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Meanwhile that little disappointht the more in Sir

James Chettam's readiness to set on foot the desired improvements He

came much oftener than Mr Casaubon, and Dorothea ceased to find hireeable since he showed himself so entirely in earnest; for he had

already entered with ood's estily docile She proposed to build a couple of cottages,

and transfer two families from their old cabins, which could then be

pulled down, so that new ones could be built on the old sites Sir

James said "Exactly," and she bore the word remarkably well

Certainly these ht be very

useful ood fe their sisters-in-law! It is difficult to say

whether there was or was not a little wilfulness in her continuing

blind to the possibility that another sort of choice was in question in

relation to her But her life was just now full of hope and action:

she was not only thinking of her plans, but getting down learned books

froht be a

little less ignorant in talking to Mr Casaubon), all the while being

visited with conscientious questionings whether she were not exalting

these poor doings abovethenorance and folly