 1736874}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "You will, James—won’t you?", "pos": 1737015}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Oh, of course, if you like. That is to say, if it is not to meet anybody else.", "pos": 1737083}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "text": "No, no, no. Dorothea would not come, you know, unless you had been to see her.", "pos": 1737260}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Do you mind about my having the carriage to go to Lowick, James?", "pos": 1737436}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "What, now, directly?", "pos": 1737503}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Yes, it is very important,", "pos": 1737559}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Remember, Celia, I cannot see her,", "pos": 1737600}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Not if she gave up marrying?", "pos": 1737653}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "What is the use of saying that?—however, I’m going to the stables. I’ll tell Briggs to bring the carriage round.", "pos": 1737684}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "O Kitty, I am delighted to see you! I almost thought you would not come to me.", "pos": 1738615}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "I have not brought Arthur, because I was in a hurry. You know, Dodo, it is very bad. You have disappointed us all so. And I can’t think that it ever will be—you never can go and live in that way. And then there are all your plans! You never can have thought of that. James would have taken any trouble for you, and you might have gone on all your life doing what you liked.", "pos": 1738773}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "On the contrary, dear. I never could do anything that I liked. I have never carried out any plan yet.", "pos": 1739337}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Because you always wanted things that wouldn’t do. But other plans would have come. And how can you marry Mr. Ladislaw, that we none of us ever thought you could marry? It shocks James so dreadfully. And then it is all so different from what you have always been. You would have Mr. Casaubon because he had such a great soul, and was so old and dismal and learned; and now, to think of marrying Mr. Ladislaw, who has got no estate or anything. I suppose it is because you must be making yourself uncomfortable in some way or other. Well, it is very serious, Dodo. How will you live? and you will go away among queer people. And I shall never see you—and you won’t mind about little Arthur—and I thought you always would—", "pos": 1739458}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Dear Celia, if you don’t ever see me, it will not be my fault.", "pos": 1740327}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Yes, it will. How can I come to you or have you with me when James can’t bear it?—that is because he thinks it is not right—he thinks you are so wrong, Dodo. But you always were wrong: only I can’t help loving you. And nobody can think where you will live: where can you go?", "pos": 1740430}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I am going to London,", "pos": 1740778}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "How can you always live in a street? And you will be so poor. I could give you half my things, only how can I, when I never see you?", "pos": 1740817}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "Bless you, Kitty. Take comfort: perhaps James will forgive me some time.", "pos": 1740952}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "But it would be much better if you would not be married, then there would be nothing uncomfortable. And you would not do what nobody thought you could do. James always said you ought to be a queen; but this is not at all being like a queen. You know what mistakes you have always been making, Dodo, and this is another. Nobody thinks Mr. Ladislaw a proper husband for you. And you said you would never be married again.", "pos": 1741064}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "It is quite true that I might be a wiser person, Celia, and that I might have done something better, if I had been better. But this is what I am going to do. I have promised to marry Mr. Ladislaw; and I am going to marry him.", "pos": 1741548}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Is he very fond of you, Dodo?", "pos": 1741965}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I hope so. I am very fond of him.", "pos": 1741997}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "That is nice. Only I would rather you had such a sort of husband as James is, with a place very near, that I could drive to. I cannot think how it all came about.", "pos": 1742033}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "I dare say not. If you knew how it came about, it would not seem wonderful to you.", "pos": 1742354}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Can’t you tell me?", "pos": 1742484}
