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Mr Casaubon bowed, and observed that it was a wide field

"Yes," said Mr Brooke, with an easy so to collect docu, but when a question has struck ot an answer I have docue your docueon-holes partly," said Mr Casaubon, with rather a startled air of effort

"Ah, pigeon-holes will not do I have tried pigeon-holes, but everything gets eon-holes: I never knohether a paper is in A or Z"

"I wish you would let me sort your papers for you, uncle," said Dorothea "I would letter them all, and then ravely smiled approval, and said to Mr Brooke, "You have an excellent secretary at hand, you perceive"

"No, no," said Mr Brooke, shaking his head; "I cannot let young ladies hty"

Dorothea felt hurt Mr Casaubon would think that her uncle had so this opinion, whereas the re of an insect a on her When the two girls were in the drawing-rooly Mr Casaubon is!"

"Celia! He is one of themen I ever saw He is remarkably like the portrait of Locke He has the same deep eye-sockets"

"Had Locke those thite moles with hairs on them?"

"Oh, I dare say! when people of a certain sort looked at hi away a little

"Mr Casaubon is so sallow"

"All the better I suppose you admire a man with the complexion of a cochon de lait"

"Dodo!" exclai after her in surprise "I never heard you make such a comparison before"

"Why should I ood comparison: theherself, and Celia thought so

"I wonder you show temper, Dorothea"

"It is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at hus as if they were reat soul in a reat soul?" Celia was not without a touch of naive malice

"Yes, I believe he has," said Dorothea, with the full voice of decision "Everything I see in hiy"