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Mr Casaubon h soht place, and avoided looking at anything docuard or impatience; mindful that this

desultoriness was associated with the institutions of the country, and

that the man who took him on this severe mental scamper was not only an

amiable host, but a landholder and custos rotulorum Was his endurance

aided also by the reflection that Mr Brooke was the uncle of Dorothea?

Certainly he see her talk to him, on

drawing her out, as Celia re at her

his face was often lit up by a smile like pale wintry sunshine Before

he left the nextthe gravelled terrace, he had e of loneliness, the need of that cheerful cohten or vary the serious toils

of maturity And he delivered this statement with as much careful

precision as if he had been a diplomatic envoy whose words would be

attended with results Indeed, Mr Casaubon was not used to expect

that he should have to repeat or revise his communications of a

practical or personal kind The inclinations which he had deliberately

stated on the 2d of October he would think it enough to refer to by the

by the standard of his own memory, which

was a volume where a vide supra could serve instead of repetitions, and

not the ordinary long-used blotting-book which only tells of forgotten

writing But in this case Mr Casaubon's confidence was not likely to

be falsified, for Dorothea heard and retained what he said with the

eager interest of a fresh young nature to which every variety in