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The sanctity see, for when

Dorothea was impelled to open her mind on certain themes which she

could speak of to no one whom she had before seen at Tipton, especially

on the secondary importance of ecclesiastical forion, that subence of self

in communion with Divine perfection which seemed to her to be expressed

in the best Christian books of widely distant ages, she found in Mr

Casaubon a listener who understood her at once, who could assure her of

his own agreement with that viehen duly tempered ise

conformity, and could mention historical examples before unknown to her

"He thinks with me," said Dorothea to herself, "or rather, he thinks a

whole world of which s too, his whole experience--what a lake coued froly

than other young ladies of her age Signs are ss,

but interpretations are illin is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a

sky, and colored by a diffused thie They are not always too grossly deceived; for Sinbad

hiood-luck on a true description, and wrong

reasoning so a