{"speaker": "Dorothea", "text": "No, dear, you would have to feel with me, else you would never know.", "pos": 1742543}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "Tell me anything that you would like to have me do, Harriet. I mean with regard to arrangements of property. It is my intention not to sell the land I possess in this neighborhood, but to leave it to you as a safe provision. If you have any wish on such subjects, do not conceal it from me.", "pos": 1746309}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "I should like to do something for my brother’s family, Nicholas; and I think we are bound to make some amends to Rosamond and her husband. Walter says Mr. Lydgate must leave the town, and his practice is almost good for nothing, and they have very little left to settle anywhere with. I would rather do without something for ourselves, to make some amends to my poor brother’s family. make some amends;", "pos": 1746796}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "It is not possible to carry out your wish in the way you propose, my dear. Mr. Lydgate has virtually rejected any further service from me. He has returned the thousand pounds which I lent him. Mrs. Casaubon advanced him the sum for that purpose. Here is his letter.", "pos": 1747441}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "There is another means, Harriet, by which I might do a service to your brother’s family, if you like to act in it. And it would, I think, be beneficial to you: it would be an advantageous way of managing the land which I mean to be yours. Garth once thought of undertaking the management of Stone Court in order to place your nephew Fred there. The stock was to remain as it is, and they were to pay a certain share of the profits instead of an ordinary rent. That would be a desirable beginning for the young man, in conjunction with his employment under Garth. Would it be a satisfaction to you?", "pos": 1748291}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bulstrode", "text": "Yes, it would. Poor Walter is so cast down; I would try anything in my power to do him some good before I go away. We have always been brother and sister.", "pos": 1748915}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bulstrode", "text": "You must make the proposal to Garth yourself, Harriet. You must state to him that the land is virtually yours, and that he need have no transactions with me. Communications can be made through Standish. I mention this, because Garth gave up being my agent. I can put into your hands a paper which he himself drew up, stating conditions; and you can propose his renewed acceptance of them. I think it is not unlikely that he will accept when you propose the thing for the sake of your nephew.", "pos": 1749123}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "There you are, Caleb. Have you had your dinner?", "pos": 1750246}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Oh yes, a good dinner—cold mutton and I don’t know what. Where is Mary?", "pos": 1750354}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "In the garden with Letty, I think.", "pos": 1750428}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Fred is not come yet?", "pos": 1750465}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Garth", "text": "No. Are you going out again without taking tea, Caleb?", "pos": 1750489}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "No, no; I’m only going to Mary a minute. I came to look for you, Mary. Let us walk about a bit. It will be a sad while before you can be married, Mary,", "pos": 1750659}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Not a sad while, father—I mean to be merry. I have been single and merry for four-and-twenty years and more: I suppose it will not be quite as long again as that. If you are contented with Fred?", "pos": 1751678}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Did I?", "pos": 1752175}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Yes, I put it all down, and the date, anno Domini, and everything. You like things to be neatly booked. And then his behavior to you, father, is really good; he has a deep respect for you; and it is impossible to have a better temper than Fred has.", "pos": 1752210}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Ay, ay; you want to coax me into thinking him a fine match.", "pos": 1752474}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "No, indeed, father. I don’t love him because he is a fine match.", "pos": 1752536}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "What for, then?", "pos": 1752603}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Oh, dear, because I have always loved him. I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband.", "pos": 1752621}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Your mind is quite settled, then, Mary? There’s no other wish come into it since things have been going on as they have been of late? because, better late than never. A woman must not force her heart—she’ll do a man no good by that.", "pos": 1752768}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "My feelings have not changed, father. I shall be constant to Fred as long as he is constant to me. I don’t think either of us could spare the other, or like any one else better, however much we might admire them. It would make too great a difference to us—like seeing all the old places altered, and changing the name for everything. We must wait for each other a long while; but Fred knows that.", "pos": 1753097}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Well, I’ve got a bit of news. What do you think of Fred going to live at Stone Court, and managing the land there?", "pos": 1753650}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "How can that ever be, father?", "pos": 1753767}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "He would manage it for his aunt Bulstrode. The poor woman has been to me begging and praying. She wants to do the lad good, and it might be a fine thing for him. With saving, he might gradually buy the stock, and he has a turn for farming.", "pos": 1753823}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Oh, Fred would be so happy! It is too good to believe.", "pos": 1754065}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Ah, but mind you. I must take it on my shoulders, and be responsible, and see after everything; and that will grieve your mother a bit, though she mayn’t say so. Fred had need be careful.", "pos": 1754122}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Perhaps it is too much, father. There would be no happiness in bringing you any fresh trouble.", "pos": 1754354}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Nay, nay; work is my delight, child, when it doesn’t vex your mother. And then, if you and Fred get married, he’ll be steady and saving; and you’ve got your mother’s cleverness, and mine too, in a woman’s sort of way; and you’ll keep him in order. He’ll be coming by-and-by, so I wanted to tell you first, because I think you’d like to tell him by yourself. After that, I could talk it well over with him, and we could go into business and the nature of things.", "pos": 1754484}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Oh, you dear good father! I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world!", "pos": 1754993}
