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The rural opinion about the new young ladies, even a so ae eyes see Poor Dorothea! co and worldly-wise; so much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock-face for it
Yet those who approached Dorothea, though prejudiced against her by this alar hearsay, found that she had a charht her bewitching when she was on horseback She loved the fresh air and the various aspects of the country, and when her eyes and cheeks gloithwas an indulgence which she allowed herself in spite of conscientious qualan sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it
She was open, ardent, and not in the least self-adination adorned her sister Celia with attractions altogether superior to her own, and if any gentlee fro Mr Brooke, she concluded that he must be in love with Celia: Sir James Chettam, for example, whom she constantly considered fro whether it would be good for Celia to accept hiarded as a suitor to herself would have seemed to her a ridiculous irrelevance Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about e She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, if she had been born in time to save him from that wretched mistake he made in matrimony; or John Milton when his blindness had coreat lorious piety to endure; but an amiable handsome baronet, who said "Exactly" to her remarks even when she expressed uncertainty,--how could he affect her as a lover? The really delightful e must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if you wished it
These peculiarities of Dorothea's character caused Mr Brooke to be all thesouide and companion to his nieces But he himself dreaded so much the sort of superior woman likely to be available for such a position, that he allowed himself to be dissuaded by Dorothea's objections, and was in this case brave enough to defy the world--that is to say, Mrs Cadwallader the Rector's wife, and the sentry hom he visited in the northeast corner of Loamshire So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle's household, and did not at all dislike her new authority, with the hoed to it