The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28

justice of casaubon since that gentle
 a young creature as Dorothea to his
 gloomy life
 Instead of going abroad, Will remained
 in Middlemarch to edit paper that MT.
 Brooke had bought during a temporary
 access of political enthusiasm, which led
 him to offer himself for parliament. To the horror of all his friends and neigh bors, the liquid-brained Brooke offered himself as a candidate on the radical side. Naturally good part of their indig
 nation and scorn was poured on the head
 of Will Ladislaw, especially as the paper
 under his direction soon began to make itself annoyingly powerful.
 The Rev. MT. Casaubon forbade Will his house. His act led to a dispute with Dorotnea, who felt bitterly hurt at her l husbands remarks, which insinuated that she was supporting the man in what Sasaubon called his rebellion" and dis
 grace. He trembled violently as he tried to control himself. Then suddenly he fell forward in faint.
 Dorothea at once forgot every ground
 of anger that she had and sank to her
 knees at her husbands side while they awaited the doctor.
 After long examination. Dr. Lydgate took Dorothea aside and told her that MT, Casaubon had an affection of the heart which sudden excitement might make immediately fatal, though with care he might live 15 years. He advised that lhe truth be kept from her husband. Dorothea bowed penitently to Casaubon thenceforti. Without murmur she made her life shadowy succession of long days in the sombre library jotting down useless, pitiable notes that Casaubon dic- tated in his dry, precise voice. At all hours of the night she arose and read to | her husband when he became wakeful. Though she was penitent and though she determined loyalty and without a moments ne esitation to cease all communi- cation with Ladishaw, she was too sound in brain and Independent in thought not l to realize keenly that her husband was grossly unjust to the young man. Indeed, before their dispute. she had suggested | to Casaubon that Will was entitled to a l share of the fortune Her simple sense of right was outraged by the thought that wills grandmother should have been robbed of her inheritance merely because she had married poor man.
 MT. Casaubon had answered her with | the severe remark that he hoped she would not strive to interfere in matters | that did not concern her. She lay awake | that night, bitterly hurt, and did not sus- I pect that her husband lay awake, too, with his parchment-llke soul suffering | some extremely unscholarly emotions sin | gu1arly like hate.
 After the house had been forbidden to I Will his pride urged him to leave Middle march, but he told himself that it was his duty to stay for MT. Brooke's sake He did not tell himself. because he did not know 1t himself, that he wanted to ] be somewhere near Dorothea even though | he could not see her.
 l So these two young creatures. who did not love each other, began to think of | each other more and more-and all | through the prim strategy of the person t who wished to keep them apart. Will l thought of Dorothea as he might think | of a virgin in the cave of a dragon, and | swore in his pity that his cousin was
 monster to keep that fair. good thing in | his gray prison. Dorothea thought of l Will, penniless. without prospects, yet SO cheerful and courageous, and pitied him | for the fate of his grandmother and l mother.
 | Will spent most of his time at pr. Lyd- gates house. That young man had come to Middelmarch with his head full of | ideas for scientific treatment, and the old practitioners were all arrayed against
 him. He was making good headway and was on the way to becoming famous
 when he was foolish enough to fall in
 love. Men of science are not always men
 of sense. The object of his affections,
 Miss Rosamond Whey, was empty-headed
 and extravagant. and pr. Lydgate found
 himself more busy devising ways and