, 1873-01-19

ions aud "celi." thought .:Dorothea : BY
far too religious for family comfort. Her no
tions and scrup1es were like split needles,
making one afraid Of treadiug, or sitting
down, Of eTen eating. Celia, y as well rs Roa-
a1nond, who is, pefhaps, tho most careful
bloade,-a class against whom tho aathor ID owl
IDENTIFY pscjudlcol; bluo eyes anl light hair, she
ofton broadly hin:s. arc oisinsenuoas- Cecilia "
WAS ahcctionasc enough in q general way. When
her baby vas born, she had new senso OF her
mental solidity aad calm wisdom. It sce,ned
clear to her that, tcaere there ,c1s baby, things
Eers riJA enough, AID that error IN general WIS
smore lack Of that contral posing for:o.
nes'as5 10 ha hayo "stan,ish tho old laTye5
ed gentry that he had become landed him
sclf aud !. Ci1icholy, who thought there should
be l,ttlo devil in a woman,-his study Of the
fair so1 having evidently been detrimental to
his theology. Moro co,nical than all was '' 'Doro-
'' Mr. Brooke" whom We first meet at din
No. "sir Humphrey Davy,'' said Mr..
Brooke" over the soup, in bis easy,
s2 smiling way; ,;, "well, nov! now, Sir Sir =. Hum. n
Cartwrght's ; and Wordsworth was there, too,-
the poet Wordsworth, you know. Now, there
was something singular. I ives at Cambridge
whom Wordsworth was thorc, aud never met
him; and dinod with him twenty years after At
Cartwright's. There's MI oddly in things. now.
But Davy was there; he was poet. too; or, aa
I may say, Wordsworth was poet one. n,.d
Davy WAS poet two. That was truo in
every sensc, You know" "Mr. Brooke"
when he was young. had "had ideas
snid ,lr. Brooke, with Al easy srrile, IT havo
documents. I began. n long while ago, to col
lect Documents. They want arranging; but,
when question has struck mo, I ilavo written
nn,n to somebody 81 to get an answer: have eocu-
This Tightly individual catches the Reform fc-
VERT was in the days OF Sir Robert Peel
and presented himself to tho electors Of .liddle-
march as candidate to represent them in Parlia-
mont. There arc not many moro humorous pas
eages in electoral literatuTc than Lis speech to
them from the balcony OF the White Hart
Quotablc passages. strokes of huMor, and tor
rible slaahes OF sarcasm that often cut into tile
readers own consciousness, aro as frequent as
her dialogues, she giyes an admirable definition
Of that hitherto conreniont Eut indehnablo word,
'prig:"
s'But now, tell us us"-speaking OF "Dr. Lyd-
gate" - what sort OF man he ill.,"
"oh, taliiah, dark, clever talks wo1.-rather
II norer can make out what you mean By
prig."
"A fellow who wants to chow that he has
opinions"
Why, my DEAR doctors muEthavo opinions"
s'Ies, the opinions they arc paid for. But
p'ig IS feVo,o 7eho is ateays making you pres
e7at Of his opinions"
"Mr Chichely's" opinion Of Reform would
not hare been popular iu the last canvass,-with
one side, at least. "Hang your reforms" said
he. There's no greater hulnbng in tho world.
trick to mt in new men"
'' Mrs. Wau1o" stays before us only 3 moment,
but Ionc enough t. bo remembered for her
tIoy. muflcd. neutral tone, - Of q voice Hoard
through cotton wool :" aud for her oriulon tLat
entire freedom from tho necessity Of behaving
ecrccabIy WIS included in the AEaiehty,s intc,,-
tin1, about families.
The author gives Us tho keynote OF ss3{ildlc-
march" at tie ye-y beginning. Il is s.tho
faiiu.os: all Tie chief actors fail wreschedly.
from 'BnIstrode," tho evangelical banker, to
DorotlIea whoae failure ia greater than ali %
she failed IN a greater purpose than my. It is
only those who essayea no f1ight-such as the
tic % ouict. unideal 1Mary dartb "and The gsplll
IS Fred :Vincy who seem to succeed.
sDr. Iydeate's" failure is one Of tho worst,
When Lo frsf appears before us, 10 is hut seven
nnil-tNenty age at which many men arc not
that multitude OF niddle-n5ed men who go about
in their Yocatio,s in q daily course determined
for them much in tho eamo way as the tie Of
their csasntu. He Was deeply attached to his
profession it Needed REFORM he N1S HTGd
with the possibility that ho might work ou. the
proof Of an anatomical conception, aad mako
link in tho clla;u Of discovery Ho Has, more
ever, determined to hold himself ebove
sor,sd cares and small temptations, which
might make d rctarding. friction in
his courae toward fnel comranionship with tho
im1uogtaiz he had had serious 1ovo-ecrapo,
from which ho had e1tricated himself, and ho
had more reason than ever for trusting Ills judg-
ment, now that it Was 60 experienced. and hence
jorM he 1rould take strictly sc;ent;fc rie,o Of
1coman. He wss young, proud, ambitious; took
a triumphant delight in Ills studies,
The author places him in every possible aspect
Of fresh manhood rejoicing in its strength, in-
fprcd witlHaligh purpose to do something for
which the world should be forever tho bottcr.
Where locs it end !? He married sRosamond,"
whom every one in 3fiddlemarll-ercept her
1roaher-thought perfect rotng -onszn; 6ho |
was, he thought, creature who would bring |
him tho sweet furtherance Of satisfying
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