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"I have accepted Mr Casaubon's offer My uncle brought me the letter

that contained it; he knew about it beforehand"

"I beg your pardon, if I have said anything to hurt you, Dodo," said

Celia, with a slight sob She never could have thought that she should

feel as she did There was so funereal in the whole affair, and

Mr Casaubon seeyman, about whom it

would be indecent to rieve We should never admire the same

people I often offend in soly of those who don't please nani: perhaps as

much from Celia's subdued astonishment as from her small criticisms

Of course all the world round Tipton would be out of syht as she did about life

and its best objects

Nevertheless before the evening was at an end she was very happy In

an hour's tete-a-tete with Mr Casaubon she talked to him without her joy at the

thought of devoting herself to hiht best

share and further all his great ends Mr Casaubon was touched with an

unknown delight (what man would not have been?) at this childlike