{"speaker": "Caleb Garth", "text": "Nonsense, child; you’ll think your husband better.", "pos": 1755207}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Impossible, husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order. What fine clothes you wear, you extravagant youth! You are not learning economy.", "pos": 1755260}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Now that is too bad, Mary. Just look at the edges of these coat-cuffs! It is only by dint of good brushing that I look respectable. I am saving up three suits—one for a wedding-suit.", "pos": 1755682}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "How very droll you will look!—like a gentleman in an old fashion-book.", "pos": 1755880}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Oh no, they will keep two years.", "pos": 1755953}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Two years! be reasonable, Fred. Don’t encourage flattering expectations.", "pos": 1755988}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Why not? One lives on them better than on unflattering ones. If we can’t be married in two years, the truth will be quite bad enough when it comes.", "pos": 1756093}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "I have heard a story of a young gentleman who once encouraged flattering expectations, and they did him harm.", "pos": 1756243}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Mary, if you’ve got something discouraging to tell me, I shall bolt; I shall go into the house to Mr. Garth. I am out of spirits. My father is so cut up—home is not like itself. I can’t bear any more bad news.", "pos": 1756355}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Should you call it bad news to be told that you were to live at Stone Court, and manage the farm, and be remarkably prudent, and save money every year till all the stock and furniture were your own, and you were a distinguished agricultural character, as Mr. Borthrop Trumbull says—rather stout, I fear, and with the Greek and Latin sadly weather-worn?", "pos": 1756567}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "You don’t mean anything except nonsense, Mary?", "pos": 1756922}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "That is what my father has just told me of as what may happen, and he never talks nonsense,", "pos": 1757014}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Oh, I could be a tremendously good fellow then, Mary, and we could be married directly.", "pos": 1757238}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "Not so fast, sir; how do you know that I would not rather defer our marriage for some years? That would leave you time to misbehave, and then if I liked some one else better, I should have an excuse for jilting you.", "pos": 1757328}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "Pray don’t joke, Mary. Tell me seriously that all this is true, and that you are happy because of it—because you love me best.", "pos": 1757546}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "It is all true, Fred, and I am happy because of it—because I love you best,", "pos": 1757709}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "When we were first engaged, with the umbrella-ring, Mary, you used to—", "pos": 1757928}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "Fred and Mary! are you ever coming in?—or may I eat your cake?", "pos": 1758175}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "that would be too great a trial to your mother.", "pos": 1761473}
{"speaker": "Ben", "text": "The more spooneys they!", "pos": 1762594}
{"speaker": "Fred Vincy", "text": "He was ten times worthier of you than I was,", "pos": 1763925}
{"speaker": "Mary Garth", "text": "To be sure he was, and for that reason he could do better without me. But you—I shudder to think what you would have been—a curate in debt for horse-hire and cambric pocket-handkerchiefs!", "pos": 1764014}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "a reward", "pos": 1766196}
{"speaker": "Lydgate", "text": "He once called her his basil plant;", "pos": 1766465}
{"speaker": "Rosamond", "text": "Why then had he chosen her? It was a pity he had not had Mrs. Ladislaw, whom he was always praising and placing above her.", "pos": 1766687}
{"speaker": "Celia", "text": "Dorothea has a little boy. And you will not let me go and see her. And I am sure she wants to see me. And she will not know what to do with the baby—she will do wrong things with it. And they thought she would die. It is very dreadful! Suppose it had been me and little Arthur, and Dodo had been hindered from coming to see me! I wish you would be less unkind, James!", "pos": 1769870}
{"speaker": "Sir James Chettam", "text": "Good heavens, Celia! what do you wish? I will do anything you like. I will take you to town to-morrow if you wish it. My dear sir, it is not for me to dictate to you, but for my part I would let that alone. I would let things remain as they are.", "pos": 1770240}
{"speaker": "Those who had not seen anything of Dorothea", "text": "a nice woman,", "pos": 1772456}